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Nadia De Ala

DisciplinesBrand, Business

TopicsCareer, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Teamwork

realyouleadership.com | Leadership Coaching & Workshops for BIPOC Professionals...

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Natasha Margot Blum

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Storytelling

Natasha Margot Blum is an inspirational, insightful, and powerful speaker on innovation....

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Amina Qutub

DisciplinesData Science, Engineering

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Creativity, Data, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Disability, Regenerative Design, Robotics & AI

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology, Telecommunications

Amina Ann Qutub, Ph.D. Amina pioneers methods at the interface of computer science,...

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Yanira Castro

DisciplinesBusiness, Content Strategy

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Social Networks, Storytelling

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

Yanira M. Castro (she/her/ella) is a speaker and communications professional with...

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changying (Z) Zheng

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Currently, Z leads DesignOps for Cloudflare—a global web performance and security...

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Manisha Gupta

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Storytelling, Typography, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTelecommunications

Manisha is a product enthusiast, a visionary designer and passionate about...

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Alisa Bonsignore

DisciplinesBusiness, Content Strategy

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Communication, Leadership, Sustainability

Alisa develops sustainable content strategy for a global clientele....

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Mara Slade

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCulture, Environment, Leadership

IndustryAdvertising

Mara Slade is a leadership coach who helps leaders and organizations grow to get the...

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Marina Kraus

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Systems, Environment, Ethics, Product Development, Sustainability

Marina is a Product Designer working towards a sustainable future....

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Chelsea Hassler

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBlockchain, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Regenerative Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Web & Mobile

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

Chelsea is a Product leader and 3x founder. Her product is seen by over 1B people....

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Amanda Gore

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Environment, Innovation, Installation & Curation, Leadership, Methodology, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Visual Thinking

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Amanda Gore is the director of The Liminal Space....

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Sarah Douglas

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Installation & Curation, Leadership, Methodology, Social Innovation, Visual Thinking

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Sarah is the founder and director of creative design consultancy The Liminal Space....

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Brandie Janow

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Brandie's strengths include community building, public speaking, and the design...

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Rachel Mechanik

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryEducation

Rachel is an experienced learning and development professional. Working in the...

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Daniela Felletti

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Social Innovation

Daniela is a multilingual professional specialised in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion...

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Amanda Obidike

DisciplinesBusiness, Data Science, Engineering

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Policy, Social Innovation

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

Amanda Obidike is an accomplished non-profit leader and Data Scientist with 10 years...

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Laura Gassner Otting

DisciplinesBusiness, Sales

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustriesHealthcare, Marketing, Nonprofit, Retail, Technology, Telecommunications

Author, Catalyst, and Executive Coach Laura Gassner Otting inspires people to push...

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Benedetta Crippa

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Regenerative Design, Sustainability, Visual Thinking

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education

Benedetta talks about visual sustainability and power-critical design practice....

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Leslie Jensen-Inman

DisciplinesBrand, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Leadership

IndustryEducation

Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman is a maker of awesomeness and a doer of good. She connects industry, education, and community through innovative design initiatives. As Co-founder of Center Centre, Leslie works to improve the state of design education and the field of design. She is also a Royal Society of the Arts Fellow. Leslie is a co-author and the creative director of InterACT with Web Standards: A holistic approach to web design and has written articles for A List Apart and .net Magazine. She has been a...

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Nidhi Jalwal

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Social Innovation

IndustriesHealthcare, Nonprofit

Nidhi believes that design is the act of attuning to observations and building...

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Talk to Me

DisciplinesArt, Graphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Jennifer Daniel

Technology has placed very specific confines around how we communicate with each...

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Rachel Price

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Methodology, Taxonomy, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Rachel Price is an information architect and user researcher. With a background in...

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Sarah Drasner

DisciplinesEngineering, Front-end Engineering, User Interface

TopicsCSS, Illustration, JavaScript, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

Sarah Drasner is an award-winning Speaker, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft,...

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Martina Borkowsky

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Problem Solver, Design Thinker, Enterprise UXer (and loving it!), Woman in Tech...

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Mara Slade

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCulture, Environment, Leadership

IndustryAdvertising

Mara Slade is a leadership coach who helps leaders and organizations grow to get the...

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So You Want to Build the Next Facebook

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsEntrepreneurship, Lean

EventLean Startup Conference

Speaker Laura Klein

Most founders want to build a billion dollar business, but they sometimes forget that giants like Facebook didn’t start out as giants. In this talk, Laura Klein, author of UX for Lean Startups, outlines some of the most important strategies that companies used to build and learn before they ...

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