WORLDWIDEWEB Washington | Speakers

		Speakers Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Caroline H. Little Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Tim Ruder American Advertising Federation (AAF) Wally Snyder AKQA Brendan DiBona Avenue A \| Razorfish Brian Crooks Discovery Channel Stefan Poulos Fleishman-Hillard David Wickenden ID Society Adam Berkowitz Interactive Strategies Bruce Namerow Ketchum John Ryan Modem Media Laura Agostini Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide John Bell Pappas Group Anthony Pappas Q-Industries Tim Neill R/GA Kip Voytek Sapient Bill Goldstein Threespot Media David Belman
		An agency for the digital age, serving Fortune 500 companies and world-class brands. R/GA transforms the way customers interact with brands by creating user-centric experiences that sell products, engage customers, and build brands across channels. For over 25 years R/GA has been harnessing emerging technologies with innovative creative thinking to make new modes of brand building and deepen customer relationships with brands. The R/GA model develops campaigns that go beyond the storytelling ideas and bring ways to engage customers and transform the way they interact with our clients' brands. Partial list of clients: Avaya, Bank of America, Bed Bath & Beyond, Circuit City, Hilton, IBM, Levi's, Merck, Nestle, Nike, Nokia, NYSE, Sharp, Smithsonian Institute, Target, and Verizon. www.rga.com Kip Voytek, Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Interactive Design Kip is responsible for leading and managing R/GA's innovative and globally respected interaction design (ID) department. He heads a team of user-centric interaction designers focused on systematic design: the establishment of structured design systems for information architecture, navigation and user experience. The design systems lead to more usable and consistent brand experiences, providing the groundwork and flexibility that enable integrated communication across multiple customer channels. In May 2005, Voytek returned to R/GA from Digitas, where he oversaw the development of its Interaction Design group and worked on strategic online initiatives for clients such as AOL, Microsoft and Safeway. Voytek first came to R/GA in 1999, where he was an Executive Producer on Nike and excelled on pioneer ID projects that included Ellis Island, the original global standards for ibm.com and breakthrough e-commerce applications for BedBathandBeyond.com. Over his career, he has won dozens of awards from some of the most prestigious competitions, including the One Show Interactive and Cyberlions. Voytek began his career as a game designer and writer at Engineering Animation, Inc. (EAI) and Byron Preiss Multimedia, developing games, characters and scripts for licensed and original properties.