Wesley Grubbs
Wesley Grubbs is an artist, data visualiser and provocateur from Oakland, CA. He founded Pitch Interactive, a studio who's focus is weaving code with design with statistics to find versatile solutions to communicate complex data for clients such as Google, Facebook, Wired, GE, Esquire, Scientific American, Popular Science and the McKnight Foundation.
Built upon his experiences living abroad, degrees held in International Economics and Information Systems and his innate interest in the brain and cognition, Wes' work focuses on revealing patterns about human behaviour and how our actions impact our surroundings.
Talk: The Importance of Failing Successfully
Wes will share his 23+ years of experience starting out as a web programmer freelancing, to an interactive director at an ad agency to founding his own data visualisation studio in 2006. He will talk about how the journey (aka the process) is equally as important as arriving at the destination. And that journey is often faced with bumpy roads and unpleasant, unexpected events that we have to face and manage.
In an ideal world, we all want our work and our relationships to succeed, but when they don’t, how can we create an environment that will catch our falls and give us the tools to keep going and build more strength for greater success. And what is success anyway?!
