|
About the WebGuild
The WebGuild is the leading forum for web and internet professionals providing programming that fosters learning, professonal development, and networking for
engineers, usability & user experience professionals, designers, internet marketers, IT managers, search engine marketers, and entrepreneurs to learn about emerging
technologies, innovations, business models, and best practices and industry standards in the web field. Our core areas of focus are in
User Experience, Developer Network, and Internet Marketing.
Our events provide a platform to enable information exchange, foster knowledge transfer, and network with peers.
Our membership consists of:
- 42% Senior Management. Defined as positions at the
vice-presidential level or above who are the decision-makers.
- 41% Technical/Design. Defined as any non-senior
management position with a technical or design focus.
- 10% Freelance. Defined as independent contractors, the
self-employed or any other similar situation.
- 7% Business. Defined as any non-senior management
position with a business administration, sales, or marketing focus.
Our
conferences and events feature expert speakers delivering critical insight into
cutting-edge technologies and emerging business models that will transform the
way we live, work, and communicate in the future.
The WebGuild is a non-profit organization. A wide-range of prominent companies
sponsor the activities of the WebGuild.
Executive Officers
Daya Baran, President
Daya is the Founder and CEO of GRUUVE, a music search and recommendation engine, where he oversees product and market development. His area of specialty is internet audio organization and management. Daya has deep insights into emerging trends, issues, policy, and standards in audio technology and its use on the internet.
Prior to GRUUVE, he was the founder of Accencia Networks, a voice/audio search engine. Previously, he was the founder of Tristar Funds, a new economy fund, which became the top internet fund in Canada. Prior to these companies, Daya was a VP of Regional Sales for Infinity Funds. Daya holds a Bachelor of Business Management from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. Daya is also a member of The Recording Academy and advises several standards bodies in audio technology.
Daya is a great believer in the power of the internet, its ability to empower and positively impact people and make the world a better place.
Reshma Kumar, Vice President, and User Experience Forum Chair
Reshma is User Experience Specialist for VeriSign's Global Web Properties team where she is responsible for defining the creative online brand of VeriSign's global family of internal and external web sites.
Prior to joining VeriSign, Reshma was at Intel, eBay, and Cisco. Reshma is the Vice President of the WebGuild, User Experience Forum Chair, and writes on User Experience for the WebGuild Blog. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Ryerson University, Certificate of Completion in Project Management Mastery from Stanford University, and is currently pursuing a Masters in Information Systems Management at Harvard University.
Miles Kehoe
Contributors
Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
 Jared M. Spool is founder of User Interface Engineering, the largest usability research organization of it’s kind in the world. If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective, knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.
Jared spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He is also the conference chair and keynote speaker at the UI10 Conference, is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute, and manages to squeeze in a fair amount of writing time. He is author of the book, Web Usability: A Designer’s Guide.
Jared is an advisor to the WebGuild's User Experience Forum and related programming.
Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist & Design Manager, Yahoo!
Bill Scott is the Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist and a Design Manager for Yahoo!'s recently released Design Pattern Library. Bill works closely with teams throughout Yahoo! to spread the goodness of "rich and sane" design for Ajax solutions. Before joining Yahoo! Bill co-founded Rico (openrico.org), an opensource Ajax framework while also founding a User Experience Team, architecting a JSP/Struts Web framework and a Java Swing framework for Sabre. Bill's 20+ years of experience in user interface production spans from the lowest to the highest levels across desktop and web. At the lowest level: assembly language line buffer algorithms, 3D graphics libraries, mapping systems built from scratch and numerous widget libraries. Applications include: highly interactive game development (Macintosh GATO), military war gaming, IDE tools. In the design world: interaction design, rapid prototyping, managing user experience teams, and creating design pattern libraries.
Bill is an advisor to the WebGuild's Developer Network Forum and related programming.
|
