Speaker

Kimberly Blessing

Kimberly Blessing

Contrary to popular belief, I don't hate JavaScript!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Kimberly Blessing is the Senior Vice President of Technology at Think Brownstone, an experience design consultancy based in Philadelphia, PA. In her nearly 20-year career on the Web, Kimberly has evangelized design, code, and accessibility best practices while holding senior engineering and management roles at Comcast, PayPal, and AOL. She has served on the W3C HTML and CSS Working Groups and was a co-lead and member of the Web Standards Project, the grass roots organization that helped the web standards movement get beyond the “browser wars”. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College (B.A., Computer Science) and The George Washington University (M.Sc., Computer Science), Kimberly is also a passionate advocate for increasing the number of women in computing and technology fields.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Business & Management

Topics

  • Web Development
  • Programming history
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Change Management
  • Leadership
  • People Management

Kimberly Blessing

Contrary to popular belief, I don't hate JavaScript!

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States