Speakers
Our all-star lineup of industry experts will share their vision for the future of Web and Mobile – 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
Louis Rosenfeld
Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant, and founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media, a publishing house focused on user experience books. He has been instrumental in helping establish the fields of information architecture and user experience, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within those fields.
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.
Luke Williams
Luke Williams is a leading consultant, educator, and speaker specializing in design thinking and innovation strategy. For more than a decade, he has worked internationally with industry leaders like American Express, GE, Sony, Crocs, Virgin, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard, to develop new products, services, and brands.
Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen, co-creator, co-writer and co-star of Portlandia, is also in his ninth season on Saturday Night Live. On SNL, Armisen took on the role of then Democratic Presidential nominee and now U.S. President, Sen. Barack Obama, as well as New York Governor David Paterson. Armisen began his career as a musician in the Chicago-based post-punk band Trenchmouth as well as playing with the Blue Man Group.
Carrie Brownstein
Carrie is a writer, musician and actor. Her television career debuted in 2011 with her new series Portlandia, in which she stars with Fred Armisen (SNL). Brownstein co-created and co-wrote the series with Armisen and Jonathan Krisel (SNL; Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!). In its freshman season the series received such critical acclaim as, "happenstance beauty" by The New York Times, "An eccentric, surprising little microbrew of a show" by TIME Magazine and "funny and charming" by The Los Angeles Times.
Amber Case
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and UX Designer from Portland, Oregon. Her main focus is applying anthropology to mobile computing and social software. Case has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT's Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder.
Karen Sideman
Karen is a creative director at This Is Pop - a casual game developer best known for stylish, transgressive confections made for Adult Swim. She also runs a separate consultancy, working with educational and social issue game makers to conjure more play from their rigorous ideas and more rigour from their playful ones.
Alice Twemlow
Alice Twemlow is a British-born writer and educator based in New York. She is chair and co-founder of the Design Criticism MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and also a PhD candidate in Design History at the Royal College of Art in London. Alice is a contributor to Design Observer and writes about design for publications including Eye, Design & Culture and the New York Times Magazine.
Khoi Vinh
Khoi is a blogger at Subtraction.com, former design director at NYTimes.com and founder of Lascaux Co., a company that combines the transformative power of social networks and multi-touch tablets to let people from all walks of life make art — and have fun doing it—in a wholly new way.
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.
Jamie Beckland
Jamie is a Digital and Social Media Strategist at Janrain where he helps Fortune 1000 companies integrate emerging technologies into their websites to improve user acquisition and engagement. He has built online communities since 2004.
Blake Callaway
As senior vice president of marketing for IFC, Blake Callaway is a member of the network’s leadership team responsible for all aspects of brand marketing, with a focus on ratings and revenue growth.
Jason Cranford Teague
Jason is the Managing Director of User Experience for Forum One, an interactive agency applying technology in creative ways to build a more positive future. He is also a prolific writer, with numerous books and articles published about all aspects of digital media and culture including The CSS3 Visual Quickstart, Fluid Web Typography and Speaking in Styles: The Fundamentals of CSS for Web Designers.
Liz Danzico
Liz is co-founder and chair of the MFA in Interaction Design Program at the School of Visual Arts and an independent consultant, working with businesses to explore the relationship audiences have with their products and services through design research, information architecture, and design leadership.
Claire Evans
Claire is a writer and artist working in Los Angeles, California. Her "day job" is as the singer and co-author of the conceptual multimedia disco-pop band YACHT. She managed Portlandia's Facebook presence and currently edits the show's blog on IFC.com.
Jesse Freeman
For the past 13 years Jesse Freeman has been on the cutting edge of interactive development with a focus on the web and mobile platforms. As an expert in his field, Jesse has worked for VW, Tommy Hilfiger, Heavy, MLB, the New York Jets, HBO and many more. Jesse was a traditional artist for most of his life until making the transition into interactive art and hasn't looked back since.
Lyza Danger Gardner
The new frontier of web development is complex. Lyza seeks ways to make it easier, more fun, and, with hope, future friendly.
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.
Aaron Gustafson
Aaron has nearly 15 years experience on the web and, in that time, has cultivated a love of web standards and an in-depth knowledge of website strategy and architecture, interface design, and numerous languages (including XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP).
Nancy Hechinger
Nancy Hechinger is on the full-time faculty at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunication Program. She has a diverse background in education, including multimedia and film production and the development of interactive museum exhibits, and publishing.
Whitney Hess
Whitney is a user experience design consultant based in New York City. She helps make stuff easy and pleasurable to use.
Andrew Hinton
Andrew Hinton is Principal User Experience Architect at Macquarium, a user-experience consulting firm based in Atlanta, GA. An internationally recognized speaker and writer on IA and UX, Andrew has designed information systems and interfaces for Fortune 500s, small businesses and non-profits alike, as both an internal employee and an external consultant.
Andrew Hoppin
Andrew Hoppin is co-founder and CEO of New Amsterdam Ideas, a New York-based company that is currently implementing open-source "Gov 2.0" and “OpenGov” software solutions for a range of governments, and also helping to launch the new Technology Strategy office for New York City’s IT organization.
Kevin Hoyt
Kevin Hoyt is a Group Manager of Developer Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he has been actively involved in furthering web technologies for more than a decade. As a Developer Evangelist, Kevin is responsible for covering a broad array of Adobe technologies, and spends upwards of seventy percent of the year presenting keynotes, session and hands-on labs at events across the globe.
Jonatan Jelen
Jonatan is an Assistant Professor of Business at Parsons The New School for Design, where he is also the director of the new Master of Science in Strategic Design and Management, which will launch in Fall 2012.
Jeff Merritt
Jeff is the founder of Grassroots Initiative, a non-profit election consulting firm, and in 2009 helped organized the first entirely online public election in U.S. history for the NYC Department of Education.
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.
Skip Newberry
Skip Newberry serves as President of the Software Association of Oregon, an organization that supports Oregon's software industry through initiatives that promote, connect and advocate for technology companies and professionals.
Aaron Parecki
Aaron is a Portland-based iPhone and PHP developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. In his free time, he enjoys geolocation, linguistics, and building home automation systems and IRC bots with a sense of humor. For the past 3 years, he has been tracking and visualizing his location every 6 seconds, making him a frequent presenter at the Portland data visualization group.
Thomas Phinney
Thomas is the senior product manager for fonts and typography at Extensis. He has long been involved in the design, technical, forensic, business and historical aspects of type, as well as font standards development. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original.
Vince Porter
Vince started as Executive Director at Oregon's film office late in 2008, and in 2009 he helped bring in the highest amount of film and television production to the state since the office's inception. In 2011 Oregon nearly doubled the output of 2009 thanks to three successful television series ("Portlandia", TNT's "Leverage", and NBC's "Grimm"), one feature ("Gone" due in theaters in February) and several animation projects including LAIKA's "Paranorman".
Robert Richardson
Robert is a Director of Strategic Technology Development at the NYC Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications. His work – and that of the Office of Strategic Technology Development (OSTD) – is dedicated to enhancing technology-led civic innovation throughout New York City government.
Terry Ryan
Terry is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe. The job basically entails helping developers using Adobe technologies to be successful. His focus is on web and mobile technologies including expertise in both Flash and HTML. Previous to that, he spent a decade working in various technical roles at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Kit Seeborg
Kit is the community manager and home page curator for SlideShare, the largest content sharing website in the world. Kit spends most of her waking hours looking at and listening to content on the Web. She views hundreds of PowerPoint presentations every week, and as the founder of BumperTunes, listens to wonderful and terrible samples of new music.
Mark Shapiro
Mark's diverse marketing and communications career has taken him across the United States, working in global brand development, advertising, public relations and writing.
Samantha Starmer
After 12 years of customer focused work at companies like Amazon.com and Microsoft, Samantha Starmer now leads experience, design and information architecture teams at REI (Recreational Equipment Inc.). She is passionate about evangelizing and creating holistic customer experiences across channels, time and devices.
Paul Trani
Paul is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe Systems who loves to demonstrate the power of HTML5 to create award-winning work for desktop, mobile and tablet devices. Paul has been an Adobe Certified Instructor for over a decade, producing content for AdobeTV.co and has earned “top author” status at Lynda.com.
Russ Unger
Russ Unger is a User Experience consultant in the Chicago area. He has experience working in consulting environments and on internal teams in agencies, advertising firms and as an independent designer. His workshops and presentations have been attended and put to use by a variety of companies and well-known brands, from lean start-ups to large corporations.
New York
Hudson Hotel / Good Units
356 West 58th Street
New York, NY 10019
New York, NY 10019
A day of workshops followed by two days of sessions, panels and keynotes - with networking parties and industry meetups each night.
