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Terry Swack is a 20-year veteran of the design profession as well as a leading digital strategist. Formerly, Terry was founder and CEO of TSDesign, an Internet strategy and product design firm which was acquired by Razorfish in 1999.

The development of the User Experience Audit, in 1996, was the first offering of its kind and positioned TSDesign as an industry leader in design analysis and user experience management. Clients included 3M, Compaq, BankBoston, WebCriteria, Tripod, Dell and Cendant Mortgage.

Noriyuki Fujimura began to make interactive artworks using his experience in the field of architecture and urban design. He has a BA in architecture (Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music) and a Masters degree in Media and Public Policy (Keio University). He is currently a Visiting Artist/Research Fellow at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry in the College of Fine Arts, supported by the Japanese Ministry of Cultural Affairs. He will present his artwork as part of a group exhibition “Healing the Environment” at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts this November.

Tom is the Lab Group Manager of the Human Machine Interface group within the Vehicle Development Research Lab at GM. He is responsible for developing next generation interfaces that enable safer, more efficient and pleasurable human interactions with GM vehicle interiors. This technical domain is comprised of User Centered Design process development, use of Design Language for brand differentiation and harmonious experience, in addition to the traditional focus of information management, display and control, and user human factors/usability testing.

Peter Brusilovsky has been working in the field of adaptive educational systems, user modeling, and intelligent user interfaces for more than 20 years. He published numerous papers and edited several books on adaptive hypermedia and the adaptive Web. Peter is currently an Associate Professor of Information Science and Intelligent Systems at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) lab.

Dr. Julian Brinkley is an Assistant Professor of Human-Centered Computing at Clemson University and the director of the Design and Research of In-Vehicle Experiences Lab (DRIVE Lab). His research is focused on the intersection between human factors, automotive engineering, and computer science; work that has been supported by grants from the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation, Google, the US Army, the US Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

Rayvon Fouché is an Associate Professor of History and Research Associate Professor of the Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His work explores the multiple intersections and relationships between cultural representation, racial identification, and technological use. His first book Black Inventors in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press) created a broader textured understanding of black inventive experiences.

Ding Wang, is a senior HCI researcher from Google AI, Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology Group. Her research focuses on the norms, processes and production of data (e.g. the collection, annotation and documentation on data) and responsible data practices that are essential to ML and AI systems.

Bjoern Hartmann is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley. He co-directs the Berkeley Institute of Design and the Berkeley Swarm Lab. His research has received numerous Best Paper Awards at ACM CHI and UIST, and an NSF CAREER award in 2012. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 2009.

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Chad Jones is a entrepreneur, thought leader and angel investor across multiple industries.  His unique vision takes big ideas from inception through execution resulting in highly profitable outcomes including six exits to companies such as Microsoft, VMware and Intel.  He has over eighteen years' experience driving strategic initiatives for start-ups and F50 companies and has traveled the planet discussing a vision for a better world through technology. As Vice President, Internet of Things Strategy at LogMeIn, Mr.

Austin S. Lee is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design. A former Research Assistant in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, he has explored system design for spatial drawing and 3D collaboration. His professional work at Microsoft and Skype includes interaction design for Skype's HoloLens companion experience and other applications, related to communication design in AR systems and wearable computing.