Speakers
Our all-star lineup of industry experts will share their vision for future and offer practical tips for getting things done. The following is a partial list of speakers; check back as new speakers are announced.
Explore the Future of the Web
Nathan Shedroff
Nathan is a pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, speaks and teaches internationally, and is a serial entrepreneur. His many books include Experience Design 1.1, Making Meaning, Design is the Problem, and the upcoming Make It So. He holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and a BS in Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design. He worked with Richard Saul Wurman at The Understanding Business and later co-founded vivid studios, a decade-old pioneering company in interactive media and one of the first Web services firms on the planet.
Faruk Ates
Faruk is a designer, developer and web standards educator with a strong passion for accessible techniques and progressive enhancement. Now busy with a new startup of his own, Faruk previously worked as Lead Designer at Apture, User Interface Engineer at Apple, and before that he built and designed Content Management Systems at a startup in The Netherlands.
Crystal Beasley
Tiny, fiery Southern girl who, when she isn’t baking pies or telling you what to do, works at Mozilla as a User Experience Designer. Previously herded LOLcats at Cheezburger, Inc.
Nate Bolt
Nate is the co-founder of Bolt | Peters, author of Remote Research, and creator of Ethnio, which is a web app being used around the world to recruit live participants for research.
Kelly Goto
As an evangelist for design ethnography, Kelly is dedicated to understanding how real people integrate products and services into their daily lives. Goto is a sought-after international keynote lecturer and author on the topics of web and mobile strategies, usability, and design ethnography.
Jason Grigsby
Jason is a mobile web strategist, co-founder of CloudFour.com and MobilePortland.com, and co-author of Head First Mobile Web. Jason has a proven track record of identifying upcoming trends and positioning clients to take advantage of new technology. He specializes in helping customers determine the best way to accomplish their business objectives online.
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy is technical director at Clearleft. He wrote the books DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax and most recently HTML5 For Web Designers, but what he really wants to do is direct. His latest project is Huffduffer, a service for creating podcasts of found sounds.
Nishant Kothary
When he is not writing on MIX Online, Nishant splits his time unevenly between: advising Microsoft teams on their Web strategy; contributing writings on design & human behavior to popular online publications like Smashing Magazine and UXMag; signing up for one-off projects like leading the ground-up redesign of Channel9; and, taking on the occasional speaking gig.
Thor Muller
Thor is CTO and co-founder of Get Satisfaction who founds and advises startups that make a difference to real people. He’s a Web pioneer who bridges design and technology, and a true believer in social entrepreneurship.
Steve Portigal
Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a bite-sized San Francisco firm that helps clients to discover and act on new insights about themselves and their customers. His work has informed the development of mobile devices, medical information systems, music gear, wine packaging, financial services, corporate intranets, videoconferencing systems, and iPod accessories.
Jeff White
Jeff is the Visual Effects Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic and has worked on Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, Avengers, The Chronicals of Narnia, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Star Wars: Episode III and other acclaimed, visual effects driven films.
Barcelona
Pompeu Fabra University
Roc Boronat, 138, 08018
Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona, Spain
Our first international show, WebVisions Barcelona opens with studio tours and networking parties, followed by a day of workshops and two full days of sessions, panels and keynotes, plus music, film screenings, a Hackathon for Social Good, our Business Innovation and Education Lab and other special events.
