Over the Air, London April 4-5

Over the Air takes place in London starting tomorrow.

This promises to be the most fun conference I have ever attended (beside our regular MoMo Annual Summits). I am biased since I helped with some of the organizing. :)

We ran out of tickets within 2 weeks of opening registration. That’s upwards of 400 developers, designers, geeks and enterpreneurs all focused on the mobile space. That in itself is a special thing. The buzz in the conference will most likely be around the iPhone and Android, but, for me this conference is really an experiment in trying to merge the gap in design/UX and development in the mobile industry. There are plenty of top notch designers and serious developers presenting. This area is increasingly reaching a point of critical importance as devices get some radical features and the user experience in my opinion is getting compromised to meet the needs of the suits in the walled gardens.

I’m really looking forward to it and am excited to be presenting on Friday afternoon.

More on the event and my experience in a couple of days when I recover from the all night mobile dev sessions…

Dan Bodart, also from ThoughtWorks is presenting on Progressive Enhancement Techniques for Mobile Web Development, this promises to be a very interesting topic given the interest in the mobile web after the launch of the iPhone last year.