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.

Jen Nedeau

Location: New York | NY USA
Speaking Topics: blogging | feminism | millennials | online media | progressive politics | social media | twitter
Spoken Languages: Spanish | English

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Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in New York City, where she works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media.

Nedeau became specialized in digital efforts while working for New Media Strategies in Arlington, VA where she employed corporate and non-profit online campaigns utilizing the power of social media to promote and protect her clients.

Previous Presentations: 
Netroots Nation 2009 Panel: Building a Conversation Across Generations of Progressive Women
Netroot Nation 2009 Training: Twitter - Separating the Hype from the Reality
Fem 2.0 2009 Panelist: At the Crossroads: Organizing the Next Generation of Feminists Online and Off
2009 Politics Online Conference: Will Old Media Paradigms Shift Into A New Media World?
Interact 2008 Presentation: Technology As A Means to Move Information Online

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)

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

Jen Simmons

Location: New York
Speaking Topics: drupal | drupal theming | technology for non-profits | usability | video | Web Design
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
WordCamp NYC — on video tools for wordpress
NAMAC — on video on the web

Jade Rauenzahn

Location: New York | NY | USA
Speaking Topics: accessibility | Creating Community | CSS | Javascript | Programming Frameworks | startups | State of the Web | User-Generated Content | Web 2.0 | Web standards
Spoken Languages: English | basic Spanish

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A passionate web personality, Jade's among the "web" generation - an upcoming demographic of young adults who have always had the Internet around at their disposal.

With a solid foundation of where the web has been and a good idea on where it's going, Jade spends her days programming (mainly on the client-side) web sites and applications which inform, empower, and create passionate communities.

Nichelle Stephens

Location: New York | NY
Speaking Topics: blogging | online advertising networks | Social Media Strategy For Business
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
SXSW Interactive- Finance 2.0 Panel- March 2009
Ogilvy Blacks In Tech Panel- March 2009
Ignite NYC- Cupcakes Are the IPhones of Desserts- September 2008
Ladies Who Launch Live - October 2005
BlogHer-Brown Blogger Disussion Panel- July 2005

Julie R. Blitzer

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

I work at Advomatic, a web development firm based in New York. I specialize in online communications strategy for non-profits, advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

Previous Presentations: 
GeekLab @ IPDI's Politics Online
Organizing 2.0
YDA Convention

heather gold

Location: New York | San Francisco
Speaking Topics: Authenticity is Authority | community | Design for Conversation | digital entertainment | Web Video | social media | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Heather Gold

"brilliant" —boingboing.net

Authentic conversation leads to more connections between people and ideas.

I make authentic conversations happen at companies, organizations and conferences like Google, South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Forum One’s Marketing and Online Communities Conference and Overlap 08.

My uniquely interactive talks often involve bringing out the best in you, other speakers and the “audience.” This means:
•you don’t have sit through another Powerpoint

Previous Presentations: 
Host, Design for User Experience 2005 (AIGA, SIGGRAPH)
Opening Keynote Overlap 08
Opening Keynote Forum One Online Marketing and Communities 08