Shawn Lawton Henry

Location: United States | midwest
Speaking Topics: accessibility | usability | User experience | user-centered desgin (UCD) | technology inspiration and humour
Spoken Languages: English

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Ann McMeekin

Location: London
Speaking Topics: accessibility | inclusive design | User experience
Spoken Languages: English

Previous Presentations: 
BarCamp London 7
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Inclusive New Media Design Workshop

Margot Bloomstein

Location: Cambridge | MA | USA
Speaking Topics: User experience | user generated content | Content Strategy | Content Strategy in Online Communities | social media | Brand Development | Messaging | Content Strategy in Content Management System (CMS) Consulting
Spoken Languages: English

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Margot Bloomstein is a content strategist at ISITE Design. She focuses on crafting brand-appropriate user experiences to help clients effectively engage their target audiences and project key messages with consistency and clarity. Her experience encompasses a range of industries and both traditional and social media.

Previous Presentations: 
Speaker/participant in the inaugural Content Strategy Consortium at the 2009 IA Summit
Speaker in the MITX (Massachusetts Interactive Technology Exchange) UX Speaker Series
Speaker in the NHUPA (New Hampshire Usability Professionals Association) monthly speaker series

Whitney Hess

Location: New York | NY USA
Speaking Topics: Consulting | Evangelizing Yourself | User experience

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Whitney Hess is a user experience design consultant based in New York City. She helps make stuff easy and pleasurable to use.

Tamara Adlin

Location: seattle | WA | Canada but frequent trips to USA
Speaking Topics: user-centered design | personas | User experience | user-centered business process
Spoken Languages: English

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Cindy Alvarez

Location: CA | San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: lean startups | product management | customer development | User experience | user research
Spoken Languages: English

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Cindy Alvarez helps startups to be more successful through early use of product management and user experience design. She runs product management and customer development for KISSmetrics.

User experience design on a budget? Finding product-market fit? Interviewing customers a dozen different ways? She's done and can teach your team how to become more productive through lean startup techniques.

Previous Presentations: 
Web 2.0 Expo - Lean Startups Intensive
Startup Lessons Learned (panel)
Lean Startup Circle: KISSmetrics' Journey from Fat to Lean
P-Camp Silicon Valley '10
FB Fund: User Testing Tactics

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

Amy Vickers

Location: New York
Speaking Topics: enterprise 2.0 | Organizations 2.0 | digital strategy | digital marketing | social computing | Social Marketing | social media | Innovation Networks | Knowledge Networks | Content Strategy | User experience
Spoken Languages: English; some French and German

Amy serves as community and thought leader for the Enterprise Solutions Practice. The practice creates B2B and B2E workplace solutions and is dedicated to the ideal that work should be humane.

Prior to heading the Enterprise Solutions Practice, Amy was a leader in the Experience Strategy discipline. Her areas of expertise include business innovation strategy, emerging and social technologies, and information visualization. Select clients include Bain & Company, Best Buy, Citi, EMC, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Nike, and Starwood.

Previous Presentations: 
The ROI of Enterprise 2.0 (Enterprise 2.0, Spring 2009)
The Collaboration Imperative (Enterprise 2.0, Spring 2008; Harvard Business School, Fall 2007)
The Social Imperative of Microfinance and Mobile Banking (SXSW, Spring 2007)

Laura Porto Stockwell

Location: seattle | US
Speaking Topics: agency integration | community | Content Strategy | social media | User experience
Spoken Languages: English

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Laura Porto Stockwell is a digital media professional with more than 15 years of experience developing digital brand, content and social media strategies. As Senior Director, Digital Strategy of WONGDOODY, Laura is responsible for developing and implementing digital marketing strategies that embrace innovative approaches to reaching consumers and increasing business effectiveness. Prior to joining WONGDOODY, Laura was the VP, Digital Strategy + User Experience at Publicis in the West, and prior to Publicis, was an Experience Director it the New York and Seattle offices of Razorfish.

Previous Presentations: 
Speaker, Ad Club Seattle, "Beyond Social Media" (November 2008)
Guest Lecturer, University of Washington, IA Institute (2008, 2009)
Speaker, Microsoft MIX, “The Future of Media and the Web” (March 2006)

Kim McGalliard

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