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Date/Time: 9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Event: UI 2.0 Bringing Sexy Back

Moderator: Holly Liu, Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.
Speakers:
KevinMitch Fox,Grasso, User Experience Designer at FriendFeedJohn Holland, Chief ExperienceSlideRocket OfficerCEO & Co-Founder at SearchMe
Bill Wetherell, Director of UI Design at AOL
Elaine Wherry, VP of Products at Meebo

Location: AOL Campus, Mountain View
Address: 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA
Registration URL: http://ui20.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

UI 2.0 Bringing SEXY Back

Moderator
Holly Liu
Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.
Holly LiuHolly is in charge of product design and founding member of Watercooler, a creator of sports and television entertainment applications within Facebook and other social networks for millions of fans. Prior to Watercooler, she was a Lead Designer at AOL in the Community Product Line. Holly holds a Masters from UC Berkeley in Information Management and a B.A. from UCLA in Communications.


SpeakersJohn Holland, Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder at SearchMe
John Holland is Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Searchme, Inc., a visual search company initially funded by Sequoia Capital. John brings 20-plus years of consumer brand and technology marketing to the company. John previously owned a consulting company, Newstrategy, which provided online marketing strategies to Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, Gateway and The Walt Disney Company. John was also VP of Brand Marketing at CyberGold, Inc., and Director of Online Marketing Strategy, Worldwide at CKS. He was also a founding partner of MacPeople, a Macintosh staffing and productivity agency. John received a B.S. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.







Elaine Wherry
VP of Products at Meebo

Elaine Wherry MeeboElaine is a co-founder of meebo.com in Mountain View, California. She majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford and upon graduating, joined Synaptics and led their Usability team for several years. In 2005, she started meebo with two friends from Stanford, Seth Sternberg and Elaine Wherry. Shortly thereafter, Nielsen/NetRatings named meebo the fastest-growing IM destination in the US – ahead of Google Talk and Skype Messenger. Investors include Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California after growing up on a goat farm.








Kevin FoxUser Experience Designer at FriendFeedFrom 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He’s currently working at FriendFeed. Bill Wetherell
Director of UI Design at AOL

Bill Wetherell leads the UED Team for AOL Mail. He's been working in user experience design for over 12 years and in past lives has led design teams at TechTV, the Walt Disney Internet Group, and Infoseek. And way before all that he studied film production and screenwriting at San Francisco State University.