Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess is a user experience design consultant based in New York City. She helps make stuff easy and pleasurable to use.

Whitney Hess is a user experience design consultant based in New York City. She helps make stuff easy and pleasurable to use.

Jen Nedeau is a social media consultant, progressive activist, feminist speaker and writer. She currently lives in New York City, where she works full-time as the Director of Digital Strategy at Air America Media.
Nedeau became specialized in digital efforts while working for New Media Strategies in Arlington, VA where she employed corporate and non-profit online campaigns utilizing the power of social media to promote and protect her clients.
Amy serves as community and thought leader for the Enterprise Solutions Practice. The practice creates B2B and B2E workplace solutions and is dedicated to the ideal that work should be humane.
Prior to heading the Enterprise Solutions Practice, Amy was a leader in the Experience Strategy discipline. Her areas of expertise include business innovation strategy, emerging and social technologies, and information visualization. Select clients include Bain & Company, Best Buy, Citi, EMC, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, Nike, and Starwood.


A passionate web personality, Jade's among the "web" generation - an upcoming demographic of young adults who have always had the Internet around at their disposal.
With a solid foundation of where the web has been and a good idea on where it's going, Jade spends her days programming (mainly on the client-side) web sites and applications which inform, empower, and create passionate communities.

I work at Advomatic, a web development firm based in New York. I specialize in online communications strategy for non-profits, advocacy organizations and political campaigns.

"brilliant" —boingboing.net
Authentic conversation leads to more connections between people and ideas.
I make authentic conversations happen at companies, organizations and conferences like Google, South by Southwest Interactive, BlogHer, AIGA, Social Venture Network, Forum One’s Marketing and Online Communities Conference and Overlap 08.
My uniquely interactive talks often involve bringing out the best in you, other speakers and the “audience.” This means:
•you don’t have sit through another Powerpoint