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=== Main speaker introductions=== | |||
*Jay Sullivan | |||
**Jay Sullivan is Vice President, Mobile at Mozilla Corporation. Jay has more than twenty years of experience in the software industry, most recently as co-founder and VP of Products at PocketThis, a mobile software applications and tools provider. He has also held management and software engineering positions at Oracle, Information Resources and Firefly Network. Jay has been granted three U.S. patents for his work on mobile software and personalization. Jay is a graduate of Yale University. | |||
*Aza Raskin | |||
**Aza gave his first talk on user interface at age 10 and got hooked. At 17, he was talking and consulting internationally; at 19, he coauthored a physics extbook because he was too young to buy alcohol; at 21, he started drinking lcohol and co-founded Humanized. Two years later, Aza founded Songza.com, a minimalist music search engine that had over a million song plays during it's first week of operation. After Humanized was sucked into Mozilla, Aza became ead of User Experience for Mozilla Labs, helping to foster projects like biquity and the Concept Series. | |||