Event: Good Experience Live (Gel) 2005, NYC, Apr 28-29

I wanted to invite everyone on AIGAExperienceDesign to Gel! Tomorrow, Thursday, is the 
last day for regular-price tickets.

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What: Gel (Good Experience Live) 2005
When: Thursday-Friday, April 28-29, 2005
Where: Equitable Theater, New York City
Info: http://www.goodexperience.com/gel 
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This, the third-annual Gel, is our biggest and best yet: Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia founder); 
Bob Mankoff (cartoon editor, the New Yorker); Barry Schwartz, author of "The Paradox of 
Choice"; the Flying Karamazov Brothers; Sona Chawla, EVP at Wells Fargo; and over a 
dozen others will talk about *experience* in all its forms.

The purpose of Gel is to explore what it means to create a good, meaningful, or authentic 
experience.

The theme is "good experience": how it's created, and what it means in art, society, media, 
community, business, and technology.

Attendee comments from past years: "Absolutely amazing", "outstanding", "brilliant".

Gel is the only conference of its kind, focusing on experience itself, rather on taxonomies 
or frameworks that only indirectly relate to experience. We all know a good experience 
when we see it; at Gel you'll hear the user's perspective, since (designers or not) we're all 
on the receiving end of experience most of the time.

Gel brings together over twenty eclectic speakers who are experts in a number of fields. 
Internet-related topics (on e-commerce, research, journalism) will be interwoven with 
offline topics (photography, performance art, education) to create a day focused on 
experience in all its forms.

Gel also brings together a community - *the* community - of people, practitioners, 
experts, and innovators who see their work and life through the lens of *experience*. 
 
Here are a few past Gel attendees:

Director, E-Commerce & Direct Marketing, A&E Television Networks
Director, Consumer Web Products, Google
Creative Director, Loews Corporation
Sr. Manager,  Design Services, Crayola
Group Manager, Windows User Experience, Microsoft
Head Of Design & Audience Insight, BBC News Interactive
Head of New Media Initiatives, Smithsonian American Art Museum
VP of User Experience and Design, eBay
VP, Web Services, AOL
Co-founder, Meetup.com
Entertainment Strategic Partnerships, eBay
Director, End User Advocacy, GlaxoSmithKline
Director of Internet Development, The Direct Marketing Association
Usability Manager, Travelocity
Information Architect, Usability Matters
VP,  Experience Architecture, Zentropy Partners
Information Architect, National Leisure Group
Sr. Information Architect, Fry,  Inc.
Director of Online Design, Thirteen/WNET New York
Senior User Experience Architect, HSBC Technology Services
Global Technology Correspondent, Reuters
Director, Sun.com Customer Experience, Sun Microsystems
VP Marketing, Bill Me Later
Grp Mgr.,  DSL Fulfillment Operations, Verizon Online

Tomorrow, Thursday March 31, is the last day for regular-price tickets - sign up now:
http://www.goodexperience.com/gel 

Mark Hurst 
Gel host
mark at goodexperience dot com
http://www.goodexperience.com/gel 






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