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Jonathan Arnowitz is currently User experience Strategist for Stroomt Information Management, a design firm in the Netherlands. Jonathan was a Senior User Experience Architect at leading software companies such as Google, SAP and PeopleSoft. Jonathan has over 20 years experience in designing user experiences, and is also the co-author of the book, Effective Prototyping for Software Makers. Jonathan is also a volunteer for ACM/SIGCHI where among other things he was the co-founder of the DUX conference (Designing for User Experiences), former co-editor in chief of Interactions Magazine and most recently the Design Community co-chair for CHI2008.

Peter Boersma is senior interaction designer at Info.nl. Peter has a formal and continuously updated training in Human Computer Interaction that is combined with 12 years of experience with the planning, analysis, information architecture, functional design, UI design, and evaluation of (mostly online) interactive applications.
He also has several years of experience with project management, department management, and consulting each. Peter is an active member of local and international IA/UX/HCI networks and has co-organized conferences in the field.
Info.nl is one of the oldest internet agencies in the Netherlands, specialized in the creation of online services.

Filip Borloo has been active in the internet industry since the mid nineties.

During the dot com boom he was working for one of the earliest entrants in the content management market, Mediasurface. Filip was one of the first non-technical employees and was involved in all aspects of growing the business. As International Business Development Manager he was responsible for setting up offices in San Francisco, New York, Munich, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm and Amsterdam for Mediasurface.In 2002 Filip returned to Belgium and worked as an Information Architect and Strategy Consultant for large government projects. He also helps start ups bringing products to the European markets.

Reinoud Bosman has been working as an IA since 1999 going from e-education to e-government to e-commerce. Projects he worked on include the UK online Tax Return while working at EzGov and applications for the mobile internet at his current employer MediaCatalyst. He discovered he was doing Information Architecture while working in Sydney where he heard of the term first and now tries to negotiate puzzled faces of family, friends and recruiters by helping to organise a conference on the topic. He holds a degree in Biology which only adds to the confusion.

Jørgen is a Norwegian information architect, currently working for the consultancy firm Halogen. He has specialized in search and findability, mostly within Intranets and knowledge management applications.

He has a background from cognitive psychology and industrial design. Jørgen is a frequent speaker at various conferences on information architecture and user experience.

Sylvie is an Information Architect, she has been working at Duke, a Razorfish company, for 2 years. She is involved in European-scaled 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.

Margaret Hanley is the Head of Consultancy at Web Technology Group in the UK. She has worked as a User Experience lead and manager over the last eight years in companies ranging from Yellow Pages in Australia and Argus Associates in the US; to Information Architecture Team Leader and Executive Producer at the BBC in the UK and Head of User Experience of DNA, a division of Avenue A| Razorfish. Throughout her time as a manager she has managed teams as large as 50 and as small as three. Her credo is to learn from as many situations as possible especially from your mistakes.

Gregor Hochmuth studied computer science and design at Stanford. In 2006 returned to his home city Berlin, where he joined Hasso Plattner Ventures as chief analyst and helped startups bootstrap their user experience efforts. During this time, he founded the company zoo-m.com and launched a number of web applications, which continue grow internationally today. In 2008, Gregor returned to San Francisco and joined Google as a product manager. His current personal projects focus on photography and data visualization as digital art -- for contact information, see www.dotgrex.com.

Paul Kahn is managing director of Kahn+Associates, a company devoted to information architecture consulting services located in Paris, France. His previous activities in the United States included director of the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS) at Brown University, co-founder and president of Dynamic Diagrams, as well as holding management positions at Cadmus Communications and ingenta plc. He taught interactive design at Rhode Island School of Design from 1994-2001, and since moving to France has taught at Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts; École nationale supérieure des Télécommunications; Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Institute HyperWerk, University of Applied Sciences, Northwestern Switzerland, Academy of Art and Design, Basel (Switzerland); and at Media Lab, University of Art and Design, Helsinki (Finland). Since 2005 he has been editor of the annual NEW Magazine, International Visual and Verbal Communication.

James Kalbach holds a degree in library and information science from Rutgers University, as well as a master’s in music theory and composition. He is currently an Experience Consultant with LexisNexis and previously served as head of information architecture with Razorfish Germany. James is an active speaker and author on information architecture and usability in Germany, where he has cofounded an IA community.

James is the author of Designing Web Navigation (O'Reilly, 2007) and he blogs at www.experiencinginformation.com.

With a background in Indian philosophy, Cristina has been a qualified librarian in Rome for several years. Currently she is information architect and content manager at Invitalia a government agency for inward investment and enterprise development.

She believes deeply in the value of user-centred design and uses a multichannel approaches on her projects. She loves technology but she thinks that direct communication, pencil, sticky notes and much coloured paper help to find new solutions.

Cristina is an experienced speaker who has taught full-day workshops and presented sessions at national and international conferences, on the topics of information architecture, content management and web marketing.
She spends her remaining spare time writing articles and studies, cooking and playing with her two little princesses.

Sasha Maximova is a user experience designer working for JetBrains, a
company known for its developer productivity tools, like IntelliJ IDEA,  ReSharper, and TeamCity. She loves experimenting with new UI
ideas and is happy to work in the company that’s not afraid to
implement them in the enterprise-level applications.
Being an anthropologist by education and enthusiastic experimenter by
nature, Sasha spends her time researching, reading, writing,
sketching, thinking, drawing, translating and coding things that can
improve online user experience.

Julia Moisand is an information and interaction designer. She studied literature and graduated from the ESAD Strasbourg in information design. Her professional practice is guided by a people-centered approach to communication and visual representation. She worked during four years as an independent designer for a wide range of communication agencies, working in publishing, newspapers and magazines and interactive media.

Leisa is a London-based freelance User Experience Consultant who works with companies large and small to gather insight from users and apply findings to design. With a background in Information Architecture she eventually decided that being user centred was more than just thinking about users whilst designing, and now incorporates design research into almost every project for a diverse portfolio of clients ranging from large scale public sector to some of the UKs most recent startups.

Leisa is a regular conference speaker and blogs at Disambiguity.com and her regular soap box topics include Agile UX, Collaboration, Ambient Intimacy and Ambient Sociability, and Designing with Communities.

Eric Reiss has been actively involved in the creation of multimedia and web projects for over 30 years. Eric is Chairman of the EuroIA Summit, serves on advisory boards of both the Copenhagen Business School and Kent State University, is Associate Professor of Usability and Design at Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid, and is a former two-term president of the Information Architecture Insitute. But don’t hold any of this against him.

Following a long career as a senior copywriter for one of Europe’s leading business-to-business advertising agencies, he is now CEO of the FatDUX Group, a user-experience consultancy headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with affiliates in Hamburg, London, Cracow, and Los Angeles.

Olga holds a Degree in Journalism, Master in Multimedia & Internet and Graduate in Ergonomics. She works as a UX senior consultant at France Telecom: Olga thinks, designs, tests and audits interfaces. Meanwhile she's researching on her PhD. in Multimedia Engineering.

Iskander Smit works as strategy director at Info.nl, one of the oldest internet agencies in the Netherlands. Info.nl is specialized in the creation and realization of online services. Inspired on our models Virtual Warmth and Exploding Website.
Iskander is educated as Industrial Design Engineer and works since 1994 in digital media as interaction designer, concept developer and strategist.
Enthusiastic about the added value of interactive media and the social power of connected media he advises clients how to transform their services into online services. Iskander is one of the founding fathers of the vision models of Info.nl.