Speaking

Every so often I speak at public events about all sorts of things related to my work on the Web. Get in touch if you'd like me at your conference or workshop — rob[at]rawkes.com.

Upcoming events

Melbourne Geek Night

Melbourne Tickets Lanyrd

I'll be talking about Boot to Gecko and what it means for the Web as a platform.

Web Directions Code

Melbourne Tickets Lanyrd

With Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and other block­buster games now work­ing in mod­ern Web browsers, it’s fair to say nat­ive, browser based gam­ing has arrived for real. But how do they do it? In this session I look at the fea­tures now in your browsers to help develop games (and other inter­act­ive Web based exper­i­ences) includ­ing the can­vas and WebGL, HTML5 Audio API, Mouse­lock and the Gamepad API.

Fluent

San Francisco Tickets Lanyrd

In this talk I will give you an overview of the new role that browsers are adopting to support games and the technologies and processes that are helping that happen. This includes areas like 2D graphics with canvas, console-like 3D games with WebGL, gamepad support, immersive full-screen experiences, multiplayer games with WebSockets, and much more.

VanJS

Vancouver Tickets

I'll be talking about Mozilla's Boot to Gecko project and what it means for the Web as a platform.

Past events

Here are some of the events that I've spoken at in the past. This is where you can find slides and other related materials.

SydJS Sydney
MDN Hack Day London London Lanyrd
Geek Meet Stockholm Lanyrd
DIBI 2012 Gateshead Lanyrd Slides
NY HTML5 New York City Slides
FOSDEM 2012 Belgium Lanyrd Slides
Talk Web Design 2012 University of Greenwich Slides
LAUNCH: Future Gaming Birmingham Science Park Aston Slides
Mozilla Festival Ravensbourne College Lanyrd
WDC 2011 ODEON Bristol Lanyrd Slides
onGameStart Poland Lanyrd Slides Follow-up
ASSEMBLY Summer 2011 Hartwall Areena, Helsinki Lanyrd Slides Video Follow-up
London JS Poke, London Lanyrd Slides Follow-up
Google Tech Talk Google HQ, Mountain View Slides Video Follow-up
SF HTML5 Game Pro, San Francisco Slides Video Follow-up
Social Media & DMOs Oceanografic, Valencia
Digital Surrey The Stoke, Guildford
London Web Standards The Square Pig, London Lanyrd Slides Video
State of the Browser Ravensbourne College Lanyrd
Facebook Developer Garage TechHub, London Lanyrd