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Mind Apivessa is Product Designer at Facebook, Product Designer & Aspiring Design Ethicist. Formerly Co-Host and Producer at Design Picnic, Experience Designer at IBM Design.

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Mind Apivessa

I am a Research Scientist in the Facebook Blockchain team based in London. My research interests centre on networked and distributed systems, particularly in the context of security and measurement. My key areas of research include blockchains, information control, Internet measurement, and malware and intrusion detection. I have a long-standing research interest in characterizing various forms of information control (e.g., censorship, discrimination and misinformation) to enable transparency and accountability; for this work I was named to MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35.

I was a co-founder and senior researcher at Chainspace, a scalable smart contracts platform. I worked on the security, performance and applications of blockchains as a postdoc with George Danezis and Sarah Meiklejohn as part of the EU DECODE and EPSRC Glass Houses projects. I received my Ph.D. degree (Characterization of Internet Censorship from Multiple Perspectives) from the University of Cambridge in 2017 under the supervision of Jon Crowcroft (and co-supervised by Steven Murdoch, Vern Paxson, and Ross Anderson) where I was an Honorary Cambridge Trust Scholar, and was awarded the Mary Bradburn Scholarship by the British Federation of Women Graduates for my research work. I collaborated with ICSI (UC Berkeley), and made research contributions to NSF projects on developing empirical basis for censorship and socio-economic perspectives on Internet security. I also worked on Intrusion Detection Systems (Bro), and wrote an open-source software for botnet detection (BotFlex). I received my Master's degree in Computer and Communication Security from National University of Science and Technology, Pakistan in 2013 for which I was awarded the President's Gold Medal.

Shehar Bano

Jason Leimgruber is Product + Design at Metaplex, leader with over 15 years of experience delivering high performing user experiences, information architecture, and product thinking for global brands and social networks.

I’ve designed and shipped mission critical projects for global ecommerce brands, social networks and machine learning startups, created award winning websites, led teams designing novel interaction systems in virtual reality, significantly increased revenue, led research, managed designers and prototypers, and learned a ton along the way.

Jason Leimgruber

VP Product for Blockchain at Facebook, board member at Strava. Former VP Product at Instagram & Twitter. Love Elizabeth Weil, ultramarathons, kids, cats, math.

Kevin Weil was the Head of Product at Instagram, overseeing consumer and monetization products. Prior to Instagram, Kevin was the SVP of Product at Twitter, overseeing product development and design across Twitter's consumer and ad products, as well as Vine and Periscope. Between 2010 and 2014, he led product development for Twitter's advertising platform, as well as the development of Fabric. Before joining Twitter in 2009, he was the first employee at web media startup Cooliris, working in user growth and analytics. He also worked worked at municipal wireless network provider Tropos Networks, Microsoft Research, and in a past life as a Physics Ph.D. Student, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

Kevin graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a B.A. In Mathematics and Physics, and holds an M.S. in physics from Stanford.

Kevin Weil

Vanessa Slavich is Partner at cLabs. Designing experiences, shaping Celo.

I am passionate about research to understand needs and co-creating solutions that allow more equity in systems and society.

In my current role, I lead the Experience Team, focused on awakening the Celo movement in every individual through a combination of user research, design, brand, storytelling, events, community, communications, and culture. To date, 39 team members have collected 105 insights through 202 1:1 interviews in 18 cities across 7 countries—all of which helps us build with our users, not for them.

I received my Masters in Interaction Design with a focus on social impact and, prior to Celo, worked with the United Nations OCHA’s Centre for Humanitarian Data and the Kapor Center for Social Impact. Earlier in my career, I worked at Apple and Square, recruiting the early iOS team at Apple and helping Square scale from 70 to 2,000 employees. I'm applying all of the lessons learned around inclusion and belonging to the culture, community, and products we're building at Celo.

Vanessa Slavich

Patrícia Estevão, UX designer and consultant. Focused on improving user security and privacy.

I'm researching and implementing human empowering technologies at paralelo lab.
I focus on UX to improve user security and privacy.
I take a special liking to creating infographics.
I'm very interested in Bitcoin and love doing work related to its technology.
The last 2 items were combined in a project called bitcoindesigned.
Besides being a web designer, I'm also a novice programmer.
My university education was actually on Environmental Engineering.

Patricia Estevao

Lili Feyerabend, Product Designer based in Berlin. Some design bits in Ethereum, ETHBerlin, Görli testnet, Radi.cards, Arweave and more. Loiter all the way at MetaCartel. Currently, designing nice things at PoolTogether.

She is a full-stack product designer specialized in fintech and decentralized applications. Create logic out of chaos + refine a human-centric design strategy + design products people love.

Lili Feyerabend

Thianh Lu, VP Design and Development at Blockchain.com. Formerly, CEO and Co-Founder at Tsukemen (acq. by Blockchain).

He has multiple experiences, from startups to larger companies, with building product, design, and user experience - while also being a venture backed founder and entrepreneur.

Thianh Lu

Product Designer, Blockchain at Facebook. I'm originally from France, grew up in a tiny village of ~20 people! I discovered UI Design by accident at University, then joined a web agency for 2 years, followed by a few startups, and eventually moved in the US for Facebook.

I talked once in a podcast called Design Details, I love my job, travel, french food basketball, and Ted Mosby.

Robin Clediere

Matt Hussey is Editorial Director at NEAR Foundation, an award-winning London based writer, editor, content creator and photographer. He tells stories in subjects as diverse as technology, lifestyle, blockchain, human interest and investigative pieces including dementia, and bare-knuckle fighting. 

Currently I head up NEAR Protocol's content strategy. NEAR is a new type of cryptocurrency that's designed to make building, learning and creating in crypto as simple as using the web. My role is to help accelerate this strategy. 

Previously I was the co-founder of Decrypt, a new media platform backed by ConsenSys. We produced simple, easy to understand news, features, interviews, and content that all help to accelerate people's understanding and adoption of blockchain.

I also work on a freelance basis for a number of companies and publications helping them tell better stories as both a content strategist and content creator. 

Over the past 15 years, I have written for The Daily Telegraph, Yahoo, TechCrunch, Huffington Post, GQ, Wired, Men's Health and ShortList. 

I've also occupied senior editorial roles in a number of prestigious online publications. I was previously the Editor-in-Chief of The Next Web - a technology website with more than 10 million page impressions a month. Here I oversaw all editorial on the site, developed relationships with publishers and bloggers, and wrote daily and weekly stories on the day's big tech themes. I grew audience numbers by 30% in nine months, created more efficient workflows and defined a tone-of-voice that was previously lacking. 

As a content strategist and content creator, I have worked on campaigns for a number of major brands including Adidas, Diesel, Wikipedia and HSBC. 

As a photographer I've had my work published in The Daily Mail, The Metro, Huffington Post and more. I have worked with Uber, Nestle and Absolut Vodka brands. 

Specialties: magazines, men's lifestyle, male issues, technology, gadgets, human interest, current affairs, culture, art, film, music, copywriting, future trends, author, design

Mind Apivessa

Product Designer at Facebook.

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