Paul Boag has been working with the web since 1994. He is now co-founder of the digital agency Headscape, where he works closely with clients to establish their web strategy.

Paul is a prolific writer having written Digital Adaptation, Website Owners Manual, Client Centric Web Design and numerous articles for publications such as .net magazine, Smashing Magazine and the econsultancy.com.

Paul also speaks extensively on various aspects of web design both at conferences across the world and on his award winning web design podcast boagworld.

Rachel Andrew is a web developer, writer, speaker and one half of edgeofmyseat.com - the company behind the CMS Perch. She has been working on the web since the late 90s and running her own company since 2001.

When not working on her own product, Rachel enjoys helping other people transition from consultancy and client services to profitable product businesses - without needing to seek investment or risk everything by “doing a startup”.

Amy Thibodeau is a writer and content strategist at Facebook. Before relocating to the London office this past November, she managed the Facebook content strategy team that focuses on making interfaces for business easier to use and understand. Now she works on a range of different projects with an amazing team of UK-based product managers and engineers

In her spare time, Amy dabbles in photography, occasionally writes about language for The Guardian and collects ephemera on her blog. Before joining Facebook, she travelled around the world for a year doing personal projects and consulting work through Contentini, a boutique web agency she co-founded.

Dan is currently Front-end & Interaction Lead at McCann Manchester, after 2 years at BBC Sport.

Like most of us he's got a stack of side projects he'll never get to. He's also one of the writes for The Pastry Box this year. When not doing web stuff he makes noise in his band Mark of 1000 Evils.

Andy is Associate Director for Web Performance at NCC Group, where he helps clients to measure and improve the performance of their sites.

He recently wrote the The Pocket Guide to Web Performance for Five Simple Steps, and is currently contributing to 'Using WebPagetest' for O'Reilly.

Andy is the iOS Developer at Buffer. Originally from Birmingham, he is now based in San Francisco working alongside part of the other Buffer team. At Buffer he builds out the iOS app along with SDK's for other iOS apps to use to easily offer sharing to Buffer. Allowing people to schedule posts from popular apps such as Pocket and Feedly.

Alongside Buffer he keeps his finger on the pulse building other iOS apps such as Magic Bean an iOS and Mac app for deploying sites through Beanstalk (beanstalkapp.com) and also developed a stop motion interactive cartoon called Globbert.

Dan is a user experience designer working at fffunction, a design agency in the South West of the UK.

With a background of fifteen years experience in agency and in-house software and web development, he is an all-rounder with strong technical and people skills in addition to user experience. He loves user research and bringing users and empathy for them into every step of a project.

Dan loves the sea and gets in it or near it whenever he gets the chance. He likes good coffee, good beer, and good and bad flapjacks.

Sébastien Cevey is a software engineer at the Guardian where he leads the development of Composer, the new digital-first CMS. Editorial tools lie at the intersection of many of his interests such as modelling semantic information and building elegant abstractions at all levels, from UX to API design.

Prior to his work at the Guardian, he worked on another rich web application, building an online music platform for a startup in East London.

When not coding, he will likely be found in his kitchen, at a gig or abroad, travelling.