
FITC Toronto 2013
The Design & Technology Festival
April 21-23, 2013
Featured Speakers
Speakers

Aaron James Draplin
draplin.com
Aaron James Draplin
Presentations
- Things That Don't Have A Thing To Do With Things April 23 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Located in the mighty Pacific Northwest, the Draplin Design Co. proudly rolls up its sleeves on a number of projects related to the Print, Identity, Web Development, Illustration and Gocco Muscle categories. We make stuff for Coal Headwear, Union Binding Co., Richmond Fontaine, N…
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Adam Luck
GRIPLIMITED.COM
Adam Luck
Presentations
- Digital Storytelling with HUSH, Jam3, and Grip Limited April 21 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Adam is a Group Director, Business at Grip Limited who leads the digital team. He ensures that digital is not only tightly integrated into everything Grip does, but that it is engrained into the entire client service, creative, social content, and analytic teams. Adam joined GRIP…
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Adam Thody
architech.ca
Adam Thody
Presentations
- The Science of Effective Software Design April 23 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Adam Thody leads Architech's Web, Mobile & Cloud Applications Practice. His team builds great-looking, powerful applications that leverage open web standards, cloud technologies, and open source.
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Adrian Belina
jam3media.com
Adrian Belina
Presentations
- Digital Storytelling with HUSH, Jam3, and Grip Limited April 21 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Adrian Belina is one of the three principals at Jam3 and is also Creative Director and the Head of Business Development and Strategy. At Jam3, Adrian focuses on running one of Toronto's top interactive production studios best known for their ability to combine technical exce…
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Alan Smithson
smithsonmartin.com
Alan Smithson
Presentations
- Modular Touch Technology for Live Performance April 22 2013 , 3:30-4:00pm
SmithsonMartin Inc. is a technology startup company that is focused on disruptive innovations for the music and gaming industries.
SmithsonMartin began with two veteran DJ's in August 2010 on YouTube, one interested in the others multitouch technology and the other abl…
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Alex Kurina
okak.ca
Alex Kurina
Presentations
- Evolution of a Style April 23 2013 , 3:30-4:00pm
Alex Kurina (OK!AK) is an award-winning designer and new media artist from Toronto, with a strong body of commercial and personal work in graphic design, video and animation. Alex’s artistic practice is heavily design-focused and leans towards polished and visually compelling w…
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Ana Serrano
cfccreates.com
Ana Serrano
Presentations
- Media Convergence? April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Ana is the Chief Digital Officer of the Canadian Film Centre and Founder of the CFC Media Lab, the world-renowned and award-winning institute for interactive storytelling created in 1997 at the Canadian Film Centre.
With her visionary direction and digitally-forward approach …
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Anrick Bregman
unit9.com
Anrick Bregman
Presentations
- Cult Web April 22 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Anrick is interactive director at unit9 and part of the arts collective Tango&Hawaii. He creates commercial and experimental content for the browser and the smart phone, built on a dialogue between the viewer and the story. His work has been recognised by the Webbys, One Show…
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Anton Repponen
f-i.com
Anton Repponen
Presentations
- Attack of the Creative Process April 22 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
A recipient of the prestigious Red Dot “Best of the Best” award, Anton Repponen is a highly influential designer in the digital creative industry. Anton is currently Global Creative Director at Fi responsible for delivering creative solutions for agency clients such as Google…
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Ariel Garten
interaxon.ca
Ariel Garten
Presentations
- Brain Computer Interfaces: The Next Generation April 22 2013 , 2:15-2:45pm
If there ever was a gap between science, art, business and technology, Garten has closed it. Her work converts the workings of the mind into tangible solutions.
Garten has researched at the Krembil Neuroscience Institute studying hippocampal neurogenesis, displayed work at the…
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Bob Heubel
immersion.com
Bob Heubel
Presentations
- Enhancing the User Experience Through the Sense of Touch April 21 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Bob Heubel is a haptic technology evangelist with Immersion Corporation specializing in helping developers implement what is known as force-feedback, tactile-feedback or rumble-feedback effects. He has spent more than twelve years working with developers, carriers, OEMs and ODMs …
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Carl Bergenhem
telerik.com
Carl Bergenhem
Presentations
- Building A Web App In 100% JavaScript April 22 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Carl Bergenhem is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant at Telerik, the guys behind the client-side library Kendo UI. He’s been actively involved with web development for most of his life, and Kendo UI was warmly welcomed addition. Being a huge fan of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Car…
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Chris Eben
theworkinggroup.ca
Chris Eben
Presentations
- Embracing the Inevitable: Experience Design in an Agile World April 21 2013 , 2:15-2:45pm
Chris is a Partner at The Working Group (TWG) a leading Internet software company based in Toronto and founding partner and investor in PostageApp, Front Porch Forum, Rocketr, Greengage Mobile and 1Thing - all startups in their own right. Chris has more than 13 years of product …
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Chris Mills
opera.com
Chris Mills
Presentations
- Implementing Layouts Using CSS3 April 20 2013 , 10:00-5:00pm
- Future web layouts April 22 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Chris Mills is a web technologist, open standards evangelist, and education agitator working at Opera Software. He writes about open standards for dev.opera.com, .net magazine, A List Apart, and more, and speaks at universities and industry conferences worldwide. Chris is the cre…
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Daito Manabe
daito.ws
Daito Manabe
Presentations
- Beyond Interaction April 21 2013 , 4:15-5:15pm
- Digital Interaction April 20 2013 , 10:00-5:00pm
Daito Manabe: Born 1976 in Tokyo. Graduated from Department of Mathematics at Tokyo University of Science, and DSP course at International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS). Working across different fields including art, design and research, Manabe has approached and red…
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Dan Lee
xtremelabs.com
Dan Lee
Presentations
- Dropping the QA Hammer April 21 2013 , 4:45-5:15pm
Dan is Automation QA Lead at Xtreme Labs Inc. Having worked previously at Microsoft as a developer and at LG Electronics for UX design, he and his team help to develop in-house automation tools and QA solutions for the mobile industry. A Waterloo grad living in Toronto with his…
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Dan Mall
danielmall.com
Dan Mall
Presentations
- Prototyping Your Business April 23 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Dan Mall is an award-winning designer from Philadelphia, an enthralled husband, and new dad. As the Founder & Design Director at SuperFriendly, Dan and his team defeat apathy and the forces of evil with heroic creative direction, design, & strategy. He’s also co-founder…
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Daniel Scheibel
redpaperheart.com
Daniel Scheibel
Presentations
- If They Don’t Take the Leap, Push Them. April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, Daniel now lives in New York City. As a founding member of the Red Paper Heart Collective he plays with code for a living. Daniel studied Multimedia Design and Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg. His dynamic …
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Danny Yount
prologue.com
Danny Yount
Presentations
- The Art of the Title Design April 23 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Danny Yount is a main title designer / director for film and television. He has earned many notable industry awards, as well as 2 Emmy wins and one nomination. At Prologue Films he has designed and directed many recognizable feature film main titles like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - whi…
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Dave Greene
townshipco.com
Dave Greene
Presentations
- Designing in the 3rd Dimension April 22 2013 , 3:00-3:30pm
David Greene was born and raised in London Ontario. He graduated from NSCAD University in Halifax Nova Scotia in 2003 with a major in fine art and a minor in art history. During this time he studied printmaking with a focus on lithography, intaglio and wood engraving.
Sinc…
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David Bouchard
deadpixel.ca
David Bouchard
Presentations
- Tools of the Processing Trade April 23 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
David (http://www.deadpixel.ca) is an omnivorous New Media artist,
technologist and educator. His work explores the expressive potential
of computation, both in software and hardware forms. His research
interests include generative art, interactive and responsive
environments…
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David Schwarz
heyhush.com
David Schwarz
Presentations
- Digital Storytelling with HUSH, Jam3, and Grip Limited April 21 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
David Schwarz is an award-winning creative director working between motion-based storytelling, graphic design and interactivity. After receiving an MFA from Art Center College of Design, he became a sought-after freelance talent working at many notable creative studios on both co…
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Edgar Parada
blackberry.com
Edgar Parada
Presentations
- Demystifying Native, Web, and Hybrid Mobile Development on BlackBerry 10 April 22 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
BlackBerry Developer Evangelist for the BlackBerry 10 Platform. Adobe Community Professional & founder of the User Group RIActive in Mexico City. In the last year Edgar was recognized as a BlackBerry Elite Developer, his principal strengths are in mobile & web technologie…
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Eric Chan
eepmon.com
Eric Chan
Presentations
- A Creative Path. A Creative Journey. April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:15pm
Eric Chan is eepmon, a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of fine arts, design and technology. Among his many creative works, he has pioneered an open data / new media performance in which he does live paintings using real-time weather data.
He has exhibited…
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Eric Vardon
arcane.ws
Eric Vardon
Presentations
- Entering the Creative Workforce with Impact April 22 2013 , 4:15-4:45pm
Over the past 15 years Eric Vardon has created three successful businesses and led award-winning campaigns for a broad range of market leaders including AOL, Bridgestone, General Motors, GoodLife Fitness, The Hearst Company, Laura Secord,
Popular Mechanics and Wired Magazine.
…
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Erik von Stackelberg
myplanetdigital.com
Erik von Stackelberg
Presentations
- UX Lessons from the USSR: The Trouble with Manifestos April 21 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Erik von Stackelberg is Creative Director at Myplanet Digital, a quickly-growing Toronto design & technology company focused on helping organizations build meaningful digital products. His average day straddles the theoretical and practical, an ongoing mix of digital identity…
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Evan Jones
stichmedia.ca
Evan Jones
Presentations
- Everything You Know is New Again April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Stitch Media partner Evan Jones, is a two-time Emmy Award® winner whose innovative work on interactive content for primetime television, radio, web, mobile and games have established him as a pioneer in new genres of Alternate Reality Games, Locative Media and Interactive Docume…
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GMUNK
gmunk.com
GMUNK
Presentations
- Designer Lap Explosives April 21 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Bradley G Munkowitz has over a decade of experience functioning as a Design Director for the motion graphics industry and has remained passionately involved in the global design community, giving lectures around the world including conferences in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Ko…
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Geri Coady
hellogeri.com
Geri Coady
Presentations
- Colouring the Web April 22 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Geri Coady is a designer, illustrator, and photographer living and working in Newfoundland, Canada. By day she's an Art Director at an advertising agency, and by night she freelances and blogs through her website hellogeri.com. Geri loves teaching kids how to make websites a…
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Greg Beldam
shopify.com
Greg Beldam
Presentations
- Exploring the Future of Mobile April 22 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Greg is Lead Mobile Designer at Shopify in Ottawa, Canada. Greg and his team are responsible for crafting the future of mobile apps and disrupting e-commerce.
Prior to Shopify Greg has worked extensively as an Art Director on mobile and interactive projects for Hasbro, Samsung…
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Heather Payne
heatherpayne.ca
Heather Payne
Presentations
- Lessons Learned from Ladies Learning Code April 23 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Heather Payne is the founder of Ladies Learning Code, a Toronto-based not-for-profit startup that runs popular workshops for women (and men) who want to learn computer programming and other technical skills in a social and collaborative way. Recently, she founded HackerYou as …
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Hoss Gifford
hossgifford.com
Hoss Gifford
Presentations
- Lessons from the Meth Lab. April 21 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Hoss is a digital industries veteran who’s published several books, won a bunch of awards, run a few companies, and shared his vision at a lot of international creative and technology conferences. In the copious amounts of free time this leaves, Hoss is inclined to judge awards…
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Hydro74
hydro74.com
Hydro74
Presentations
- Perfection Within Imperfection April 23 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Hydro74 | MCMLXXIV | The Purveyor of Sin
Hydro74 is a Orlando based designer, otherwise known as Joshua M. Smith. The only purpose of his career is to push the boundaries in doing what he feels is progressing personal style, structure and function within the vector rhelm and cha…
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Irene Pereyra
f-i.com
Irene Pereyra
Presentations
- Attack of the Creative Process April 22 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
- Media Convergence? April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Irene is currently the head of UX and strategy at Fi responsible for translating business requirements into intuitive interactive solutions. She also manages the agency’s global UX team to develop digital experiences that incorporate all technical, editorial, and usability spec…
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James Milward
thesecretlocation.com
James Milward
Presentations
- Everything You Know is New Again April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
James Milward has a degree in Economics and a postgraduate degree in Interactive Art and Entertainment from the New Media Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. James has worked extensively in TV commercial production and documentary film, prior to defecting to the dark arts of interac…
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James White
signalnoise.com
James White
Presentations
- Destroy Your Process April 23 2013 , 2:15-2:45pm
James White is a Canadian artist and designer based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He is the 1-man wrecking crew behind the Signalnoise Studio where he produces visual artistry for professional and personal projects. He began his career as a designer in 1998 but started drawing way b…
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Jason White
lvthn.com
Jason White
Presentations
- Hyperblender - The Collision of Art and Technology April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
After first achieving wide recognition as a fine artist, Jason White began his rise in the field of animation by co-founding Lift Motion Design in Chicago, where he forged strong collaborative relationships with leading advertising agency creatives for a Who's Who of brands.…
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Jenna Marino
hanerino.com
Jenna Marino
Presentations
- 10-Foot 2 Inches: Designing Apps for Up-Close & Afar April 23 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Jenna Marino is a Boston-based designer who's focus is on providing superior user experiences across all device platforms, especially when it comes to mobile and television applications. She's the sensible half of Hanerino, a design studio she and her now husband starte…
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Jesse Malone
xtremelabs.com
Jesse Malone
Presentations
- Imagination and Analysis in Computer Programming and Music April 21 2013 , 3:30-4:00pm
Jesse Malone is an Agile Engineer at Xtreme Labs and maintains a busy schedule as a freelance musician around the GTA. He discovered web development while Perl was still cool and music long before that. Upon completion of a mathematics degree at McMaster he entered the Jazz Perf…
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Jonathan Snook
Snook.ca
Jonathan Snook
Presentations
- Your CSS is a Mess April 23 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Jonathan writes about tips, tricks, and bookmarks on his blog at Snook.ca. He has also written for A List Apart, 24ways, and .net magazine, and has co-authored two books, The Art and Science of CSS and Accelerated DOM Scripting. He has also authored and received world-wide acclai…
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Kerry Morrison
endloop.ca
Kerry Morrison
Presentations
- Media Convergence? April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
During a nearly 20 year career in the digital marketing world, Kerry has worked for some of the biggest brands and with a number of the largest ad agencies in North America. He’s worked for advertising agencies, startups, telcos, media conglomerates, dot-coms and one of the wor…
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Kurt Krumme
kurtkrumme.com
Kurt Krumme
Presentations
- Adaptive Design Kicked My @$$ April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Kurt Krumme is a User Experience Consultant who's spent most of the last decade creating web sites and apps for clients ranging from small not-for-profits to billion-dollar companies. These days he gives talks, writes articles and helps clients keep the focus on their users,…
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Kyle McDonald
kylemcdonald.net
Kyle McDonald
Presentations
- How to Give Everything Away April 21 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
- Digital Interaction April 20 2013 , 10:00-5:00pm
Kyle McDonald works with sounds and codes, exploring translation, contextualization, and similarity. With a background in philosophy and computer science, he strives to integrate intricate processes and structures with accessible, playful realizations that often have a do-it-your…
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Lanny Geffen
digiflare.com
Lanny Geffen
Presentations
- It’s Not Enough To Be Brilliant – You Have To Be Convincing, Too. April 22 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Lanny Geffen has over 10 years’ experience in online marketing, advertising and design. He has extensive brand experience, and has received many accolades for his work on behalf of some of the most recognizable brands in the market. As Digiflare's Creative Director, Lanny …
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Manny Elawar
blackberry.com
Manny Elawar
Presentations
- Demystifying Native, Web, and Hybrid Mobile Development on BlackBerry 10 April 22 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Manny Elawar is a BlackBerry Developer Evangelist at BlackBerry. His main focus is reaching out to the developer community and getting them excited about generating top quality apps for the BlackBerry 10 Platform.
Manny graduated from the Software Engineering program at Wes…
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Marcelo Coelho
web.media.mit.edu/~mar…
Marcelo Coelho
Presentations
- Computational Materials April 21 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Marcelo Coelho is an artist, designer and researcher, whose work explores how physical and computational materials can be used to create new human experiences. Originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Marcelo holds a BFA in Computation Arts, with highest honours, from Concordia Univers…
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Mark McQuillan
jam3.com
Mark McQuillan
Presentations
- Everything You Know is New Again April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Mark McQuillan is founding partner at Jam3, an interactive production company at the leading edge of innovation in entertainment, technology and advertising. Since 2004, Mark has had the awesome pleasure of working with his incredible team on projects for global brands, artists a…
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Matt Fisher
jam3.com
Matt Fisher
Presentations
- Forget Music, Download an Assault Rifle April 22 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Matt Fisher, Senior Developer at Jam3, is passionate about technology. Whether it is building a large scale multi-user Flash game or programming a model plane to fly itself, he brings that passion with him to every project. An interactive web and systems developer by day and dron…
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Memo Akten
memo.tv
Memo Akten
Presentations
- Trying to Understand the Nature of Reality April 23 2013 , 4:15-5:15pm
Memo Akten is a visual artist, musician and engineer working at the intersection of art and science. His work covers a range of disciplines including installations, performances, films, music videos, online works and mobile applications. Driven by the urge to make the seemingly i…
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Michael Chang
mflux.tumblr.com
Michael Chang
Presentations
- Creative coding with THREE.js April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Michael Chang (Flux) is a creative technologist who's worked with Data Arts Team at Google on visualizations and generative art that you see on Chrome Experiments, most recently Small Arms Trade visualization and Generative Machines. Prior to that, he's worked with Yaho…
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Michael Labriola
digitalprimates.net
Michael Labriola
Presentations
- ActionScript sans plugin April 23 2013 , 4:15-4:45pm
Michael Labriola is a Partner and Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. He specializes in developing applications with high business impact usin…
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Mike Robbins
heliozilla.com
Mike Robbins
Presentations
- Deconstructing and reconstructing the moving picture April 21 2013 , 4:15-4:45pm
Mike studied visual arts at York University, and has picked up the technical side of his trade while working at Helios Design for the past 13 years. He is responsible for staying on top of the latest and greatest digital technologies and translating them into engaging online …
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Myron Campbell
notsosimpleton.com
Myron Campbell
Presentations
- Make Something Ugly: An Experimental Creative Process April 21 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
In 2001, Myron began his work with the Trailer Park Boys in Halifax after completing a diploma in Visual Communication at the Medicine Hat College. Following that he spent 4 years at the Banff Centre For The Arts as an Interactive Consultant and Lead Designer for the online digit…
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Nando Costa
nandocosta.com
Nando Costa
Presentations
- Dreaming Up April 22 2013 , 4:15-5:15pm
Nando Costa is a Brazilian director and graphic artist based in Portland, Oregon. As a native of Rio de Janeiro, he began experimenting with various artistic mediums from an early age, eventually finding home in graphic design and photography, which led to his career expanding in…
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Patrick Haney
hanerino.com
Patrick Haney
Presentations
- 10-Foot 2 Inches: Designing Apps for Up-Close & Afar April 23 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Patrick Haney is not a sausage. He's a developer turned designer who works from his home office just north of Boston, rocking client projects with his wife and business partner, Jenna. Together they form Hanerino, a design studio focused on creating fantastic interfaces for …
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Paul Laberge
microsoft.com
Paul Laberge
Presentations
- HTML5 Gaming to Windows 8 & a Yeti April 20 2013 , 10:00-5:00pm
- Microsoft’s Modern UI April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Paul is a Developer Advisor with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Paul brings over 12 years of technical experience working with some of the largest North American Fortune 500 companies to the role and has been with Microsoft for almost 5 years. His experience inc…
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Paul Trani
adobe.com
Paul Trani
Presentations
- Responsive Design & Modern Web Tools April 20 2013 , 10:00-5:00pm
- Responsive Design Techniques, Tools and Design Strategies April 23 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Paul Trani is a Creative Suite Evangelist for Adobe Systems focusing on workflows that empower designers and developers to publish to multiple screens and platforms. Paul has been an Adobe Certified Instructor and courseware creator for over a decade. A writer and prolific traine…
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Pearl Chen
karma-laboratory.com
Pearl Chen
Presentations
- Electric Booglaoo: Electricity and You April 22 2013 , 4:45-5:15pm
- Lessons Learned from Ladies Learning Code April 23 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
From HTML to LEDs, or Android to Arduino -- Pearl Chen takes on a cross-disciplinary approach to her work.
With over 8 years of professional experience in web technologies, Pearl has a body of work that includes Facebook campaigns for Google Chrome, microsites for Nike, and …
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Philip Sierzega
redpaperheart.com
Philip Sierzega
Presentations
- If They Don’t Take the Leap, Push Them. April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Philip Sierzega is a multidisciplinary Art Director and founding member of Red Paper Heart. He has always had a passion for experimentation, especially when combining interactivity and animation. With a degree from RIT in New Media Design and a background in web design, Philip no…
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Pol Pla
polplaiconesa.com/proj…
Pol Pla
Presentations
- Fluid Interfaces Bridging the Gap Between the Physical and the Digital April 22 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Pol is a graduate researcher at the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. His work seeks to lay a foundation for designing alternative output technologies. Identifying limitations of current display technologies and conceptualizing, designing and building alternatives that…
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Qanta Shimizu
prty.jp
Qanta Shimizu
Presentations
- Experimenting with Creative Process April 21 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
Creative Director, Founder / PARTY
While studying at University of Tokyo Faculty of law, Qanta started to set up in type for DTP at a design studio in Tokyo. He joined IMG SRC inc./NON-GRID inc. In 2005 Qanta decided to focus on interactive production. Since then, as a creativ…
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Riccardo Giraldi
b-reel.com
Riccardo Giraldi
Presentations
- Experimenting at the Edge of Digital: Robots, Technology and Natural Interactions April 23 2013 , 11:15-12:15pm
- Media Convergence? April 23 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Riccardo Giraldi is Creative Director at B-Reel in New York. He started his career playing with Lego and is not sure how he ended up working in the digital industry.
Over the years Riccardo developed a strong geek accent and found wild satisfaction in watching his ideas quickl…
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Rick Mason
relishinteractive.com
Rick Mason
Presentations
- Exploring the Creative Coding Landscape April 22 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
A man of many hats - and beards - Rick gets his hands into everything. By day he's a senior developer at Relish Interactive where he builds tools and back-end systems to make websites and apps come alive. By night Rick helps curate speakers for FITC and NXNEi and is co-mana…
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Ron Gervais
townshipco.com
Ron Gervais
Presentations
- Designing in the 3rd Dimension April 22 2013 , 3:00-3:30pm
Ron Gervais is a director / designer / animator based in Toronto Canada.
Studying art from a young age Ron first attended BealArt in London Ontario Canada as a teen where he was introduced to a diverse range of art making. He later graduated with a degree in Fine Arts and Hi…
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Sara Blake
hellozso.com
Sara Blake
Presentations
- The Art of F*cking-Up (Subtitle: Failure, The Only Option) April 22 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Sara Blake, also known as ZSO, is a New York City based illustrator and designer. After studying in the Individualized Study program at NYU, she started her career at a small digital shop called Engine Three working mainly for fashion clients. While she still works as a freelance…
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Sarah Hunt
adobe.com
Sarah Hunt
Presentations
- Animating the Interactive Experience April 23 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Sarah Hunt is a Product Manager with Adobe focusing on HTML, CSS and Javascript. Prior to joining Adobe, Sarah has worked as both a print designer and front-end web developer and now leverages her industry experience to help propel the web forward
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Stacey Mulcahy
bitchwhocodes.com
Stacey Mulcahy
Presentations
- JavaScript April 20 2013 , 10:00-5:00pm
- The Stuff People Forget To Tell You April 21 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
Stacey Mulcahy is a Senior Developer with Big Spaceship. Prior to joining the team, she has worked at Teknision and Fuel Industries in Ottawa, Canada and IQ Interactive in Atlanta in a variety of development roles. A seasoned public speaker, technical editor and instructor, Stace…
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Tom Kuo
foundation.to
Tom Kuo
Presentations
- Creating Interactions April 23 2013 , 3:00-3:30pm
An award-winning designer and creative director, Tom Kuo has some 20 years of experience in the art, music and marketing worlds. His dynamic career has been marked by recognition and accolades, including, most recently, a 2009 Applied Arts Interactive Art Award and an exhibition …
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Tomasz Dysinski
jam3.com
Tomasz Dysinski
Presentations
- Toolmaking. Making your life easier by making it harder. April 23 2013 , 4:45-5:15pm
Tomasz Dysinski is a visual artist, developer and technologist. His background is in animation, compositting, web and game development. His current role at Jam3 is to git'er done, with a special focus on graphical code and just-in-time tool development.
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Topher Bullock
xtremelabs.com
Topher Bullock
Presentations
- Philosophical Solutions to Agile Engineering April 21 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Topher Bullock is an Agile Engineer at Xtreme Labs where he works predominantly on Front-end engineering for mobile and desktop web applications. He is obsessed with JavaScript, and enjoys exploring the bleeding-edge of both server and client side JS, and is a major believer in…
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Vincent McCurley
nfb.ca/interactive
Vincent McCurley
Presentations
- Non-linear Story-telling on Mobile April 21 2013 , 10:00-11:00am
- Everything You Know is New Again April 22 2013 , 1:45-2:45pm
Vincent McCurley is a Creative Technologist for the National Film Board of Canada's Digital Studio.
He regularly calls upon his 15 years of interactive design and development experience to help filmmakers and artists use technology to tell stories in creative and innovati…
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Walter Luh
coronalabs.com
Walter Luh
Presentations
- Building Native Apps: A Digital Canvas for Coders and Designers April 21 2013 , 3:00-4:00pm
Walter Luh is Founder, CEO and creator of Corona SDK, the marquee product of software development company, Corona Labs. In a previous life, Walter was Lead Architect for Adobe Flash Lite, a mobile runtime that has shipped on over a billion devices. During that time, he led the en…
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Zander Brimijoin
redpaperheart.com
Zander Brimijoin
Presentations
- Non-Working Prototypes Blew My Mind April 21 2013 , 3:00-3:30pm
Zander Brimijoin brings a hefty pile of design, and installation art experience to the Brooklyn based collective, Red Paper Heart. In his tenure as an award winning Interactive Art Director at various agencies, Zander found opportunities to mix traditional hand skill with digital…
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