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  • Gemma Petrie

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    Gemma Petrie helps organizations uncover new opportunities by learning about the goals and challenges faced by the people they serve. She believes research is a fundamental component of any successful design process and is a strong advocate of goal-oriented...

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  • Golli Hashemian

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    Golli is the Director of User Experience at GiveForward, where she gets to help people raise money online for their loved ones in need. She is co-founder of DUXX: Women of Design & UX and a design mentor and team advisor at the Starter League. She believes ...

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  • Mike Kornacki

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    Mike’s 17 years of work in the creative arts field has brought him to Johnson Controls where, over the last 3 years, he has built a team of User Experience specialists. Within Johnson Controls, he is currently setting creative direction for the building eff...

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  • Cat Smith

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    Cat Smith is a passionate New Jersey gone San Francisco based Product Designer for Prolific Interactive, COO and Editor of Stemmings, and Editor-In-Chief of VUE by Hunie. Cat loves cramming away in Photoshop creating products that both work and look awesome...

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  • Jim "Big Tiger" Remsik

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    "Big Tiger" has several years of government-sector, full life-cycle business process automation projects under his belt before joining the Ruby community via Hashrocket in 2007. Years of experience in leading a maintenance team means he has answered to angr...

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  • Russ Unger

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    Russ Unger is a Senior UX Leader for GE Capital where he leads design and research projects and teams. He is co-author of the book “A Project Guide to UX Design” and is co-author of “Designing the Conversation” and he is also working on a book on guerrilla ...

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  • Sergio Nouvel

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    Sergio is a Chilean UX/Innovation Strategist and Front-end designer working at Continuum, co-founder of Get on Board and blogger, among other hats. He's worked in a number of Web, Mobile and tech projects for 12 years and helped shape one of the first colle...

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  • Lea Stewart

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    Lea Stewart believes that Design is multifaceted. It is about creating experiences. She works with companies whose mission is to grow their business through innovation, differentiation, and by meeting consumer needs. She has over a decade of working know...

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  • Sullivan Sweet

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    Sullivan is a freshman at Memorial high school here in Madison. He participates in the debate team and the robotics team outside of school. During whatever free time he has, you can find him in his basement fiddling with his Raspberry Pi or his 3D printer.

  • Hampton Catlin

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    Hampton Catlin is the inventor of several popular programming languages: Sass, Haml, and Tritium. He is the original creator of Wikipedia Mobile (m.wikipedia.org) and is also the creator of several successful iPhone applications including Dictionary! He is ...

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  • Jenn Downs

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    Few people know MailChimp's users better than Jenn Downs, the company's first customer support specialist. A key player in creating the best email company ever, she has since helped create and shape the MailChimp Research Lab. Seeing and resolving user frus...

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  • Jessie Shternshus

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    As the founder and owner of The IMPROV EFFECT, Jessie weds her lifelong passion for and expertise in applied improv with the fast pace and demands of the corporate world. When facilitating training, she helps people become better listeners, team players, pr...

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  • Moldover

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    If technology and music are your life, brace yourself- Moldover is about to reformat your soul. Hailed by over 1,000,000 YouTube viewers as "The Godfather of Controllerism", Moldover is a new breed of music icon. Combining the charisma of a rock star, the m...

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  • Andrew Maier

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    A student and teacher within the user-centered design community, Andrew co-founded UX Booth in 2009 and currently serves as its Editor-in-Chief. He works with both clients as well as consultancies heading user experience initiatives.

  • Jessica Peterson

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    I've been immersed in UX research for a decade and have had the opportunity to work in a wide range of industries, on different types of digital experiences, and in many countries. I received my academic training in psycholinguistic laboratory research with...

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  • Bermon Painter

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    Bermon Painter is the UX Design Lead for Cardinal Solutions. He's also heavily involved in the local tech community in Charlotte and organizes the Charlotte User Experience Designer, Charlotte Front-End Developers and Charlotte Grok groups. In his free time...

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  • Abby Fox

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    Abby is a freshman at West High School. She was the captain of a group of kids that designed, provisionally patented and sold a product to a multibillion dollar company as part of a competition. She is interested in engineering, business and solving rubix c...

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  • Carl Smith

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    Owner and founder of nGen Works, Carl Smith runs an unconventional distributed team that works with businesses to redefine their identities and ideals. Carl has made a name for himself in the web industry by creating a new framework for how we get things do...

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  • Pamela Pavliscak

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    Pamela is co-founder of Change Sciences, a user experience research and strategy firm for Fortune 500s, startups, and other smart companies. She’s logged thousands of hours in the field trying to better understand how people use technology and run hundreds ...

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  • Jason Borgmann

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    Jason has a long history of working in great kitchens, but it wasn't until he received an ice cream maker that he found his true calling. In August of 2011 he founded Calliope Ice Cream, an ice cream company based on the idea that there are a lot of thing...

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