Alexa Andrzejewski is the Founder and CEO of Foodspotting, a visual guide to good food and where to find it. Foodspotting, a venture-backed product, was named a Hot Trend of 2010 by iTunes and one of Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2010.
Alexander Baumgardt is a founding partner of Systemic Partners – an advisory firm helping its clients master complexity and resolve uncertainty in product, service and strategy. Alexander’s foremost goal and passion is to help decision makers see opportunities and become comfortable with innovative change.
Andrew Crow designs products and services that delight people and exceed business expectation. Nearly 20 years of experience in visual, interaction and product design have given him a deep perspective on creating meaningful experiences for consumers.
Brandon Schauer is Vice President of Creative Services for Adaptive Path. He speaks, writes, trains, and practices experience design as a differentiator for business strategy.
Cameron Gray is VP of Engineering for Mindflash.com and an entrepreneur and agile evangelist who appreciates the art of creating user focused apps. Mindflash.com is the easiest and most effective way to deliver in-house training online.
Charles Warren leads Google’s Social UX team: the designers and researchers who make products like Buzz, Picasa, Blogger, and Profiles easy and fun to use. Prior to Social, Charles led Google’s Mobile UX team.
Cindy Chastain is an experience designer, strategist, teacher and screenwriter. As a Creative Director at R/GA, named Digital Agency of the Decade by Adweek, Cindy leads with a focus on user-centered design, storytelling, and collaboration. She’s also bent on changing the way traditional advertisers and marketers think about customer experiences.
Jamin Hegeman is an interaction and service designer at Adaptive Path, where he helps clients identify new product and service opportunities that support the needs and behaviors of the people who will use them.
Janice Fraser is an entrepreneur, designer, and adviser to early stage companies. She has raised capital, founded both successful and failed
startups, and consulted to both large enterprises & tiny startups. Along the way Janice has learned a lot about what makes some teams thrive and others wither.
Jay Trimble founded and leads the User Centered Technology (UCT) Group at NASA Ames Research Center. The UCT group designs and builds software that enables new capabilities for NASA missions by empowering mission controllers and consumers of NASA mission data to be more effective in their tasks.
Jeffrey Veen is a founder and the CEO of Typekit—a widely praised subscription font service that is bringing real typography to the Web for the first time. Jeffrey was also one of the founding partners of Adaptive Path and project lead for Measure Map, the well-received web analytics tool acquired by Google in 2006, where he managed the user experience group responsible for some of the largest web apps in the world.
Johan Høgåsen-Hallesby is an interaction and service designer working as a strategist at Making Waves. Being a passionate advocate for Service Design, he works with clients to tune their services, aligning user experience with business goals across their digital touch-points.
John Hagel III has nearly 30 years’ experience as a management consultant, author, speaker and entrepreneur, and has helped companies improve their performance by effectively applying information technology to reshape business strategies.
Kaaren Hanson leads Design Innovation at Intuit, including design thinking, mobile design, ethnographic research, and XD leadership. Kaaren champions the strategic value of design and won the 2010 CEO leadership award for her success driving Design Thinking into Intuit’s culture. She earned her PhD in experimental psychology at Stanford University.
Leah Buley is an experience designer for Adaptive Path. She believes that technology in our lives should be ennobling, liberating, and fun. She is interested in helping business and organizations make that possible. Her work spans a variety of industries including media, financial services, consumer products, and non-profit.
Megan Miller is the program director of R&D at Bonnier, an international multichannel media company. Megan’s role is to help identify business opportunities at the intersection of media and cutting edge technology, and together with research, design and UX teams, see them through to fruition.
Paul Hagen is a Principal Analyst on Forrester Research’s Customer Experience research team, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His research focuses on customer experience strategies (B2C and B2B), building organizational culture, and customer experience leadership including the chief customer officer.
Peter Merholz is a founding partner, board member, and CEO of Adaptive Path. At Adaptive Path, Peter began with a focus on information architecture, and over time expanded his knowledge to include product strategy, user research, and practice development.
Richard Dalton manages a User Experience team at Vanguard where he passionately advocates designing user experiences within the context of user and business goals.
Ruben Rohde is Senior Manager of User Experience at Cisco. He leads teams in discovering new and unique ways to create user experiences.
Samantha Starmer has worked on a wide variety of user experience and information architecture projects and strategy while at Amazon.com, SchemaLogic and Microsoft. She is currently a senior manager at REI.com.
Tomer Sharon (@tsharon) leads the user experience research effort for Google’s online advertising management platform – DFP (Doubleclick for Publishers) – since 2008. Prior to Google, he worked as a user researcher at Check Point Software Technologies in Israel, where he led the research effort for dozens of network and Internet security products on various platforms.