Belmer’s career as an explorer and innovator began growing up with his aspirations to be a mad scientist. That curiosity and will to explore is still a passion today, and he loves to embrace the unknown, but not before evaluating the risks.

Belmer Negrillo is a Sr. Design Lead at IDEO San Francisco. He has more than fifteen years of experience creating and producing interactive experiences. Belmer integrates systemic thinking, which is required to see the big picture and future scenarios, with the sensibility and care needed to master details.

Having worked in design consulting (IDEO), in digital advertising agencies (Ogilvy Interactive and DM9DDB), in rapid and iterative development (startup VUVOX), and in a complex multibillion-dollar ecosystem with multiple stakeholder management and interdependencies (eBay), Belmer has built a holistic understanding of product creation and life-cycle management.

His work has received awards from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, The One Show, and the Danish Index:2005. His creations have appeared in the Italian Fabrica Mail Me project, the German book Dos Logos and in the Japanese magazine Web Designing. Belmer has 2 granted patents and more 6 under evaluation.

Kiran is an Experience Designer who has been with R/GA in Los Angeles since early 2015. She works across offices on projects for clients including Nike, Dignity Health, and Beats by Dre. Her range of work includes consumer discovery, platform redesign, information architecture, and brand ecosystem modeling.
 
Prior to joining R/GA, Kiran worked as a UX and Human Factors Specialist at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Boston, MA. There she worked on technology to service the government in industries such as geospatial information services (GIS), video analytics, and aviation. She took time in between to earn a Master of Human-Computer Interaction degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and prior to that received her Bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering Psychology from Tufts University.
 
While she has remained passionate about UX since college, her background in dance, human factors, and research keeps her motivated to create compelling experiences grounded in research and relevant data.  

Nancy Harhut is passionate about the impact behavioral science can have on marketing. A 2014 Online Marketing Institute Top 40 Digital Strategist, a Hatch Top 100 Creative Influencer, and a two-time 2015 International ECHO Award winner for marketing effectiveness, Harhut has creative directed integrated campaigns for clients at Digitas, Hill Holliday and Mullen. She currently serves as Chief Creative Officer at Wilde Agency, a boutique firm that specializes in the impact of behavioral science on marketing. She recently completed the Duke University course on Irrational Behavior and attained a Certificate with Distinction. She's addressed audiences from the US Department of Defense to Moscow, and her speaking credits include the ANA, DMA, InfoTrends Summit, MarketingProfs, FutureM and SXSW, among others.