WebVisions
May 20-22, 2009 | Portland, OR
Speakers
Join our all-star lineup of speakers for three days of sessions and workshops on Web design, user experience and business strategy.
Keynote Speakers
Mark Frauenfelder – Boingboing.net
Mark Frauenfelder is the editor-in-chief of MAKE magazine and the founder of Boingboing.net, what Technorati calls the world's most popular blog. A former editor at Wired, Mark has written for numerous publications and is the author of four books, including The Computer, an illustrated history of computers, and Rule the Web, a guide to online tricks and tips. His next book, The World in Your Hands, will be published in 2009. more
Brad Smith – Virb.com
Brad Smith is the CEO and Co-Founder of Virb, the company behind the recently reengineered social media network, Virb.com. In his past life, Brad founded Neubix, a corn-fed, midwestern design agency, which became globally recognized for its simplistic, yet groundbreaking design; apparent on sites like The Big Noob: a big, blue blog, still operated by him and (co-worker & friend) Ryan Sims. more
Jared Spool – User Interface Engineering
If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective, knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. What you probably don’t know is that he has guided the research agenda and built User Interface Engineering (UIE) into the largest research organization of its kind in the world. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers. more
Peat Bakke
Peat Bakke is a web developer and world traveller with a keen interest in how the Internet is shaping the global economy. He presented at Ignite Portland II on finding beauty in abandoned places. more
Lane Becker – Get Satisfaction
Lane Becker is President & Co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. more
Kimberly Blessing – Comcast Interactive Media
Kimberly Blessing is a a Web developer, standards evangelist, and technical leader. more
Jina Bolton
Jina Bolton resides and works in San Francisco as an interaction designer at Crush + Lovely. more
Carri Bugbee – Big Deal PR
Carri Bugbee is the owner of Big Deal PR, a virtual agency that provides marketing and PR for innovative businesses and organizations. She has 20 years experience in traditional public relations and advertising, but in recent years has embraced online marketing with a vengeance, including Twitter, social networks/media, search marketing, and all things Web 2.0. more
Leah Buley – Adaptive Path
Leah Buley is an Experience Designer for Adaptive Path. She speaks and writes about methods for making user experience design more successful inside of business organizations. more
Jason Burby
Jason leads one of the world's largest and most recognized strategic web analytics consulting firms. He is Co-Chair of the WAA Association Standards Committee, author of a regular web analytics column on ClickZ and author of Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions (Wiley, 2007). more
Paul Burnett – Adobe, Inc.
Paul Burnett is Senior Worldwide Evangelist for the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe, specializing in Flash and the Web. In this role, Paul travels throughout the world, speaking at industry conferences, presenting at trade shows and seminars, talking with customers, and leading specialized, advanced training sessions featuring Adobe's Creative Suite. more
Melissa Casburn – ISITE Design
With 12 years of experience as a web strategist, information architect, project manager, and instructional designer, Melissa can get a lot done in a day. more
Amber Case – Hazelnut Tech Talk
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist who studies new media and the relationship between humans and computers. more
Gage Choat
Gage has been working as a web developer in the northwest since 2002. He has with companies such as Regence, Kaiser Permanente, Intel, Adidas and Ensequence. more
Andy Craig – Elevator Speech Inc.
Andy has coached and counseled hundreds of executives about clearer, smarter communications over the past 16 years. As co-owner of Elevator Speech Inc., he puts company officials on camera and uses the video to help organizations of all sizes develop clear, concise and compelling descriptions of what they do, and more importantly, why their audiences should care. more
Jason CranfordTeague – Bright Eye Media
Jason CranfordTeague is an Internet Strategist and Instructor who wants to help people use technology to create a better world. more
Jeff Croft – Blue Flavor
Jeff Croft is a Web designer and developer at Blue Flavor, an experience and design consultancy in Seattle. Beyond Blue Flavor, Jeff is a blogger, speaker, critic, and industry thought leader. more
Kimberly Elam
Kimberly Elam is a writer, educator, and graphic designer. She is currently the Chair of the Graphic & Interactive Communication Department at the Ringling College of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. more
Dawn Foster
Dawn provides consulting services for building online communities through social media technologies including forums, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and more. She is the author of the Fast Wonder Blog and is working on a book about community. more
Vanessa Fox – Nine by Blue.com
Vanessa Fox, called a “cyberspace visionary” by Seattle Business Monthly, is an expert in understanding customer acquisition from organic search. more
Justin Garrity – WebTrends
Justin is the new User Experience director at WebTrends. His mandate is to focus on user centered design, refined data visualization, and narrative context driven workflow. more
Steve Gehlen – Internet Strategy Forum
Steve Gehlen is the Founder and Executive Director of the Internet Strategy Forum, a national professional association for corporate Internet executives with over 1,500 members and chapters around the U.S. more
Jason Glaspey – Bac'n
Jason Glaspey offers Web consulting and interactive services to a variety of companies and agencies. more
Jason Grigsby – Cloud Four
Jason Grigsby was one of the project leads on the Obama iPhone Application and helped design the user inferface for the Wall Street Journal's Blackberry application. He founded and organizes Mobile Portland, a local mobile development user group. more
Molly Holzschlag – Molly.com
Molly works to define and create effective organizational standards and best practices for thousands of developers and designers working the Web via 35 books, countless articles, conference workshops, sessions and keynotes and a consulting practice. more
Kevin Hoyt – Adobe, Inc.
Kevin Hoyt is a platform evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. Passionate about engaging user experiences as he is, you'll most often find him meeting with customers, speaking at conferences, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm. more
Todd Hudson – The Maverick Institute
Todd Hudson is a knowledge transfer expert who founded the Boulder, Colorado-based Maverick Institute to transform the way companies train, teach and share knowledge. more
Brian Jamison – OpenSourcery
Brian is a seasoned entrepreneur with many technology-related companies to his credit. He has worked with Linux, open source, and the Internet professionally since 1995. more
John Keith – Cloud Four
John Keith is Co-Founder and President of Cloud Four. He has been a professional software developer for 25 years, fully half of which have been spent developing web-based software and services. more
Raymond King – About Us
Ray has worked at four startups and enjoys the technical and business challenges that go along with birthing totally new ideas. more
Scott Kveton – Bac'n
Scott brings 12 years of experience building technology, developing business strategy and leading engineering teams with companies like Amazon.com, Rulespace, JanRain and now Vidoop. more
Dan LaCivita – Firstborn Multimedia
Dan began his career at Firstborn as a fulltime Flash Developer where he was responsible for programming many of Firstborn's award-winning projects. Dan was one of the lead developers on projects such as the The Sith Sense, Victoria's Secret, Atlantis, Dasani, Bjork, CORZO, The 4400, VH1 and Ralph Lauren among others. more
Chris Messina – Vidoop
Chris Messina is an open source advocate based in San Francisco, known for helping to advance such community efforts as Spread Firefox, BarCamp, and coworking and open web standards initiatives such as OpenID, OAuth and microformats. He currently works for Vidoop, LLC on the DiSo Project. more
Steve Mulder – Molecular
Steve Mulder is Director of Emerging Interactions at Molecular where he helps organizations innovate on customer relationships using social media, social networking, rich interfaces, and other Web 2.0 interactions. more
Thor Muller – Get Satisfaction
Thor Muller is CTO & co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a web startup dedicated to fostering new methods of communication and collaboration between companies and their customers. more
Eric T. Peterson – Web Analytics Demystified
Eric has worked in web analytics since the late 1990's in a variety of roles including practitioner, consultant, and analyst for several market-leading companies. He is the author of three best-selling books on the subject. more
Chris Pirillo – Lockergnome.com
Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. more
David Recordon
David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart, the largest independent blogging company in the world. Recordon has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. more
Amye Scavarda – Open Sourcery
Amye Scavarda is a Drupal Project Manager with OpenSourcery. Her time in management consulting and project management has converted her to the Agile methodology of project management. Couple that with a love of social networking timewasting and you've got a combination that works better than the average twinkie. Much, much better. more
Christopher Schmitt – Heatvision
An award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher is the founder of Heat Vision, a new media publishing and design firm. more
Daniel Schutzsmith
Daniel Schutzsmith is the publisher of Graphic Define, an online destination focusing on the business of design for the graphics, web, and interactive design industries. He is also a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, teaching several web design and business of design related courses. more
Bill Scott – Netflix
Bill is the Director of User Interface Engineering at Netflix where he guides the UI Engineering team's efforts to continue Netflix's excellence in user experience, improve client performance and refactor the presentation tier to use the latest best practices for both the DHTML layer as well as the Java tier layer. more
Ryan Stewart – Adobe, Inc.
Ryan Stewart is an Evangelist for Adobe focusing on the Flash Platform. more
Tyler Sticka
Tyler Sticka is a designer, artist, speaker and educator specializing in identity-driven new media. His clients include small businesses, marketing agencies, open source developers and larger names such as Nike, Synnex and Providence Health. more
Ryan Turner – ZAAZ
Ryan leads social media efforts for ZAAZ, an interactive marketing agency implementing Web channel strategies for clients around the US. more
David Verba – Emmet Labs
David is the CTO and Founder of Emmet Labs. He has over 15 years of development experience spanning everything from open source approaches to more traditional enterprise technologies. more
Dave Yewman – Elevator Speech Inc.
A former newspaper reporter and columnist, Dave has conducted media and presentation training sessions for thousands of executives at numerous companies, including Adidas, Craigslist, Digg, eHarmony, K-Swiss, Microsoft, Avenue A Razorfish, Reebok, and Vignette. more
Indi Young – Adaptive Path
Mix a little empathy, a mind for synthesis and pulling meaning out of the air, plus a strong desire to make people feel confident and you get Indi. She is an author, speaker, consultant, and co-founder of Adaptive Path. more
Raven Zachary
Raven Zachary helps people create, develop, and launch iPhone products and services. He's also a contributing analyst with The 451 Group, an IT industry analyst firm. more
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