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Yadvi Maheshwari

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Visual Thinking

Hello 👋 I'm Yadvi, a product designer passionate about crafting intentional...

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Carmen Broomes

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Methodology

IndustryTechnology

Carmen Broomes is the Head of UX Research at Handshake where she helps students...

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Victoria Nduka

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion

Victoria Nduka is a user experience designer passionate about technology,...

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Antara Dave

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Data, Design Systems, Design Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Antara Dave is a Product Designer a unique blend of skills, combining her foundation...

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Leena Joshi

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsEntrepreneurship, Environment, Leadership, Social Innovation, Storytelling, Sustainability

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Nonprofit

Leena Joshi is a social entrepreneur, public speaker, climate advocate and author....

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Parul Gupta

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Engineering, Industrial Design

TopicsCareer, Ethics, Innovation, Robotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Parul is a Senior Production Engineer at Meta, where she works within the Python...

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Priya Bajaj

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Sales

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling

Priya Bajaj: Sales, Marketing, AI. Curiosity-driven career strategies for the 3/3 jackpot...

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Esmeralda Tijhoff

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Front-end Engineering, Product Management

TopicsCommunity, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Privilege, Product Development, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

Esmeralda Tijhoff is a Product Manager and Open Source Officer at Dictu, specialising...

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Jamal Amanova

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAR/VR, Business Design, Creativity, Design Thinking

Jamal joins Women Talk Design to elevate the stage with bold, visionary design...

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Valeria Stromtsova

DisciplinesProduct Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsEnvironment, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Sustainability, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Valeria is a product leader focused on sustainability, mentorship, and innovation....

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Lisa Gralnek

DisciplinesBrand, Business, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Community, Creativity, Environment, Ethics, Innovation, Leadership, Sustainability

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

A driving force in strategy and brand building, Lisa is an influential business...

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Berenice Méndez

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCareer, Culture, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Berenice is a Creative Director living in San Francisco, originally from the border...

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Julie Smithson

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Immersive Experience Design, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Business Design, Business Strategy, Community, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Sustainability, Teamwork, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Top 100 Women of the Future, CEO of METAVRSE, & CoFounder of XR Women & Unlimited Awesome...

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Valeria Adani

DisciplinesBusiness, Data Science, Design Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Innovation, Product Development

Valeria Adani is Partner and Interim CEO at IF, a design agency specialising in trust....

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Jamie Roberts

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCareer, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryAdvertising

Jamie Roberts provides creative career support to design professionals across the globe....

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Soren Hamby

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, Community, Culture, Design Systems, Disability, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Service Design

IndustryHealthcare

Soren Hamby is dedicated to fostering team diversity and inclusion while spearheading...

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Ashley Gross

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Communication, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Robotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Ashley Gross is an accomplished AI leader, practitioner, and educator with over 5...

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Mae Reed

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Mae Reed is a master of transforming complex systems into intuitive, E2E experiences....

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Angela Pham

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Leadership, Product Development, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

LocationNew York, NY, USA

Angela Pham is a storyteller, strategist and writer with a knack for turning complex things into compelling stories. From the murky to the mundane, she loves explaining obscure topics so audiences better understand a message. She's currently a senior UX content strategist on Facebook Stories, which means she chooses the words we use in the interface for over 2 billion people. Her past roles included managing thought leadership content at PwC, facilitating on content strategy, and editing at niche...

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Katel LeDû

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Community, Storytelling

Katel LeDû is the CEO of A Book Apart helping tech community members become successful!...

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Design and Ethics in the Age of AI and “Smart” Things

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsRobotics & AI, Social Innovation

Speaker Gretchen Anderson

Practical tips and approaches for designers who work on products that use automation, mach...

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Blanca Navarro

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing, Retail

Blanca is a product designer living in Southern California....

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Toward Research Literacy

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsMethodology

Speaker Veronica Erb

Research isn’t a set of methods. It’s our dynamic process for understanding. In...

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Georgy Cohen

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Design Strategy, Management & Strategy, Storytelling

IndustryEducation

Georgy Cohen, director of digital strategy at OHO Interactive, approaches her work through...

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Online Harassment

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsSocial Networks

Speaker Caroline Sinders

”I think people are allowed to be dicks on the internet, but people should have the...

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Stacy Devino

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, Design Thinking, Innovation, IoT, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Android , IoT, Organizing, and Women in Tech speaker...

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Balancing Creativity and Practicality in Design

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Semira Yesufu

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“Make it Pretty” – short version

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

Speaker Audrey Crane

When someone asks you to just "make it pretty" -- recognizing and reacting gracefully!...

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Vanessa Grant

DisciplinesBusiness, Information Architecture, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

As soon Vanessa Grant hears about a process, she starts mentally optimizing it. ...

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UX research & ethnographic design for humanitarian technology.

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Community, Culture, Methodology, Product Development

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

EventMeetup

Speaker Eriol Fox

Eriol has been working in the non-profit, humanitarian technology sector for the past two years immersed in how to build technology products and services that empower and give access to people in the global south or ‘developing countries’ often around difficult topics like Genocide, Democracy, gender-based violence and in difficult circumstances such as informal settlements (slums) and areas where radicalisation is high. This talk focuses on two projects that involved UX research in developing ...

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