Kerry Bodine
CEO
Kerry Bodine’s book, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business, helps leaders understand the financial benefits of great customer experiences — and how to deliver them. In 2014, she founded Bodine & Co., a consulting firm that blends human-centered design with AI strategy to help organizations innovate and adapt. She’s a sought-after keynote speaker at conferences and corporate events worldwide, inspiring leaders to see change as an opportunity to deepen the value they provide. Kerry’s insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, and USA Today. She holds a master’s degree in human-computer interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.
Dan Saffer
Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Saffer is an Assistant Professor of the Practice at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, a product design leader, and the author of four books: Designing Devices (2011), Designing Gestural Interfaces (2008), Designing for Interaction (2006, 2009) and the best-selling Microinteractions (2013).
Since 1995, he's designed devices, apps, websites, wearables, appliances, automotive interiors, services, social networks, and robots. He’s worked at and for such companies as Twitter, Smart Design, Samsung, Jawbone, CNN, Philips, and Microsoft — and was most recently Head of Product Design at Flipboard.
He graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a Master’s in Design, Interaction Design.