Micah Laaker leads an incredible product design team at Google focused on people-centric security, authentication & controls. Prior, his team empowered brick-and-mortar small business merchants with meaningful tools to bridge the offline and online worlds.

In past lives, he helped publishers deliver their books on any platform via tools at Graphicly, led Product Management and User Experience for Yahoo!'s developer platforms (which made Yahoo! products and services available to 3rd-party developers and publishers), led design for Island Def Jam Music Group's label & artist sites, wrote books, illustrated a board game, directed a hip-hop music video, and designed games for the Disney Channel. He lives in sunny Mountain View, CA with his wife, sons, and mammoth music collection, and he is known for his affinity to his home state: Nebraska.

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