Join DC Web Women (DCWW) as we bring together three top digital agencies to discuss how they have successfully translated important content, data and statistics into gorgeous data visualizations – or infographics – for their clients.

According to Wikipedia, infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. Infographics are designed to present complex information quickly and clearly. The panelists will share best practices for creating infographics and answer such questions like why infographics work better for presentations as opposed to standard charts, is any data or statistics suitable to be created into an infographic and what is the difference between and infographic and an infoposter? All while discussing the process used to create designs for their award-winning work.

Panelists include:

Leslie Bradshaw – Co-founder, COO and President, JESS3

Aaron Murphy – Associate Creative Director, Ogilvy PR Digital Influence Group

Will Carroll – Principal and Founder, Geoill

ABOUT THE PANELISTS:

Leslie Bradshaw is the co-founder, COO, and President of JESS3, a company that creates visual storytelling for Fortune 100 companies, including Google, Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, and Nike. She co-founded the company when she was only 24. Leslie was recently listed as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company and named among DC's Tech Titans by Washingtonian Magazine. The Huffington Post listed her as one of the top women in tech you should be following on Twitter (@lesliebradshaw).

Aaron Murphy is the Associate Creative Director for Ogilvy PR Washington's Digital Influence Group. As ACD he has oversaw the design of numerous infographics and led the work for such clients as  Blue Cross Blue Shield, FEMA, FORD, and IRS.gov to name a few. He resides in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two daughters.

Will Carroll is Principal and Creative Director of Geoill, an innovative creative design agency that is dedicated to producing innovative creative designs that primarily focuses on infographics, animation presentations, and interactive presentations. Will believes that overly complex visuals are not always effective when explaining ideas, processes, concepts, or data. Simplified visuals are necessary to reach an audience that may not be experts in the field that is being explained. He has created visual and interactive presentations for medical companies, news agencies, broadcast corporations, and non profits.

OUR SPONSOR:

A BIG thanks to Vitamin T for sponsoring this event!

Vitamin T 

We have a simple philosophy at Vitamin T: to personally place the best creative talent in the best jobs for the best companies. Since we’re massively nerdy fans of creative, this sort of thing comes naturally to us, which means as a client, you get hand-picked talent perfectly suited to your job, and as talent, you get freelance work that doesn’t make you want to wash your eyes out with hand sanitizer. Win-win! Visit us at vitamintalent.com.

Special thanks to Ogilvy PR Washington for generous use of their event space for the panel.

Ogilvy PR is an internationally-renowned public relations agency specializing in digital strategy and media. It’s clients include some of the largest non-profit associations as well as Fortune 500 and 100 companies.

Event Hashtag is #InfographicsDC

All proceeds from tonight’s event go to support DCWW’s Girls Rock On the Web (GROW). GROW is a DCWW initiative of annual events designed to encourage and support young girls to develop an interest in web-based technology in the hopes that they enter into STEM based careers later in life.

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