Justine Sanderson

Location: Auckland | New Zealand
Speaking Topics: Cognition | information architecture | information visualization | Psychology | usability | User Centred Design | User experience
Spoken Languages: French | English

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I give talks about various aspects of the user experience and usability, focusing mostly on human psychology & cognition.

About Me
Justine runs her own user experience consultancy - Userfaction - and wears many hats. Part usability consultant, part information architect, and part interaction designer, she’s helped a range of companies organise their information and develop more user-friendly websites and applications. Clients include the University of Auckland, the House of Travel, the Bank of New Zealand and the Ministry of Health.

Previous Presentations: 
Educause Australasia
UPA Auckland
Auckland Web Meetup
KiwiFoo
Web Standards Wellington
Auckland Test Professionals Network (TPN)
Girl Geek Dinners
Various guest lectures at local universities

Kim McGalliard

Location: New York | USA
Speaking Topics: information architecture | social media | usability | User experience | content management
Spoken Languages: English

Karen McGrane

Location: New York | NY | USA
Speaking Topics: web strategy | Web Design | User experience | information architecture | interaction design | usability | Content Strategy | publishing | content management | design patterns | social media | social business
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
From Business to Buttons
Information Architecture Summit
CHI

Julie R. Blitzer

Location: New York | NY | USA
Speaking Topics: drupal | grassroots organizing | information architecture | interaction design | nonprofit tech | online campaign strategy | politics | social media | User experience
Spoken Languages: English

I am the User Experience Lead for Advomatic, a Drupal web development firm based in New York. I specialize in user experience design and online communications strategy for non-profits, advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

Previous Presentations: 
SXSW Interactive 2010
Organizing 2.0 - December 2009
YDA Convention - 2009
GeekLab @ IPDI's Politics Online - 2009
Netroots Nation - 2010
WAM! It NYC - 2010

CAT Susch

Location: New York | USA
Speaking Topics: blogging | Enterprise Architecture | Enterprise Technology | Web 2.0 | information architecture | podcasting | Program Management | social networking
Spoken Languages: English

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I am currently in the role as Chief Architect of The McGraw-Hill companies where I am responsible for developing, setting and enforcing the technology direction for our key businesses Standard & Poors, McGraw-Hill Education and our Magazine/Media businesses like JD Power & Assoc and Business Week. Some key technologies I specialize in are Enterprise Content Management, Service Oriented Architecture, Business Intelligence and Analytics, and Social Networking.

Previous Presentations: 
2008 New Media Expo "How to Craft Your Passion into a Professional ‘How To’ Podcast" http://letsknit2gether.com/expo
2007 Portable & New Media Expo “Striving for Excellence:The Passion and Pain of Producing a Professional How-to Video Podcast” with Eric Susch
Presented at CeBit America June 2003 on the topic "Enterprise Portals"

Lorelei Brown

Location: Washington | DC | USA
Speaking Topics: information architecture | Internet Strategy | content management | Content Strategy | usability | Associations
Spoken Languages: English

Marianne Sweeny

Location: seattle | Washington | USA
Speaking Topics: search | information architecture | SEO | SEM | web analytics
Spoken Languages: English

Livia Labate

Location: PA | Philadelphia | USA
Speaking Topics: Career Development | Corporate Culture | IA | information architecture | interface design | Managing Teams | Online Strategy | Practice Development | Recruiting | UI | User experience | UX
Spoken Languages: English | Portuguese

Theresa Putkey

Location: Vancouver | BC | Canada
Speaking Topics: technical writing | information architecture | usability

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Theresa Putkey is a consultant for organizing content in website design and software design. She has a background in technical writing, requirements analysis, information architecture and information design. She has worked in the high-tech industry in Vancouver, BC for eight years and enjoys networking, hearing about new opportunities, answering questions, doing presentations, and traveling.