Speakers
Cole Mercer
Senior Product Manager, Listener Experience
SoundCloud
Cole Mercer is a Senior Product Manager at SoundCloud in Berlin, one of the world's largest music streaming services with several hundred million active users. Previously, Cole was a Product Manager at Bonobos in NYC, a web-focused retail clothing brand where he oversaw web and mobile products. Cole has also held roles as a Product Management course instructor at General Assembly in NYC, a freelance product consultant to over 10 companies, as well as full time positions in business and consumer technology companies such as Mass Relevance and Chasm.io. web / twitter / linkedin
Marián Škvarek
Founder
EASYCORE
Marián Škvarek is a founder of EASYCORE, a dynamic software startup based in Prague that aims to revolutionarize real estate market. Marian has background in theoretical computer science but dropped out from university in 2012 to start a company which has grown from idea to 40 customers in 7 countries and 20 team members since then and keeps growing at 200% YoY pace. Marian's key specialty is listening to people and transforming their problems into software solutions. web linkedin
Robbie McCorkell
User Interface Developer
Red Badger
Robbie is a web developer, specializing in front-end developerment. He builds user interfaces exactly the way the designers intended. He's been building large-scale React applications for over a year, and has recently been playing around a lot with React Native. McCorkell is also a organizer of the popular React Meetup in London, which meets once a month to share tips and tricks. twitter / linkedin
Brandon Velestuk
Design Director
Slack
Brandon Velestuk is the Design Director over at Slack, responsible for product design and branding across all platforms. He previously worked as the Creative Director of MetaLab, a web and interface design firm whose client list includes impressive names like TED, Disney, Walmart…and Slack! twitter / linkedin
J. Christian Andersen
CEO & Author
Relationwise
Christian is Cofounder and CEO of the tech company www.relationwise.com. Based in Copenhagen Denmark but with clients around the world. Expert in Net Promoter Score® methodology and author of two books; Recommended be the company people love to recommend and Naked Marketing a journey to the future of marketing. Christian is advocating for a new kind of business leaders who want not only to be the best in the world but also the best for the world. web / twitter / linkedin
Jana Schiffnerová
Head of HR, CEE
Ness Technologies
Manager and consultant with over a decade of experience and numerous completed projects in development and education in IT. She has worked in companies Elephant Orchestra and Logos, currently responsible for managing the work with people in the company Ness Technologies in the CEE region. Co-founded the School of Online Business, iCollege. linkedin
Morgan Tocker
MySQL Community Manager
Oracle
Morgan's life revolves around databases. After he joined the MySQL team in 2006, he's worked at many different companies, including Percony. He has now returned to MySQL (now owned by Oracle) as their community manager. You can find him blogging at tocker.ca. web / twitter / linkedin
Tobias Ahlin
Chief Designer
Lookback
Tobias spent the last few years as a product designer for Spotify and GitHub. He currently works on usability at Lookback, an app for mobile user testing. Although a designer at heart, he's been dabbling in web and iOS development (he created the word game SpellRush in his spare time). He frequently hosts waffle parties. web / twitter / linkedin
Sean Gaddis
Chief Value Creation Team
Rockaway
Sean Gaddis has been working in the online and e-commerce industry for more than 18 years. He was formerly the Global Head of Monetization at AVG and prior to that, he held senior marketing positions at both eBay.com and Skype. For the last 5 months, he’s been part of the team responsible for the explosive growth at the Rockaway Group, leading their Value Creation Team. linkedin
Šárka Štrossová
Director
WebExpo
Šárka is the heart and soul of WebExpo. She’s been flitting around WebExpo since 2010 as part of its organizational team, but she officially began running the conference from March 2015. She studied international business at the University of Economics in Prague before taking a job at EduFórum, where she organized events. She loves charts, coding, high heels, and soft serve ice cream from Světozor. And yes, in that exact order. web linkedin