Speakers
Join our all-star lineup of speakers for three days of sessions, panels and workshops on Web design, user experience and business strategy.
Agnieszka Gasparska
As creative director and founder of New York city based design firm, Kiss Me I’m Polish LLC, Agnieszka Gasparska leads multidisciplinary teams in developing the creative vision for websites, interactive applications, identity systems and print solutions. She has worked on projects of all shapes and sizes in the fields of Art, Design, Education and Entertainment, and her clients have included GOOD Inc., Thrillist, Refinery29, Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame and The National Recording Academy.
Merlin Mann
Merlin is the creator of 43folders.com, a popular American website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work. His writing has been carried in fine periodicals like WIRED, Make, Popular Science, and MacWorld, while 43 Folders has been featured favorably in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Time, and The Wall Street Journal, to name a few.
Merlin Manns' closing keynote is sponsored by Network Solutions.
Luke Williams
Luke is a leading consultant, speaker, and educator in the area of innovation strategy and disruptive thinking. For more than a decade, he has worked internationally with industry leaders like Microsoft, American Express, Sony, Virgin, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard, to develop new products, services, brands, and business models.
Luke Williams' opening keynote is sponsored by Portland State University's Multimedia Professional Program.
Alexa Andrzejewski
Alexa recently launched her own startup called Foodspotting, and as the former User Experience Designer at Adaptive Path and Lextant, Alexa has architected online and offline experiences for financial professionals, nuclear pharmacists, smartphone users and social networkers.
Josh Bancroft
Josh Bancroft is a Community Builder, Developer Wrangler, and the producer of Intel Software Network TV.
Kimberly Blessing
Kimberly is a Web developer, standards evangelist, and technology executive helping numerous organizations make successful transitions to Web standards.
Amber Case
Amber is a Cyborg Anthropologist whose current research relates to participation architecture, time and space, and work vs. play.
Kevin Cheng
Kevin missed the memo to stop drawing after the first grade. Nowadays, he splits his crayon time between Twitter, where he is the product manager for the web client, and finishing his book "See What I Mean: How to Communicate Ideas With Comics".
Christian Crumlish
Christian has been designing and writing about online user experiences since 1994. He is co-author of the book Designing Social Interfaces with Erin Malone.
Daniel Davis
British-born Daniel is currently working in Japan as a Web Evangelist for Opera Software.
Nathan DiNiro
Nate DiNiro is a web and social media strategist with a background spanning over 20 years...
Collin Donnell
Collin is a full time iPhone developer from Portland employed by Avatron Software. He has created dozens of iPhone applications including popular apps such as Things by Cultured Code and Bandsintown.
Adam DuVander
As a geolocative web developer, Adam wants to know where you are. His location-related work for BestPlaces.net has been seen on MSN, Yahoo and the Wall Street Journal.
Christopher Fahey
Christopher is a founding partner and user experience director at Behavior, an award-winning web design consultancy in New York with a focus on building compelling and elegant user experiences for business and culture.
Nick Finck
Nick is the Principal and Director of User Experience at Blue Flavor, a web design company that focuses on creating great experiences.
Dawn Foster
Dawn has more than 14 years of experience in strategic planning and provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities.
Josh Friedman
Josh Friedman is the co-founder of NedSpace, a provider of coworking facilities for entrepreneurs and startups.
Jason Glaspey
Jason is a serial entrepreneur who is writing a book about starting an online bacon retailer and building small, fun, quick-to-market websites.
Renny Gleeson
Renny has been interactive since he got his TRS-80 RadioShack microcomputer in the ’70s. He found his spiritual home at W+K as global director of interactive strategies.
Jason Grigsby
Jason 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.
Stanley Hainsworth
Stanley Hainsworth founded Tether, a team of visionaries, strategists, designers and implementers who are passionate about one thing: Telling stories that matter.
Anselm Hook
Anselm Hook is a seasoned artist, theorist and locative media developer focusing on Augmented Reality apps.
Kevin Hoyt
Kevin is a Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he’s been actively involved in furthering web technologies for more than ten years.
Tom Hughes-Croucher
Tom is an Evangelist and Senior Developer in Yahoo's Open Strategy Group, focusing on Yahoo's Web Services and Cloud Platform.
James Keller
James is a digital communications strategist and user experience evangelist at Small Society. She has worked with Coca-Cola, NIKE and Procter & Gamble build effective onine strategies.
Justin Kistner
As Senior Manager of Social Media Marketing, Justin Kistner drives the marketing strategy surrounding Webtrends’ social presence across Twitter, Facebook, the Webtrends blog and others.
Kris Krug
Kris is a fashion, music, and portraits photographer, technologist and author based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Clay Loveless
Mashery co-founder and Chief Architect, Clay Loveless, has been programming online applications since 1995.
Erin Malone
Erin has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing social experiences for the web. She is co-author of the book Designing Social Interfaces with Christian Crumlish.
David McFarland
Author, educator and Web developer, David has been designing and developing Web sites since 1995. His books include CSS: The Missing Manual and JavaScript: The Missing Manual, and is a regular columnist at CreativePro.com.
John McRee
John is co-author of the book Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software, published by O’Reilly Media.
Mark Meeker
Mark is a Front-End engineer who helps teams at Orbitz.com and Critical Mass write code which is standards-based, accessible and easy to maintain.
Nicolle Mueller
Nicolle works for Land's End and is the former Creative Director of Luxury Brands for Fossil, Inc. where she drove multi-brand design concepts and solutions for primarily ecommerce and web, emphasis on the online experiences.
Scott Porad
Scott is the CTO of the Cheezburger Network, the company behind the hugely popular I Can Has Cheezburger? and Failblog.org.
Barbara Pritchard
Barbara thought nothing could tear her away from her career in the music industry as a record label promoter and band manager. But then Al Gore invented the Internet.
James Reffell
James is Principal of Product Experience at Usable Security Systems, where he's helping make security less scary for normal people.
Ryan Russell
For the last eight years Ryan has led user experience teams for high-tech companies including Intel and McAfee.
Kate Rutter
Kate is a senior practitioner at Adaptive Path. During her ten plus years in the web industry, she's honed her talent for bringing companies and customers closer together through smart strategies and inventive design.
Christopher Schmitt
Christopher is an author and award-winning Web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993. His books include Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites and The CSS Cookbook
Daniel Schutzsmith
Daniel recently completed a stint as the Vice President of Core Industries, spearheading their efforts to create a digital agency that focuses on working with clients and on projects that fulfill the triple bottom line: people, planet, and profits.
Dave Selden
Dave has been a web designer almost as long as there has been a consumer Internet, with clients including Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Leatherman Tool Group and the Oregon Lottery.
Kyle Simpson
Kyle is a UI architect from Austin, TX. He is passionate about user experience, specifically optimizing the UI to be as responsive, efficient, secure, and scalable as possible.
Gene Smith
Gene is the President of nForm User Experience Consulting Ltd, a UX design and consulting firm and runs Kiiro Software, a software company that makes social components for the Microsoft SharePoint platform.
Robert Wagner
A perpetual entrepreneur, Robert Wagner is the man most directly responsible for PDX.FM, the Pacific Northwest's largest independent Internet talk radio station.
Aaron Weiss
Aaron Weiss is the Technology Integration Manager at KGW Media Group in Portland, which is a fancy way of saying he gets paid to find ways to drag television news into the 21st century.
Tom Wheeler
Tom has taught in the Media & Web Design program at the Art Institute of Portland for over 10 years and currently runs his own Drupal design and development business.
Dan Willis
Dan is a user experience consultant for Sapient and has been launching robust Web sites and applications for organizations such as PBS.org and WashintonPost.com since the mid 1990s.
Mark Wyner
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.
Tiffany Young
Tiffany leads a team of pixel-wrangling designers, animators and writers at Smashing Ideas.
Raven Zachary
Raven is President of Small Society, working with big brands, established companies, investors, and startups on iPhone strategy and product development.
Ilen Zazueta-Hall
Ilen is a Senior Product Manager at Salesforce.com and has worked with start-ups and large enterprises such as LeapFrog.