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Andy Baio, Waxy.org
Blog: Waxy.org
Andy Baio is a programmer/journalist living and working in Portland, Oregon. He's the creator and co-founder of Upcoming.org, the social events calendar acquired by Yahoo!, which he recently left to develop new projects independently. Original reporting on his personal weblog Waxy.org has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, Wired, Boston Globe and MSNBC, among others. He's received legal threats from EMI, Disney, and Bill Cosby -- and framed each one.
Josh Bancroft, Intel
Blog: Tiny Screenfuls
Josh Bancroft is a self-proclaimed social media evangelist, storyteller and open source geek. He's worked at Intel for eight years, where he’s pioneered a lot of the company's internal and external adoption of blogs, wikis and other social tools. He's most noted internally for the creation of Intelpedia, Intel's internal company-wide wiki, based on open source tools (MediaWiki and the LAMP stack), which has been written up in the Wall Street Journal, Business Week and Network World.
As a "social media revolutionary" and "accidental spokesperson," Josh has been featured in recent books such as Groundswell by Forrester's Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, and Personality Not Included by Rohit Bhargava of Ogilvy PR.
Josh lives in Beaverton, Oregon, with his wife Rachel, and their two kids, Emma, age 4, and Gabe, age 1.5. Rachel is the creative counterpart to Josh's geeky analytical tendencies. They maintain a family blog at
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John Beaston, EasyStreet
John's passion is keeping customers delighted with EasyStreet services—where things just magically work as they should, thanks to John’s team of technical folk who committed to customer satisfaction and skilled at solving technical problems. Prior to EasyStreet he:
- Attended school for too long but earned a BSEE from Bradley University, an MSEE from University of Illinois and an MA from Pacific University.
- Taught technology and advanced mathematics in a variety of settings from university to high school.
- Spent 20 years at Intel doing everything from memory chip design to being an American technical accent in Europe to definition work on the first generation of PC fax boards and video conferencing.
- Managed the technical marketing and customer support centers for Intel on the Pentium, Multibus and ProShare Video product lines.
Roger Black, Roger Black
Roger Black has been involved in the design of content-based media since 1970, leading redesigns at Newsweek, Esquire and even Reader’s Digest.
As a staffer, he had the great fortune to work for the best and smartest people in the business—Jann Wenner, Lou Silverstein, Abe Rosenthal and Rick Smith.
Since going out on his own in 1989, he’s been hired by a number of brilliant clients—Terry McDonell, John Carroll, and Matt Winkler among them. His work on early important Web sites like MSNBC.com, Discovery.com, and @Home, designs for newspapers around the globe, and presence at the launches for Fast Company, Smart Money and Rove has provided some stimulating cross-pollination. Roger’s learned what works, and which direction things are going.
Kimberly Blessing, PayPal / Web Standards Project
Blog: Kimberly Blessing
Kimberly Blessing kimberlyblessing.com is a computer scientist, technical leader, and Web standards evangelist. At PayPal she heads the Web Development Platform Team, which is responsible for driving the creation and adoption of standards through training and process. She co-leads The Web Standards Project, a grass-roots organization that advocates standards-compliance and use to browser manufacturers and developers alike. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College's Computer Science program, Kimberly is also passionate about increasing the number of women in technology.
Kerry Bodine, Forrester
Kerry Bodine works with Customer Experience professionals to create more engaging—and profitable—online experiences. Her research explores how user-centered design processes, design-centric corporate cultures, and organizational structure contribute to the creation and sustainability of superior customer experiences. She also covers the interactive design agency industry and advises Customer Experience professionals about how to get the most out of agency partnerships.
Kerry was instrumental in the development of many of Forrester’s evaluation methodologies, including the Web Site Review, Kiosk Review, Blog Review, and Persona Review. Prior to joining Forrester, Kerry was an interaction designer at BodyMedia, a developer of wearable body monitoring technology.
She regularly contributes to publications like SelfServiceWorld and 1to1 Magazine and serves as the management community editor for Interactions magazine, published by the Association for Computing Machinery’s special interest group for computer-human interaction.
Kerry holds a master’s degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and an undergraduate degree in cognitive science and psychology from Indiana University. Her graduate design research focused on the areas of wearable computing, kinetic typography, and robotic devices.
Deborah Bryant, OSU Open Source Lab
Deborah Bryant is the Open Source Lab’s (OSL) public sector communities manager at Oregon State University (OSU), where she works within the intersection of academia, industry and government around Open Source issues and activities. Bringing insights of a hybrid background in private and public sectors, Deborah uses her knowledge of bureaucracy for good, not evil and promotes collaboration, generating partnerships, projects and innovation in the most unexpected places. She serves on the board of democracyLab.org, directs the annual Government Open Source Conference (www.goscon.org), and is a community activist in rural Oregon.
Deborah’s years in Oregon State government included a tour of duty in the Office of the State CIO as manager of enterprise strategic planning and policy and also as deputy State CIO. Prior to entering the pubic sector, Deborah held management positions in several emerging technology areas; parallel and high-speed computing and commercialized internet and web applications in the 80s, commercial wide area networks, advanced telecommunications and data/voice convergence in the 90s.
DL Byron, Textura Design
Blog: Bike Hugger
Byron is the Principal of Textura Design, and the co-author of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, a New Riders book.
With more than twelve years of experience, Byron is an expert blogger, designer and developer. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he consults with Textura Design’s clients, develops blogging strategies, and publishes Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture.
Byron lives in Seattle with his wife Pam, two children, and a pug named Cap’n. When he's not blogging, Byron races his bicycle with the Union Bay Cycling Club.
Sean Cowne, ISITE Design
Sean Cowne, Director of e-Learning at ISITE Design, has 16 years experience in education and adult training, including seven years designing and managing production of web-based training programs. Sean has designed a Brandon-Hall winning e-Learning course for Microsoft Windows Mobile and has trained trainers, promoters and merchandisers on three continents. He holds a BA from the University of Oregon and an MA from Portland State University.
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Ward Cunningham, AboutUs
Ward Cunningham is the Chief Technology Officer of AboutUs.org, a growth company hosting the communities formed by organizations and their constituents. Ward co-founded the consultancy, Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc., has served as a Director of the Eclipse Foundation, an Architect in Microsoft's Patterns & Practices Group, the Director of R&D at Wyatt Software and as Principle Engineer in the Tektronix Computer Research Laboratory. Ward is well known for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming, and the communities supported by his WikiWikiWeb. Ward hosts the AgileManifesto.org. He is a founder of the Hillside Group and there created the Pattern Languages of Programs conferences which continue to be held all over the world.
Bill DeRouchey, Ziba Design
Blog: History of the Button
As a writer, information architect and now senior interaction designer with Ziba Design in Portland, Oregon, Bill DeRouchey has been simplifying how people interact with products, Web sites and spaces for over fifteen years. Bill also writes about interaction design and user experience on his blog, History of the Button. From these explorations, Bill seeks to chronicle the evolution of how people and technology interact in anticipation of the design challenges of the content-dense, touch-surface future.
Scott Fegette, Adobe
Scott Fegette is the Technical Product Manager at Adobe . Before joining the Dreamweaver team, Scott was both a Flash Video evangelist and an engineering manager on the Macromedia Web team responsible for building the site infrastructure and architecture that serves Adobe.com to this day. Scott built his design and development skills as the director of online services for former Santa Barbara-based software developers MetaCreations, contributing both global site design and server-side framework code, and managing a team of designers and developers to support the site.
Aside from speaking around the globe on web development and standards, video production and online communities, Scott’s also a professional musician and independent photographer/videographer.
Nick Finck, Blue Flavor
Nick is a 12-year veteran of the Web and considered a Web craftsman by trade. His skills traverse Web design, development, user research, analysis, information architecture, and publishing. Nick founded his first Web consultancy in 1994 in Portland, Oregon, and has since created Web experiences for various Fortune 50 and 500 companies including Adobe, Boeing, Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Cisco, CitiGroup, FDIC, HP, IBM, Microsoft, PBS, Peet’s Coffee, and others. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington, and is a co-founder of Blue Flavor, a Web strategy company that focuses on people-centric solutions.
He is the author of numerous Web design-related articles for various publications and founder and publisher of Digital Web Magazine, "The Web professional’s online magazine of choice." He has participated as a judge for a few prestigious Web awards in the industry. He has built a reputation as a community volunteer, where he helps promote growth within the industry both locally and abroad. You can find Nick giving workshops and lectures for the industry’s leading organizations and universities.
Jason Grigsby, Cloud Four
Blog: User First Web
Jason Grigsby is co-founder and Web strategist for Cloud Four (http://www.cloudfour.com). Jason has been online since the 5th grade. At one point he could whistle at the exact pitch of a 1200 baud modem so that it would stop squelching when the phone rang. It was either develop this skill or his mother would ungraciously unplug the computer.
Jason built his first Web page in 1995. He has spent the last 11 years building Web sites professionally before being bitten by the mobile bug prompting him to throw caution to the wind and start a new company focused on mobile and Web development. He blogs both at http://cloudfour.com/blog and his personal site http://userfirstweb.com/.
Aaron Gustafson, Easy! Designs, LLC
Blog: EasyReader.net
Aaron Gustafson is the founder and principal consultant at Easy! Designs, a Web development boutique. He writes and speaks often on the various layers of the Web standards cake, and works to improve the usability and accessibility of the Web.
Matt Haughey, MetaFilter
Blog: A Whole Lotta Nothing
Matt Haughey designed his first Web site in 1995. He was a webmaster and programmer for Social Sciences Computing at UCLA from 1997 to 2000. Matt later worked for Pyra Labs where he helped code early versions of Blogger, and for KnowNow and Bitzi, and for several years was creative director at Creative Commons. Haughey now manages his Web sites full time.
In 1999, Haughey launched MetaFilter, a prominent community weblog and internet forum, which he programmed himself using Macromedia ColdFusion and Microsoft SQL Server3, and which he manages with co-moderator Jessamyn West. He was featured on the front cover of the May 2001 issue of Brill’s Content, illustrating the cover story Human Portals.
Tjeerd Hoek, frog design
Creative Director of frog design and Executive Creative Director of Software and Hardware Convergence, Tjeerd Hoek recently joined frog from Microsoft, where he was director of user experience design for Microsoft Windows, and developed user interfaces for some of the most widely used products and platforms in the world.
Tjeerd spent 13 years with Microsoft, starting as a designer in Microsoft Office, where he worked on the user interface for the integrated applications of Office ‘97, Office 2000, and Office XP. He was responsible for the user experience design of MSN, including key applications such as the MSN Premium Service client, MSN Messenger, and MSN Email.
Most recently, Tjeerd led the User Experience Design of Windows Vista, overseeing the team of product designers focused on the user experience of all features and platform capabilities of Windows Vista, the new Windows Aero interface, as well as the design for Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Photo Gallery, and other key products in Windows Vista.
Kevin Hoyt, Adobe Systems, Inc.
Blog: Kevin Hoyt
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, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography, and general aviation.
Thursday, May 22 - 10:30 am to 11:45 am
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. Brian serves as President for the Portland Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE) and as advisor, mentor, or board member for numerous startups. He actively promotes safe, renewable biodiesel as a locally-produced fuel source.
Keynote Speaker
Lynne d Johnson, FastCompany.com
Blog: Lynne d Johnson
Lynne is the Senior Editor and Community Director for FastCompany.com, a leading website and community for people passionate about business ideas that also offers the complete content of Fast Company magazine. She also writes a technology blog following Web, media, and consumer trends for FastCompany.com, and guest blogs for techPresident and Black Web 2.0. Lynne also serves on the Board of Directors of the Literary Freedom Project, a nonprofit arts organization, which seeks to empower communities of color through literature, creative thinking, and new media.
Prior to joining Fast Company, she was the General Manager, New Media for VIBE, SPIN, and VIBE Vixen where she she managed marketing, editorial, production, business development, and sales operations for the magazines' Websites and mobile properties. Her personal blog, Lynne d Johnson || music, media, my life, which launched in July 2001, is the recipient of the 2006 Black Weblog Awards Black Blogger Achievement Award.
Lynne holds an MBA in Media Management, a BA in Journalism, and an advanced certificate in multicultural studies.
Thursday, May 22 - 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Stephen Judkins, AboutUs
Stephen Judkins is an architect/developer for AboutUs, Inc, a Portland-based public wiki startup. Stephen led the Compost conversion that is the subject of this presentation. His relentless focus on developer efficiency motivated aggressive adoption of leading edge tools and frameworks. His experience at AboutUs.org is complemented by similarly architected and soon to be announced Python based WikiScholars.com which he founded. Stephen is a Portland native and a graduate of University of Puget Sound majoring in Economics, History and Mathematics.
James Keller, ISITE Design
James Keller, the Director of Strategy at ISITE Design, heads up a team of Web strategists, information architects, and content and analytics specialists. Infusing her knowledge of user experience design with a focus on integrated marketing communications, James excels at creating online strategies that keep audiences coming back for more. James' background includes both agency and corporate experience, including work with Siemens, InFocus, SHARP, Symantec, PGE, ClearChannel, and the MTV Networks.
Thursday, May 22 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Phillip Kerman, phillipkerman.com
Phillip Kerman is a teacher, writer, and programmer focusing on the Adobe Flash platform. He's programmed several games on MSN and Messenger Live including Sudoku Too and Jigsaw Too. He also programmed the real-time cattle auction site stampedecattle.com. Recently his focus is on cashing-in before Bubble 2.0.
Marshall Kirkpatrick, ReadWriteWeb
Marshall Kirkpatrick is the lead blogger at ReadWriteWeb, one of the 20 most linked-to blogs on the Web, and a consultant to companies large and small. Tech blogging, Twitter and working magic with RSS feeds are his specialties.
Scott Kveton, Vidoop LLC
Blog: Kveton.com
Scott Kveton is a digital identity promoter and open source advocate. Scott has worked at Amazon, RuleSpace.com and JanRain as well as founded the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University. Working closely with projects like Mozilla, Linux, Drupal and Apache led Scott down the identity path and to JanRain in mid-2006. Scott was named to Red Herring’s list of '25 Titans in Waiting' in early 2007. Scott speaks publicly about identity and open source, is an avid gardener and is also Internet-ordained, performing weddings for family and friends.
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am
Dan LaCivita, Firstborn Multimedia
Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Firstborn Multimedia, Dan LaCivita began his career at Firstborn as a full time flash developer where he was responsible for programming award-winning projects such as The Sith Sense, Victoria’s Secret, Atlantis, Dasani, Bjork, CORZO, The 4400, VH1 and Ralph Lauren, among others. Dan now brings his expertise in the interactive medium to his role as SVP/Executive Director, and has since managed and produced many high-profile projects including Malibu Rum, Nationwide Insurance, Smirnoff, Stride Gum, Food TV, Lee Jeans and Starwood. In addition to managing his own projects, Dan oversees the creative and technical production of every project that leaves the NY office. Holding a BS in Advertising from Boston University’s College of Communication, Dan has been a judge for various award shows and has had the opportunity to speak at the industry’s leading design and technology conferences. When he has time, Dan performs close-up magic, and enjoys reading about the history of magic and deception.
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am
Sean Larkin, Open Sourcery
Sean brings ten years of diverse leadership and technical consulting experience to OpenSourcery's team. He has led national community organizing initiatives and international relief projects, served as a fundraising strategist for environmental groups worldwide, and ran his own open source software consultancy specializing in the open source Drupal CMS. He holds a master’s of public administration (MPA) degree from Syracuse University's Maxwell School and is an avid whitewater enthusiast, certified kayaking instructor, raft guide and whitewater videographer.
Jensine Larsen, World Pulse
Blog: Pulse Wire
After working as a freelance journalist covering indigenous movements and ethnic cleansing in South America and Southeast Asia, at age 28, Jensine (Yen-See Nah) Larsen founded World Pulse, a global media source which covers world issues through women’s eyes. In pursuit of her dream to unleash the creative human potential of women across the globe through the power of media, Larsen began publishing her flagship project, World Pulse magazine, with just a vision and no prior publishing experience. Nominated for “Best International Coverage” of 2004 and 2005 by the Independent Press Awards, World Pulse magazine performed 2-3 times higher than most new magazines on the newsstand and heralded a large, untapped market of women and men with an appetite to understand the world through women’s eyes. Today, with her eye on the future of communications technology in the developing world, Larsen is now building an interactive global media company with a for-profit and non-profit component designed to connect women worldwide. Larsen’s first focus with her media enterprise is pioneering the development of PulseWire.net, an interactive Web site that uses communications technology to enable women worldwide – even those in remote and impoverished regions – to speak for themselves to the world and solve global problems.
Friday, May 23 - 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Alexis Madrigal, Wired.com
Alexis Madrigal is a newsman following energy and science at Wired.com. His work also appears in Dwell, Earth2Tech, BLDGBLOG, and Arcade. He's interested in defining how technology is changing human beings' brains, consumption patterns, and environments.
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm
David McFarland, Sawyer McFarland Media
Dave McFarland is a Portland-based Web developer who has been building Web sites since 1995. He is instructor in the multimedia program at Portland State University and the author of Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual and CSS: The Missing Manual.
Jim Meyer, Cucina Media
Blog: Geek Daily
With a career that’s ranged from freelance graphic design to large scale distributed computing systems architecture, Jim Meyer is obviously an advanced case of ADD in search of the next challenging distraction. Along the way, he’s founded a graphic design studio, built technology groups and solutions for the likes of Disney and DreamWorks, met many interesting people, and had approximately two and a half metric tons of fun.
Jim is the father of two and husband of one, all three of whom make him a better person on a daily basis.
Friday, May 23 - 1:15 pm to 2:30 pm
Erica O'Grady, Peanut Butter Media
Blog: Reinventing Erica
Erica O’Grady is the #1 Erica on Google—most days. :o) She's a Social Media Consultant based in Houston, Texas (the damn near finest city in the South). Wearing many hats—including Social Media Consultant, Award-Winning Web Designer/Developer, Creativity Coach, Writer, Part-Time Tutor, Aspiring Film-Maker, BarCamp Enthusiast, World Traveler, and Grown-up Girl Scout, Erica Specializes in Community Marketing and is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Social Media and Technology. She is the CXO of Peanut Butter Media, co-founder of Jelly Houston, and sits on the Advisory board for Knowbility.org, CreativeSpace and Westwood College. She blogs at ReinventingErica.com and is the On The Road Correspondent for The Business Maker’s Radio Show heard on Talk Radio 950 KPRC.
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 11:45 am
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am
Sarah Rich, Dwell
Sarah Rich is a writer and editor working where sustainability intersects with design, architecture, food, consumer culture and futurism. She is an editor at Dwell magazine, where she specializes in sustainability and product manufacturing processes. Sarah was formerly Managing Editor of
Sarah received her BA from Stanford University in Cultural and Social Anthropology. She worked as a chef, food justice advocate and Food Network television production assistant before entering the world of online media and taking a management role at two leading sustainability-oriented publications. She became Managing Editor of the sustainable design innovation site
Sarah’s work has appeared in BusinessWeek, Dwell, I.D., ReadyMade, Creative Review, and Urban Design Review. She has lectured at Sao Paulo Fashion Week, the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates, Doors of Perception in Delhi, EPIC Vancouver, and South by Southwest. She is on the advisory board of Innovative Home magazine and Project H, a non-profit organization working to promote humanitarian design.
Sarah is deeply focused on "solutions-based journalism"—an approach that guides her ever-widening lens on sustainability towards innovations, inventions and ideas that assume a better future is possible, and that the power to build it is in our hands.
Dan Rubin, Sidebar Creative
Blog: Dan Rubin's Superfluous Banter
Dan Rubin is a highly accomplished user interface designer and usability consultant, with over ten years of experience as a leader in the fields of Web standards and usability. In addition to his work for Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Geffen/Universal Media, he is a sought-after public speaker and author, most recently penning Pro CSS Techniques (Apress, 2006), and Web Standards Creativity (friends of ED, 2007).
Kelsey Ruger, PopLabs
Kelsey Ruger is an accomplished software architect, designer and information architect who has lent his expertise to high profile Internet projects at Prodigy and SBC as well as a number of start-ups. Kelsey is currently the Director of Technology and Creative Services for Houston based PopLabs where he is responsible for the company’s product development and creative services teams. Prior to joining PopLabs, Kelsey was one of the youngest directors in the SBC Telecommunications family of companies, where he led the client development efforts for SBC Prodigy and SBC Internet. As SBC’s development lead he was vital in designing, planning and implementing the first SBC Yahoo Dial and DSL kits. Kelsey is passionate about creating a world where technology is transparent, simple and universally accessible to all people regardless of ability, and shares this passion on his personal blog The Moleskin.
Thursday, May 22 - 9:00 am to 11:45 am
Friday, May 23 - 9:00 am to 10:15 am
Andi Rusu, IF/THEN
One of the Northwest’s acknowledged leaders in visual design, Andi Rusu is the founder of Redoctober Industrie, Cursivecode and IF/THEN, and has provided visual communications for the region’s most important companies: Microsoft, Boeing, Starbucks, Nintendo, and Eddie Bauer, as well as for national clients including Charles Schwab, Smithsonian, Porsche, Motorola, Samsung, Sierra On-Line, Regence, National Geographic, and Citibank.
For his work on interactive design, motion graphics and print, Andi’s work has been recognized with Communication Arts, Print, Graphis, Webby and Seattle Show awards.
Andi holds a European BFA degree from Universitatea Populara de Arta in Romania, and earned a graphic design degree from Cornish College of Arts. He teaches illustration, graphic design and interactive design at Cornish College and at Seattle’s School of Visual Concepts.
Dan Saffer, Adaptive Path
Blog: O Danny Boy
Dan Saffer is an experience design director for Adaptive Path. An international speaker and author, his writing on design has appeared in BusinessWeek and many online publications, while his acclaimed book Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices has been called "a bookshelf must-have for anyone thinking of creating new designs" and has been translated into several languages. His new book on interactive gestures will be published by O’Reilly in Fall 2008.
Dan is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). He received his Master of Design in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. He has spoken at such conference such as SXSW, Design Thinkers, WebVisions, UX Week, and Design Research.
Brandon CS Sanders, AboutUs
Dr. Brandon CS Sanders is director of development at AboutUs Inc where he leads an international team developing web applications in Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and Javascript. Brandon is a collaboration enthusiast known as the creator of ConsensusPolling and recognized as the visionary behind the RecentChangesCamp unconference. ConsensusPolling is a process technology in the style of wiki that drives people together who are capable of agreement but inclined toward disagreement. RecentChangesCamp is a revolutionary style of real space collaboration that slices across the boundaries between computer geeks and real people. Brandon's collaborative leadership brings people together in a way that others are only now writing books about.
Christopher Schmitt, Heat Vision
Blog: Christopher Schmitt
Designer, Web developer, author, strategist, and dreamer Christopher Schmitt directs Heatvision.com, Inc., a small new media publishing and design firm. The author of several books, including CSS Cookbook and Photoshop in 10 Simple Steps or Less, Schmitt is also a contributor to many Web development magazines.
Kit Seeborg, Seeborg Strategies
As a Web strategist and integrated online media producer, Kit translates high-level business goals into project strategies then leads teams to design and produce quality Websites.
For twelve years Ms. Seeborg has produced award-winning Websites that integrate traditional content with current technologies. Prior to her work as Web strategy consultant, she managed the corporate Website and produced software launches for Web analytics software company, WebTrends. She has implemented custom content management systems, intranets and extranets, and partner Websites for international value added resellers, and for companies such as Microsoft and BASF. She specializes in the built environment, including managing the development of Web projects that promote energy efficiency, sustainability, and responsible resource use.
Kit is the founder of
Ms. Seeborg is a frequent speaker and organizer of Internet industry events, a Board Member and co-organizer of WebVisions, and public speaker at such events. She was a panelist at the 2005 South By Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, and chaired the Software Association of Oregon's E-commerce Conference in 2000.
Kit recently served as editor of Worldchanging.com’s Denver and Portland blogs. She is a member of the Information Architecture Institute, and the American Institute of Graphics Arts as well as IxDA Colorado. She has also judged multi-media competitions for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. Kit received her B.S. in Geography/Environmental Planning and earned a Project Management Certification from Portland State University.
Rashmi Sinha, SlideShare
Blog: Rashmi Sinh'as weblog
Designer and entrepreneur, Rashmi Sinha is Co-founder and CEO of SlideShare, the world’s largest community for sharing presentations.
Rashmi's background is in Human Computer Interaction. She received her PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Brown University and went on to do research at the Information School, UC Berkeley. Deciding that practical problems interested her more, she left academia. She co-founded Uzanto, working with large and small Web companies to improve their user experience. In 2005, her company launched MindCanvas, game-like software used for customer research.
Rashmi blogs at www.rashmisinha.com. She is a regular speaker at conferences on topics like the social Web, running a startup and designing great products. She also co-chairs the monthly BayCHI talk series. Her latest venture, SlideShare, is growing fast, letting people share and find presentations on almost any topic under the sun.
Gene Smith, nForm
By day Gene Smith is a principal with nForm, one of Canada's leading user experience consulting firms. By night he writes about information architecture, interaction design, community, the Web, and other such topics.
Tyler Sticka, TylerSticka.com
Tyler Sticka is an interactive designer and illustrator currently focusing on Web, logo and iconography design. His clients include small businesses, open source developers and larger names such as Nike, Synnex and Providence Health. In addition to his freelance work, he teaches a class on Designing Internet Text at the Art Institute of Portland, and he’s a principal member of a new Web design team at motion control products manufacturer, US Digital.
Jim Turner, OneByOne Media
Blog: Bloggers for Hire
Jim Turner is the leader of the One By One Media team and it was his vision that began the business in 2004. Jim is a well-respected professional blogger, mentoring others to become professional bloggers and leading companies through successful online campaigns. Jim is a leader in the new industry of social media and business blogging, and is well connected in advertising, public relations, marketing and other business circles. Jim has experience in management and leadership from working in the law for more than 20 years and is taking those skills to the social media arena and making companies successful as they enter into the Web 2.0 business space. Jim lives in Colorado with his wife and four children.
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Jeffrey Veen
Jeffrey Veen is one of the founding partners of Adaptive Path and is currently the design manager and project lead for Google's Measure Map, the company's well-received web analytics tool. Jeffrey is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and user experience consultant. As a consultant, Jeffrey has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the Web, including Blogger, TypePad, Flickr, and more. Previously, Jeffrey served as the Executive Director of Interface Design for Wired Digital and Lycos Inc., where he managed the look and feel of HotWired, the HotBot search engine, Lycos.com and others.
In addition to lecturing and writing on Web design and development, Jeffrey has been active with the World Wide Web Consortium's CSS Editorial Review Board as an invited expert on electronic publishing. He is also a columnist for Webmonkey, the author of the acclaimed books The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites.
Jeffrey specializes in the integration of content, graphic design, and technology from a user-centered perspective.
Bryan Veloso, Sidebar Creative
Formerly of Facebook and Automattic, Bryan Veloso is one-half of the pseudo "multi-industry conglomerate," Revyver, and has done work for Flock, the popular social networking blog Mashable, and CoffeeCup Software. Also known for events, such as the annual Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza held in Austin, Texas, Bryan’s an accomplished designer who has an extreme passion for the sites he builds and he users he builds them for.
David Verba, Emmet Labs/Adaptative Path
David Verba is the Technology Advisor for Adaptive Path and the Chief Technical Officer of Emmett Labs. His many years of technical leadership and architecture experience cover a broad range of projects and strategies, including Sun, Java, Oracle, and a variety of open source technologies.
David served as Director of Technology for WholePeople.com, a large ecommerce initiative by Whole Foods, Inc., and was a core developer for CodeZoo.net, a Web site for programmers sponsored by O’Reilly Media. He also provided essential technical leadership to Measure Map, a free web service (now part of Google) that tracks blogs’ traffic stats.
Christina Wodtke, LinkedIn
Blog: Elegant Hack
A relentless instigator, Christina Wodtke co-founded Cucina Media, founded the premier Web design 'zine Boxes and Arrows, and created PublicSquare (the software running Foundread, Boxes and Arrows and more). Previously, she co-founded MIG, a management consulting firm, founded the Institute of Information Architecture, authored the bestselling book Information Architecture, Blueprints for the Web, and has spoken on the topic of the human experience in information spaces at conferences worldwide. Prior to founding Cucina Media, Christina was senior director of design for Yahoo! Search and Marketplace where she led design work in the revival of Search, and the reinvention of Shopping.
Mark Wyner, Mark Wyner Design
Mark has been designing and developing on the Web for over a decade. He is a seasoned veteran with extensive expertise in virtually every facet of interactive media, from design to technology. He is also one of an elite group of pioneers of the Web-standards approach. Mark has humbly accepted awards for visual design, experience design and Web standards interfaces. And while he's among an increasing minority of Web designers without a blog, he still manages to seep into the Web community with his articles and speaking engagements. When he's not obsessing about Web accessibility, Mark enjoys his beautiful family of seven, a little bowling, a little golf and a combination of all of them on their Wii.
Dave Yewman, Dash Constulting
Dave Yewman is a strategic communications expert with more than 15 years experience. A former newspaper reporter and columnist, Dave has conducted media and presentation training sessions for thousands of executives at numerous companies, including Adidas, Archos, aQuantive, Brooks Running, CA, CNet, Coinstar, Craigslist, Digg, DivXNetworks, eHarmony, Golfsmith, Ingram Micro, Isilon, K-Swiss, Microsoft, Musicmatch, M-Systems, Avenue A Razorfish, Reebok, Secure Computing and Vignette. Dave also co-founded
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