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Kate Rutter


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Kate Rutter is a senior practitioner at Adaptive Path. During her ten plus years in the web industry, she's honed her talent for bringing companies and customers closer together through smart strategies and inventive design. She actively embraces the term "specialized generalist."

Professional Background

Kate's diverse and intense interests are constantly taking her and her clients to new places — her background spans technology, marketing, interactive media, and business management. She's worked with corporations, startups, and nonprofit organizations to help them grow, change and successfully chart new paths in ambiguous times and shifting markets.

Before joining Adaptive Path, Kate spent several years as a consultant focusing on web strategy and design. Prior to that, she was the Director of Business and Operations for The Crucible, a landmark nonprofit arts organization in the East Bay creative scene. During the bubble, Kate was Senior Director of E-business Development and Operations at Epicentric in San Francisco.

Past clients include: Travel + Leisure, Dice.com, Globo Networks, MICA.

Kate attended Wellesley College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art. She finds inspiration in a wide variety of subjects: Semiotics, textile arts, origami, code, urban design, fire, and other dangerous things. She is an active community leader as well as a formidable welder.

Upcoming Appearances

March 12-16
Kate Rutter will be speaking at SXSW in Austin, TX.

Past Appearances

June 15-18
Kate Rutter taught the Information Architecture day at the UX Intensive Workshop in San Francisco, California.

June 9
Kate Rutter presented at the June meeting of BayCHI in Palo Alto, CA.

May 13-14
Kate Rutter taught at the UX Intensive Workshop in Berlin, Germany.

March 18-19
Kate Rutter spoke at the IA Summit in Memphis, TN.

March 6-7
Kate Rutter presented at Exposed : A Design Research Exchange in Tempe, AZ.

March 1-2
Kate Rutter attended MX 2009 in San Francisco, CA.

February 22-25
Kate Rutter spoke at VizThink in San Jose, CA.

February 5
Kate Rutter attended Managing Design Projects in San Francisco, CA.

December 17, 2008
Kate Rutter presented the virtual seminar Sailing the Cs of Change at Adaptive Path.

December 10, 2008
Kate Rutter presented at UX Intensive in Austin, TX.

October 15-18, 2008
Kate Rutter presented at EPIC 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

October 15, 2008
Kate Rutter assisted at UX Intensive in Copenhagen, Denmark.

August 12 - 15, 2008
Kate Rutter presented at UX Week in San Francisco, CA

August 4 - 8, 2008
Kate Rutter presented at Agile2008 in Toronto, Canada

July 29, 2008
Kate Rutter shared work at IxDA-SF's VizFarm event in San Francisco, CA.

July 18-20, 2008
Kate Rutter attended BlogHer in San Francisco, CA.

October 22-23, 2007
Kate Rutter attended She's Geeky in Mt. View, CA.

August 13-16, 2007
Kate Rutter spoke at UX Week in Washington, D.C.


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