Nathan Shedroff

Nathan Shedroff is the chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA. This program prepares next-generation leaders with a vision of business as sustainable, meaningful, ethical, profitable, and truly innovative. The program unites the perspectives of systems thinking, integrative thinking, sustainability, and new tools for leadership into a holistic framework.

 

He is a pioneer in Experience Design, Interaction Design and Information Design, speaks and teaches internationally, and is a serial entrepreneur. His many books include: Experience Design 1.1, Making Meaning, Design is the Problem, and the upcoming Make It So.

 

He holds an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School and a BS in Industrial Design from Art Center College of Design. He worked with Richard Saul Wurman at TheUnderstandingBusiness and, later, co-founded vivid studios, a decade-old pioneering company in interactive media and one of the first Web services firms on the planet. vivid’s hallmark was helping to establish and validate the field of information architecture, by training an entire generation of designers in the newly emerging Web industry.

 

Nathan was nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award in 1994 and 1999 and a National Design Award in 2001.

 

 

Associate Professor Anthony Robins

Dept of Computer Science
Otago University
Dunedin

Anthony Robins has a background in psychology (University of Canterbury, NZ) and cognitive science (University of Sussex, UK). He has been with the Computer Science Department at the University of Otago since 1989, and is currently an Associate Professor. His research focuses on artificial neural network models of human memory, and on novice programmers and the process of learning a first programming language. He has taught novice programmers for 20 years. He has been involved with curriculum and teaching related issues at many levels, from high school, to the department, to Otago's Teaching and Learning Plan, to international working groups. He has participated in two large scale international studies of novice programmers, and was the co-organiser of one of them - Building Research in Australasian Computing Education (BRACE).