List of Speakers at D4M 2008
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[edit] Rafiq Ahmed
Topic: Collaborating Across the Corporate Divide
Rafiq Ahmed is a Principal, Experience Planning, within Motorola's Consumer Experience Design group. Rafiq designs and delivers compelling consumer experiences across multiple mobile platforms and products. His current focus is on mobile web applications and service experiences. Rafiq chaired the Web 2.0 track at MECOM 2009 in Abu Dhabi and is on the Motorola team supporting the Interdisciplinary Product Innovation program at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Prior to Motorola, Rafiq spent several years at technology startups and in management consulting for the financial services industry. Rafiq received a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia Wesleyan and an MBA from Virginia Tech, where he also completed graduate work in Computer Science.
[edit] Jeff Axup
Topic: Mobile Social Networks for Adventure Travellers
Jeff is a user experience researcher and designer currently based in San Diego, CA, USA. He has a B.S in Computer Science and a Ph.D. in Interaction Design, which primarily focused on mobile device concepts and research methods for studying mobile communities of backpackers . Jeff is currently Principal UX Design Engineer at Websense, Inc, where he helps develop a range of enterprise security products. He keeps active in his spare time running User Design LLC and the associated blog mobilecommunitydesign.com. He has also written a chapter in the forthcoming Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems.
[edit] Barbara Ballard
Workshop: Introduction to Mobile Design
Barbara is founder and President of Little Springs Design, a full service design agency providing the heads of marketing, product, and user experience the help to optimally engage with their clients over mobile phones. She has been working on mobile services, devices, web sites, and applications since 1998. Barbara contends that mobile user experience goes beyond simply designing for the small screen, as the mobile is both more and less than the PC. She has recently published "Designing the Mobile User Experience" to help user experience professionals make the transition to mobile.
[edit] Jared Benson
Topic: Presence & Mobility
Gabriel White has had to withdraw, but is being replaced by Jared Benson, Executive Creative Director at Punchcut Jared is a specialist in mobile UI design and interaction design. Jared oversees the design practice at Punchcut; helping clients envision and create next-generation interfaces. With a passion for mobile technology and a talent for creating rich and intuitive interfaces, Jared's leadership ensures Punchcut is helping define the rapidly evolving landscape of mobile user experience. In addition to speaking and writing, Jared founded the acclaimed typography community, Typophile, and serves on FontShop's type selection board. He has designed interfaces for brands like Qualcomm, ESPN, Kodak, Sun and MediaFlo.
[edit] Frank Bentley
Topic :Collaborating Across the Corporate Divide
Frank Bentley is a Principal Staff Research Scientist in the Motorola Experiences Research Lab. Frank's work focuses on understanding media use and social presence and includes field studies, design, implementation, and user testing of new communications concepts. His recent work has focused on understanding how people stay aware of each other using ambient social information. Frank also teaches a course at MIT on Communicating with Mobile Devices. Frank holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
[edit] Liselott Brunnberg
Topic: Backseat Playground: Mobile Experiences on the Road
Liselott is a media designer and researcher at Interactive Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Her research concerns the design of novel experiences for true mobile situations, specifically focused on the design of context dependent games for traveling children. Together with the team at the mobility studio she has developed a series of games, combining GPS and gyro with GIS-databases.
[edit] Francis Djabri
Topic: Designing Mobile Services
Francis is a user-experience specialist with a broad range of experience in the wireless industry. He has worked as a designer and researcher with handset manufacturers, carriers, OS platform manufacturers, and within industry collaboration forums. He is currently working as an Interaction Designer with Nokia and lives in Vancouver, Canada.
[edit] Brian Fling
Workshop: Mobile 2.0 - Design and Develop websites for the iPhone, and Beyond
Brian has been a leader in the web and mobile user experience for over ten years, working with several Fortune 500 companies to help design and develop their online experiences. He is a frequent speaker and author on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience. Brian has co-created a series of iPhone web applications called Leaflets showcasing the concept of "Mobile 2.0." He has co-authored the dotMobi Mobile Web Developers Guide, runs one of the largest online communities focused on mobile design, and co-founded the interactive agency Blue Flavor. Today Brian runs a small studio called Fling Media with his wife Cyndi.
[edit] Yusuke Fukazawa
Topic: Artificial Intelligence and UI
Yusuke has seven years experience in AI, including four years designing service navigation architecture for mobile phones at DoCoMo, using both ontological and statistical approaches. He has also worked in robotics at the University of Tokyo. Currently he is on a mobile UI team working on how AI can help build personalize mobile UIs.
[edit] Joe Grigsby
Topic: The View of Mobile By Advertisers
Joe is the Director of Mobile Strategy at VML, leading mobile marketing planning and development on behalf of VML clients. Prior to joining VML Joe was the Director of Advertising Innovation at Handmark, a leading mobile media company. During his time there Joe worked with North American and European carriers and device manufactures to deploy mobile campaigns for clients such as 1 800 Flowers, Register.com, AIG Travel Guard, and Hotels.com. Joe has over 10 years of experience in digital marketing working with clients such as Microsoft, Colgate-Palmolive, Sprint, H&R Block, AMC Theatres, and Bayer.
[edit] Markus Grupp
Topic: A Non-Conventional Approach to Designing & Improving the Device User Experience
Markus manages the user experience strategy, design and execution at Canadian wireless carrier Rogers Wireless, based in Toronto. Markus had previously led device user experience strategy and design at TELUS. Prior to this, he was Product Experience Manager at Orange/France Telecom Group in London, where he managed the re-design of the Orange Homescreen. Markus has also worked on the UI for the Nokia 7710 touchscreen media device, the Nokia 9300 & 9500 Communicators and the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, as well as Synaptics's MobileTouch touchpad technology.
[edit] Morten Hjerde
Topic: Application Design
Morten works as User Experience Manager at Vodafone. Prior to this he worked at mBricks, leading innovation and ideation and designing enterprise software for mobile phones and at Ememess designing mobile phone games and fun stuff. He lives and works in London, UK.
[edit] Lee Humphreys
Topic: Social Networks in Public Spaces
Lee has researched mobile phone use and mobile social networks for the past seven years at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin. Her research examines how mobile technology changes social interactions in public spaces. She also recently co-edited a book with Dr. Paul Messaris on Digital Media (Peter Lang, 2006). Lee will be an assistant professor of communication at Cornell University starting in August 2008.
[edit] JoEllen Kames
Topic: Collaborating Across the Corporate Divide
JoEllen Kames is a Manager, Experience Planning at Motorola's Consumer Experience Design group where she develops and plans next generation user experiences. She has over fifteen years of design experience collaborating to develop human-centered information products and systems. Prior to working at Motorola, JoEllen honed her experience design skills working with HSBC, Media Lab at Diamond Cluster International and Liska + Associates. She is an adjunct professor at the Institute of Design in Chicago. JoEllen was a co-program chair for the DUX 2007 conference and served on a panel at the MEX Mobile User Experience conference in London. JoEllen holds an MDes in Strategic Design Planning from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, a BFA in Communication Design from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a BA in History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
[edit] Mike Lundy
Topic: Device Case Study
Mike is a Human Factors Specialist with Sprint in Overland Park, KS. He has been focused on small screen design for the past 8 years and has worked on every type of handset application imaginable. Recently, Mike has completed work as lead designer on the Samsung Instinct, which won Best of Show at CTIA Wireless 2008.
[edit] Enrique Ortiz
Topic: Interactions and the Mobile Context
C. Enrique Ortiz is a long time mobile technologist and blogger. He is Principal at Artemis Wireless Werks, a mobile strategy and development company that helps companies with their mobile product strategy, design and development. Enrique spends quite a bit of time on mobile futures including applications, platforms and advanced context-based solutions.
[edit] Luca Passani
Topic: WURFL – Design with WALL Next-Generation
Luca Passani is an Italian software engineer with many years experience in Web and Mobile Internet development. Prior to joining AdMob, Luca spent seven years with Openwave Systems and took part in projects for Telecoms in the U.S. and Europe. Luca is known to the developer community for creating popular software tools such as WURFL and WALL. In addition Luca has authored articles and co-authored books on Mobile development. Recently, Luca published the so-called GAP guidelines which helps developers create mobile sites with minimal effort.
[edit] Jason Ward
Topic: Informing Design Through Product Research
Jason's professional training has been as an experimental / cognitive psychologist with a strong emphasis in statistical analytics. He has been at Sprint for four years, where he is responsible for quantifying the post consumption experience of key products and services as well as providing data driven strategic guidance for the business. The core of his activities involves providing empirically based guidance to the Sprint Product Design and Product Management teams. Prior to his time at Sprint, Jason's experience has included five years as a research fellow for the Army Research Institute at Ft. Leavenworth and working on grants funded by the Federal Aviation Association and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
[edit] Jacob Lyng Wieland
Topic: Interactive Mobile Application to Support Broadcast Programming
Jacob is audience researcher at the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, a license fee fund public service broadcaster, who works with all kind of media platforms: radio, tv, internet and of course mobile devices. Jacob has been working with mobile devices for the last four years, conducting studies among young Danes to understand their relationship with the mobile phone. Jacob is also a member of the industry body Danish Internet Media's mobile advisory group which works out mobile measurement policies.
