SXSW 2012

CDO
Deutsch Advertising
Winston Binch is Partner/Chief Digital Officer at Deutsch LA, where he’s responsible for agency-wide digital strategy and vision, operations, and business and invention development. He works on brands such as Volkswagen, Target, Sony PlayStation, Diamond Foods, Taco Bell, Dr. Pepper/Snapple, and Real California Cheese. Prior to Deutsch, he worked at CP+B as Partner/Managing Director, where he led digital strategy, operations, and agency business development. He was the principal architect of CP+B’s digital capabilities build-out, growing the team from just a few people to 400 worldwide... Read more

Founder & CEO
Morphlabs
Winston Damarillo is a proven serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful technology start-ups. His past entrepreneurial endeavors include several companies which Winston grew to profitability and subsequently sold to major IT players: Gluecode Software, an open source application infrastructure company which was acquired by IBM in 2005, Logicblaze, acquired by Iona Technologies in 2007, and Webtide, acquired by Intalio in 2009. Winston is also the chairman of the board of directors for Exist, an award-winning leader in enterprise software development, and MaestroDev, a collaborative s... Read more

Global Dir of Strategic Innovation
Anheuser Busch InBev
Winston Wang is Global Director, Strategic Innovations for marketing technology at AB InBev with responsibility for exploring and experimenting with cutting-edge digital technologies from start-ups and innovators that are transforming consumer marketing.

CTO
Pure Charity

Lecturer, College of Business
Rochester Institute of Technology
Xanthe Matychak teaches design thinking in the Saunders College of Business and in the Innovation Center at the Rochester Institute of Technology. At present her students are working with the Global Village Construction Set, a set of open source blue prints for fifty farm tools. She is also working on a book project called 'Make Better Stuff: the rise of social business and distributed manufacturing.' She is a contributor the industrial design site Core77.com and her background is in fine art and industrial design.

CTO
Crisp Media
Xavier Facon leads product development and directs Crisp's technical strategy. He is a mobile software disruptor who has continually improved technology and standards to make it easier to deliver mobile content and advertising. In the early days of Crisp, Xavier developed platforms for deploying some of the first mobile applications and mobile sites for major U.S. media brands such as CNN, AT&T, ESPN, NBC, Time, AP, and hundreds more. Based on his experience in mobile content delivery, Xavier began in 2008 to build an HTML5-based, advertising technology platform called Crisp Engage, which is no... Read more

Lead Singer
Snapline
Xi is lead singer of the band "snapline", which started since 2005. Involved in China music scene in a certain depth that his simple mind may have (only) a couple of interesting ideas.

Graduate Student & RA
MIT Media Lab
In one short sentence: Yadid likes to build stuff. In one much longer sentence: Yadid's research explores creating a digital representation of human physiological and affective state by using sensors and mobile phones for gathering physiological and contextual data. He is part of the Affective Computing and New Media Medicine research groups in the MIT media lab. Prior to MIT, Yadid held various engineering management positions in the mobile, medical and communication system industries. Most recently he was the director of Software in PMC-Sierra, a global leader in communication and storage se... Read more

Assoc Professor
University of Michigan Masters
I teach literature, philosophy, and the culture of sports as equipment for living at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. At Michigan, I started the Cultures of Basketball course in the humanities that I have chronicled at my blog, Go Yago! and that has been featured on espn.com and freedarko.com. I also write for the Good Men Project and Voice on the Floor. I'm currently working on a book on The Meanings of Basketball.

CEO
Macadamia Apps
Yair started his career as a software engineer in VocalTec Communications, where he worked for 8 years. After leaving VocalTec, Yair made a sharp turn into the marketing world and started his own internet marketing consulting firm helping companies sell online. In 2011, Yair and his old friend from VocalTec, Gil Megidish, founded Macademia Apps, and in January 2012 they released their first app - GroupShot. Yair holds a computer science degree from the Academic College of Tel Aviv, loves hiking, camping and is a 3 star scuba diver. Yair's name is pronounced Ya-Ear... Read more

CEO
Macadamia Apps
Yair started his career as a software engineer in VocalTec Communications, where he worked for 8 years. After leaving VocalTec, Yair made a sharp turn into the marketing world and started his own internet marketing consulting firm helping companies sell online. In 2011, Yair and his old friend from VocalTec, Gil Megidish, founded Macademia Apps, and in January 2012 they released their first app - GroupShot. Yair holds a computer science degree from the Academic College of Tel Aviv, loves hiking, camping and is a 3 star scuba diver. Yair's name is pronounced Ya-Ear... Read more

Co-founder & Chief Leaf
Networked Organisms
Yasser Ansari is the co-founder and chief leaf of Networked Organisms, a National Geographic-backed software company focused on helping people reconnect with the natural world. He studied molecular biology and bioinformatics at U.C. San Diego and spent time researching plant genomics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. After the lab, he moved into the wireless industry where he helped design and develop hand-held radiation detectors, gaming accessories, and new mobile software at companies including Kyocera, Qualcomm, and Peek. He earned his Master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive... Read more

Executive Creative Director
Dentsu
Yasuharu is a kayaker, riding the rivers of Japan and abroad. There is no digital or analog sense on the river.

User Experience Mgr
Tendril Inc
Yelena Nakhimovsky is the UX Manager for Consumer Products at Tendril, where she helps create engaging & empowering products for residential energy management, and guides user-centered success metrics.

Designer
Happy Cog
Yesenia Perez-Cruz is a designer living in Philadelphia, PA. She works at Happy Cog, creating beautiful, functional design systems for clients like MTV, Zappos, and Harvard University. She has spoken at SXSW Interactive and AIGA, and teaches for GirlDevelopIt. You can find her on Twitter@yeseniaa. Her alter-ego Perez Chews is on a constant mission to find and devour the world's best foods.

Dir & Research Affiliate
HERO REPORTS/CRONICAS DE HEROES
Yesica, a researcher in urban design with a master's degree in Architecture and Urbanism from MIT, who devotes most of her research in border issues between Mexico and the United States. She challenges the notion of pair-cities as separate entities, instead looking at them through a unilateral lens where the conflict manifested in opposing relations between needs, values, interest, and concerns of the two different entities can become the tool for negotiation among multiple systems.

Sr Dir, Digital Strategy & Business Dev
Warner Music Group
Yi Ping, or Ping, has worked in digital media for almost a decade, both in and outside of the U.S. As a Senior Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development at Warner Music Group, she sources and negotiates new global business partnerships and licensing opportunities, with a focus on social media, emerging platforms and new technologies. Prior to WMG, Ping developed new revenue and business opportunities for Linktone, a mobile entertainment service provider based in Shanghai, China. Ping has also worked as a markets reporter for the online financial news site, TheStreet.com. Ping, who hails f... Read more

CEO
Interlude

Producer
Girl Walk // All Day
Youngna Park is a Brooklyn-based photographer, producer and content strategist. She direct, style and execute photo and video shoots, produce and design events, manage a wide range of print and digital projects and strategize and design content strategies for businesses both on and offline. She is currently the Managing Producer of the feature-length dance music video: Girl Walk // All Day, where she oversees the communications, outreach and digital strategy for the film. She is also a Content Strategist at the interactive agency, HUGE Inc.

Editor
The FontFeed
A little over six years ago graphic designer Yves Peters started reviewing type in his Bald Condensed column on Typographer.org. In August 2008 he put his graphic design career on the back burner, freeing him to concentrate on his writing and related activities in the digital type business. Yves currently edits The FontFeed, a daily dispatch of recommended fonts, typography techniques, and inspirational examples of digital type at work in the real world; and Unzipped, his blog on the FontShop BeNeLux home page. Yves also is an accomplished drummer with British/American/Belgian pop/rock bands Troubleman and... Read more

PhD Candidate
MIT Media Lab
Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye is a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab engineering stochastic tools to harness the power of rich behavioral datasets, such as human movement data and communication patterns in networks. Before coming to MIT, he was a researcher at the Santa Fe Institute where he used cell phone data to model the dynamics of urbanization in developing countries. Over a period of 6 years he obtained an M.Sc. from the Université catholique de Louvain in Applied Mathematics, an M.Sc. (Centralien) from Ecole Centrale Paris as part of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe program, an M.Sc... Read more

Art Dir
Yvonne Boudreaux is a production designer, art director and set designer for stop motion animation, television, and live action, who has worked on over 30 films. She has served as art director on MACHETE, THE LEGEND OF HELL'S GATE, and PUNCTURE and production designer on BLACK METAL, GOOD NIGHT, DANCE WITH THE ONE and HARMONY & ME. She was the set designer on LAIKA’s new stop motion animation PARANORMAN. Yvonne received a Masters in Theatrical Design from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors of Architecture from Louisiana State University. She has taught design and architecture at Universit... Read more

Lecturer/Head of Mktg & PR
Fontys Academy for Creative Industries
Yvonne is part-time faculty in the International Events, Music & Entertainment at Fontys Academy of Creative Industries in Tilburg, The Netherlands. She is also head marketing & pr of Roadburn Festival Europe’s leading underground festival for psychedelic, avant-garde, doom or any other variation of leftfield sonic pleasures that push the boundaries of music. Previous experience includes Head of Marketing & PR for Relapse Records Europe, live music production for numerous venues, festivals and tours and freelance artist marketing for Europe... Read more

Lark the Beard

PhD Student
Duke University
Zach Blas is an artist and theorist working at the intersections of networked media, queerness, and the political. His work engages emerging media technologies with a multitude of aesthetic and resistant tactics to challenge neoliberal control structures and generate new potentials for queer politics, affect, and collectivity. He is a PhD student in The Graduate Program in Literature, Information Science + Information Studies, Visual Studies, Women’s Studies, as well as a lab member of s-1: Speculative Sensation Lab, led by Mark B. N. Hansen, at Duke University. He is also a founding members of The... Read more

Sr Dir Tech
NPR
Zach J. Brand is Sr. Director of Technology, NPR Digital Media. Zach oversees the technical strategy and operation of NPR’s content on new media platforms, including NPR.org, podcasts and mobile devices. He has focused on developing extensible and re-usable architectures for tools and content. This includes the redesigned, and Peabody award winning website, mobile apps including iPhone, iPad and Android, and the NPR API.

CTO
Rally Software Development
Zach is CTO of Rally Software and AgileZen, the collaboration platforms that allow companies to build great products faster with Agile and Lean practices. Prior to joining Rally, Zach was co-founder of a startup that radically changed how creative professionals managed projects. His company was acquired by publicly-traded Creo, Inc., now a division of Kodak. He also served as Chief Software Architect at Quark, where he provided the technological vision for the company that led the creation of the desktop publishing market. At the age of 13, Zach began commercially publishing software and, at age 16, star... Read more

CEO
Codecademy

Donor Rel
DonorsChoose.org
Zach works to create and maintain happy relationships with DonorsChoose.org supporters. He manages the donor user experience, oversees donor customer service and communication, and serves as the DonorsChoose.org ambassador to reddit. Previously, he worked for Google as a marketing consultant, and spent 4 years with Warner Music Group marketing and selling a lot of bad records. A few good ones.

Campus Community Dev Dir
Zappos.com
campus/urban/startup development at zappos.com & downtownproject.com. no title at both.

Dir of Photography
Zero Point Zero Production Inc

Co-founder & CEO
gtrot
Zachary Smith is Co-Founder and CEO of gtrot, a platform for discovering and sharing local restaurants, nightlife, deals, events, and more based on social data. Under his leadership, the company took top prize in the Harvard Innovation Challenge and attracted Series A funding from Lightbank, the Chicago-based VC headed by Groupon co-founders Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell. gtrot was recently named a Top 5 Startup at Chicago TechWeek 2011 and winner of the PhoCusWright 2011 Innovation Award for Social Media.

Founder & CEO
Blacklight Transmedia
Zak Kadison, Founder and CEO. A respected industry veteran, Kadison is responsible for the day-to-day management and strategic vision of Blacklight. He handles the corporate relationship with Random House as well as key Hollywood talent and is an essential creative voice in the development and production of all of Blacklight’s intellectual property.

Producer & Strategic Advisor
Miramax
Zanne Devine is a feature film producer who has worked with many of the most successful and prominent film production companies and filmmakers. Ms. Devine most recently executive produced the Emmy Award nominated CINEMA VERITE (Diane Lane, Tim Robbins, James Gandolfini) for HBO Films. In 2010 she produced the box office success, award-winning EASY A (Emma Stone, Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson) for Sony/Screen Gems. In 2010, Ms. Devine created Pacific Northwest Pictures, a Vancouver-based production and distribution company. In addition to her producing activities, Ms. Devine is currently serving as... Read more

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Zarah Zohlman is the assistant to Roots drummer/"Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" bandleader Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and works closely with him on various music, branding and business initiatives.

CEO
Africa Cancer Foundation
Zawadi is an Afropolitan feminist digital native, working as a free agent to use her non-profit experience, creativity, social media skills, extensive global networks, fundraising expertise, spirituality, passion & fire for social justice to create the world she wants to see. She has been working in the field of sexual and reproductive rights for almost seven years, and advocating for women's rights for over ten years. In 2010 she published a book with Akina Mama wa Afrika, called, "When I Dare to be Powerful" - a collection of short stories told by five women who are engaged in sex work in East Af... Read more

Professor
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina and a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Her research revolves around the interaction between technology and social, cultural and political dynamics. Tufekci is particularly interested in collective action and social movements, complex systems, surveillance, privacy, and sociality. Her research on the Arab uprisings has been featured in many media outlets as well as being published in peer-reviewed outlets. She blogs at www.technosociology.org... Read more