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IxDA’s Interaction 14 South America

I’ll be both speaking and giving a workshop at IxDA’s Interaction 14 South America on the topic of working in Global Teams. I’d love to see you all there, and if there are any specific challenges of working in global teams you would like to hear me address, add them as a comment to this post below.

Interaction South America 2014 is the most important Interaction Design and User Experience event of the year in the region. It will take place at the Catholic University of Argentina, lasting four days, where 80 specialists from around the world will give talks to interested in putting technology at the service of people.

On 19 and 20 November there will be simultaneous talks and workshops by respected international speakers, authors of reference literature in the field.

The 21 and 22 there will be keynote presentation in which a dozen of renown  speakers will present on topics that will inspire the UX community, defining and extending the boundaries of the profession.

I’ll be both speaking and giving a workshop on the topic of working in Global Teams. I’d love to see you there, and if there are any specific challenges of working in global team you would like to hear me address it, add as a comment to this post below.

via ISA 2014.

By Itamar Medeiros

Originally from Brazil, Itamar Medeiros currently lives in Germany, where he works as VP of Design Strategy at SAP, where he leads the design vision for the entire Human Capital Management product line, ensuring cohesive product narratives and establishing best practices.

Working in the Information Technology industry since 1998, Itamar has helped truly global companies in multiple continents create great user experience through advocating Design and Innovation principles. Itamar has also served as a juror for prestigious design competitions and lectured on design topics at universities worldwide.

During his 7 years in China, he promoted the User Experience Design discipline as User Experience Manager at Autodesk and Local Coordinator of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) in Shanghai.

Itamar holds a MA in Design Practice from Northumbria University (Newcastle, UK), for which he received a Distinction Award for his thesis Creating Innovative Design Software Solutions within Collaborative/Distributed Design Environments.

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