Amber Case
CyborgCamp, Cyborg Anthropologist/Corporate Consultant
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and corporate consultant currently living in Portland, Oregon. She founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. She’s also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She was previously a blogger for Discovery Channel and worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon.
Case specializes in information architecture, usability, online productivity, strategy, and ground-breaking communication methods. She utilizes qualitative/quantitative analysis and ethnographic methods in order to determine future idea/business/organizational developments. She employs anthropological methods to study the interaction between humans and computers. She is currently working on research related to participation architecture.
In December 2008, she founded CyborgCamp, an unconference on the future of humans and computers. Since then, the conference has gone global. Amber received degree in Sociology and Anthropology and wrote her thesis on mobile phones and their technosocial sites of engagement. She is available for speaking engagements, workshops, data aggregation and interface design.
Case blogs at http://oakhazelnut.com and can be found online at http://www.twitter.com/caseorganic.
