Invited Speakers
John Bacus
Product Manager
Google SketchUp
John Bacus is Product Manager for the Google SketchUp development team where
he is responsible for the ongoing design and development of the growing
SketchUp family of products.
Prior to joining Google, John was the Director of Product Design for @Last
Software, where he worked on SketchUp from the first Mac OS X release
through the product's acquisition by Google in 2006. During this time,
SketchUp has won numerous awards, including "3D Product of the Year" and a
"5 Mice" rating from Macworld Magazine. Prior to @Last, John was a
professional design consultant working on a wide range of architectural and
urban design projects in both Europe and the U.S.
John holds an MArch. (Thesis Prize) from the Rice University School of
Architecture, and a BArch. (Ledlie Award) from The Cooper Union for the
Advancement of Science and Art.
Fabio Casati
Professor of Computer Science
University of Trento
Fabio Casati got his PhD from the Politecnico di Milano and then worked for over 7
years in Hewlett-Packard USA, where he was technical lead for the research
program on business process intelligence. Fabio has also contributed (as
software and data architect) to the development of several HP solutions in
the area of web services and process management.
In Trento, he is currently leading or participating to six FP7 projects, is active in many
industry-funded projects, both local and international, and has over 30
patents.
His passions are in social informatics, prevention of
non-communicable diseases, collaborative programming, and in models for
scientific dissemination.