Jared is a frog fellow. He believes experience is key to design and has spent more than a decade finding value for the user in innovative technology and bringing solutions to large organizations. Every March in Austin he directs the SXSW Interactive opening party which is a large scale social experiment with a focus on technology in social settings featuring lots large scale interactive installations. He spoke at TED. He is maker. He is the co-director of Austin Public Skatepark Action Committee. He was once a cowboy in 1867.