ANDY EPSTEIN

Andy is a veteran in-house design manager, creating and growing in-house design teams for Commonwealth Toy and Gund before restructuring and growing the 100-person creative team at Bristol- Myers-Squibb. He currently leads an in-house design team at Designer Greetings, developing the company’s cards, gift wrap and point-of-sale materials. Having written and spoken extensively on inhouse issues, he was the co-founder of InSource and currently heads the AIGA In-house task force. Andy edits and writes for the HOW InHOWse blog and recently published The Corporate Creative with HOW Books.

DITI KATONA

Diti Katona is a founding partner of Concrete Design Communications. As a creative director, she is best known for producing elegant and evocative work for the firm’s clients in fashion, retail and luxury goods.

Over the years, Diti’s creative work has received numerous awards from juries throughout North America and Europe, including the American Center for Design (Chicago), the American Institute for Graphic Arts (New York), Graphis Design (New York), and British Design and Art Direction (London).

Diti frequently lectures on design topics, serves as a faculty advisor at design schools, and judges international competitions in her field.

KYLE MEYER

Kyle Meyer is an interactive designer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Meyer has been the Lead User Experience Designer for Clockwork Active Media Systems and is currently the Director of Interactive Design for AIGA Minnesota. His work has been featured in publications such as; Web Design Index by Content 4 and .Net Magazine. Meyer also writes for Astheria, a personal blog that focuses on the web and user experience.

STEFAN MUMAW

Stefan Mumaw is the Creative Director and Provider of All That Rocks at Reign, a Kansas City-based ad agency. He has authored five books, the most recent being “Chasing the Monster Idea” which examines the characteristics shared between truly monstrous creative ideas. Previously, he co-authored Caffeine for the Creative Team and Caffeine for the Creative Mind with Wendy Lee Oldfield, along with Redesigning Websites and Simple Websites. He has spoken at numerous creative industry gatherings over the years and been known to embarrass himself and those around him if given the opportunity.

ERIC RODENBECK

Eric Rodenbeck is Stamen’s founder and creative director. He has been working in and on and around interactive design since 1997, working to extend the boundaries of online media and live information visualization.

Eric led the interactive storytelling and data-driven narrative effort at Quokka Sports, illustrated and designed at Wired Magazine and Wired Books, and was a co-founder of the design collective Umwow. He is a sought-after speaker and has lectured and spoken at Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Southern California, numerous O’Reilly technology conferences, Esther Dyson’s PC Forum, OFF in Barcelona, Lift in Jeju, South Korea, and South by Southwest, among others.