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Cameron Adams

Designing and implementing the interface for Google Wave

Cameron Adams; The Man in Blue, and interface designer at Google Wave—melds a background in Computer Science with over nine years’ experience in graphic design to create a unique approach to interface design. Using the latest technologies, he likes to play in the intersection between design and code to produce innovative but usable sites and [...] → Cameron Adams profile page

Andy Clarke

Beautiful code and design for a beautiful web

Beautiful web design from beautiful CSS and HTML → Andy Clarke profile page

Christian Crumlish

Connecting people through the design of social interfaces

Christian Crumlish has been participating in, analyzing, designing, and drawing social interactive spaces online since 1994. These days he is the curator of Yahoo!’s pattern library, a design evangelist with the Yahoo! Developer Network, and a member of Yahoo!’s Design Council. He has spoken about social patterns at BarCamp Block, BayCHI, South by Southwest, [...] → Christian Crumlish profile page

Douglas Crockford

Using the best of Javascript as a programming language

Douglas Crockford is a product of the US public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO [...] → Douglas Crockford profile page

Nicole Sullivan

Optimizing for website performance and maintainability

Nicole is an evangelist, front-end performance consultant, CSS Ninja, and author. She started the Object-Oriented CSS open source project, which answers the question: how do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? She also consulted with the W3C for their beta redesign, and is the co-creator of Smush.it, an image optimization [...] → Nicole Sullivan profile page

Phillip Rubel

Representative Director, CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Fallon Tokyo

After a career in Canada that included marketing with Schering-Plough, advertising with Y&R and leading his own agency in Canada for 9 years, Phil came to Japan initially with McCann-Erickson where he was a Senior Vice President and later again as Chief Operating Officer. Phil joined D’Arcy as CEO and was soon charged with the [...] → Phillip Rubel profile page

Belinda Hobbs

Vice President, Asia at Harlequin Enterprises Ltd

Belinda Hobbs has spent the past 6 years in Japan transforming Harlequin’s biggest market outside the US from a traditional print publishing company into a future-oriented content driven company. Belinda has not only overseen double-digit growth of Harlequin Japan’s bottom line, but has transformed the business so that over 30% of turnover is now from [...] → Belinda Hobbs profile page

Peter Sedivy

The current state of eCommerce, and a five-year roadmap

Peter Sedivy is currently program manager on a large-scale global finance function for a Japanese securities firm, a $75M USD finance transformation initiative consulting project he pitched for Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting. He oversees over 100 staff in Tokyo, London, Hong Kong, and New York. Prior to this he has sold and managed several strategic efforts [...] → Peter Sedivy profile page

Brent Reichow

Cloud computing and disaster recovery—current trends and solutions

Mr. Brent Reichow is a business and technology industry veteran with more than 25 years experience, 17 of those in Japan. He co-founded and is CEO of Blueshift Data Protection, a leading provider of off-site, disk-based, data backup and archiving services. Over the last 3 years Mr. Reichow has been working with organizations to identify [...] → Brent Reichow profile page

Deborah Schultz

Conducting business in a social media age

Deborah Schultz is a thought leader and innovator on the impact and adoption of Internet technologies and the power of technology to connect society, culture and business. She speaks and consults on the cultural and economic impact of the Internet, and specifically where our social and technological networks overlap. She currently serves as Procter & [...] → Deborah Schultz profile page

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