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Webdirections - Conferences for Web Professionals in Australia & North America

In our ongoing coverage of startups coming out of Australia and interviews with CEOs, Media Personalities, Philanthropists, and VCs, to gauge the innovation and startup landscape in Australia, today we showcase our interview with, the co-founder of Webdirections - Conferences for web professionals held in Australia and North America, John Allsopp. I did this interview with John to know more about Webdirections , its offerings, its progress and future plans and how his second venture Westciv is progressing. Let us explore what John has to say about the progress of Webdirections and Westciv Australia. This is what he has to say: • Please tell us about yourself, your background and interests? I'm a software engineer, with a computer science and maths degree, coupled with quite a few arts subjects at university, and most of a law degree. Born and raised in Sydney, I lived for a time in the UK, and Italy in the early 1990s, before starting my first company in 1994 I live just out