Tent Talks by Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps interviews Nicole Maynard, Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital Americas in Chicago. Nicole is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about the remaining flexible while testing prototypes.

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About Nicole Maynard

Nicole Maynard is a Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital creating solutions that improve the way commercial lending teams work and use data to manage their growth. She got her start in graphic, information and interaction design and had been performing user research well before realizing it was an actual thing. Her work has been published nationally and has won various design awards.

Nicole has recently taken the helm as the president of the Chicago chapter of UXPA (User Experience Professionals Association) and is a purveyor of health and nutrition. She has a possibly unhealthy love of birds, but don't ever tell her that.

Follow Nicole on Twitter as @punkynixter

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

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About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Jonathan Ozeran, VP of Product at Zest Health in Chicago. Jonathan is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how he's managed prototyping hardware and software for dog collars with a globally dispersed team.

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Jonathan Ozeran

Jonathan is a product designer, software engineer, team builder and startup evangelist who enjoys contributing to the growth of the Chicago and Detroit startup communities.

In his current role, Jonathan serves as VP, Product at Zest Health, a Chicago-based start-up that is reinventing the healthcare experience for its members via mHealth innovation. Backed by Lightbank and 7wire Ventures, Zest’s dual focus on healthcare innovation and consumerism is deeply engrained in the company’s DNA. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Lecturer at Northwestern University where he teaches mobile application design and prototyping and also serves as Technical Director and Co-Founder at WÜF (formerly Ridogulous Labs).

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Kamaria Campbell, Information Architect & User Experience Design consultant at IBM in Chicago. Kamaria is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how to manage all the many requests that can be made of a prototype and the prototyper.

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About Kamaria Campbell

Kamaria is a Chicago-based User Experience Professional, currently working at IBM as an Information Architect. Kamaria began her career in UX as a Usability Analyst for 3 years and made the shift to Information Architecture and Design in 2013. For the past year, she has worked on projects requiring prototyping websites, mobile phone, and tablet applications using tools like Balsamiq and Axure. While the design varies each time, Kamaria has found that the steps leading up to prototyping are often similar.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Ross Belmont, Chief Experience Officer of Chicago-based Appiphony. Ross is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about the pitfalls his team has run into as they made the move to interactive prototypes.

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About Ross Belmont

Ross Belmont gave up a life of code to build the design practice at Appiphony, a Chicago-based consultancy focused on Salesforce.com apps.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Brett Schilke, the Chief Instigator for Chicago non-profit. Brett is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how kids can use 3D printing and the design process to prototype change for the future.

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About Brett Schilke

Brett Schilke is an education designer, storyteller, and self-proclaimed man-of-making-things-happen. His work as an educator, researcher, and community organizer has taken him to eight countries across three continents, including a decade in US-Russian citizen diplomacy and educational development and three years leading community impact initiatives for a private university in Siberia. Brett is now the co-founder and "Chief Instigator" of IDEAco, a Chicago-based nonprofit working to empower communities of Changemakers around the world.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Ben Lister of the design and front end development teams at Sprout Social. Brandon is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how Sprout Social uses prototyping as part of their business.

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About Ben Lister

Ben Lister is part Designer, part Developer and all about User Experience. He built his first website at age 13 (yes, on GeoCities) and hasn’t looked back since. Ben works at Sprout Social on the design and front-end teams prototyping and building products used by thousands of brands and agencies daily. Ben is also an avid White Sox, Sports Car, Running and Craft Beer enthusiast who lives in Chicago with his wife Erin and a rambunctious three year old Whippet named Devo.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Brandon Satrom, Director of Product Management for Telerik in Austin, TX. Brandon is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how proper prototyping can be used to eliminate design specs.

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About Brandon Satrom

Brandon Satrom (@BrandonSatrom) is the Director of Product Management for Telerik, the world's greatest developer tools company. An unabashed lover of the open web, Brandon loves to talk about HTML, JavaScript, CSS, open source and whatever new shiny tool or technology has distracted him from that other thing he was working on. Brandon has spoken at national, international and online events, and he loves hanging out with and learning from passionate designers and developers. He is the author of two books, the latest being "Building Polyfills" from O'Reilly. Brandon lives in Austin, TX with his wife, Sarah, and three sons, Benjamin, Jack and Matthew.

Follow Brandon on Twitter as @BrandonSatrom.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Marina Lin, Senior Interaction Designer for Mobile Apps at Cars.com in Chicago, IL. Marina is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about how multiple techniques and stages of prototyping can be used in the design process.

Don't wait another moment! Register for Prototype Camp here: http://2014.prototypecamp.com/

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About Marina Lin

Marina Lin is a Senior Interaction Designer for Mobile Apps at Cars.com where she uses Axure for prototyping Android and iOS apps. She holds a Master’s in Information Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has recently contributed a chapter to the textbook "Negotiating Cultural Encounters: Narrating Intercultural Engineering and Technical Communication." Her work has also appeared in Boxes and Arrows, Smashing Magazine, User Experience Magazine, and Business Communication Quarterly.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Will Hacker, Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital Americas in Chicago, IL. Will is presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about the pitfalls that can happen when you take your prototype out of the office and into the real world.

Don't wait another moment! Register for Prototype Camp here: http://2014.prototypecamp.com/

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About Will Hacker

Will Hacker is a senior UX professional and the author of Mobile Prototyping With Axure 7. He spent two and a half years working exclusively on mobile design, prototyping, and usability testing at Cars.com. He also has written about mobile experience design and prototyping for Boxes and Arrows, Smashing Magazine, and UX Booth, and is a frequent speaker at design events in Chicago. Will is a Lead Interaction Designer at GE Capital, where he works on multi-device designs for commercial lending software.

Follow Will on Twitter at @willhacker or visit his website at willhacker.net.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Jon Hadden, the founder of NiceUX, a user experience design and development consultancy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jon will be presenting at Prototype Camp on September 13th, 2014 about Communicating with Flexible Documentation.

Don't wait another moment! Register for Prototype Camp here: http://2014.prototypecamp.com/

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About Jon Hadden

Jon Hadden is the founder of NiceUX, a user experience design and development consultancy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In his 12 years of designing, coding, speaking, and writing, Jon has produced usable products and services for millions across the globe. He’s a volunteer with Boxes and Arrows, guest speaker with the University of Minnesota Design program, and has been lucky enough to have worked with Happy Cog, Yahoo!, and space150.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Fred Beecher, an Axure fanatic (and perhaps a bit of a legend), a grower of UX Designers through his UX apprenticeship program at The Nerdery in Minneapolis, and a regular contributor to the UX Design community through a variety of articles and presentations. Fred was the closing keynote for Prototype Camp 2013 and is talking to us about a whole bunch of things around prototyping and Prototype Camp.

Don't wait another moment! Register for Prototype Camp here: http://2014.prototypecamp.com/

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About Fred Beecher

Fred Beecher has been working in User Experience since 1998. In that time he’s seen UX mature from a field struggling to prove its value to one driving an explosion of innovation and economic growth. To help feed the ever-increasing demand this explosion has sparked, Fred designed and implemented the UX apprenticeship program he currently manages at The Nerdery in Minneapolis, MN. Fred is an established contributor in the UX world. In 2007, he authored the first official Axure training program, which he ran until 2012. He has written numerous articles and blog posts on prototyping, iterative design, and UX career development, and he has spoken on these topics at design conferences worldwide. His face is also covered with pie.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago.

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!

Chicago Camps interviews Doc Waller, an award-winning stage performer turned creative entrepreneur--he's performed with New York City--and regional theatres, national television, TEDx stages, and so much more! He also frequently helps others get on stage, as performers or presenters, and he's talking to Chicago Camps about speaking at conferences.

Don't wait another moment! Submit your presentation idea to Prototype Camp here: http://2014.prototypecamp.com/talk-proposal.html

About Doc Waller

Doc Waller is an award-winning stage performer turned creative entrepreneur with inspiration to spare! Every ounce of his work is about inspiring people and creating moments that provide people with the ambition to explore their possibility. Alongside being a veteran of the United States Air Force, his rewarding, professional experiences span from performing with NYC & regional theatres, national television, independently produced performances, work with professional dance companies, TEDx stages, national Emcee work for prominent brands & organizations, teaching artist projects, production-side work at respected talent agencies & NY theatres, founding his own Alabama nonprofit Arts organization, curriculum/workshop development for k-12 schools & universities across the southeast, and a long list of other creative endeavors.

About Chicago Camps

Chicago Camps, LLC ([chicagocamps.org][5]) was founded in 2012. They plan multiple low cost, high-value events primarily in Chicago..

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"Gotta Go" music written and produced and performed by Christian Lane* | https://soundcloud.com/clane01 | @christianlane01

*Troy Luccketta on drums

Simplecast - Publish your podcasts the easy way at Simplecast.fm.

About Tent Talks

Chicago Camps hosts irregularly scheduled Tent Talks with people from all across the User Experience Design community, and beyond. Who really likes limits, anyway--If it's a cool idea, we'd love to hear about it and share it!

What is a Tent Talk? That's a great question, we'd love to tell you.

Tent Talks are short-form in nature, generally lasting from 10-20 minutes (ish) in a recorded format--we like to think of them as "S'mores-sized content" because that's pretty on-brand. Tent Talks can be a presentation on a topic, a live Q&A session about the work we do, or the work around the work we do, or really just about anything--we don't want to limit ourselves, or you.

You should send along an idea or topic of your own so we can learn from you, as well! You don't have to be a published author or a professional speaker on a circuit to be good at your job, so please, put yourself forward, and let's have some fun, talk, and share your experience with others!