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At InfoCamp, most sessions are given by the participants (that means you). But to kick things off each morning, we’re bringing in a couple of speakin’ superstars! This year, our keynote speaker on Saturday will be Axel Roesler, and our plenary speaker on Sunday will be Vanessa Fox.

Axel Roesler is an Assistant Professor for Interaction Design at the Division of Design at the University of Washington School of Art. He is also affiliated with the Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, and is a founding member of the UW’s Human-Computer Interaction and Design Coalition. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Systems Engineering with a specialization in Human-Centered Design from The Ohio State University. He also holds an M.F.A. in Industrial Design. His research interests include the interactive, visual, and dynamic display of information and the impact of innovation in everyday life. Areas of application are information visualization, coordination of perspectives on data, and user experience design.

Vanessa Fox, called a “cyberspace visionary” by Seattle Business Monthly, is an expert in understanding customer acquisition from organic search. She shares her perspective on how this impacts marketing and user experience at ninebyblue.com and provides authoritative search-friendly design patterns for developers at janeandrobot.com. She’s also an entrepreneur-in-residence with Ignition Partners, Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land, and host of the weekly podcast Office Hours. She previously created Google’s Webmaster Central, which provides both tools and community to help website owners improve their sites to gain more customers from search and was instrumental in the sitemaps.org alliance of Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Live Search. She is a new member of the MSIM/Informatics Advisory Board at the UW Information School.

We are so excited for Vanessa and Axel to bring their unique perspectives to InfoCamp. As in years past, our invited speakers come from the forefront of academia and business. They will share insights from disciplines that are related to user experience, user centered design, and usability. We believe that interdisciplinary collaboration creates the best experience, both for the professionals who engage in the process, and for the end users of the systems they create. Come be a part of the interdisciplinary alchemy that is InfoCamp -– 300 heads are better than one!