Speakers

Michael Lopp is a Silicon Valley-based engineering leader who builds both people and product at companies such as Borland, Netscape, Palantir, Pinterest, and Apple. While he's not worrying about staying relevant, he writes about pens, bridges, people, poker, and werewolves at the popular weblog, Rands in Repose. He works as the VP of Engineering in San Francisco where he’s furiously working on helping teams reinvent work.Michael has written two books. His first book "Managing Humans, 3rd… More Edition" is a popular guide to the art of engineering leadership and clearly explains that while you be rewarded for what you build, you will only be successful because of your people. His second book "Being Geek" is a career handbook for geeks and nerds alike. Less
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If you’ve got ideas for your own product or company, Evan will be a welcome inspiration.According to Ondra Bartoš, we’ll love hearing from this young startupist for his fiery energy. He’s both a motivational and entertaining speaker.Evan describes himself as a miracle of nature. He claims to have the recipe on how to take ideas and successfully execute them. He made his money thanks to several of his own projects, and at the moment, he invests in another nine.“Using creativity, ideas… More and magic, he builds products in a way you’ll never forget.” –evanluthra.com Less
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It was 1998 on a large desert island in the middle of everyone’s other-side-of-the-world. The Sydney Olympics and the Y2K bug were coming, rave culture was disappearing, and breakdancing didn’t know where to turn. The only sane thing to do was to start a hip hop magazine and call it Stealth.In-between magazine insomnia, Mark has worked at Leo Burnett, TribalDDB, McCann, and Big Spaceship for Levi’s, Canon, Samsung, AXE, Kleenex, Amstel, and Audi. He’s done UX, brand and digital strategy,… More social media and content.Listed in the AdNews Top 40 under 40 and as one of Sydney’s Top 100 Creative Catalysts, he’s also spoken at the Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, TEDx, AIGA HOW Design, and he’s taught on Skillshare and at Miami Ad School.Currently alive in New York, he’s turned people-watching and deep conversation into a career. Maybe desert islands and magazine insomnia do that to people. Less
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Lukas has been developing websites for the past decade and has a passion for helping other creatives. He joined Apiary as its very first employee and has been leading its engineering team ever since.
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Peter is interested in web analytics, Content Management Systems, e-commerce solutions, accelerating e-shops, UX, Agile development management and methods, time management, and more. He enjoys traveling. Peter studied film and audiovisual culture, and he’s a Google Partners Certified Trainer for web analytics. He works as a Product Manager for the e-shop system BUXUS, and he’s also the Analytics Lead at ui42. You may also know him as the organizer of the analytics unconference MeasureCamp in… More Bratislava and the e-shop accelerator MastersGate. Less
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