Speaker

Chris Courtney Chris is the Director of the Design Program at Bloc.io, an online education startup based in San Francisco, California.

Kavitha Krishnan aka lifelong champion for UX is a passionate UX professional who enjoys solving problems, organizing information and designing interactions.

Brad comes from a background in Flash, animation, and video and originally made his living through Flash work.

Arlo Bryan Guthrie is Sprout Social’s Lead Design Developer, focusing on the design system for our flagship web application and other online properties.

Rudy is brand new to Chicago, and loving every bit of it! In a previous life, he was a software engineer at Apple for a while, founded his own startup (Holberton School, a 2-year software engineering school in San Francisco that is still running today), wrote a technical book in French about responsive web design before it was cool, is currently writing a second one about the Go language, and gave a lot of conference talks when he was in France, where he’s from.

David is a User Experience Designer in Philadelphia, PA and co-author of UX Research: Practical Techniques for Designing Better Products.

Autumn is a Senior Product Designer and Researcher at Trunk Club in Chicago.

Autumn is a Senior Product Designer and Researcher at Trunk Club in Chicago.

Launched at the height of the 2008 recession, Pitch Design Union makes brands, websites, and publications for community-focused organizations, non-profits, small businesses, and contemporary art spaces.

Zeke is a UX designer and developer based in Chicago. He is the Director of UX Design at Table XI, a custom software development company in Chicago that delivers business value through mobile applications, UX design and web development.