Dre steps to the podium

Andreas "Dre" Orphanides has been announced as the opening keynote speaker at the 2017 Code4Lib Conference in Los Angeles in March. The Associate Head of User Experience is well known among the library world’s coding community as a foundational thinker about system design and user experience. A key participant in the Code4Lib community, Dre is one of the co-founders of the Fail4Lib workshop which generates constructive conversation out of the sharing of project failures. Code4Lib is the annual gathering of technologists from around the world, who largely work for and with libraries, archives, and museums and have a commitment to open technologies.