Bio Information

Matt is the founder of Planorama – a user experience design firm focusing on making otherwise complex, technical software to be simple and intuitive to use. He spent the first half of his 27 year engineering career in the semiconductor industry as a chip designer and the latter half in software product development. Outgoing and always a networker, at one point he built the largest technology community in Austin, Texas with over 30,000 members. He began in computers at a young age in the early 1980s, teaching himself BASIC and assembly language by middle school, and was an early adopter of Linux in 1995. He holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Planorama’s mantra is “Time to market, accelerated by design“. They are unique because of their deep technical knowledge across many domains, and their view that design is a catalyst for efficiency which translates into getting products to market quickly. Matt and his team address product research, requirements, UX/UI design, and deliver solid, detailed dev-ready product documentation for developers and QA so they are highly efficient.

This guest speaker is adept at communicating at any level, from novices to experienced engineers and executives. He can speak about UX and product design, product management, Agile requirement scoping, SaaS, and technical topics including IoT, electronic design automation (EDA), Generative AI, edge processing, RISC-V, and more. He communicates in a simple, concise, and captivating manner, and VPs, CTOs, CEOs, and CFOs responsible for product development will receive actionable guidance after hearing what Matt has to offer.

Moreover, Planorama is leveraging their own in-house AI team to create a novel product specifications SaaS platform that helps with brainstorming and elaborating requirements using generative AI. Matt’s belief is that generative AI will bring a level of automation to software development, and even user experience design. However, the issue of “what to build” – the product specifications, will remain largely in the hands of humans.

Finally, Matt spearheaded AI Product Hive, a burgeoning online community for product people to talk about Generative AI with live, bi-weekly community calls from members worldwide.

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