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Amber Case

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Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and technologist 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 presented an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portland’s Webvisions 2009. She previously wrote for Discovery Channel’s Nerdabout.com and worked at Wieden+Kennedy, a global advertising agency based in Portland, Oregon.

She is the founder of Geoloqi.com with partner Aaron Parecki. Geoloqi is a real-time location sharing platform with features such as proximal notification and location-based messaging.

Amber Case is known for her skills in online productivity, business strategy, and new communication methods. She is currently writing a book on applying anthropological techniques to better understand industry ecosystems. She is on Twitter @caseorganic.

Amber received her degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College in this Spring with a thesis on The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial sites of Engagement”.

She is active in the local Portland tech community and attends conferences, meetups, tweetups, beer and blogs and Legion of Tech events. She attended Portland’s SearchFest 2008 in February, and is a member of the Portland’s SECP and SEMPDX.

During her sophomore year in college, she met Mario Landau-Holdsworth and Adan Vielma, who were starting a green business venture. With the support of Young Inventors International and Lewis & Clark college, Mario and Amber attended the 2006 DOW Jones Emerging Ventures Forum in and presented their ideas alongside MIT grad students and members of the Canadian Xerox center of Innovation. Mario and Amber also attended the 2007 DOW Jones Alternative Energy Solutions, where they met with the inventors of new alternative energy technologies. Currently the venture has seed funding and is in the process of development.

Milestones

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  Amber Case added a position as Co-founder at Geoloqi.
  Posted 10/8/10 at 10:43pm
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  Amber Case added a position as User Experience Designer at Vertigo Software. (6/7/10)
  Posted 6/29/10 at 8:10pm
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  Amber Case added a position as PR and Digital Strategy at Wieden + Kennedy. (6/15/09)
  Posted 2/1/10 at 10:08am
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  Amber Case added a position as Tech Blogger at Discovery Communications.
  Posted 12/23/08 at 12:16am
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  Amber Case added a position as Internet Marketing Coordinator at BlueTech.
  Posted 6/28/08 at 9:38am
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  Amber Case added a position as Chief Marketing Officer at Greenit!.
  Posted 6/28/08 at 9:38am
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  Amber Case — Fast Company - Most Influential Women in Technology 2010 (3/25/10)
  Posted 6/29/10 at 8:15pm via fastcompany.com
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  Amber Case — Fast Company - Most Influential Women in Technology 2010 (3/25/10)
  Posted 6/29/10 at 8:15pm via fastcompany.com
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  Amber Case — User Experience Designer at Vertigo.com (6/7/10)
  Posted 6/29/10 at 8:08pm via oakhazelnut.com
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  Amber Case — PR and Digital Strategy at Wieden+Kennedy (6/15/08)
  Posted 11/30/09 at 11:39pm

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2. On June 7th, 2010, I’ll start work as a Full-Time UX Designer at Vertigo in Portland, Oregon (oakhazelnut.com) [edit]
3. Most Influential Women in Technology: Amber Case - Digital Philosopher (fastcompany.com) [edit]
4. Most Influential Women in Technology: Amber Case - Digital Philosopher (fastcompany.com) [edit]