Talk
title: From designer hacks to 4 million users
How to do a startup, if you are a designer like me? We have almost 4 million users today – Prezi started with a simple 50 lines designer Flash hack 10 years ago. What did we do well, what did we do terribly bad? What are the values that I bring from my background from design and the arts that strengthen our vision?
Biography
Adam, an architect and artist, a maker and facilitator, spent the last decade creating innovative technologies and artistic projects which facilitate the creativity of others – ranging from mixed reality interfaces and DIY smarthomes, to institutions and workshop methods for innovation.
His (collaborative) works have been exhibited at Venice Biennales and dozens of festivals globally, and published in leading magazines and blogs. In 2007 he co-founded Kitchen Budapest media lab with Peter Halacsy. He wrote his first prezi in 2001.
Awards
- 2009 Winner of the World Technology Award (WTN in assoc with TIME inc, New York) in the category of Arts, shared price with Usman Haque
- 2009 I.D 50 – Selected as one of top 50 emerging designer worldwide by International Design magazine, NY
- 2009 State award for excellence from the prime minister of Hungary
- 2008 New Trends in Architecture, selected as one of 15 top emerging architect within Asia-Europe
Major Exhibitions
- 2010 Media Architecture Biennale, Vienna
- 2010 Transmediale, Berlin
- 2009 Pixelache, Helsinki
- 2009 NTT/ICC, Tokyo
- 2008 Beijing National Art Museum
- 2008 Venice Biennale of Architecture, International Selection
- 2007 NTT/ICC, Tokyo
- 2006 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Hungarian Pavilion
- 2006 ISEA, San Jose, US
Conference talks, Lectures, some workshops
2011
• Login, Vilnius, Keynote on Prezi
• Prezicamp, Barcamp, Vienna on Prezi
2010
• Vivo Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on spatial creativity
• Modena Design Awards, Italy, on Innovation and design
• Migrating Arts Academies, Berlin, on user experience design and peer production
• Media Architecture Biennale, Vienna, on Enabling spatial creativity
• Prezivent, Netherlands, on Prezi
• University of Fine Arts, Budapest, on artworks and Prezi
• ETH, Zurich, on Responsive Spaces
• Aedas Architects, London, on Prezi
• Transmediale, Berlin, on creative industries
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