Made By Few Adds Big Names in Tech to Lineup

April 15, 2014

By Mark Carter

Little Rock tech conference Made By Few has added more big names in the tech world to its 2014 lineup.

MxF 2014 is scheduled for August 22-23 from the River Market District. Newly added speakers include Marc Hemeon of Google, Jeffrey Kalmikoff of Betable and Jina Bolton of Salesforce.

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Meanwhile, here's the official presser from Abbi at MxF:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Made by Few Brings Big Names in Technology to Little Rock

Contact: Abbi Siler, 501.786.3412 or abbi@madebyfew.com

There has been a ton of innovation and growth in the technology startup scene this past year. With pitch events, pop up competitions and general enthusiasm growing across the region, entrepreneurship has never been so sexy. Made by Few is now in its third year and is bringing a huge cast of speakers to the great state of Arkansas.

The two-day conference being held August 22-23rd in Little Rock already boasts great names like James Victore, Michael Parenteau, James White among others. This morning the team at Made by Few announced a new wave of speakers – some that will make your jaw drop:

  • Marc Hemeon, Senior UX Designer at Google, has been working on design products for YouTube, Chromecast, Google X and Google Analytics. Marc was also a designer at Digg and co-founded a startup named fflick which was acquired by Google in 2011. In addition, he is co-founder of the popular t-shirt site teefury.com.
  • Jeffrey Kalmikoff is head of design at Betable, a startup that enables any developer to create games where players can win real money. In 2011, he joined as the first employee after leading product and design at SimpleGeo, which was acquired by UrbanAirship. Previously, Jeffrey served as head of design and UX at Digg and was one of the early employees at Threadless, where he worked as Chief Creative Officer until 2008.
  • Jina Bolton is a Senior Product Designer with Salesforce where she enjoys creating beautiful user experiences. Previously, she worked with companies that include Apple, Engine Yard and Crush + Lovely. Jina is also co-author of two books: Fancy Form Design and The Art & Science of CSS. In her spare time, Jina organizes the San Francisco Sass meet up and leads Team Sass Design which is an open source task force that redesigned the Sass brand and website.

Made by Few will be held at the Ron Robinson Theater and there are only 300 seats available. Tickets are on sale now and include admission to each day of the event, the ‘Designed by Few’ competition, conference after-party, lunch and breakfast on both days and a conference t-shirt. In addition, there will be some pretty awesome giveaways throughout the day. Register online at http://madebyfew.com - tickets sell out fast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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