Embrace UX speaker profile: Kevin Wong
Embrace UX (@EmbraceUX) will be taking place on Saturday February 28th – Sunday March 1st in Hamilton, Ontario.
Embrace UX will bring together web and technology professionals in the Southern Ontario region to get excited and informed about user-centric design, share their experiences, and network with fellow practitioners. Embrace UX is a two-day event with talks, discussions, and a UX masterclass on Saturday and a chance to flex your UX skills during the design charette on Sunday!
Between now and the conference Software Hamilton will feature an Embrace UX speaker each Sunday.
Kevin Wong – Nulogy
Kevin Wong (@knwong) is the co-founder and COO of Nulogy. Kevin has over a decade of experience building disruptive products using lean strategies to take Nulogy from a living room to an award-winning company with exceptional annual growth and Fortune 500 customers around the world. Kevin provides the leadership for the Agile UX and Product Management activities at Nulogy.
Kevin also co-founded Charity CHAMPS, a social platform for raising involvement in and awareness of micro-philanthropic activities through gamification. Charity CHAMPS recently launched the game as the Do Good Action Challenge on Facebook in partnership with Summerhill Impact.
Kevin’s previous roles include Interactive Designer at Cendyn, program manager at Microsoft, and Director of the CUTC foundation. Kevin completed his BASc, Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo.
You can check out his slideshare shelf for some previous talks:
Nulogy has notably won numerous awards and recognitions:
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Company With Extraordinary Potential (2003)
- Supply and Demand Chain Executive 100 “Companies to Watch” (2006)
- Red Herring Top 50 Companies in Canada (2006)
- Red Herring Global 100 for “most promising private ventures from around the world” (2009)
- International Data Corporation for “Ten Canadian Cloud Solutions to Watch” (2009)
- Food Logistics Magazine Top 100 Technology Provider (2010)
- CIX Top 20 Innovators award from Canadian Innovation Exchange (2012)
- PricewaterhouseCoopers Canada’s Top 10 Up and Coming Technology Companies (2012)
