SXSW Interactive 2012 speakers

This is my first time attending SXSW and I'm excited to present a talk about the Battlefield Art of Design Triage: Tips on how to provide solid UX design–even when there’s no time, deliver mercy killings, and help worthy projects thrive. I like making new things and making existing things easier and more delightful to use. For the last 10+ years, I've been of humanizing digital products and services through goal-driven interaction design. My experience and skills have been utilized for the creation of enterprise software and online solutions for clients such as Old Navy, Microsoft, Best Buy, Fox, Pepsi, Disney, and Mattel.

Dave is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Warby Parker, a transformative eyewear company that designs and sells vintage-inspired glasses for a fraction of the price of retail stores and distributes a pair to someone in need for every pair sold. Prior to Warby Parker, David was an Associate at Allen & Company, a merchant bank, where he invested in seed-stage and venture-stage healthcare and digital media companies, and advised M&A transactions exceeding $20B. Previously, David worked at Bain & Company, where he formulated and implemented business strategies for some of the world's leading retail and technology companies. David was also Special Assistant to the Founder and CEO of The TriZetto Group, and has held strategy and business development roles at Genomic Health and Crescendo Bioscience. David is on the founding Entrepreneur Board of Venture for America, an organization dedicated to mobilizing graduates as entrepreneurs in low-cost cities. He graduated with a BS in Bioengineering with Honors from UC Berkeley and has an MBA from Wharton Business School.

Dave Haynes is VP Business Development for SoundCloud, the leading audio platform that allows anyone to capture, record and share their sounds over the web. With over a decade’s experience in the music industry, Dave currently works at the forefront of the latest trends in digital music. As well as his work for SoundCloud, he is the organiser of the OpenMusicMedia and Music Hack Day events that take place across the world. He was listed as one of UK’s Young Music Entrepreneurs in 2010 and is a frequent speaker at various events from TEDxCardiff to SXSW.

Byron is the Principal of Textura Design, an agency that specializes in creative and interesting approaches to social media. He's a full-time blogger, inventor of the consumer product Clip-n-Seal, and coauthor of Publish & Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, a New Riders book. In his career, Byron built many of the original business blogs for Fortune 100 companies. He evangelizes new web technologies, developing and deploying strategies to integrate them into business practice. He also founded and publishes Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture and rides his bicycle in faraway places like Europe, China, and India.

Doc Searls is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, a business classic,
and author of The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge, due out in May from Harvard Business Review Press. He is also Senior Editor of Linux Journal, a fellow at the Center for Information Technology & Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an alumnus fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where he runs ProjectVRM, which coordinates development of tools for customer independence.

Quantitative/operational/technical co-founder CEO of ModCloth.com, a community-centric eRetailer of independent designer fashion and decor. ModCloth brings a unique never ending stream of limited edition styles to market the community loves, through a lean and responsive supply chain, and through actually engaging the community and designers in the merchandise development process. ModCloth was the Inc #2 fastest growing company in America in 2010.

Garrett has guided StumbleUpon’s development since 2001, from inception to more than 20 million registered users. StumbleUpon is now the largest personalized content discovery engine on the web, delivering more than 1 billion personalized recommendations per month. Garrett completed his Masters in Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, where he researched interfaces for collaborative systems, evolutionary algorithms and information retrieval. He is also a 2007 recipient of MIT Technology Review’s TR35 award.

John Laramie is the President, CEO and Founder of ADstruc, the technology platform for the outdoor advertising industry, where he oversees all of the company’s business operations and sales. He graduated from Loyola University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and Concentration in Marketing. John, a two-time entrepreneur, is an active member of the New York Tech Community and enjoys playing ping pong and tennis. John was also featured in Business Week's Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs 2011 and Silicon Alley's 2011 and 2010 Top 100 People in NYC Tech. In 2007, John started his own consulting agency, the JFL Group, where he helped develop the brand behind Naked Ping Pong, the group that is now known as SPiN New York (www.spinyc.com), a 13,000-square-foot table tennis social club. Previously, John worked at The Beanstalk Group, the world’s leading brand licensing agency. In his 4 years with the company, he carried out strategic licensing programs that generated over $400 million a year in retail sales on behalf of Ford Motor Company, NBC Universal, Harley-Davidson and Nestle Purina, among others.

Justin Nassiri is the founder and CEO of VideoGenie, and he's been focusing on the intersection of online video and word-of-mouth marketing since 2007. Prior to VideoGenie, Justin served as an officer for the U.S. Navy, directing operations and navigation for a $1.3 billion nuclear-powered warship as a senior supervisor, overseeing a staff of 170 lives. While at Stanford's Graduate School of Business (GSB), Justin worked as a consultant for McKinsey and Co. He holds a bachelors of science in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

Katia Beauchamp is the Co-Founder and CEO of Birchbox, the beauty subscription brand that brings members access to the newest and best in high-end beauty. Launched in September 2010 and named WWD Beauty Inc’s Digital Innovator of the Year, Birchbox reimagines beauty retail online. Subscribers receive a monthly box of 4-5 deluxe, curated samples and visit birchbox.com to learn more via articles and videos and purchase full-size versions of the products they love. Through this novel retail and marketing channel, customers are able to touch and feel an editor’s selection of products in their own homes. With subscribers in all 50 states and a growing list of more than 150 fantastic beauty partners including NARS, Kerastase, Stila and Deborah Lippmann, Birchbox gives beauty brands access to engaged consumers in a grassroots, but glossy environment. Named one of Inc. Magazine’s 30 under 30, Katia attended Harvard Business School where she met her business partner Hayley Barna and discovered her entrepreneurial ambitions.

Nick Pudar, Vice President of OnStar Strategy and Business Development, manages OnStar’s planning, strategy, business development, and service evolution. He has responsibility for future services development and for management of the overall service and new business portfolio. Nick is an avid magician and routinely applies those principles in his approach to designing new products and services and managing innovation. He is also deeply engaged in photography. Pudar received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kettering University, and his Masters of Science in Management degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Peter Coles is a professor at Harvard Business School in the Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit. Peter's research focuses on entrepreneurial market design, the study of creating for-profit marketplaces. New marketplaces often require innovations (market rules, information flows, timing adjustments, reputation mechanisms) to resolve longstanding inefficiencies (lack of market thickness, adverse selection, high transaction costs, etc). These innovations can create significant value for market participants, while at the same time offering promising business models for entrepreneurs.
At HBS Peter teaches "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship", a second year elective course, and teaches the doctoral course “Market Design” in the Harvard Economics Department. Peter has written case studies on prediction markets at Google, strategy at Microsoft's adCenter, pricing and the "market ecosystem" at TheLadders.com, defending against competitors at Birchbox, and numerous other topics. At Harvard, Peter advises dozens of MBAs each year in launching their own start-ups.
Peter graduated from Princeton University with a degree in pure mathematics and has a PhD in economics from Stanford University.

Digital marketing strategy at PJA advertising + marketing in Cambridge MA.

Suzanne Stefanac has been a chemist, music critic, technology journalist, website pioneer (launched Macworld Online in 1995 and Quincy Jones' We Are the Future website in 7 language in 2004), TV show-runner (executive producer of MSNBC's hour-long, nightly THE SITE), interactive TV entrepreneur (co-founder, RespondTV), innovation lab director (AFI Digital Content Lab), festival producer (AFI DigiFest), industry leader (chair, Interactive Media Emmy Awards Working Group, 2006-2011), writer (Dispatches from Blogistan, Act Like Nothing's Wrong, Bringing Design to Software, dozens of magazines), speaker (Digital Hollywood, SXSW, Sundance, MIPTV, Picnic, TVOT, X|Media Lab, CES, NAB keynote), and emerging media strategist (your company name here). Suzanne believes that storytelling is at the heart of all human endeavor.

Winston Wang is Global Director, Strategic Innovations for marketing technology at AB InBev with responsibility for exploring and experimenting with cutting-edge digital technologies from start-ups and innovators that are transforming consumer marketing. Winston joined AB InBev in 2011, bringing with him an extensive background in innovation leadership and mobile products and technologies; both at start-ups, and within global companies. From 2007-2010, he was the director of T-Mobile USA’s advanced R&D group that created next-generation product and service concepts. He was previously with Adobe Systems where he co-led the Mobile Authoring product management team, developing products such Adobe Device Central CS3. He previously held a variety of roles focused on mobile user experience design at Symbol Technologies, PalmSource, Good Technology, and startup Covigo for both consumer and enterprise mobile products. Winston holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley, and a Master’s of Science degree in Product Design from Stanford University. He lives in San Francisco, California with his wife.