Throughout 2012, we will focus on HTML5 and CSS3, paying particular attention to using your current Flash / Flex / ActionScript skills to master the new requirements of HTML5 and Javascript.

HTML5 introduces a lot of new elements and features over HTML4, for better standardization of complex web application support. Several of the features are also geared towards improved performance, such as <script async>, <canvas> and <style scoped>. This talk will go over some of those features, their performance characteristics and why you should consider using them.

As part of the "Make the Web fast" initiative at Google, Sreeram works on prefetching in Chrome, and has also developed tools and services to identify and improve the latency of webpages. He also has worked on improving search quality and ranking at Google. Sreeram graduated with a Masters in Computing from the National University of Singapore.