I will be attending the Fronteers conference of 2009, which will be held in Amsterdam on the 5th and 6th of November. This is a Front-End Development conference, so its focus will be front-end techonolgies and techniques.

I am excited as this is the first conference i am attending, and hope to get a better glimpse into the way of thinking of men that have a big impact into the web landscape. I also hope to meet and befriend other front-end developers, so I expect this will be a great venue.

And what’s not to like about Amsterdam?

Speakers

Only 4 speakers are announced at this time, but the lineup is already good. We have:

• Nate Koechley (ex yahoo)
• John Resig (creator of jQuery, working at Mozilla now)
• Steve Souders (google)
• Nicole Sullivan

Other 8 speakers will be announced later on.

Organisers

Fronteers is the first Front-End Developers Guild in the world, and is the child of Peter-Paul Koch – also known as ppk. They have around 170 members, who all work as (or related to) front-end developers.

This is the first organisation in the world centered about this specific area of web development, and I’d say its a great initiative. One downside is that they only accept Dutch members. We should do something like this locally if we our work to be better understood and valued by employers and clients.

Meet me

I will head there with my good friends from Typo3Switch, so if your attending the conference (or if you’re just in the area at that time), say hello, i’m friendly (read: I don’t bite) and we’ll gladly have a beer togheter