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 | 9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back Moderator: Holly Liu, Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc. Speakers: Mitch Grasso, SlideRocket CEO & Co-Founder Bill Wetherell, Director of UI Design at AOL Elaine Wherry, VP of Products at Meebo Location: AOL Campus Address: 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View CA Registration URL: http://ui20.eventbrite.com FREE if register online |
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Date/Time: 8/28/20089/24/2008 ThuWed 6:30-9:30pm7:00-9:30pm
Event: Celebration of WebUI 2.0 TrendsBringing &Sexy CultureBack
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DeveloperMitch Grasso, CEO & AdvocateCo-Founder at GoogleSlideRocket
KeithBill Saft,Wetherell, Director of Mobile ProductUI ExperienceDesign at Yahoo!AOL
JiaElaine Shen,Wherry, CTOVP andof FounderProducts at RockYouMeebo
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David K. ChengPartner at Nixon PeabodyHolly LLPLiu
David K. Cheng is a partner in Nixon PeabodyDirector LLP’sof TaxUser ControversiesExperience and Litigation Team. Mr. Cheng represents clients, from Fortune 500 corporationsCo-Founder toat high-net-worthWatercooler individuals,Inc.
Holly foris ain varietycharge of issues related to taxation. His work includes representations regarding audits, appeals, andproduct refunddesign and collection matters before the Internal Revenue Service (Examfounding andmember Appeals),of theWatercooler, U.S.a Departmentcreator of Justice,sports and the California Franchise Tax Board. He also has experience regarding tax deficiency matters, including relating to tax shelter transactions, before the U.S. Tax Court. Additionally, he has represented clientstelevision beforeentertainment theapplications U.S.within SecuritiesFacebook and Exchange Commission related to accounting fraud. Mr. Cheng has served as lead counsel in the formation of tax-exempt entities andother compliancesocial programsnetworks for somemillions of the largest charitable organizations in the United States.He is also very active in developing relationships with Chinese companies, organizations, and individuals. After law school, Mr. Cheng worked forfans. thePrior U.S.to JusticeWatercooler, Departmentshe aswas a trial attorney in theLead taxDesigner division.at JoiningAOL throughin the Honors Program, he served as lead counsel charged withCommunity representingProduct theLine. UnitedHolly Statesholds ina overMasters 90from civilUC casesBerkeley in U.S. District and Bankruptcy courts. He was responsible for multimillion-dollar tax refund suits brought by individuals, partnerships, and corporations, and collection and foreclosure suits against individuals,Information trusts,Management and corporations.Language Mr.a ChengB.A. isfrom fluentUCLA in Cantonese.Education Communications.Golden Gate University School of Law, J.D., magna cum laudeGeorgetown University Law Center, L.L.M., Taxation, with distinction
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Admissions
Mr. Cheng is admitted in California, the District of Columbia, and Nebraska. He is also admitted before United States Tax Court and United States Supreme Court.
Affiliations
Asian-Pacific Bar Association of Silicon Valley, Vice-President
Moderator
Michael Ryan,Elaine Wherry
ChairmanVP atof ExecutiveProducts Impactat GroupMeebo
Michael G. “Mike” Ryan, MBA, FACHE,
Elaine is Chairman of Executive Impact Group (EiG) www.execimpactgroup.com based ina Sanco-founder Franciscoof foundedmeebo.com in 1994 it has its roots to one the firstMountain healthcareView, consultingCalifornia. firmsShe foundedmajored in the 1960s. EiG provides strategy, CEO advisory, board of directorsSymbolic &Systems leadershipat performanceStanford and human capital servicesupon forgraduating, emerging,joined growthSynaptics and Fortune 1,000led companiestheir worldwide.Usability Miketeam isfor aseveral seasonedyears. CEO,In entrepreneur,2005, bloggershe andstarted advisormeebo with more than twenty five years of experience. He is a recognized pioneer in the eHealth, socialtwo networkingfriends andfrom healthcareStanford, technologySeth industriesSternberg and was founder of www.healthonline.com. He is oneElaine ofWherry. theShortly mostthereafter, networkedNielsen/NetRatings executivesnamed inmeebo the Bay Area andfastest-growing healthcareIM executivedestination in the world on www.linkedin.com and is connected to 20 million people worldwide in 150 countries. HeUS is– editor/creatorahead of “Healthcare Futures” blog featured on http://blogs.healthcare.com/michaelryan.Mike has been an advisor, board member and shareholder in numerous companies and community organizations, private, public, charities including: www.zilpy.com, www.redcross.org, www.unitedway.com http://www.monroe.bbb.org/ www.healthcare.com www.drugstore.com, www.bestseniorplacement.com www.ache.org, www.remedyint.com, www.ehealthcare.net, www.sjbiocenter.com www.aquave.com, www.genius.com, www.proteolix.com, www.phenomix.com, www.lphealthcare.com, www.curvware.com/medideas www.healthvoices.com www.frenchcreative.com, www.rapleaf.com, www.prosourcesoftware.com, www.thepyramidgroup.com, www.redmedic.com.He serves as a CEOGoogle mentorTalk and consultant toSkype theMessenger. Women’sInvestors Technologyinclude ClusterSequoia www.womenstechcluster.orgCapital and San Jose BioCenter www.sjbiocenter.com. Mike is a recognizedDraper nationalFisher speakerJurvetson. andElaine isplays the creator and host of a weekly “live” interactive forum for healthcare CEOs and executives for America Online www.aol.com. Previously, Mike has served as executive vice president/COO of Ryan Advisors, an international healthcare consulting and contract management company with offices in Washington, D.C., Jacksonville, Florida, Carmel, California, Singapore and Rome. The company served more than 2,200 clients in all 50 states domestically and in Germany, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Italy, Venezuela and China. During his hospital management career, he served as a hospital and health system Chief Executive Officer in Louisiana, Florida and DC. Mike was CEO of TransCare Health System that provided contract managementviolin and consultingmigrated serviceswest to hospitals, which included serving as CEO of a start-up specialty hospital for five years. Mike has served 17 years in senior management positions, as a protégé of Sister Irene Kraus (Healthcare Hall of Fame) founding CEO of the $11 billion Daughters of Charity National Health System, (now Ascension Health, www.ascensionhealth.com), the largest not-for-profit healthcare system in the U.S., a CEO within $1.5 billion FMOL Health System; and CEOCalifornia withinafter $3growing billionup HealthTrust,on a NYSE healthcare management company, (now HCAgoat www.hcahealthcare.comfarm.).Mike received his MBA from, The School of Business & Management, The George Washington University www.gwu.edu, Washington, DC. He graduated with highest honors in three years with dual bachelor degrees in Communications/Marketing and Political Science/International Relations from Regis University www.regis.edu in Denver, Colorado. He is a member of Alpha Sigma Nu, www.marquette.edu/asn, the National Jesuit Honor Society and completed graduate studies at Georgetown University and served as a White House Intern www.whitehouse.gov in Washington, DC. Mike has served as a preceptor, lecturer and advisor to leading colleges and universities including Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University, Tulane University, University of Florida, University of Louisiana, Southeast Louisiana University, University of Gothenburg (Sweden), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and The George Washington University.
Speakers
JiaBill ShenWetherell
CTODirector andof UI FounderDesign at RockYouAOL
Jia isBill theWetherell Chiefleads Technologythe OfficerUED andTeam co-founderfor ofAOL RockYou,Mail. andHe's hasbeen focusedworking extensivelyin onuser graphicexperience design and usability throughout his professional web development career spanningfor over 1012 years.years Priorand toin RockYou,past Jialives has held management roles leading the user interface and technicalled solutionsdesign teams at Open Harbor, and managingTechTV, the majority of engineering at Iconix. Jia started working on scalable consumer applications at shopping tools internet provider Bluedog, aWalt StanfordDisney basedInternet startup,Group, and was part of the original team at Bell Laboratories which developed the VoiceXML format into the W3C standard. In addition, Jia's experience has spanned enterprise salesInfoseek. andAnd professionalway servicesbefore functions,all asthat he closed transactions and integrated with large multi-national corporation customers like Mitsubishi, Tyco, Flextronics, and DHL. Jia has a double major instudied Computerfilm Scienceproduction and Computerscreenwriting Engineeringat fromSan JohnsFrancisco HopkinsState University.
JoeMitch ShapiroGrasso
Founder and CEO at uShow Joe Shapiro is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Palo Alto, California-based& personal-videoCo-Founder sharingat websiteSlideRocket uShow.com
. Originally from Arizona, Shapiro attendedMr. TheGrasso Whartonwas Schoolco-founder of Business before moving to Silicon Valley,AdSpace CA.Networks, He briefly worked aswhich anraised investmentnearly banker$60MM in the Technology, Media, and Telecom sector for Lazardventure Freresfunding and subsequently worked onoperates a mobile video startup which evolved into uShow.Shapiro has facilitated partnerships with companies including Ghost Housenationwide Pictures affiliated with Mandate Pictures / Lionsgate Studios and has explorednetwork syndicationof dealsdigital ofsigns Hollywoodfor contentadvertising in China’s Mobileshopping TVmalls. marketMr. withGrasso SARFTbecame (Statethe AdministrationVP of Radio, Film, andProduct Television)Development and China Unicom. Shapiro currently resides in Palo Alto, CA.Kevin MarksDeveloper Advocate at GoogleKevin Marks is a developerwas advocateresponsible for OpenSocial at Google, bringing external developers and Google engineers together to make a better web.Over the lastplanning 20 years he's alternated between giant companies and founding startups - BBC, The UK MultiMedia Corporation, Apple QuickTime, Technorati and now Google. The common thread has been working out how people, computers and media can complement each other, andcreation solvingof the engineering and socialunderlying problemsCoolSign wheredigital theysignage meet.software, Hewhich iswas onesold ofto theClarity drivingVisual forcesSystems behindin microformats.org2005, and advisorsubsequently to the Open Rights group.Kevin holds a MasterPlanar Science(NasdaqGM: degreePLNR) in Physics2006, fromand theis Universitywidely ofregarded Cambridge.Keithas SaftDirectorone of Mobile Product Experience at Yahoo!Keith is the Director of Consumer Product Experience in Yahoo!’s Mobile Group focusing on three key products:foremost Y! oneSearch, an industry-leading approach to mobiledigital searchsignage currentlyplatforms available on 700 million handsets worldwide; Y! oneConnect,today. a social network and address book aggregation tool; and the upcoming Y! onePlace, an application for phones designed to gather multiple types of personally relevant content in one place. Keith holds numerous patents for his work on these products. Prior to Yahoo, he worked forAdSpace, Palm designingMr. applicationsGrasso andwas interactionspart forof the Treo. He alsostartup taughtteam at Carnegie Mellon University asSilicon anGaming. AdjunctThere Professorhe inspearheaded the Design Department while building a design agency specializing inof interactionthe designplatform and marketinggames forof the web. Date/Time: 9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pmUI 2.0 Bringing SexyOdyssey, BackModerator:a Hollyrevolutionary Liu,slot Directormachine ofthat Userbrought Experiencemultimedia andto Co-Founderthe atcasino Watercoolergaming Inc.Speakers:experience.
Kevin Fox, User Experience Designer at6:30pm FriendFeedRegistration
John Holland, Chief Experience7:00pm OfficerAnnouncement & Co-Founder at SearchMeIntroduction
Bill Wetherell, Director of UI Design at AOLElaine Wherry, VP of Products7:15pm atDiscussion MeeboPanel
Location: AOL Campus, Mountain8:45pm ViewNetworking
Address: 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View,9:30pm CAEnding
Registration URL: http://ui20.eventbrite.com FREE if register online
Holly Liu
Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.
Holly 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.Speakers
John 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 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 Fox
User Experience Designer at FriendFeed
From 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.
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