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[4] [Juan Benet Bio (via Stanford Computer Forum) http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/151021.html]
== Cap Watkins ==
Cap Watkins is a product designer and VP of Design at BuzzFeed. He is based in Brooklyn, but often works out of the Los Angeles Buzzfeed office. Cap is also a blogger [1], podcast guest, conference speaker, and lover of start-ups and technology. Cap has a compelling argument for why designers should learn to code and coders should learn to design. He also has revolutionary proposals for managers that have proven to work at Buzzfeed, Etsy, and Amazon, where he has led both design and development teams.
[1] [Cap Watkins' blog http://blog.capwatkins.com/]
[2] [99u Talk: Treat Your Life as a User Experience Problem http://99u.com/videos/54317/cap-watkins-treat-your-life-like-a-user-experience-problem]
== Peter Van Garderen ==
Peter is the original designer and developer of the Archivematica and AtoM software systems. These tools are used to manage the accessibility, usability and authenticity of digital information objects at hundreds of organizations worldwide. These days, Peter is focused on the Decentralized Web and what it means for the future of Archives and the Web in general [1][2].
[1][Decentralized Autonomous Collections https://medium.com/on-archivy/decentralized-autonomous-collections-ff256267cbd6]
[2][As we build a Decentralized Web, what values do we want written in the code? https://archive.org/details/DWebSummit2016_Panel_Values]
== Max Ogden ==
Max Ogden is a developer, open government, geospatial and CouchDB enthusiast from Portland, OR. This year he is a fellow at Code for America, an organization dedicated to helping US cities become more transparent and efficient. He is working with the City of Boston on a project focused on helping high school students better engage in their communities.
Max also works on privacy centered social networks, open civic data standards, web based mapping tools and neighbor facing “civic web” software.[1] He builds open source tools to unlock the potential of important datasets in science, journalism and government.
He is one of the founders of the Dat project, a grant-funded, open-source, decentralized data sharing tool for efficiently versioning and syncing changes to data [2].
You can see his projects at https://github.com/maxogden
[1] [Bio from OpenSource Bridge Conf http://opensourcebridge.org/users/750]
[2] [Dat project http://dat-data.com/]
== Daniel Shiffman ==
Daniel Shiffman works as an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts [1]. His focus is on teaching Creative Coding to non-coders and works on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for Processing, the open source programming language and environment created by Casey Reas and Ben Fry. He is the author of Learning Processing: A Beginner’s Guide to Programming Images, Animation, and Interaction and The Nature of Code (self-published via Kickstarter), an open source book about simulating natural phenomenon in Processing. Daniel runs Coding Rainbow, a highly popular YouTube channel on how to code [2].
[1] [Website http://shiffman.net/]
[2] [Coding Rainbow http://codingrainbow.com/]
== Primavera De Filippi ==
Primavera De Filippi is a permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She is faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she is investigating the concept of "governance-by-design" as it relates to online distributed architectures. Most of her research focuses on the legal challenges raised, and faced by emergent decentralized technologies —such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and other blockchain-based applications —and how these technologies could be used to design new governance models capable of supporting large-scale decentralized collaboration and more participatory decision-making [1].
Primavera gave a highly lauded talk that explored the possibilities that live at the intersection between the blockchain and art, society and work, imagining what the future might look like when creative people use the full power of this technology.
[1] [Berkman Klein Center Bio https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/pdefilippi]
[2] [Blockchain Technology and the Future of Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-JLKBiVGY]
== Wendy Seltzer ==
Wendy Seltzer is Policy Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Visiting Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project, previously a fellow with Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy; the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado; and with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
Wendy also serves on the Board of Directors of The Tor Project, supporting privacy and anonymity research, education, and technology, and the World Wide Web Foundation, dedicated to empowering people through Web technology.
She helped public interest ISP Online Policy Group to win the first case for damages under DMCA Section 512(f) for abusive copyright claims (OPG v. Diebold), and defended the privacy of Internet users as amicus in Verizon v. RIAA and Charter v. RIAA.
Her work at the Berkman Center focuses on the legal issues and intellectual property questions surrounding Free Software. She helped to start and now lead the Openlaw project, an experiment bringing the methods of open source and Free Software development to legal argument in the public interest.
[1] [Personal Bio https://wendy.seltzer.org/]
== Bret Victor ==
Bret Victor is a designer, developer, activist, and teacher. He has been a UI visionary, making a huge splash with Magick Ink (anticipatory design)[1], and then followed up by proposing new UI's for Math [2], the importance of interactive coding [3], scholarly communication [4], and most recently what technologists can do about climate change [5], among many other works. Victor talks about technologists' power to invent a better world, as can be heard in one of his most influential talks, Inventing on Principle [6]:
"The purpose of this talk is to tell you that this activist lifestyle is not just for social activists. As a technologist you can recognize the wrong in the world. You can have a vision for what a better world could be. You can dedicate yourself to fighting for principle. Social activists typically fight by organizing, but you can fight by inventing."
- Bret Victor, Inventing on Principle
[1] [Magick Ink http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/]
[2] [Kill Math http://worrydream.com/KillMath/]
[3] [Interactive Programming http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/]
[4] [Scientific Communication as Sequential Art http://worrydream.com/ScientificCommunicationAsSequentialArt/]
[5] [What Can a Technologist Do About Climate Change? http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/]
[6] [Inventing on Principle https://vimeo.com/36579366]
