Kevin Lamping is a Front-end Engineer at Four Kitchens where he builds web apps using AngularJS and, when not playing with his kids, dabbles in scale model building, tabletop gaming and gardening.

Kate has always been good at getting people excited and organized, so she made it into her work. She’s part human megaphone, part nerdy wordsmith, part intrepid chaos-into-order maker. She founded her a la carte agency, CleverKate, in 2008 to great success, most of which she attributes to being able to deliver all of the elements of an agency, but without the high price or politics.

In the past few years, Kate has worked on a product launch as big as the iPhone itself, a high-profile Congressional campaign, transforming a television station, editing a New York Times bestseller, a magazine column of her own, coworking space launches, restaurant openings, new apps, six book launches, a feature film, ten small business launches, an international art show, dozens of large and small events, and a number of charitable projects. Her titles have included publicist, writer, editor, producer, website beautifier, communications director, life coach, blogger, opinionated consultant, content strategist, truth teller, hell raiser and countless others. She has also (accidentally, but enthusiastically) become the poster lady for entrepreneurship; speaking about charging what you’re worth, making the leap to freelancing, being candidly honest, and balance in work and life.

Michael Metts is a Chicago-based content strategist / copywriter at Wolfram and co-owner of Metts Photo. His journalism training and experience has led him to believe that great UX work involves listening and telling a story, in that order.

Prior to joining Wolfram, Michael was a content strategist at the Free Methodist Church – USA where he worked on web content and processes that served over 1000 churches. He has spoken previously at Confab Central as well as smaller workshops and training sessions.

Scott Kubie is a designer from Des Moines, Iowa. As a consultant, speaker, and workshop facilitator, Scott helps individuals and teams better understand how their tools, processes, and principles affect the quality of their products and communication.

As head nerd and founder of Content Nerds Des Moines, he helps organize monthly meetups of like-minded web and design professionals in Des Moines, and organized Des Moines’ first World Information Architecture Day event in 2014.

Scott has spoken and led workshops at events including the Information Architecture Summit, the Web Conference at Penn State, the University of Illinois Web Conference, and MinneWebCon. He recently delivered the keynote address at HighEdWeb Michigan.