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Design Gurus Summit: Lyft, Airbnb, Microsoft, Pandora, Cooper and More...Uncharted MindsTuesday, May 17, 2016 from 12:00 PM to 5:30 PM (PDT) |
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Uncharted Minds First Annual Design Gurus Summit 2016
Featuring Silicon Valley's top designers who will share their insights on topics including:
Our First Annual Design Gurus Summit will be a half day event of both keynotes and panels from 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm. The audience will be limited to 150 participants, which will create a warm and intimate atmosphere. Like all our events, this will help facilitate audience participation, with opportunities to engage speakers in a dialogue and ask great questions. Click here to review the full event agenda. All sales are final. Read our Privacy Policy here.
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Keynotes From:
Frank Yoo - Head of UX & Product Design at Lyft
Frank is the Head of Product Design at Lyft where he's focused on building experiences that connect people through transportation and community. His background is rooted in UX and product management, with prior roles leading design at LinkedIn and Yahoo!. He's a dad, a husband, and principle frisbee chucker for the family Boston Terrier, Arial.
Janice Fraser - Director of People at Pivotal
Janice Fraser is one of America's leading experts on Lean Startup, having advised many successful companies including Lyft and Sharethrough. She is an ongoing trainer for White House administration on innovation techniques. As Director of People at Pivotal, Janice serves as an internal consultant, working with company leaders apply agile and Lean Startups approaches to solve key business problems. Janice has coached, taught, and interviewed thousands of startup founders around the world. Previously, she was founder and CEO of Luxr, among the first Lean Startup firms, as well as Adaptive Path, the first User Experience firm.
Shaun Modi - Partner at TM
Shaun Modi is an award-winning designer at the intersection of technology and design. With a degree in industrial design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Modi has set the creative vision for large scale products at Airbnb, Google, NASA, Motorola, Nokia and his own venture-backed startup, DailyModi. He is known for his highly collaborative approach and ability to work closely with teams to reimagine the future of a business and society.
Panelists Include:
Jason Mamaril - UI Designer at Airbnb
Missy Titus - Design at Bindle Chat Inc.
Missy Titus is currently the head of design for Bindle Chat. She has held design roles at The Hunt, which was acquired by Pinterest and StackMob which was acquired by PayPal. She started her career working for MTV Networks as a User Interface designer. She is also a prolific writer and contributor to the Huffington Post and maintains her own blog ww.curateyourwork.com
Stephanie Whitney - Senior Visual Designer at Hotwire
Stephanie Whitney is a Senior Visual Designer at Hotwire Inc. where she focuses on bridging the gap between product and brand across all channels through UI. She facilitates workshops to breakdown the fundamentals of design and build design principles to help aid in creating educated design decisions across her team. In previous agency endeavors, she has designed for clients such as Nike, Coca-Cola, Ironman Triathlons and AEG sports teams. In her free time, you’ll find her exploring new countries and taking her dog, Blue, to the beach.
Saad Alayyoubi - Lead 3D Designer at Jaunt VR
Saad is the Lead 3D Designer at Jaunt VR. As an architect & CG generalist, he creates immersive virtual reality environments and experiences that seek to inspire a sense of awe and wonder. At Jaunt, he has designed experiences for the NFL, ABC News and various other brands. Prior to Jaunt, Saad has worked as a freelance Art Director specializing in CG environments and motion graphics for clients such as Nike, Sony and Oracle. He started his career as an architectural designer at KPF, designing commercial office towers in Hong Kong, China and South Korea, and has a masters degree in architecture from Columbia University as well as an MBA from New York University.
Tony Scherba - Founder and President of Yeti
Tony Scherba is the founder and President of Yeti, a San Francisco product design and development studio. Yeti works with industry leaders such as Google, Qualcomm, MIT, Playstation and Westfield Labs to help create meaningful and impactful products on platforms ranging from mobile apps to IoT and VR. Tony is a contributing author to TechCrunch, Entrepreneur, Forbes and Re/Code and was recently featured in the Netflix documentary Chelsea Does Silicon Valley where Yeti built an app with comedian Chelsea Handler.
Jayson Tang - Creative Director at The-Otherside
Jayson has a passion for creating environments and visual content that engages and inspire. Having spent his early career at the seminal creative agency The Attik, Jayson started his own design studio, The-Otherside and has worked independently for the past 10 years with brands like Motorola, Scion, Nissan, Ford, Ubisoft, EA Sports, Disney, Cisco System, HP, Intel, Applied Materials, Sony, Doritos, Google, Apple, Motorola, AT&T.
Joseph Duggan - Mechanical Design Engineer at Microsoft
Joseph Duggan has spent the past five years working on augmented reality glasses projects that push the limits of realizing real-life holograms. He is currently a design engineer at Microsoft and previously worked at the Osterhout Group to help create a lab-on-a-chip system that improves human health by way of early detection of diseases and pathogens.
Joshua Taylor - Freelance Design Director
Joshua Taylor is a contract design director working with exciting startups. He was previously a design director at Evernote where he spent 4 years. Since then he’s helped design and launch multiple startups—designing everything from their core product to their brand— and also worked with companies like Airbnb, Credit Karma, and Classpass. He’s always looking for what’s next.
Anna Shaw - VP of Design Knit Health
Anna Shaw is the VP of design a Knit Health an innovative technology company that uses human-centered design to guide parents through early childhood health and development. She previously was a creative director at Smart Design and worked on projects for clients including AmEx, GE, Snapfish, LG, Microsoft and Logitech. She also successfully operated her own design business for five years and customers included Applied Biosystems, Polaroid, Williams-Sonoma, Nokia and Opower.
Emma Sherwood-Forbes - Product Designer and Educator
Emma Sherwood-Forbes is a designer and educator based in San Francisco, California. She's been designing meaningful experiences for startups, agencies, and schools for the past ten years. From functionality to brand, she believes truly great digital experiences must connect with people in a personally meaningful way. Emma has spent her career learning to find ways to discover the personal, then translate it to design. She's also passionate about sharing knowledge inside and outside the workplace; she has taught and spoken at numerous institutions. She's shaped her brain through consulting and at Cooper, Momentum Design Lab, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Wesleyan University.
Trevor Hubbard - Executive Creative Director and Partner at Butchershop
Trevor Hubbard is the founder and executive creative director of the fastest growing San Francisco creative agency Butchershop. A multidisciplinary designer, he has led hundreds of award-winning brand transformations, product launches, and marketing strategies. His work has shaped the trajectories of startups and global brands alike, including The San Francisco Giants, C3 Energy, Google, Microsoft, Lennar, Okta, Vodafone, and Zuora. Hubbard holds degrees in film studies and multidisciplinary design. He lives in Mill Valley, California with his girlfriend and their children. They love to ski and travel.
Seth Minard - Interaction Designer at Cooper
Seth is an Interaction Designer at Cooper. Here, he creates products and services that have a huge impact by closely collaborating with organizations. Before Cooper, Seth worked as a Senior Experience Designer at Mad*Pow and Product Designer at Indiegogo. At Indiegogo, he worked closely with executives, marketing, and engineering teams in an agile environment to lead the product design of InDemand, which went on to raise millions for customers. During his time at Mad*Pow, he redesigned ESPNCMS.com, creating an interactive lead generation tool, which integrated top brands into ESPN’s 65 multimedia properties.
Joyce Lau - Designer at Pandora
Joyce Lau is a designer at Pandora where she provides front-end and visual support for Pandora's online brand experience. Prior to Pandora, she was with a small marketing agency called Blitz. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Studio Arts.
Tim Brown - Co-founder of Allbirds Shoes
Tim Brown is the co-founder of Allbirds a San Francisco based direct-to-consumer footwear startup with ambitions to create better shoes in a better way. Allbirds recently launched their first product – superfine NZ Merino shoes called the Wool Runners – that TIME Magazine called the most comfortable shoes in the world. The company has raised $2.7 million in a funding round led by Lerer Hippeau Ventures. Tim is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a degree in International Management. A former professional soccer player he was a member of the New Zealand national football (All Whites) team that went undefeated at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.
Moderators:
Susan Etlinger - Analyst, Altimeter Group
Susan Etlinger is an industry analyst with Altimeter Group, a Prophet company, where she focuses on data strategy, analytics, and privacy. Susan is recognized as one of the most influential voices in the Big Data industry. Her TED talk on big data has been viewed more than one million times. She is regularly interviewed by the press and has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, the BBC and Fast Company. She is a published translator and holds a B.A in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley.
Rob Goodman – Content Marketing with Foundation Capital & Principal at OpenVerse (@therobgoodman)
Rob Goodman is a content marketer working with Foundation Capital, a 20-year old venture firm in Silicon Valley. Rob Goodman’s ability to blend business sense with creative expertise defines his work as a marketing consultant, content strategist, and writer. Rob was most recently head of global marketing for digital publishing at Google, and previously led online marketing for Simon & Schuster and helped shape grassroots digital marketing at Sony Music. Rob is also the founder of OpenVerse, a marketing and storytelling firm.
Gregory Kennedy - Co-Founder, Uncharted Minds (@IamGkennedy)
Gregory Kennedy is the Co-Founder of the highly regarded Uncharted Minds Thought Leadership Series. The series has featured speakers from top Silicon Valley companies such as Airbnb, Lyft, Medium, PayPal, Coinbase, BoostVC, Misfit Wearables and more. Gregory is a sought after thought leader, speaker and author whose writing has been featured on The BBC, VentureBeat, YahooFinance, Entrepreneur.com, CMO.com, and Marketing Profs. A former creative director and user interface designer, he has held marketing roles at InMobi, TapSense, and AdRoll. Born in New York City, he now calls Berkeley, California his home.
Agenda:
12:00 PM Networking and Arrival
12:20 PM Kickoff by Gregory Kennedy, Co-founder of Uncharted Minds
12:30 PM Keynote by Frank Yoo, Head of Design, Lyft
12:45 PM Keynote by Shaun Modi, Partner at TM, Ex-Nasa, Google, Airbnb
1:00 PM Keynote by Janice Fraser, Director of People at Pivotal
1:15 PM Questions and Answer Session with Janice, Frank and Shaun
1:30 PM Break
1:40 PM Panel: Design Innovation Through Virtual and Augmented Reality
A new generation of products are on the horizon, many of them unveiled this year at tradeshows like E3, CES and Mobile World Congress. Beyond entertainment, what do these products mean for design? Our panel of experts discuss the implications of augmented and virtual reality for design.
Susan Etlinger, Industry Analyst , Altimeter Research (Moderator)
Joe Duggan, Design Engineer, Microsoft Hololens
Jayson Tang, Creative Director, The Otherside
Tony Scherba, Founder and President, Yeti
Saad Alayyoubi, 3D Designer, Jaunt VR
2:40 PM Panel: Branding for The 21st Century
Most agree that branding has evolved significantly from the Mad Men era, but few agree on what it means in the 21st century. Our panel of experts discuss how branding has been impacted user experience design, community, mobile technology and the rise of social networking, and what top companies do to make brand a competitive advantage.
Rob Goodman, Foundation Capital & OpenVerse (Moderator)
Tim Brown, Co-founder, AllBirds
Keenan Cummings, Design Manager, Airbnb
Joshua Taylor, Design Director, Walnut and White
Trevor Hubbard, Partner and Executive Creative Director, Butchershop
Emma Sherwood-Forbes, Product Designer, Educator at General Assembly
3:40 PM Panel: Creatives on Creative Inspiration
On this panel listen to experts discuss an elusive but important aspect of all creative development, inspiration. Our experts will debate and discuss where creative inspiration comes from and what can be done to institutionalize it. Also, learn what they do themselves to stay engaged, inspired and creative.
Gregory Kennedy, Co-founder, Uncharted Minds (Moderator)
Stephanie Whitney, Sr. Visual Designer, Hotwire
Missy Titus, Design, Bindle Chat Inc.
Seth Minard, Interaction Designer, Cooper
Anna Shaw, VP of Design, Knit Health
Joyce Lau, Pandora, Designer, Pandora
4:40 PM Refreshments
5:30 PM End
Location:
General Assembly, 225 Bush Street 5th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
Uncharted Minds is a leading business media group that hosts networking events and conferences including the highly regarded Annual Design Gurus Summit.
Founded in 2015 past speakers include design and technology luminaries from companies such as Airbnb, Lyft, Slack, Medium, Pandora, Paypal, Clif Bar & Company, LendUp, Allbirds Shoes and SoFi.
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