Schedule

Wednesday April 6

9:00 o 12:00

• workshop

  Transfer Your Skills & Pay The Bills

  • Dr. Nashlie Sephus

    Tech Evangelist for Amazon AI, Amazon

  • Amber Johnson Avery

    Founder, Owner, JXN Tech District, The Kidult Life

1:30 o 4:30

• workshop

  Introduction to W3C Accessible Rich Internet Accessibility (ARIA) and Screen Readers

  • Jon Gunderson

    Coordinator of DRES Accessible IT Group, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Thursday April 7

8:30 o 9:30

• keynote

  Design Sprint

  • John Zeratsky

    Co-Founder, General Partner, Character

9:45 o 10:45

• The Power of Diverse Connection

  • Bryana Holcomb

    Senior Inclusion Specialist, CDW

• Successful web collaborations take all kinds

  • Nate Baxley

    Assistant Director for Web Services, University of Illinois - College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

  • Melissa Waller

    Director of Web Development, University of Illinois - College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences

  • Matt Sharkey

    Front End Developer, Office of Strategic Marketing & Branding, UIUC

• Time Management for Creatives: Seize the Day Before the Day Seizes You

  • Todd Spinner

    Academic Advisor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• When Things Go Wrong: The User Experience of Error Handling

  • Andrew Malek

    Lead Software Engineer, Bigtincan

11:00 o 12:00

• Death to draining meetings: UX strategies for engaging online gatherings

  • Allie Ofisher

    Lead UX Designer, Pixo

• Deconstructing content to create consistency across social media platforms

  • Lea Peck

    Assistant Director of Social Media, Public Affairs

• Information Architecture and the Coming Digital Renaissance

  • Daniel O'Neil

    Information Architect, The Understanding Group

• Management - Who wants to do that?

  • Chris Hopkins

    Engineering Manager, Pixo

1:30 o 2:30

• Building Trust and Community on Instagram

  • Hope Linker

    Social Media Manager + Consultant, Hope Linker - Creative Studio

• Mercury Editor: Effortless drag-and-drop publishing in Drupal

  • Justin Toupin

    CEO, Aten Design Group

• Scaling Design with Design Systems and Web Components

  • Cory Rylan

    Staff UI Engineer, Crylan Software

• Usability Audit: How to QA Your User Experience

  • Sami Weber-Schrank

    Product Design Architect, NVISIA

  • Megan Heller

    UX Product Architect, NVISIA

2:45 o 3:45

• keynote

  Building Community That Matters: PechaKucha Storytelling Workshop

  • CUDO

    Champaign-Urbana Design Organization

5:00 o 7:00

• social

  Networking Reception at I Hotel

Friday April 8

8:30 o 9:30

• keynote

  Building a Tech State of Mind

  • Dr. Nashlie Sephus

    Tech Evangelist for Amazon AI, Amazon

9:45 o 10:45

• Identity Crisis: Examining the Cookieless Future for Marketing

  • Noor Naseer

    VP, Media Innovations + Technology, Basis Technologies

• Podcasting 101

  • Erin Spain

    Principal Creative Director, Studio Spain Media Group, LLC

• The State of Digital Marketing in Higher Ed

  • Daniella Nordin

    Director of Web Strategy, Carnegie

  • Alexa Poulin

    Chief Digital Officer , Carnegie

• Web Accessibility Concepts for Beginners

  • Jon Gunderson

    Coordinator of DRES Accessible IT Group, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

  • Lori Lane

    IT Accessibility Specialist in Universal Design, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

11:00 o 12:00

• Be Curious, Not Judgmental: How Cooperation, Flexibility, and Kindness Can Lead to Kick-Butt Results

  • Lisa Bralts

    Associate Director of Marketing, Siebel Center for Design

  • Jamie Hedrick

    Graphic Design Coordinator, Siebel Center for Design

• Leveraging Single Sign-On data to Deliver Customized Institutional Services

  • Ken Irwin

    Web Services Librarian, Miami University

• The Purposeful Innovator

  • Carnellia Ajasin

    CEO & Founder, Mind Katalyst

• UX Design for Web Developers

  • Haemin Ryu

    Software Developer, CirrusABS

1:15 o 2:15

• Accessibility in Your Design System

  • Joe Welinske

    Accessibility Director, U. Washington, Blink UX

• Authentic storytelling through user-generated content

  • Huan Song

    Assistant Director of Marketing & Communications, Department of Bioengineering at The Grainger College of Engineering

• Building a web component library: tools and techniques

  • Matt Sharkey

    Front End Developer, Office of Strategic Marketing & Branding, UIUC

• Rokwire

  • Bill Sullivan

    Professor & Director, Smart Healthy Community Initiative, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

  • Mel Fenner

    Associate Director, Health Technology Innovation, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

• Use plain language to make your web content inclusive for a diverse audience

  • Colette Aburime

    Collaboration Engineer, City of Minneapolis

  • Lynne Figg

    Collaboration Engineer, City of Minneapolis

2:30 o 3:30

• Brain surgeons use checklists and so should you

  • Jason Rambeck

    Lead Web Developer, Pixo

• More of You and Less of Me: Better Design Through Humility

  • Tyler Edwards

    Web & UI Designer, Pixo

• "What did you say?" Using tools to improve video captioning

  • Andrew Holsinger

    Extension Educator, University of Illinois Extension

• The What, Why and How of Web Stories

  • Maura Barone

    Fermilab (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), Head of Digital Communications

3:45 o 4:45

• keynote

  Reflections of Web Con: Attendee PechaKucha Showcase

  • CUDO

    Champaign-Urbana Design Organization