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The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn NYBrooklyn Beta is a small, friendly web conference aimed at the “work hard and be nice to people” crowd. Last year, our first year, we had a simple message. “Make something you love.” We think the more people who work on their own ideas, the better place the Web and the world will be.
This year, 2011, that message is our foundation. We hope to not only inspire you to work on your own ideas, but we also want to highlight problems that matter. Problems like education, charity, and finance. Our speakers will inspire you and help you understand how your skills can help.
At Brooklyn Beta, our friendly attendees and their positive attitudes make the conference special. Before October, get to know each other…
Graphic Designer; founding partner at Objective Subject; co-creator of Friends of Type.
CTO of Paperless Post, Open Source Developer (JS,Ruby,etc), SF-NYC, Amateur Charcutier
Senior Designer @MailChimp __I love grids, typography, mid-century furniture, bicycling, fitted shirts, and breezy weather.
MailChimp UX lead, author of Designing for Emotion, the purple stripe in your rainbow of knowledge from @abookapart (coming October 2011).
Web strategist at Bottlerocket. Drummer at Nate Currin. Drinker of D̶o̶g̶f̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶H̶e̶a̶d̶ Southern Tier 2X IPA anywhere.
Working on (and mostly tweet from) General Assembly (@gnrlassembly).
http://about.me/robeam
Designer @ Shopify
Director of User Experience Research at The New York Times and Author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages.
Founding partner of Sugarspun Industries, self-proclaimed tinkerer, hack photog, gastronomist, traveler and plenty of other strange bits.
@HHSgov sr. advisor to the CTO. Passionate about solutions, tech & innovation for domestic+global health. Opinions/Tweets R mine #gov20 #mobile #opendata
Front-End Drupal Theme Developer at Sony Music.
Integral Implosion Protection - Design, interaction, sustainability, windmills, beer...
Student.cand.it at Aarhus University. In charge of QA & Community Management at @gimmebar.
Coder, photographer, beer lover and brewer, Russian, and San Franciscan. I work on @mapalong and other cool projects.
Independent Web & UI Designer. @GACDC co-founder, soccer player, climber, mountain biker, motorcyclist, reader, dog owner, Arsenal FC fan.
Designer at @Kickstarter, motion graphic artist, and California native living in New York.
Developer Community Manager at @Spotify. Exploding the NYC tech scene.
An illustrator, designer and maker of things. I like beautiful pencils, thin lines, and smart remarks. Co-Maker of @wrenapp and @madebyparachute
User Experience Designer, partner at @clearleft and curator of @dconstruct and @uxlondon
IA, UX and most of the bits in-between
Founder of @fictionco, organiser of @buildconf and publisher of @themanual. A master of karate and friendship for everyone.
Blogger at Dashes.com, Director of @expertlabs, Partner at Activate & lots of other things. I love NYC & funk. Reach me anil@dashes.com or 646 833-8659.
Trying.
Tech savvy entrepreneur who loves dogs
Designing for the common good with Hyperakt. Learning to live simply and with intention in this city. (and eating lots of ice cream)
I don't always design, but when I do, I prefer doing it for @gimmebar
Web designer living in Bristol. Part of http://grow.coop. Climber of mountains, drinker of Guinness.
New Angeleno, obsessed with mobile and UX, in love with photography.
I do the work of a thousand monkeys in half the time. With one hand. While driving. Actually, mostly at @NYTimes.
Orson Welles directed The War of the Worlds when he was 24 and voiced Unicron in Transformers The Movie when he was 71. How can anyone follow that up?
VP of Engineering at @Moontoast and co-organizer of @phpcomcon. I enjoy web development, good beer, and spending time with my family.
ux designer, surfer, culinary school drop-out - lives in Brooklyn
APIs and IPAs. Developer Evangelist @SendGrid. Craft beer evangelist for fun.
Web developer. New Father.
Designer, writer, speaker and design thinker. Founder of http://thedesigncubicle.com
Entrepreneur, open source programmer, travel & history enthusiast. Addicted to learning, and an avid bicyclist. Done quite a bit of traveling!
I run @fictivekin. I co-founded @gimmebar, @teuxdeux, and @brooklynbeta
Designer, Speaker, Author, Husband, Dad.
Interaction designer and writer (Undercover User Experience Design, Designing the Wider Web) · Fewer, better things.
CEO, Etsy
Jesus. Lauren. Web Design and Development. שכר. http://chandlervdw.com/me/
Co-Founder of Kickstarter.com and constant nomad; lived in NYC, SK, SF, ORD and again NYC. I design, run, cycle, and love to hang with my family.
Obsessed with boring people.
freelance web developer, web standards geek, author 'The CSS Pocket Guide', photographer, hiker in NJ / NYC. see also: @hikenj
Lead Product Architect and Partner at Arc90. CTO of Readability. Creator of Kindling. I'm obsessed with ideas, technology and the reading experience.
Tall, bearded photographin' design dude in Ohio. Let's get two different things on the menu and split 'em.
Hi, I’m Chris, web craftsman and co-founder of @analogcoop, @mapalong, and @brooklynbeta. I live and work in Brooklyn, NY.
A designer, writer, speaker and educator based in Belfast, I write about design and web standards as one half of tweed-clad duo, The Standardistas.
Co-founder/UX/UI Designer for Modkit, BFA Graphic Design: Massart, Photographer, Cyclist, and Hedgehogist.
Just a dude, designing stuff, hanging out, enjoying life.
Freelance designer and developer, focusing on web and iOS apps. Runner, pilot, and all around nerd.
Designer, author & speaker at SimpleBits. Co-Founder of Dribbble. Likes ampersands & banjos.
Husband, web person and maker of things that work.
Brooklyn Art Director/Designer, love @emilyjanemall, working at @bigspaceship, former Interactive Director at @happycog, singer/keyboards for @four24
designer, singer, photographer, barbershop harmony aficionado, philosopher, polymath; improving the world through design. also, half-English by birth. ⁂
The chap behind http://kulor.net, http://siteinspire.com, http://creativeeveryone.com, and http://creativejournal.com
Chief Design Officer @Shopify, photographer, coder, composer & soccer playing godfather
Listener, learner, maker.
Web developer @nclud; Makes fun web things @metafizzyco; Getting hitched to @1emcg; All about Keanu
Cornwall based web developer, originally from Basingstoke, now in Truro.
Lead developer for @paravelinc, host of the @atxwebshow, legal guardian of @goodfootapp, married to @jessrupe, breakfast taco connoisseur.
Dork, nerd, geek, dweeb, goof, designer at @disrupto.
Creative director at Sencha. Pushing pixels, crafting code, and abusing alliterations since 1983.
Designer of things digital. Photographer of things analogue. An Englishman happily in Ireland. And the home of geeky banter.
Product Designer and Associate Director at Wireless Generation - an educational software company based in Brooklyn, NY.
Co-Founder & Creative Director of @Hyperakt, a NYC design firm and @LetsSwapIt, where artists and designers can swap art for free. Die-hard Barça fan.
Making the web a better place from my throne in Carlsbad, California
Dork, Dad, JS and PHP feller, open source nerd, webapp security dude, Spaz developer, general miscreant. See also: @funkalinks
I want more.
Completely inappropriate most of the time. Community Dev. Manager for SourceForge. I also dig #php #writing #scifi #poetry #goodbeer #fantasyfootball #oldbooks
Creative/Marketing coordinator for OOBE, Inc. & co-founder of Indie Craft Parade!
Designer / illustrator / speaker / author. Publisher of @8faces. Engaged to @samkabam. Passionate about typography, Belgian beer, and the English countryside.
IA + User Experience (sans visual design), web strategy, hot tea, veggies, psychology. Don't caffeinate me.
Venture capital, social impact, Stanford Persuasive Tech & dschool. Love soccer, public art & meditation. Having fun designing @500Startups & @TheDesignerFund
Visual geek with a physical bent. Web designer, creative lead. Founder of http://yogoer.com, blogger at http://huff.to/alea73
Editorial and content strategist. Reader. Writer. I'll throw my guns down for you.
You can't be in two places at once, but...
Designer, developer. Started that whole “responsive web design” thing. “Eight? Who taught you math?”
Web Developer inspired by open source technology. Co-founder of Grow.Coop
A propeller head that worked for a brief stint as an Intellectual Property attorney.
Specializing in graphic design, pizza, and domestic maintenance.
I am a VC
I design for charity: water. I'm finishing up my Master's in Communication Design at Pratt. And I'm on a Quest to eat NY Magazine's 101 Best Sandwiches.
designer of web things
Developer at Svpply, a New York company of designers and engineers working on building a new kind of retail platform.
laziness == automation
Web Developer and Interaction Designer out of New York, NY, currently coding Front End and Ruby at Sony Music. I also write songs and play some instruments.
Hoefler & Frere-Jones designs fonts. J. Hoefler tweeting. http://www.typography.com.
Sr. Technical Recruiter looking for amazing engineers. Spotify's an incredible company changing the online music game...are you a game changer!?!
Director of Digital Design at The New York Times. Prev: Dir. of Design & UX @nymag. Founding AD of @slate. Also: DJ/vinyl hoarder, cycler, and wannabe surfer.
Founder & CTO @zaarly, Rubyist and Javascripter, amateur aviator, architecture buff, reasonable human being.
Designer, Developer, RISD Student.
Love naps
Writer, designer and maker of things. Co-founded @disrupto. Fascinated with time, memory, and arbitrary constraints.
Front End Superhero. Behance Team Member. Skateboarder. Eater. Shopper. @freebowlofsoup's lucky girlfriend. Asthmatic cat owner. Awesome.
web.app.dev.nyc
An optimistic pessimist. Working for Joyent and living in a bunker somewhere north of Montreal. Gardening in Summer & Skiing in Winter.
Project Manager for Zaarly // Attracted to chaos // Love process // Creating order // Results.
Independent web & mobile developer living in Brooklyn. Co-Founder @ Thumb Labs. Consuming iOS, PHP, Zend Framework, Web Standards, Design, and Craft Beer
I used to make videos. Now I'm trying software development. It's going pretty okay so far.
Designer by day, designer by night.
PHP Web Developer & Musician
Web designer, strategist, developer, and teacher. Co-host of Dan Benjamin's The Daily Edition: http://5by5.tv/dailyedition
Former NYC Teaching Fellow, founding team at KIPP AMP and TFA School Director. Ready to get back to work after a year of learning at HGSE.
Graphic/Web Designer, Social Media Consultant, Computer Nerd, Music Lover, Hula Hoop and Zumba Fanatic, Michigan Wolverine, New Yorker
Systems and comforts. Lead UX @method_inc, previously @nytimes.
Principal at Headlamp. Work @CoWork. Designer + Front-End.
An Irish web developer living and working in Brighton, England.
Blog Specialist at the New York Times. Husband to @oubliette, Father of @keplr. jeremyz@nytimes.com
WORKSHOP co-founder, graphic designer, passionate about conserving our planet and about color. I'm a pretty lucky so and so.
avid procrastiworker
designer
Curate life™
Friend of Tom. UX | IxD at Barbarian Group.
Co-founder & Product Visionary @airbnb.
Drinking tea & making the internet a better place one site at a time: recovering neuroscientist & UX consultant at @cxpartners. In China I am 红豆 乔 Red bean Joe
Dumb and brave. Designer at @arc90 for the @kindlingapp team.
I'm a physicist turned Big Data geek. Life is weird like that.
Made on equipment shared with milk.
Current mission: designing great user experiences for all, and a nice little life for myself.
CEO @betaworks
Web virtuoso, WordPress Hacker, VaultPress Safekeeper, Automattician, pixel-perfect CSS-er. I eat IE bugs for breakfast.
Front End Engineer at NYTimes.com
Web developer and co-founder of @analogcoop, working on @mapalong. Accessibility geek tweeting as @a11y. Closet musician.
Living in West Wales, work for the Do Lectures and Hiut Denim. Rides bikes. Make things. Chops wood.
Designer. Scribbler. Orator. @mapalong, @analogcoop, @fontdeck, and @mildbunch.
We are connected.
@nyhacker ∆ @colt_rane ∆ @lememeblog ∆ @lionshareny
Designer. Tinkerer. Happily ever after-er.
building @coursekit to make education about people again. fan of good design, food, music.
Designer at Twitter, Co-creator of 52WeeksOfUX.com
Designer, developer, author of O'Reilly books 'Tapworthy' and 'Best iPhone Apps.' I help creative people build irresistible iPhone apps and genius websites.
Lead Web Designer/Developer @ Squarespace
Graphic Designer
Graphic Designer, co-founder of WORKSHOP and Studiomate.
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Stand-up philosopher, Dad
Designer / developer, disappointed idealist, Montana boy.
If you havin' URL problems I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but a niché ain't one.
I'm a digital architect specializing in responsive web design who cautiously Tweets (in other words, following me won't clog your feed).
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Hyperakt, an independent Brooklyn design firm with a passion for creating work that effects change in the world around us.
Bohemian Industrialist - Reinventing Email
I am not an intergalactic time traveler.
Web Developer (WordPress, PHP, JS), Smashing Mag Editor, Co-Founder @breadapp, Podcaster and @insitestour co-host. Fan of F1, Coffee, Mojitos and slow media.
technological solutions for social problems. (if you follow me, consider introducing yourself with @kellan message)
I amass machines that make things. Some might call it a studio-bunker mentality… URLS: http://www.kellianderson.com/blog / http://dribbble.com/kellianderson /
A serial enthusiast.
Not a ninja, rockstar, or superhero. My blog: http://kevnull.com. My book: http://seewhatimean.org. My webcomic: http://okcancel.com. My everything: @c
Indie iOS & Mac developer
Purveyor of fine interactive works.
#drupal developer, #hackerdojo founder, #ultimate player, master #gardener, #ignitesv organizer, contact tw@ki.tt
drinker of raw milk, founder of @galvanizeus and @saucymag, @ITP_NYU adjunct prof, part of @studiomates
CEO, Brain Traffic. Author, Content Strategy for the Web. Founder, Confab conference. Host, Content Talks podcast. Mom, two kids. Also, sassy.
I'm the man in the box
iOS developer and founder of House of Legend. Obsessed with great design, UX, music, and the web.
Diversity jackpot.
I work as a web developer. I also like making pottery, bicycling, trail running, and eating fried pie in Portland, Oregon.
Writer, coder, knitter. Got a 22-toed cat and a robot husband.
Lucky and Happy Founder - Director of The Invisible Dog Art Center profile portrait by axel dupeux
Digital product design & strategy guy in Silicon Valley, CA. Known for Mobile First, Bagcheck, Web Form Design, & more:
German, living in NYC. Software Engineer. Columbia MBA. Entrepreneur.
Makewell is a graphic design studio that specializes in identity, branding, print, web and packaging design located in Brooklyn, NY.
Writer, editor, designer & publisher. Co-founder of A Book Apart, editor at A List Apart, and Community Manager at Typekit.
Designer for Zaarly. Artist. Musician. Coffee Connoisseur
Dad. CTO & Co-Founder of Moontoast. Based in Nashville and Boston. Learning and doing, a lot.
Interestingness curator and semi-secret geek obsessed combinatorial creativity. Editor of Brain Pickings. Bylines for @WiredUK @TheAtlantic @DesignObserver
Technophile, blogger, 한국어 학생, lover of life and perpetual smiler. Co-curator of PhotoAdvent.org. The world is my oyster.
MailChimp Creative
Web designer, developer and teacher. Partner at DUO Interactive.
Designer / Illustrator at The @Daily.
Art Director, Designer, Web Crazy, Sailor, and Storm Chaser
Jessi and Amy say, Martha is the coolest mom on the planet. She's as handy with a sewing machine as she is with a circular saw. Respect the Super Mom.
i wear glasses and i code websites for @jess3. i like sci-fi, sushi and kittens. my husband is a photographer (trippgirdler.com)
An english guy working as a front end developer for Threespot in DC. An endurance mountain bike racer who kills it on his single speed 29er.
Nokian nomad in Berlin.
Communication Designer at Facebook. Founder of design agency Things That Are Brown.
Lead front-end developer & product designer at @Grovo, aspiring linguist, identical twin.
User experience designer at @blenderbox. Letterpress printing special helper at @campbellraw. Designer of @beerleague coasters. Avid homebrewer.
Mac nerd, designer, nitpicker, perfectionist and connoisseur of fine sarcasm. Bio by @gruber.
Former head of product @flickr, current head of product @bitly.
I am the Creative Director at the wonderful insanity that is @zaarly. I speak on, write about, and do design and business. I belong to @amyclaire.
Front-end Developer and UI Designer
Creative maker, internet geek, clean eater, and [recent] entrepreneur. CCO & Co-founder of Nestio.com.
Online editor of @believermag + rookie on the @Readability team. This is a conversational channel about media and technology. My diarist tweets are @maxbrains
Web designer at MetaLab. Lover of owls. Eater of food. Owner of the most humongous cat animal ever. Your twitter stream is just you being defeated by things.
like a boss
I'm a graphic designer who loves pumpkin ale. And life.
Present: Proprietor of @kimili, a small web dev shop. Javascript, HTML, CSS, web development & design nerd. Husband. Dad. Past: Guitar geek. Future: Who knows?
Designer by trade, fledgling photographer by hobby, wielder of the guitar, husband and dad.
I like to wear many hats one of them is so awesome its called Aviary.com Want to get in touch: TXT MSG TO 50500 and you will get my info
Scratch here to reveal prize!!
The world owes you nothing, it was here first. - Mark Twain
English designer and illustrator who loves the web, and never says no to tea.
Lead developer & chief fanboy of Lithium, the light, fast web framework for PHP 5.3. Inefficient things upset me. I don't like Mondays. Or socialism.
President of @boltpeters. Creator of @ethnio. Author of Remote Research. Photographer of Things.
Maker, doer. Founder and principal of Weightshift, a design & development studio.
UX designer @betaworks, husband and dad
I write software with PHP, Python, and all the coolest buzzwords. I live in Pittsburgh, PA, and I love it. I laugh a lot at my own jokes.
i'm a designer. i made cadence & slang: http://cadence.cc
celebrating the angular shape in whatever way we may seem fit.
Partner @bold / A Design & Development Studio
designer at cuban council, procrastinator, friend
One of the top 50% most attractive users on OkCupid.
I'm a small software developer. Blog: http://www.kalzumeus.com Business: http://www.bingocardcreator.com
Partner, Business Manager at DUO Interactive
Web and Mobile designer at The New York Times.
Senior PHP Developer working in Biomedical Information Science. Also: Photographer, Baker, Cyclist, Author.
For the next two weeks...it's tweeting season!
Husband, father, associate creative director, & founder of @methodandcraft.
Sr. Presentation Layer Developer at Razorfish in New York City.
Creative Director at Etsy among other tales of triumph, victory, and love.
I am a hater of cats and cheese, but man do I love bacon. Can we be friends?
User experience designer & web typography evangelist. Co-founder of Fontdeck & Clearleft.
Principal, Project Projects. Designer, teacher, and writer.
Product designer and art director. With @GCsports. Highly recommend @momentdesign for product needs. Follow me and I will NOT clutter your feed.
Just your average self-produced superhero.
Guilty feet have got no rhythm.
Father of 2, creative designer, event organizer, Owner of Whoooz!, founder of the EECI and http://inspireconf.com events. ExpressionEngine specialist.
Designer, Illustrator, Social Windbag, Beer Snob and Jesus Lover. @finegoods market artisan & curator.
Teaching computers how to use people
Senior Frontend Developer at SolutionSet.
UI Developer working remotely for @bProx. A lover of well-crafted #beer, #food, #style and #websites.
Just sold first my first startup. Two million users of my personal projects. Looking for developers... Email talk@sahadeva.com + Sahadeva.com
user interface designer @foursquare
Web Design, Art Direction, Type Geekery & more. I'm passionate about the power of design to inform & delight. Toy is my middle name. Really.
Web Designer. Speaker. Virgo. Perfectionist. Owner of You Know Who, established 2002. Personal Blog: http://www.sazzy.co.uk
Leading @Behance and @the99percent in the noble pursuit to organize the creative world; Author of Making Ideas Happen
founder, president of charity: water (www.charitywater.org). Photographer, husband, follower of Christ.
Scottish PHP Ninja working for Facebook
Michigan ex-pat in Brooklyn, web nerd, banjo novice, loves food, mildly abrasive :: CTO @ Apartment Therapy
Web, Beer. I work on @gimmebar.
I'm often unsure of what to do with my hair.
@visualrevenue engineer, @barcampnyc organizer, @nyhacker root member
Watch out, I'm a FED.
Designer, author, speaker, new adventurer.
Founder of web agency Studio 24. Member of WaSP Small Business Team. Refresh Cambridge organiser. Passionate about standards, usability, PHP dev and good cheese
Designer, developer, chocolate fountaineer. Making stuff @oakstudios and hanging out @studiomates.
I make stuff on the web.
I'm the co-founder of http://carbonmade.com. http://burstoid.com is my side project and my passions are squash, bikes, music, djing, art and tea.
Adventurist slash UX-erciser slash Defender of the internets! / Partner @39Argyle
Art Director, Designer, Artist, Musician, Punk
New breed of entrepreneur, business creator, listener, thinker, facilitator, friend, social media & internet marketing geek, networking guy, sports lover, dad
PHP Terrorist
Web developer, resident of NYC, creator of things, chatterbox, somewhere between an ENTJ and an INFJ.
Type Manager for Typekit. See also: @nicewebtype
keepin' it real in coloRADo, @SendGrid & @BoulderBeta
set condition one throughout the ship
Drupal developer, Philadelphia resident, WKDU DJ
I design websites, assist old people across busy intersections, and scribble down the occasional word or two.
Electric Music Consumer. Graphic Maker. Web Producer. Bklyn Resident. I'm designing tings with the fine folks at http://carbonmade.com
Wonder twin powers... activate: Form of: CEO @kindlingapp & Partner @arc90. Form of: reader, kickboxer, dad.
swiss designer gone NYC, editor of swiss-miss.com, creator of @teuxdeux, founder of @creativemorning, force behind @tattly, mother of two
Chief Technology Officer and entrepreneur-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Product Designer at Facebook and curator of Simple Desktops. Not short.
Aussie living in New York, graphic designer, consultant and freelancer in creative communications. I tweet about NYC, Design and things in between.
Designer, front-end developer, future superhero. ♥ Currently working on http://weddinginvitelove.com.
Senior User Experience Designer at 80/20 and a totally solid dude.
Founder & 1/3 of http://paravelinc.com
Illustrator + One Half of @studiosstudio http://etsy.com/shop/tuesdaybassen
Product/Web/UI designer, entrepreneur, beef & car aficionado. Co-founded @LostTypeCoop. I'm a pixel pusher at Galpin Industries.
I'm a person of the fictive variety. Member of @FictiveKin working on @GimmeBar and other hijinks.
I enjoy: architectural design, coffee, independent music, mother nature, photography, typography, & web design.
Totally into design, type and code. I like to make things.
bold defender of the brand.
Founder of @letscaravan
Web Designer by day, Theoretical Physicist by night. Oh and founder of tweetment.com
Designer and entrepreneur, currently working at Kickstarter in New York.
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