"Coming to Gel was one of the best things I've done in my entire life."
- Gel 2005 attendee, just after the final session
Thank you to everyone who participated in Gel 2005 - attendees, speakers, and Gel team! Together we made this, by far, the best Gel ever.
- Mark Hurst, Gel host
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Gel 2005 Recap
Gel Conference 2005
Thursday-Friday, April 28-29, 2005
New York City
Speakers:
Dee Breger, Photomicrographer, Drexel University
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Sona Chawla, Executive Vice President, Wells Fargo
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The Flying Karamazov Brothers - artists/thinkers/performers/jugglers
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Charles Gehring, Director, New Netherland Institute; researcher and translator, The Island at the Center of the World
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Mark Hurst (bio), conference host; founder, Good Experience, This Is Broken, Creative Good
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Theo Jansen, creator
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Ross Kauffman, co-director, co-producer, Born into Brothels, winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Documentary
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Yuri Lane, performer
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Bob Mankoff, Cartoon Editor, The New Yorker; author, "The Naked Cartoonist"
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Ron Pompei, Principal and CEO, Pompei A.D. (bio)
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Laurie Rosenwald - designer, illustrator; author, "New York Notebook"
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Alexandra Schwartz - Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art
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Barry Schwartz, professor, Swarthmore College; author, "The Paradox of Choice"
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Bruce Shapiro, Artist-in-Residence, Science Museum of Minnesota
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Russell Shorto, contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine; author, The Island at the Center of the World
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Rick Smolan, creator of the best-selling Day in the Life photography series; founder, Against All Odds Productions
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Charlie Todd, urban prankster
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Jimmy Wales, founder, Wikipedia; Director, Wikimedia Foundation
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...and appearing in a special video presentation...
Seth Godin, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and agent of change
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...and another special appearance by Digital Dan...
Dan Dubno, Producer and technologist, CBS News; creator, Gizmorama
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Hosts of Gel 2005 Day One - Thursday, April 28, 2005:
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Myra Alperson, Founder, NoshNews
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Doug Balder, Industrial Design Award gold medalist for his work on the Dinosaur Halls at the American Museum of Natural History, New York
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Jen Chung, Editor, Gothamist
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Michael Counts, CEO, Counts Media
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Jake Dobkin, Publisher, Gothamist
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Bob Knowling, CEO, New York City Leadership Academy; former CEO, Covad Communications
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Phil Mirvis, organizational psychologist; author, To the Desert and Back
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Ann Prewitt, Director of the Discovery Room, American Museum of Natural History, New York
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Cathy Salit, President and CEO, Performance of a Lifetime
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Phil Terry, CEO, Creative Good
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Monica Hernandez, from NYC design firm Studio Gaia
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Other Day One hosts possibly to be announced -
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Past Years
Gel 2004 Attendees
Who came to Gel 2004: List of Gel 2004 attendee organizations
Gel 2004 Speakers (Friday, April 30, 2004):
Andre Haddad, VP of User Experience and Design, eBay
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Bob Roberts, founder, Project Return; author, My Soul Said to Me
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Brian Collins, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy + Mather
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Christina Wodtke, Director of Design, Yahoo
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists
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David Bodanis, author
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David Greenberger, creator, Duplex Planet; assisted at Gel by pianist and composer Lee Feldman.
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Eloma Barnes, orator of Dr. Martin Luther King's speeches; manager, Homes for Black Children
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James Ludwig, Director of Design, Steelcase
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Maria Schneider, editor, Pathetic Geek Stories; staff writer, The Onion
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Mark Hurst (bio), conference host; founder, Good Experience, This Is Broken, Creative Good
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Phil Mirvis, organizational psychologist; author, To the Desert and Back
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Rodney Brooks, Director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab; author, Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
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Scott Heiferman, co-founder, Meetup.com and Fotolog.net
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Seth Goldman, co-founder, Honest Tea
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W. Russell Neuman, Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan; previously, senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
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Gel 2003 Attendees
Who came to Gel 2003: List of Gel 2003 attendee organizations
Gel 2003 Speakers
These were the speakers at the first Good Experience Live (Gel) conference on May 2, 2003 in New York City.
Sam Brown, founder and artist, explodingdog.com
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Stewart Butterfield, founder, the 5k contest, sylloge, Ludicorp
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Ze Frank, interactive artist and humorist, zefrank.com
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Mark Hurst (bio), conference host; editor, Good Experience; founder, Creative Good
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Prof. Ken Jackson, president of the New York Historical Society; professor of history and social sciences, Columbia University; leading New York City historian
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James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere" and others; see kunstler.com
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Pam Lewis, Director of Youth Programs, All Stars Project
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Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Products, Google
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Maryam Mohit, VP, UI Product Reviews, Amazon.com
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Elizabeth Peaslee, VP of Customer Experience, Travelocity.com
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Rev. Stephen Bauman, Senior Minister, Christ Church United Methodist, New York
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Rick Robinson, VP of Community Products, America Online
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Gillian Zoe Segal, photographer and author, New York Characters
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The Trachtenburg Family Slide Show Players (bio), famous musicians
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Andrew Zolli (bio), partner, Z + Partners
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Who came to Gel 2003: List of Gel 2003 attendee organizations
Most attendee titles were middle-to-high level: VP, director, senior product manager, senior interface designer, etc.
Confirmed journalists represented Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Wired Magazine, the New York Times, the Associated Press, Crain's, and others.
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