April 10-11 / Greenville, SC / The Unconference for Curious Web Folks
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$225/Person
April 10-11
Grok is an attendee-driven conference that blends inspiring expert talks with your voice. • Grok is coders of beauty, builders of businesses, designers of pixels, wranglers of teams, organizers of the world, and anyone who loves making things better coming together. Curious / hungry / possibly telepathic? You're in the right place. • Grok is 5 world-class speakers talking about working for the biggest brands in the world, building biz large and small, creative direction, designing with code, making sense of data, and creating a life and work you love • Grok isn’t a sit-back-and-listen conference. Take turns giving 10/20s — short conversations or presentations with other attendees. • Grok is showing up with your own ideas, questions, obsessions, passion, half-baked theories, hobbies, and whatever makes you tick. • Grok is coming ready to engage with people just as curious as you.
Speakers
Katrina MacGregor
Manager, Beats Human Interface Design @ Apple
Los Angeles, CA
There & Back Again: An Unexpected Journey in Code & Design
Katrina is a designer whose deep passion for puzzle-solving and creating intuitive user interactions has shaped a career bridging design and development. She crafted immersive storytelling experiences for iconic franchises like Star Wars, Disney, and Marvel. At Apple, Katrina leads the Beats Human Interface team, where her focus is seamlessly blending physical and digital user experiences through innovative and user-centered interactions. She loves creative outlets ranging from doodling to transforming her living room into an interactive Hogwarts.
Brian Brooks
Designer, Connector & Teacher
Louisville, KY
The False Gods of Hustle & Optimization
Brian’s two-decade career spans brand consultancies, agencies, and startups with clients including Nike, Adobe, Galaxy Digital, and Bridgewater. In 2014 he co-founded BUILT, a lean, high-impact digital agency helping companies make their product design and brand dreams a reality without the headaches of big agencies. Brian is a connector at heart, building collaborative creative teams and bridging strategy with execution to deliver work that works. He teaches graphic design at the University of Louisville. When not working in his backyard studio Brian enjoys mountain biking and Byzantine iconography.
Sofia-Cristina Vişan
Executive Director, Skipper & Entrepreneur
Building Inside Wholesomeness for Successful Outcomes
Executive Director enabling economic partnerships between France and USA. Angel Investor supporting European startups to scale. Entrepreneur building TinyML products. 15 years of experience in Cybersecurity Engineering and Business Development. Microsoft and Orange Alumni. Wide expertise spanning from securing Network Access, embedded Apps and IoT, to Endpoint Protection and Identity Access Management. When offline, making music, giving a ski lesson, or an ASA class, or racing on some J boat, somewhere in between the Pacific Northwest and the Black Sea.
Paul & Mark Johnson
Co-Founders, Product & Platform @ Pathwright
Greenville, SC
(Re)building for the Next Version of the Internet
Mark and Paul Johnson began designing and coding on the Internet together during the first era of the Internet — the dot-com boom — and never stopped. In 2012, they founded Pathwright, an education platform for teachers who care about designing great learning experiences. On the side, they advise on new products, teach design and code, map chaos, and answer questions about being twins (yes, they are twins). They're currently working a secret product for the next era of the Internet.
Hans Anderson
Head of Design @ Invisible
New York, NY
Nosedive in Real Life: Designing with Rai|y and Finding What People Want
Currently, Head of Design for Invisible, the folks who’ve trained much of the LLM hotness we’re all using. Ex-Bridgewater Associates Director of Product Design for David Ferrucci and Ray Dalio, thereafter in Investment Research, responsible for design systems and operations. And before that, twenty or so years doing novel product design and R&D for real-time rendering applications in the visual effects biz.
Schedule
Subject to Change (As Are We All)
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Wednesday 4/9
7:00PM
Early Registration Social
1
Thursday 4/10
8:00AM
Registration, Pastries & Espresso Bar by Framer
9:30AM
GROK Kickoff
10:00AM
Speaker - Hans Anderson
10:50AM
Break
11:00AM
10/20s
12:15PM
Lunch Break
1:45PM
Speaker - Paul & Mark Johnson
2:30PM
Break
2:40PM
10/20s
3:55PM
Speaker - Katrina MacGregor
4:45PM
Wrap-Up
5:00PM
Dinner Break
7:00PM
Evening Drinks & Snacks by Nicer Studio
2
Friday 4/11
9:00AM
Late Registration, Coffee & Snacks by Framer
9:30AM
Day 2 Kickoff
9:45AM
Speaker - Sofia-Cristina Vişan
10:35AM
Break
10:45AM
10/20s
12:00PM
Lunch Break
1:30PM
Speaker - Brian Brooks
2:20PM
Break
2:30PM
10/20s
3:45PM
Wrap-Up & Farewells
4:00PM
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FAQs
Clemson University at Greenville ONE
1 N Main St, Greenville, SC 29601
Who’s Coming
Jay Harris
Developer
Hannah Robinson
Operations Wizard
Chris Merritt
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jeremy Jantz
Web/Product Designer
Benten Woodring
Senior Web Designer at Bunsen | Founder, NOOON Studio
Luke Doty
Co-Founder/CTO @ ChiroHD
Matt Cook
Digital Strategist
Christina Roberts
Hell if I know yet
Joe Dillamore
I build businesses in real estate finance
Nathan Spainhour
Creative work :)
Jeff Dill
Staff Software Engineer @ LeadSimple
Samanthan Woodard
Marketing Strategy/Management
Robert Roskam
Software Engineer and Manager
Caleb McQuaid
Run a software dev agency, "write" "code"
Justin Hall
Graphic Designer
Robert Gonzales
Designer and developer at Nicer Studio
Deb Bucci
Researcher & Consultant
Jesse Tomlinson
Operations at Nicer Studio
Eric Weissman
CEO of NextGEN
Gabriel Doty
create things
Sean Fox
Owner of a brand agency
Daniel McOrmond
Alexander Martin
Tech education & leadership
Victoria Hammond
Marketing
Jeremy Smith
Product-focused Rails dev
Heather Hough
Marketing
Jason Long
contractor focusing on Workday
Amanda Barnhart
Design - Branding & Packaging
Aeryk Payne
Designer @ Nicer Studio
Paul Johnson
Founder & Product Designer
Jim
Dumpsterpreneur // Fixer // Saver // Organizer
David Siglin
Stay at home dad
Mandy Merritt
Director of Communication
Matt Bertino
COO
Cayce Balara
Unindicted Co-Conspirator
Mark Johnson
Designer, Developer, Teacher
Chad Warner
Web Strategist @ OptimWise
Jennifer Oladipo
Market, write, curate, conversate, connect
Sean Reid
I build stuff on the internet, and teach other people how to the same.
Ethan McGee
Software Engineer @ Yubico
Andrew Elster
Traveling forward though time at 1 second per second
Andrew Ramos
mostly I wonder what I'm gonna do with my life
Megan Marson
Building cool apps for cool people!
West Jones
Adam Smuca
Learning, spending time outdoors, competing
Peter McDowell
Experience Designer @ Kopis
Em Blitstein
Sr content marketing manager for Singh Mailgun
Mitch Benes
I work with products that I love
Chase Finch
CTO @ BringFido
Sloan Miller
Digital Accessibility, Partnerships, and Fractional COO
James Bloor
CEO
Liz Rutledge
Sr Manager, Software Engineering @ Disney
Lelia
Nonprofit CEO/Still figuring it out
Michael Kuechenmeister
Design Director
Thomas Cannon
Founder
Zachary Halleck
Product Designer @ GoFundMe | Nonprofit Checkout
Jake Hendley
Senior Director of Engineering, Ford Pro Charging
Valentina Valverde
Design Engineer @ ChippAI
Joseph Grinstead
Software Engineer
Jennifer Bauer
API Detective and Tech Consultant
Daniel Harper
Marketing Director
Lydia Sellers
Marketing Manager
Peter Barth
CEO
Joe Van Leeuwen
Web Developer
Chad Ploof
Roy Kent wannabe
Olivia Sculley
SoftDev @ Simply Binary & Slipstream
Louisa Henry
Marketing Manager
Giovanni DiFeterici
VP of Product, Flatiron School
Chandler Roth
Software Engineer & Founder
Silas Godfrey
Design Leadership @ Meta
Mohammad Khan
Hype @ Framer
Luke Geboiu
VR Gamer, Map Builder and Coder Enthusiast
Monica Geboiu
Customer Success Manager
Mike Meyer
JavaScript Enthusiast
Jon Rogers
Serial Do-Gooder | Plaid Enthusiast | Sailor | Nonprofit Digital Marketer
David Quattlebaum
Co Founder
Joey Loman
Shopmaster
Conor McManamom
Develop software. Cuddle cats.
Phillip McCreight
Artist, Consultant, and Community Builder
Daniel Jeffords
CEO at Terratory // person who likes helping entrepreneurs
Willie Brown
Web Services Manager at Black Digital
Daniel Hall
Churnkey
Brighton Smith
Aspiring Software Engineer
Sydney Cooke
Startup Community Engagement Manager
Barry Jones
VP of IT @ ThoroughCare
Pamela Browne
community builder | passionate about tech and helping people flourish
Noah Clark
Web Designer
Clay Johnson
Investment Associate @ SCRA
Phil Yanov
I help people bridge the gap between technology, community, and the ancient art of thinking well.
Rob Wright
Husband, father, engineer
Willz Tolbert
I'm trying to raise kids that have substance. And, I'm tying to help businesses scale with AI-enabled South Africans.
Alex Nevels
Director of Ops/Education
Jake Cheney
Creative Cure
Kyle Mensing
Raise kids and do marketing when they give me the time
Shane Parreco
Founder + CEO of Aktiga
Christian Shockley
Head of EdLabs & Learning Experience Design
Michael Gowan
Owner/Product Engineer
Lee Macilwinen
Director, SC Launch
Matthew Smith
Big Wimp
Scott Cook
Dark Overlord™ ...or, Designer + Developer
Doug Cone
Senior Developer
Megan Cadow
Executive Coach & Consultant
Isaac Barcroft
cool dude
Zach Suggs
Photographer
Nathan Freystaetter
Co-founder & CEO
Violet Kester
Software Developer
Kevin Kirtley
Restore Airplanes
Ryan
developer and good human
Ryan Szrama
Building Drupal Commerce, raising 5 kids, and dreams of going to space.
Kevin Dees
Digital Nomad @ Robojuice
Brittani Hunter
Ambassador of Unrealistic Expectations (CX / Partner Services)
Jessica Volt
User Experience Designer
Michael Allen
Sr. Delivery Consultant @ AWS ProServe
Rachel Staigar
Sales and Client Success Manager
Marco Suarez
CEO/Co-founder
Brad Dunson
Small apartment junkie
Gary Shiffman
Rebel
Drew Stanley
Creative
Morgan Albrecht
Art Director
Shelby Argo
Senior Designer
Byron Carranza
UI/UX Designer
Stephen Moorehead
Sr. Product Designer
Ryan McCrary
Solutions Engineer @ Rudderstack
Lib
Founder
Sheryl Barbosa
Sustainability Strategist & Advisor
Lee Campbell
Design Engineer @ Bitwise
Zack Milsaps
Commercial Director
Ron Babington
Data management in the environmental health + safety + compliance sector
Matty Fisher
Makes cool pictures
Sponsors
Framer
The web builder for stunning sites
framer.com
Pathwright
Make paths that keep everyone on track
pathwright.com
Nicer Studio
The agency for new ideas
nicer.com
Atlas Local
Coworking space for people who give a damn
atlaslocal.com
ChiroHD
Chiropractic Office Management EHR Software
chirohd.com
SCRA
Fueling South Carolina’s innovation economy
scra.org
Flatiron School
Bootcamps built for the new tech industry
flatironschool.com
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