Behind the curtain

Here are the people who are making this conference possible:

Martin Belam is Lead User Experience & Information Architect at Guardian News & Media, working across the award winning Guardian.co.uk website and mobile platforms. He has spent over a decade building digital media products for global brands like the BBC, Sony and Vodafone, including a three year spell working independently as a consultant based on the island of Crete. He is a contributing editor to FUMSI magazine, and helps run London IA, a community for IA and UX professionals. Martin blogs about user experience, journalism and digital media at www.currybet.net, and can be found on Twitter as @currybet

Sylvie is working as UX team Lead at Duke Razorfish. She is involved in digital projects, taking care of the overall user experience according to a holistic approach and dealing with content strategy, user’s journeys, interaction as well as business issues. Sylvie gives also UCD courses at Sorbonne (Celsa) and Sciences Po Paris.

Richard Hill has been working with ASIS&T since 1989, having previously run a private recruiting firm for three years and managed a trade association for three years. He has been membership development director, director of communications, and director of government affairs. Dick has a masters degree in Comparative Literature from Occidental College and taught high school for 6 years.

Jim is the author of Designing Web Navigation (O’Reilly, 2007), a best-selling web design book that has been translated into 6 languages.

He is currently a Principal User Experience Consultant at USEEDS°, a Berlin-based design and innovation consultancy for businesses with a
high online profile. Previously Jim was a User Experience Consultant with LexisNexis, a leading provider of legal and news information, where he develop interfaces for web-based search applications. Prior to that Jim served as head of information architecture with Razorfish, Germany. He has a degree in library and information science from Rutgers University, as well as a Master’s degree in music theory and composition.

For the past seven years, Jim has been on the organizing committee for the European Information Architecture (EuroIA) conferences. He is an active speaker on IA and UX in Germany and is a founder of the IA Konferenz.

Wieslaw Kotecki is an IA practicionner with 7 years of experience. Cofounder and CEO of UseLab - first polish UX agency.Specialized in creating ux strategy and leading innovative projects. He was advising leading polish banking, telco, e-commerce andpublishing companies. During these years he was a a lead of international projects in Spain, USA, UK, Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, Denmark and Romania.
Frequent speaker at conferences and universities in Poland. Cofounder and head of Polish IA Summit Comittee.

Eric Reiss, our conference chair, has been actively involved in the creation of menu-based programs, hypertext games, multimedia, and web projects for over 30 years. In 2006, he co-founded FatDUX, a user-experience design company headquartered in Copenhagen with offices and associates throughout  Europe and North America.

In November, 2000, his book, Practical Information Architecture was published by Addison-Wesley. In 2002, it became available in Japanese and Korean. His latest work, Usable Usability, will be published by John Wiley & Sons in July, 2012. He is also the author of Web Dogma, co-instigator of the IA Slam, and a frequent speaker at conferences and educational institutions around the world.

To pay the bills, Eric is CEO of the FatDUX Group.

Andrea is an information architect with FatDUX, a UX firm with headquarters in Copenhagen, and a researcher at the University of Borås, Sweden.

An ICT professional since 1989 and a practising information architect since 1999, Andrea holds a PhD in Legal Informatics and a MA in Architecture and Industrial Design, and he is currently President of the Information Architecture Institute. Andrea is also co-author of Pervasive Information Architecture, which he wrote with fellow committee member Luca Rosati.
 
He pretends to play the piano, reads far too many books, chairs the Italian IA Summit, and co-founded the Journal of Information Architecture and the European center for user experience.

His web site is andrearesmini.com.

Luca is a free-lance information architect and adjunct professor of IA and HCI at University for Foreigners of Perugia, Italy. One of Italy’s pioneer in IA field, he has contributed to build the IA community in his country. He has been a speaker at several international conferences, sits on the Italian IA Summit Board and is editor for the Journal of Information Architecture.

Luca is co-author with Andrea Resmini of Pervasive Information Architecture: Designing Cross-Channel User Experiences (Morgan Kaufmann, 2011).