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Nancy Duarte (Duarte Design)
Ever found yourself checking email during a presentation or sending IMs to the person sitting next to you. Sure, we’ve all done it. Information abounds and so does the continuing need for it. So in this information and attention deficit age, how do we transform presentations from a one-way lecture to an informative, engaging and collaborative experience?
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Kim Lenox (Consumer Electronics Industry)
This workshop is for web designers interested in shifting their careers toward designing for mobile devices. Kim Lenox of Adaptive Path, will describe what makes mobile different from the web and how to design for mobile context of use. Join Kim for this workshop and learn how your current web design background can be leveraged to design compelling mobile products.
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You can’t talk about building for the web without contemplating a coherent approach to enabling and supporting social functionality. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies.
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Katherine Hutchinson (PayPal, Inc.)
In this session, Hutchinson will explore the world of online payment fraud and discuss its rapid evolution from lone hackers into global rings of organized crime. Attendees will learn about some of today’s fraud trends as seen through the lens of PayPal’s worldwide payments network.
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Dave Engberg (Evernote)
This talk describes the technical considerations Evernote made in designing a hybrid client-Web service.
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Joseph Smarr (Google)
It’s hard to keep track of all the recent announcements about online identity and data portability, let alone to make sense of it all and figure out what it means to you. In this talk, Joseph Smarr, will be your guide through this exciting and rapidly evolving new phase of the web, explaining in concrete terms what's going on and how you can benefit from it today.
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Robin Sloan (Current),
Zach Brand (NPR, Digital media)
Current and NPR are the first major media API that open up substantive original news and other information for online re-use by other parties. Discover how this open distribution is working, and what opportunities and challenges it creates for everybody from bloggers to other mainstream media.
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Micki Krimmel (Sugar Packet Inc.)
What makes an effective Community Manager? How can we apply the Community Manager's approach to all aspects of running a business? In this session we will work together to create a list of best practices and then discuss what we might be able to learn from them.
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Kathy Mandelstein (IBM Software Group),
Ryan Boyles (IBM Software Group),
Tom Deutsch (IBM Software Group),
Ted Stanton (IBM)
In today’s global business environment, the only constant is change. Organizations who can respond quickly by leveraging agile business models and dynamic business processes are uniquely positioned to win. IBM Web 2.0 software can help your organization be more effective and innovate in challenging times. Sponsored by IBM.
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Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic)
The success of Web 2.0 and beyond depends on our ability to plan for, create, publish, and govern content people actually care about. Content strategy is the key! Learn about the roles, processes, and tools necessary to create useful, usable content. Like it or not, we're all publishers now. Shouldn't you start acting like one?
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Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers)
Learn to do more with less. The Lean Startup is a practical approach to creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, and lean manufacturing to guide technology businesses that create disruptive innovation.
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Werner Vogels (Amazon.com)
In this technical talk, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, will dive deep into how Amazon used the principles of distributed computing to move to an ultra-scalable service-oriented architecture and in doing so gave birth to a host of loosely coupled services that make up Amazon Web Services.
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Jennifer Pahlka (Code for America),
Brady Forrest (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Opening welcome
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John Maeda (Rhode Island School of Design)
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If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Around the world geeks have been putting together Ignite nights to show their answers. Join us for another Ignite San Francisco, the official kick-off event for Web 2.0 Expo.
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Douglas Rushkoff (Author, "Program or Be Programmed")
Keynote
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Will Wright (Electronic Arts)
Will Wright, the creator of SimCity, The Sims, and now Spore, speaks with Tim O'Reilly about the creative process, user-generated content, and much more.
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Michal Migurski (Stamen Design)
Piece by piece, the world is moving onto the web. How can we make sense of this new torrent of information emerging wide-eyed and blinking into the internet? Stamen Technical Directory's Michal Migurski will show how information visualization is making it possible to comprehend a live, vast, and deep connected web of data.
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Alexa Andrzejewski (Foodspotting)
For "people-powered" services, attracting and retaining a critical mass of active participants is essential. To create a new user experience that leaves users itching to go further, you must understand and appeal to people's motivations. In this session, you'll examine design patterns used by successful sites to motivate users to sign up, get established, and stay active.
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John Allspaw (Etsy.com)
John Allspaw, manager of Flickr's Ops and author of The Art of Capacity Planning, will discuss some of the secrets of building out your service.
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Scott Heiferman (Meetup)
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Jake Nickell (Threadless),
Jeffrey Kalmikoff (Threadless)
Keynote
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Andrew McLaughlin (Executive Office of the President)
The potential for Government 2.0 is both real and exciting: technology-wise, we can now cheaply and efficiently enable a government that is transparent, participatory, collaborative, and effective. But there are some very real, very stubborn obstacles in the form of outdated laws, regulations, and policies. Andrew will outline these barriers, and set forth an agenda for reform.
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Doug Solomon (IDEO),
Gentry Underwood (Orchestra, Inc)
Innovative companies increasingly want to collaborate across time, space and organizational structure restrictions. Web 2.0 technology holds great promise, but in practice often comes up short. This session focuses on how to maximize the value of technology, by systematically understanding human behavior, motivations, and organizational design to build optimal solutions.
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Curt Doolittle (Ascentium),
Susan MacDermid (Real Branding),
Renny Gleeson (Weiden & Kennedy),
Elizabeth Ross (Tribal DDB),
John Durham (Catalyst SF)
This session explores the challenges top agencies face and the creative efforts to move individuals, teams and management into a more progressive era.
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Justin Huff (Google, Inc),
Mike Harrington (Picnik.com)
Building a web backend from scratch can be a daunting task, especially
for a team with little web experience. We'll provide an overview of
where our backend started, what it looks like today, and where we
think it's going.
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Keith Golden (Google)
We will discuss options for publishing your data, from getting it indexed by search engines to publishing it in the cloud.
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Jared Spool (User Interface Engineering)
Everyone wants an "intuitive" interface: the users, the designers, and the content publishers. But building them is hard. Recent research has given insight into why it's hard and how to get past major obstacles. Learn the two essential elements of what makes an interface intuitive and what successful teams are doing to create experiences that delight.
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David Weekly (PBwiki, Inc.)
David Weekly will talk candidly about how PBwiki's business model evolved over the past four years, including a candid look at how his geek instincts both helped and hurt during this long process. This talk will be especially useful for technical founders who are wondering to what extent they need to incorporate traditional business management into an engineering-driven company.
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