If the phrase “surgical robotics” doesn’t grab your attention, then you're quite possibly perusing the wrong UX conference right now! On the other hand, if you’re intrigued — or possibly even a little wary — then Gretchen Anderson’s credentials are pretty damned cool.

Gretchen spent the first part of her career in design consulting for firms like frog, Cooper, LUNAR, and Punchcut. Recently, she served as the VP of Product for GreatSchools, a national website that helps half of America's families every year with information about schools. Currently, she is the Director of Product Design at Auris Surgical Robotics, overseeing design of the hardware and software of a next-generation surgical system.

Her past clients include Virgin Records, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, and Cyberdyne Systems. (Okay, maybe not that last one.) Gretchen is a Bay Area native who left only long enough to get a bachelor's degree from Harvard in History & Literature.

We’re as happy as can be that Gretchen will be sharing her knowledge with us in September.

Stay tuned for details of Gretchen’s session at Fluxible.