Surya Vanka, IDSA

Surya Vanka, IDSA, is founder of AUTHENTIC and creator of the Design Swarms workshops. He is a global leader in design, best known for creating industry leading UX practices, as an influential author, and as an educator in over 20 countries. Vanka is president-elect of the Seattle Design Festival, and on the advisory board of DMI and Seattle Interactive. He served as director of user experience at Microsoft, as a tenured professor of design at the University of Illinois and a fellow at the prestigious Center for Advanced Study.