SIGCHI.be event: Mark Vanderbeeken, We're All Hackers Now

Over the last few decades, digital technology has become pervasive in our lives. And we like it. We have become dependent and accustomed to it, and have turned ourselves into sophisticated technology users and tinkerers, adapting these tools to a great variety of human needs. And we are just starting out. The open source hardware revolution has hardly kicked off. What does this mean for emerging markets and the future web of things?

Schedule

19:00 - 20:00 "We're All Hackers Now", part 1
20:00 - 20:30 break with food and drinks
20:30 - 21:30 "We're All Hackers Now", part 2 (with Q&A)

About Mark Vanderbeeken

Mark Vanderbeeken is a founding partner of Experientia, an international user experience design consultancy based in Turin, Italy.

Experientia helps companies and organisations to innovate their products, services and processes by putting people and their experiences first. The company is highly regarded for its thorough integration of extensive user and context understanding with high-level design and prototyping activities.

At Experientia he is involved with general management, project supervision, editorial contributions, and strategic communications.

Prior to starting Experientia in 2005, he was communications manager of Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (Ivrea, Italy), European communications coordinator for the World Wide Fund for Nature (or WWF, Copenhagen, Denmark), marketing director of Gwathmey Siegel & Associates Architects (New York, USA), and chief press officer of Antwerp 93, Cultural Capital of Europe (Antwerp, Belgium).

He is the author of Experientia's successful experience design blog Putting People First, has set up a professional blog on e-democracy, and writes for Core77, the well-known USA-based online design magazine. He is also a contributing editor at Interactions Magazine.

He studied visual and cognitive psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium and obtained a Master's Degree in cognitive psychology at Columbia University, New York.

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The venue

Namahn
Grensstraat 21
B-1210 Brussels
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