Past Speakers - CaT London (November 10, 2010)
Fredrik Ademar
CTO
The Astonishing Tribe
Since 2005 active as CTO of TAT, heading the overall research and UX innovation, technology strategies, partner relationships and collaborations etc. He has been working for various companies within the mobile industry since the late 90's more...
Evan Doll
Co-founder of Flipboard
former Apple Mobile Engineer
Evan Doll is the co-founder of Flipboard. At Flipboard, Evan leads iPad software development and works on product design and strategy. Previously, he worked at Apple as a software engineer on the iPhone team, as well as on Final Cut Pro more...
Burt Herman
Co-Founder
Storify
Burt is founder of Hacks/Hackers, a worldwide organization bringing together journalists and technologists. He previously reported from around the world for The Associated Press over a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent more...
Elizabeth Lane Lawley
Associate Professor, RIT Interactive Games & Media Department
Director, RIT Lab for Social Computing
Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the Lab for Social Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an associate professor of Interactive Games & Media. Her current teaching and research interests focus on social computing more...
Chris Milk
Director
@radical.media, Milk+Koblin
Chris Milk is a director known best for his innovative music video work, most recently "The Johnny Cash Project" and Arcade Fire's "The Wilderness Downtown." Milk has worked with the biggest names in the music business, from U2, Green Day, Kanye West more...
Beeker Northam
Executive Planning Director
Dentsu London
Beeker Northam Executive Planning Director, Dentsu London. She trained in law and obtained an MA in philosophy before moving to London to work in creative communications. At Dentsu London Beeker looks after creative strategy for the agency more...
Tommy Pallotta
Storyteller/producer/director
Producer of Waking Life, A Scanner Darkly
Director of American Prince and new transmedia project, Collapsus
Tommy Pallotta is a visionary storyteller who creatively blends technology with filmmaking, animation and interactivity. His penchant for innovation was recognized by Microsoft Research and Development where he helmed an interactive project based on Jonathan Lethem's novel Amnesia Moon more...
Jack Schulze
Director, New Product Development
BERG
Jack Schulze obtained his MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art in 2006, previously running an independent design studio for four years and graduating in Graphic Design from Central Saint Martins in 2000. He is interested in optical perception more...
Stewart Smith
Artist-programmer
Founder of stewd.io
Stewart Smith is an artist-programmer from New York City, now living in London. He earned his MFA from Yale University and operates Stewdio, a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design more...
Rana Sobhany
iPad DJ & Author of Mobilize
Destroy the Silence
Rana Sobhany is an innovator in every sense of the word. She has bridged the divide between mobile, technology and music to create and define the space of iPad music production and performance as The iPad DJ. She views the iPad to be the medium rather than the message and strives to meld together more...
Iain Tait
Global Interactive Executive Creative Director
Wieden + Kennedy
Iain Tait has been working in the online space since the mid-nineties. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, he built websites for many of the Edinburgh Festivals single-handedly, before you needed skill or talent to do such things more...
Thomas Wimmer
Business Development Manager, Inkjet Printing Solutions
Kodak
Thomas has more than 16 years business experience in the areas of dialogue marketing, imaging and publishing. His main focus is on identifying and realizing smart marketing communication solutions based on knowledge of customers or target groups in combination with efficient digital production processes. His consolidated knowledge covers strategic marketing, market trends analytics, campaign development, data driven communication strategies and consultancy for efficient processes and communications.
Past Speakers - CaT NYC (June 10, 2010)
Blaise Agüera y Arcas
Architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile
Microsoft
Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the Architect of Bing Maps and Bing Mobile at Microsoft. He works in a variety of roles, from designer and inventor to strategist, and he leads teams with strengths in social media, interaction design, computer vision and machine vision more...
Ivan Askwith
Director of Strategy
Big Spaceship
van Askwith is Director of Strategy at Big Spaceship, an award-winning creative agency based in Brooklyn, NY. As the head of the strategic practice, Ivan works to help clients navigate the digital landscape and understand emerging more...
Nicke Bergstrom
Creative Director
Mother New York
Nicke Bergstrom is a proud Swede and Creative Director. He joined the ad industry back in 95, after studying advertising and graphic design in Sweden, England, and the US. Five years later Nicke helped open the Swedish agency Farfar more...
Winston Binch
Partner
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Winston Binch is a Partner at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, in Boulder, Colorado, where he's responsible for the leadership of interactive production, strategy, and business development. He oversees interactive for clients such as American Express, more...
John Cantarella
President, Digital, News & Sports Group
Time Inc.
John Cantarella is the president, digital, news and sports group. He oversees CNNMoney.com, TIME.com, SI.com, Golf.com and Life.com, which collectively draw over 30 million unique visitors a month. Prior to this he was general manager more...
Jon Collins
President
Framestore NY
Jon Collins began working in the industry in the mid-80's gaining experience in most departments on his way to becoming one of the first post-producers in London. He joined Framestore in January 1996 as Head of Production more...
Andreas Dahlqvist
Creative Director
DDB Stockholm
As DDB Stockholm's Creative Director, Andreas is responsible for the agency's creative work. He has more than 12 years experience within advertising and has worked with different agencies in Sweden and New York. more...
Patrick Gardner
CEO
Perfect Fools
Assistant Speechwriter to the US Vice President, White House, 1990 & 1992.
Managed marketing projects in Indonesia, Mexico more...
Lynn Grillo
Creative Solutions Engineering Manager
Adobe
As the manager of the North American Solutions Engineering team for desktop products at Adobe Systems, Lynn's work centers around Adobe's products for creative professionals. Based in the New York metro area, Lynn is an Adobe Certified Expert more...
Matt Howell
Chief Interactive Officer
Modernista!
Matt joined Modernista! as Director of Interactive in May 2008 and was promoted to Chief Interactive Officer in December 2009. He's responsible for execution across digital channels through his oversight of M!'s technology, user experience, CRM, more...
Nick Law
EVP, Chief Creative Officer—North America
R/GA
As Chief Creative Officer, North America, Nick is responsible for the creative vision of the agency. He guides creative teams consisting of visual designers, copywriters, and interaction designers, working in close collaboration across disciplines more...
Michael Lebowitz
Founder and CEO
Big Spaceship
Since launching Big Spaceship in 2000, Michael Lebowitz has been integral in serving the agency's clients, including General Electric, MoMA, Sony Pictures, Victoria's Secret and Wrigley. He also oversees the agency's original work and intellectual property, more...
Matthew Miller
President & CEO
Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP)
In his position as president and chief executive officer of the Association of Independent Commercial Producers, Matt Miller presides over an organization whose members account for 80 to 85 percent of all nationally televised commercials more...
Thor Muller
CTO and Co-founder
Get Satisfaction
Thor is CTO & co-founder of Get Satisfaction, a Web-based platform that powers over 35,000 customer support communities. With its motto "Love Your Customers," Get Satisfaction is a leader in empowering brands to support and engage their customers more...
David Petrou
Staff Engineer
Google
David is currently a Staff Engineer at Google where he leads part of the Google Goggles project. Goggles enables Search by Sight: you can get relevant search results by simply taking a picture from your mobile device. David holds a Ph.D from Carnegie Mellon more...
Alex Rainert
Head of Product
foursquare
Alex is currently Head of Product at foursquare where he and the rest of the team are working to change the way you engage with the world around you. more...
Carlo Ratti
Director
MIT SENSEable City Laboratory
An architect and engineer, Prof. Carlo Ratti practices architecture in Turin and teaches at MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative within the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Carlo's work has been exhibited more...
Kevin Slavin
Co-founder Area/Code,
Co-founder of social TV platform Starling
Founded in 2005, Area/Code creates cross-media games and entertainment for clients including Nokia, CBS, Disney Imagineering, MTV, Discovery Networks, A&E Networks, Nike, Puma, EA, the UK's Department for Transport, and more...
Jan Erik Solem
Founder and CTO
Polar Rose
Jan Erik Solem is the founder and CTO of startup Polar Rose working with socially aware face recognition and computer vision for organizing and sharing photos on phones and computers. Polar Rose's pioneering work in popularizing face recognition more...
Ed Ulbrich
President, Commercial Division and EVP
Digital Domain
Ed Ulbrich is Founder and President of Mothership, a transmedia creative studio, and is also President of Digital Domain's Commercials Division. He oversees the company's advertising business and executive produces key feature film more...
Tina Unterlaender
Account Director
AKQA Mobile
Tina Unterlaender is a noted expert on mobile marketing and smart phone applications. As Account Director of AKQA Mobile, she has led the creation of numerous well-known mobile campaigns, including Gap 1969 Stream, one of the first commercial apps more...
Theo Watson
Interactive Installation Specialist and Co-founder
openFrameworks & YesYesNo
Theodore Watson is an artist, designer and experimenter whose work is born out of the curiosity and excitement of designing experiences that come alive and invite people to play. Theodore's work ranges from creating new tools for artistic expression more...
Faris Yakob
Chief Innovation Officer
MDC Partners
Faris is Chief Innovation Officer at MDC Partners, a network of best in class marketing companies including the highly lauded advertising agencies Crispin Porter + Bogusky and kirshenbaum bond senecal + partners. more...
Past Speakers - CaT London (November 19, 2009)
Max Ahlborn
Executive Producer & Founding Partner
ACNE Digital
Having worked as a developer at boo.com and B-Reel in the late 90's and early 00's and studied Political Science, International Relations, Economics and Arabic at the University of Stockholm, Max co-founded Acne Digital early 2007. Acne Digital is the youngest more...
Jon Andrews
Head of Creative Technology
BBH London
Jon specializes in producing digital applications for web and mobile. Not only does he code and develop himself but he drives technology from the conceptual phase - with one foot in the creative department, the other in tech. He works closely with more...
Marko Balabanovic
Head of Innovation
Lastminute.com Labs
Marko is Head of Innovation at lastminute.com, leading the lastminute.com labs innovation team focused on developing new mobile experiences. Previously he worked on personalisation and search engine optimisation systems for more...
Yates Buckley
Technical Director
unit9
Yates Buckley has been the technical creative heart of unit9 since the founding of this digital production company in 1997. With a background in Computational Physics and Computer Science he has brought a solid technical grounding and pragmatic method to the business more...
Winston Binch
VP/Managing Director of Interactive
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Winston Binch is the VP/Managing Director of Interactive at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, in Boulder, Colorado, where he is responsible for the management of interactive production and business development. He oversees interactive for clients more...
Lars Bjurman
Creative Director, Stockholm & Partner
B-Reel
Out of Lars' 12 years of experience in digital production he has been at B-Reel since 2003 and was an Art Director at one of Sweden's first interactive agencies before that. Lars has worked with brands such as IKEA, SHARP, Frito-Lay, Coca Cola, Sony Ericsson more...
Dave Cox
Technical Director
Lean Mean Fighting Machine
Dave Cox studied Cognitive Science in the nineties. He got obsessed with neural networks and artificial intelligence and played bongos for coins.
His first job was writing call centre software on big grey Unix systems more...
David Eriksson
CEO/Creative Director
North Kingdom Design & Communication
David Eriksson is the CEO/Creative Director of North Kingdom Design & Communication. He leads the overall creative direction for clients such as Adidas, Coke Zero, Disney, H&M and Vodafone. more...
Gavin Gordon-Rogers
Executive Creative Director
Agency Republic
After directing music videos for several years Gav & Gemma worked at numerous traditional ad agencies before moving to glue London in 2002 where they became the agency's most awarded creative team. They joined Agency Republic as senior creatives in early 2005 more...
Adam Greenfield
Author, Everyware
Head of Design Direction, Nokia
Adam Greenfield is an internationally recognized writer, a thought leader on user-experience (UX) design, and a critical futurist. He brings audiences the most advanced thinking available on next-generation computing, with special expertise in the social, ethical and more...
Anders Gustafsson
Creative Director
Crispin Porter + Bogusky Europe
Anders is Creative Director at CP+B Europe (the agency formerly known as Daddy), where he is responsible for clients such as Scandinavian Airlines, Heinz, Scania Trucks and past clients including Volkswagen, Carlsberg and Red Bull. more...
Usman Haque
Director
Haque Design + Research
Usman Haque is director of Haque Design + Research (www.haque.co.uk), founder of Pachube.com, and CEO of Connected Environments Ltd. He designs both physical spaces and the software and systems that bring them to life. He has created responsive environments more...
James Hilton
Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer
AKQA
AKQA co-founder, James Hilton, is one of the world's most recognized and widely respected creative directors. James co-founded AKQA in 1995 as Creative Director. Now Chief Creative Officer, James has been at the forefront of an industry which has seen AKQA grow to become the world's largest more...
Klas Jonsson
Creative Director & Partner
ACNE Digital
After seeing the rise and fall of the dotcom era from the inside at Razorfish, Klas moved on as a creative in the advertising industry. Working for agencies such as Grey and DDB during the last decade Klas has won a number of recognitions at international more...
Dom O'Brien
Head of Emerging Technology
glue London
Dom O'Brien was originally an architect before he turned his skills to advertising. He's currently in his 10th year at glue and is Head of Emerging Technology working across all the client accounts. Day to day Dom applies his technical know-how to glue's ideas to make more...
Matt Ross
Head of Creative
Tribal DDB London
Matt is Head of Creative at Tribal DDB London. For 13 years his inexhaustible energy and love for original, ground-breaking ideas and technologies have taken him across the globe to create multi award-winning creative campaigns for numerous more...
Iain Tait
Partner
Poke London
Iain has been working in the online space since the mid nineties. After graduating from Edinburgh University with a Psychology degree he built websites for many of the Edinburgh Festivals. But before he had time get involved with the more...
Oscar Tillman
Creative Director, London & Partner
B-Reel
With 12 years of digital production experience and at B-Reel since 2000, Oscar has tinkered with every aspect of production and still enjoys it. Oscar is also a Musician/Composer and an ex game developer. His work includes brands such as Doritos, EA more...
Markus Tripp
Manager Business Development
Mobilizy
Markus Tripp is manager business development at Mobilizy. He is responsible for the content eco system and search technology for the Wikitude world browser. Additionally he developed Wikitude.me the social web interface to Wikitude. Markus is also founder and CTO of more...
Carlos Ulloa
Founder & Creator
Papervision3D
Interactive Director
HelloEnjoy
Carlos Ulloa is the founder and creator of Papervision3D, a very popular Open Source 3D engine for the Flash platform. more...
Simon Whalley
Executive Producer, Design & Digital
Framestore
Simon has been at Framestore for just over 10 years. In that time he has been involved in a diverse range of projects including Feature Films, Commercials, TV Shows and Digital. In 2002, he restructured the Design department, where the team worked more...
Past Speakers - CaT NYC (June 3, 2009)
Nick Bilton
Design Integration Editor for
The New York Times
and the User Interface Specialist,
Lead Researcher for The New York Times Research & Development Lab
Nick has worked in numerous different industries within the context of design, research & development, technology and storytelling. He is currently the Design Integration Editor for The New York Times and the User Interface more...
Winston Binch
VP/Managing Director of Interactive
Crispin Porter + Bogusky
Winston Binch is the VP/Managing Director of Interactive at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, in Boulder, Colorado, where he is responsible for the management of interactive production and business development. He oversees interactive for clients more...
Ben Fry
Co-founder, Processing
and Director, Seed Phyllotaxis Lab
Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, more...
Mike Geiger
Chief Digital Officer
Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
For more than 12 years Mike Geiger has led multidisciplinary teams in strategy, branding, production and development of cutting-edge new media and advertising content for clients including HP, Adobe, Comcast, Sprint, Got Milk? more...
Derek Gottfrid
Senior Software Architect and Product Technologist
New York Times
Derek Gottfrid is a Senior Software Architect and Product Technologist at The New York Times. At the Times, he leads the development of TimesPeople, which adds a social layer to NYTimes.com. He also created Times Machine, a collection of digital more...
Mattias Hansson
CEO
Hyper Island
Mattias is a well known media entrepreneur and has had top positions in Scandinavian TV, radio, magazines, Internet and new media. He holds an MBA, global concentration, from Stockholm School of Economics, from which he also has a diploma more...
Daniel Ilic
Creative Director
North Kingdom Design & Communication
Daniel Ilic is the Creative Director of North Kingdom Design & Communication in Stockholm. Always with a humble and humanistic approach, this 32-year-old Swede has a decade of experience more...
Aaron Koblin
Technology Lead
Google Creative Lab
Aaron Koblin is an an artist specializing in data visualization. His work takes social and infrastructural data and uses it to examine new cultural trends. Aaron's work has been shown at international more...
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory, California Nanosystems Institute;
Professor, Media Arts and Technology and Music;
Director, Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology,
University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is a composer, Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music, and a researcher in multi-modal media systems, content and facilities design. She created, built, and designed the Center for Research more...
Dan LaCivita
Senior Vice President, Executive Director
Firstborn
As the Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Firstborn, Dan is involved in every aspect of the company. He not only oversees the creative and technical production of every project that leaves the NY office, but he also plays a major role in prospective more...
Alessandra Lariu
SVP, Digital Group Creative Director
McCann Erickson
As SVP Digital Group Creative Director Ale works primarily on MasterCard, General Mills, Kohls, Weight Watchers and Verizon. Before McCann, Ale worked at Agency Republic in London—four times Agency of the Year more...
Michael Lebowitz
Founder and CEO
Big Spaceship
Michael Lebowitz founded Big Spaceship in 2000 and serves as its CEO. An architect and board member of SoDA, the Society of Digital Agencies, he is also a member of AIGA's Visionary Design Council, the International Academy of Digital Arts more...
Manuel Lima
Founder
VisualComplexity.com
Manuel Lima is an interaction designer, researcher and founder of VisualComplexity.com - A comprehensive repository of complex network visualizations. more...
Benjamin Palmer
Co-founder, CEO
The Barbarian Group
Benjamin Palmer serves as the Co-founder, CEO of The Barbarian Group. Over the six short years since the company's founding, Benjamin has come to be one of the most respected voices in the world of interactive and digital advertising. more...
Loni Peristere
Acting Director / Creative Director
Zoic Studios
Loni Peristere co-founded digital production company Zoic Studios and is the acting director/creative director for the commercial, episodic, and feature film divisions of the company, more...
Steve Sprang
Creator of the Brushes iPhone app
Steve Sprang is an independent software developer focused on building tools for creative users. An original member of the Apple Keynote team, he designed and implemented the sophisticated 2D more...
Ed Ulbrich
President, Commercial Division,
and Executive VP of Production
Digital Domain
Ed Ulbrich oversees Digital Domain's advertising business and executive produces key feature film projects -- roles he has held since joining as a founding executive in 1993. He executive produced the Academy Award winning more...
Carlos Ulloa
Founder & Creator
Papervision3D
Interactive Director
HelloEnjoy
Carlos Ulloa is the founder and creator of Papervision3D, a very popular Open Source 3D engine for the Flash platform. more...
Bruno Uzzan
CEO & Co-Founder
Total Immersion
Bruno Uzzan oversees operations and business development for Total Immersion. He is principally responsible for building the company's client roster, including Renault, Peugeot, BMW, Disney, EADS, CBS, Thomson and SGI Japan. more...
Raven Zachary
President, Small Society and Founder, iPhoneDevCamp
Raven Zachary is President of Small Society, working with big brands, established companies, investors, and startups on iPhone strategy and product development. He has directed the launch of two 'Top 20' iPhone applications – Obama '08 more...
Mike Hoefflinger
Director of Monetization Product Marketing
Facebook
Mike Hoefflinger is the Director of Monetization Product Marketing at Facebook, where he oversees revenue-generating products for brand marketers. Prior to Facebook, Mike worked at Intel, most recently managing the Intel Inside co-operative more...