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Take the leap.

There’s a revolution brewing in the advertising and design industries. Creative professionals are escaping the cushy confines of Madison Ave for the greener pastures of startup-land.

The Art Directors Club is proud to host its quarterly speaker series, StartUP, to inspire creatives to follow their entrepreneurial passions.

This event is designed to bridge the gap between the creative industries and the startup community. And to connect you with the proper resources to bring your million dollar ideas to life.

Join us on Thursday, July 25th, 2013 from 6-9pm for the next installment of StartUP, and see why these brilliant creative leaders took the leap.

Speakers

  • Firat Parlak

    Chief Entrepreneurial Officer, Awesome

    Firat Parlak wakes up with one thing on his mind: startups. He’s been focused on building an entrepreneurial empire ever since he came to NYC from Istanbul at age 16. After cutting his teeth on the agency side, he founded 2 of his own startup companies. Firat is now the Chief Entrepreneurial Officer and driving force behind Awesome — a startup focused, hands-on creative agency that contributes well beyond design. Awesome has helped over 50 founders, including Udemy, RewindMe, and DateMySchool. Firat truly cherishes shepherding the first- timers through the entire process. He combines design expertise with product development, fundraising, and strategic planning to bring those entrepreneurs’ dreams to life.

  • John Ashenden

    Co-Founder, The BKRY and Founder,
    John With An H

    John is Co-Founder of platform proving ground The BKRY, which is currently focused on a new app Socialist. He also runs John With An H, a consultancy firm helping businesses reach their customers through objective-driven design and exceptional experience. His portfolio includes 6 years as SVP and Creative Director at Grooveshark, one of the largest on-demand music services, where he grew the product from a loose concept to an international audience of over 40 million. John’s time at Grooveshark also made him the creative force behind many first-to-market branded experiences that leveraged Grooveshark’s global appeal in conjunction with Fortune 500 brands.

  • Neil Brown

    Managing Director, Barnum

    Barnum helps entrepreneurs transform their inspiration into enterprise. They’re on a mission to help the pioneers of business challenge convention and forge a more sustainable 21st century economy. Neil’s experience ranges from large corporations to entrepreneurial ventures and involvement in diverse categories – consumer products, technology, life sciences, innovation, architecture, community development, film, art, music, and more. With a unique skill set that blends a passion for entrepreneurship, emerging markets, and creative strategy, Neil works directly with key stakeholders, startup executives and partners to crystalize and accelerate their vision.

  • Kate Oppenheim

    Founder, Piccolo
    Partner/Executive Producer, m ss ng p eces

    Kate Oppenheim is the founder of Piccolo.is and a partner and executive producer at m ss ng p eces. Since joining m ss ng p eces in 2010, she's been behind exciting work for Google Glass, GE, Levi's, American Express, Climate Reality Project, Behance and many others. Previously she led award-winning integrated marketing campaigns at Ogilvy. In 2012, Kate founded Piccolo.is with Nicholas Hall, which is a new online photo printing service. Beautiful and effective storytelling is the central pursuit of Kate's career.

  • Viktoria Harrison

    Creative Director, charity: water

    Viktoria leads the creative team at charity: water - a non-profit based in NYC. The organization works in 20 developing nations worldwide to bring people access to clean drinking water. charity: water is focused on two things: solving the water crisis in our lifetime, and reinventing charity for our generation. Viktoria has been with charity: water since their beginnings in the living room of a New York apartment, until now, having raised $100 million for clean water in six years. Viktoria's team works to inspire supporters through photo essays, stories, videos, strong graphic, product and UI design.

  • ADDITIONAL SPEAKERS
    TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON.

Previous Speakers

Previous Speakers

  • Cindy Gallop Emcee

    Founder, MakeLoveNotPorn
    and IfWeRanTheWorld

    Cindy started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year. She is the founder of IfWeRanTheWorld.com, a marketing platform (and Harvard Business School case study) that delivers Action Branding: "Feel it, do it, be it"; and of MakeLoveNotPorn.com, launched at TED 2009: "Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference." She has just launched MakeLoveNotPorn.tv in invitation-only beta. She speaks at events around the world and consults, describing her consultancy approach as, "I like to blow shit up. I am the Michael Bay of business."

  • Farrah Bostic

    Founder, The Difference Engine

    CFarrah Bostic is the founder of Brooklyn-based digital strategy and innovation research firm
    The Difference Engine. She was first a creative and then a strategist at some of the best agencies in the world (Wieden + Kennedy, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Digitas) on some of the most well-known brands in the world (Apple, Microsoft, Disney, Samsung, UPS). She ran innovation at Hall & Partners, and developed digital tools for online qualitative research as SVP, Consumer Immersion at OTX. Before starting The Difference Engine, she was VP Group Planning Director and mobile strategy lead at Digitas in New York.

  • Jared Cocken

    Chief Product Officer, Fitocracy

    Jared's passion is helping brands build products that bring meaningful change to people's lives. In a career that crosses from art into design, post-production, and film, this love affair began with the unboxing of a ZX81 in 1981. In 2011 he moved to Fitocracy from his 'first team' role as CD at The Wonderfactory, a New York based design agency that helps product companies like Apple, B&N, and Google; and content creators like Time, Hearst, and National Geographic reach new audiences. Fitocracy combines gamification and community into a social fitness network that aims to help millions of people reach their next level of fitness. Fitocracy has been a WeWork member since April 2010.

  • Matthew Manos

    CEO, verynice

    Matthew Manos is a social entrepreneur and business-design theorist who is dedicated to disrupting the way the design industry operates. He is the founder of verynice, and provides strategic leadership for the studio as CEO. Matthew has helped build over 300 brands in every sector and industry across the globe, and his studio works with a diverse clientele that range from Fortune 500 companies to small local shops. His work and ideas have been published in 100+ print and online venues internationally including Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Guardian, and Wired Magazine. He holds a BA in Design Media Arts from UCLA, and an MFA in Media Design from the Art Center College of Design.

  • Oscar G. Torres

    Co-founder, zenplaya Inc.

    Oscar runs Blubee Media out of Brooklyn, a development & design shop he founded after 6 years at Grey NY. He also oversees product development, design & branding at zenplaya Inc., which he co-founded in early 2012. Oscar gained a Masters from NYU-ITP and teaches digital art as an Adjunct Professor at C.U.N.Y. and S.U.N.Y. schools. Oscar is an internationally exhibited electronic artist. A hacker-at-heart, he's won Startup Weekend Mobile, Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon, & Photo Hack Day.

  • Pamela Castillo

    Co-founder, Market Publique

    Pamela Castillo co-founded & launched Market Publique in 2009, pioneering the concept of curated peer-to-peer marketplaces. Market Publique has been featured in Lucky Magazine, Harpers Bazaar, WWD, Daily Candy, Refinery 29, and more. Castillo earned an MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons School of Design. She has designed and developed websites and marketing campaigns for clients including Estee Lauder, InStyle, PEOPLE Magazine, NYLON Magazine, ESPN and The New Museum. She has also consulted for e-commerce and fashion startups such as Fashism, PlumAlley.co and Chloe & Isabel. Her concept of the merchandiser bar for Chloe & Isabel is patent pending.

  • Elizabeth Valleau

    Left: R/GA
    Started: Empire Mayonnaise Co.

    Elizabeth has quite the diverse background in advertising and design. From fashion branding in Hong Kong and Tokyo, to being an Art Director for Marc Ecko Enterprises, to launching brand experiences for Nintendo and Nike, to writing for Esquire and her own men's fashion blog The New Elizabethan - and most recently, a Creative Director stint at R/GA working on Google, Loreal, Mastercard, and Unilever. She recently left to pursue her own high-end mayonnaise company. See what she's got cooking up at Empire Mayo.

  • Brandon Burns

    Left: BBDO / Proximity China
    Started: Favorly / Badjer

    After leading creative teams at global agencies like BBDO, R/GA, MRM Worldwide, McCann, and Leo Burnett, Brandon went off to start his own venture: One Degree Labs. Their first product, Favorly.com, helps you connect with people who can help you, and find projects where you can lend a hand. They are set to release their second platform, Badjer, just in time for the September 20th event.

  • David Carson

    Left: Ogilvy & Mather
    Started: Heavy.com

    David was a Creative Director at Ogilvy, leading the team that launched IBM's E-Business. He left to co-found Heavy.com, a popular broadband entertainment site that has acted as a forum for thousands of internet cult videos. After running Heavy.com for ten years and building it into a network worth millions, David returned to Ogilvy as ECD in 2010. Now, David has another startup in the works, which he will unveil at our event on September 20th.

  • Maria Scileppi

    Left: Chicago Portfolio School, Y&R
    Started: Blue Fuzz

    Maria was an Art Director who became Director of Chicago Portfolio School. Two years ago, she left to pursue her own form of art - a technology platform that visualizes social interactions. The artifacts are motion graphics and high-resolution images that reveal a community around a specific event and moment in time. Her recent project, Journey Home, will visualize the emotional and physical journey to Burning Man in late August. It is a massive collaboration that will weave participant's stories, pictures, videos and GPS data into a collective story.

  • Keenan Cummings

    Left: VSA Partners, Johnson & Johnson Global
    Started: Wander

    Keenan had what some might consider a creative's dream job: he was lead designer for a New York agency, where he got to rebrand the Chicago Cubs, launch the Sony Experience Store, and work on brands like IBM, Converse, and Keihl's. But he wasn't fulfilled. He wanted to be more involved in the creation process, and build digital products from the ground up. So he joined forces with a friend and started Wander, which tracks the places you've been and the places you're connected to, and tells the living story of your travels.

  • Massimo Farina

    Left: Edelman, Filter Box Media
    Started: Static Pixels

    Massimo is a digital media strategist with a passion for combining art and technology. After co-founding Filter Box Media in 2008, organizing the Montreal Twestival in 2009, and most recently working as a Conversation Analyst for Edelman - not to mention, doing freelance design and photography the whole time - Massimo finally broke off on his own. He now focuses on creating business solutions that bring art, music and cool technologies to a larger stage. His most recent venture is an Instagram printing service called Static Pixels unlike anything that has existed before.

  • Viktor Venson

    Left: TBWA/Chiat/Day, 180LA, Stopp Inc.
    Started: No Right Brain Left Behind

    Viktor is not a creative, designer or writer. More-so an entrepreneur who knows design, can write, and invent. Hailing from Sweden, he has held posts with 180LA, TBWA/Chiat/Day, and most recently as a Creative Director with Stopp Inc. In 2011, he launched No Right Brain Left Behind - an innovation challenge asking the creative industries to re-think creativity in education. With over 300 concepts from 150 teams, things turned out well. He now spends most of his time building platforms for creatives to solve problems that matter.

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  • When:

    Thursday, July 25th, 2013
    6:00-9:00pm EST

  • Where:

    The Art Directors Club
    106 West 29th Street
    New York, NY 10001

WeWorkshop

The first 50 people to sign up for StartUP will get an exclusive invite to a workshop at an undisclosed WeWork location the afternoon of the event.

WeWorkshop:
Wednesday Workout With The Design Gym

The Design Gym’s mission is to build a community of skilled problem solvers through a workshop-driven design thinking curriculum. They partner with organizations to help them approach their problems in a new way by connecting their challenges with our community.

The Design Gym believes that as our world evolves, we need to start replacing old ways of thinking with creativity and innovation. Design is playing a central role in driving this change. Hence, we are building a community of solvers that have the skills and process to solve wicked problems by providing an avenue to learn design thinking in a pragmatic way.

1:00-2:00pm
(before StartUP)

Strictly for attendees of StartUP.
Space is limited.

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