Women Talk Design – Discover brilliant diverse speakers for your next event.

Discover brilliant diverse speakers for your next event

Women Talk Design elevates women and gender non-binary speakers, empowers event organizers with resources to engage more diverse speakers, and offers training and support for new speakers.

Learn more

Find a speaker Get listed as a speaker

Discover diverse voices

I'm looking for

Discipline

Topics

Speaker Profile

Anupriya Sahu

DisciplinesFurniture, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

Anupriya Sahu is one of the Co-Founders of and Design Head at Alankaram, an...

Speaker Profile

Tana Green

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Agile, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Environment, Installation & Curation, IoT, Service Design, Storytelling, Sustainability, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Lead UXUI Designer / Researcher at AIM Consulting Group | analysis, planning, design...

Speaker Profile

Naomi Hattaway

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsAccessibility, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Culture, Disability, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Social Networks

IndustriesGovernment, Marketing, Nonprofit

Naomi is passionate about community building, diversity, and accessibility....

Speaker Profile

Jessa Parette

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsData, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Storytelling

Jessa is a leader who connects technology and strategy with intentional design. She...

Speaker Profile

Gulyuz Abdukholikova

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAR/VR, Career, Design Thinking, Web & Mobile

I’m Guly - an enthusiastic product designer, based in Berlin, Germany. I'm the UX...

Speaker Profile

Tina Gada

DisciplinesEngineering, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustriesFinance, Retail, Technology

I’m Tina Gada ( She/ Her ) Sr. Ux/Ui Designer from Dallas, passionate to enhance...

Speaker Profile

Ana Costa

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsDisability

Ana is a disabled woman. She is an engineer passionate about fighting climate change...

Speaker Profile

Carol Scott

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Ethics

Carol is a trauma and research expert. She has been applying trauma-informed...

Speaker Profile

SHILPA SURESH BABU

DisciplinesArchitecture, Interior Design

TopicsDesign Thinking, Storytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

A self described "Cultural Chameleon", Shilpa was born and raised in India spent most...

Speakers, Get Featured

Get connected with event organizers interested in engaging women and gender non-binary speakers in design and tech.

Already have an account?

Know a great speaker? Let us know so we can invite them to be part of our directory and amplify their voice.

Nominate them

Speaker Profile

Heidi Brown

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Heidi Brown, is a proven leader in the area of cross-channel customer experience...

Speaker Profile

Lyn Barrett

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsTeamwork

IndustryTechnology

Lyn finds joy in coaching teams from creation to delivery. She has worked in...

Speaker Profile

Shauna Keating

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Front-end Engineering, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, CSS, Design Systems

IndustriesGovernment, Technology

design engineer specializing in accessibility and deisign systems...

Speaker Profile

Jing Jin

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Award-winning product and design leader with a passion in EdTech....

Speaker Profile

Stacey Edelstein

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

Stacey discovered her passion for storytelling and design while serving as the...

Engage diverse speakers

Our directory includes over 600 women and gender non-binary speakers in design and tech. Create an account to reach out to speakers, save their profiles and talks to help you plan your event, and engage with our community.

Already have an account?

Speaker Profile

Theresa Bassett

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, Product Design, Sales

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Design Strategy, Design Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing

As CEO of The Diamond Group, I get to do what I love best: grow companies....

Speaker Profile

Sucheta Rawal

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Storytelling

IndustryEducation

Sucheta Rawal is an award-winning food & travel writer, founder of Go Eat Give, and author...

Speaker Profile

Karren Knowlton

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Communication, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryEducation

Ph.D. organizational psychologist with expertise in motivation, leadership, and DEI....

Speaker Profile

Kritika Kushwaha

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Sustainability

IndustryTechnology

Kritika is an award winning Product Designer and Illustrator based in San Francisco...

Find a speaker

Speaker Profile

Meryl Friedman

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Teamwork

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

LocationBrooklyn, New York, United States

Meryl Friedman is a multidisciplinary designer and art director working in print, digital, and brand systems. Her decade of experience has been primarily focused on in-house teams and nonprofits. She is currently an art director at the Brooklyn Public Library, where—as part of the Marketing & Communications team—she helps design and project manage a wide variety of initiatives. From concept development and creative direction to designing user interfaces, she has been closely involved in all...

Speaker Profile

Brooke Baldwin

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Research

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Methodology, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

With over 18 years’ experience as a UX researcher and designer, Brooke has worked...

TalkVideo

Marketing Creative Services: How to Find Your Focus

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Leadership

IndustryMarketing

Speaker Ilise Benun

Are you being creative or rigid about your focus or niche? There are at least 10 ways...

Speaker Profile

Ruchi Batra

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Service Design, Storytelling

Ruchi is an experience designer and strategist, a researcher, a dreamer, a mother of...

Talk

Emotionally personalised future

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsInnovation

IndustryTechnology

Speaker

...

Speaker Profile

Melina McLarty

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Innovation

Melina McLarty is a user experience engineer and designer that loves to design...

Speakers, Get Featured

Get connected with event organizers interested in engaging women and gender non-binary speakers in design and tech.

Already have an account?

Know a great speaker? Let us know so we can invite them to be part of our directory and amplify their voice.

Nominate them

TalkVideo

Your personal website is ugly (and how to fix it) – Design mistakes to avoid when creating your no-code page

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Communication, Storytelling, Typography, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Maria Teresa Stella

Nowadays, anyone can create their personal website with little to no code, and...

Speaker Profile

Shruthi Manjula Balakrishna

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Graphic Design, Immersive Experience Design, Motion & Animation

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Design Thinking, Ethics, Illustration, Social Innovation, Visual Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Education, Marketing

Shruthi is the legitimate love-child of strategy and creativity....

TalkVideo

InVision Design Talk: Creating A Habit of Research

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking, Web & Mobile

Speaker Sarah Doody

Create a cadence of research with these 3 types of research to do each quarter....

Engage diverse speakers

Already have an account?

Talk

Career Badassery: Negotiate the Salary and Title You Deserve

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer

Speaker Tamara Adlin

This is not your typical talk on salaries and titles. ...

Speaker Profile

Adaora Asala

DisciplinesBusiness, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Data, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Robotics & AI, Social Innovation

IndustriesFinance, Healthcare, Nonprofit, Technology

VP, Product & UX @ MERGE; WOC in Tech Advocate; Inclusion Innovator; Prancing Unicorn....

TalkVideoSlides

Hacking our way to an agile organization

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Culture, Leadership

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Tanya Snook

Adopting new perspectives, new ways of doing things and new ways of thinking is a lot like hacking. Guest speaker Tanya Snook will talk about why hacking is important and discuss ways that the public service can start being agile right now, including ways to hack our work, our teams, our organizations and, most importantly, ourselves. Join us as we explore dozens of ideas for practical hacking and examples of hacks that are in use right now across the Government of Canada. The full transcript of this ...

Helpful Articles

On Speaking

3 Things We Learned from the Designing Your Talk Workshop

By Women Talk Design

Getting Started in Public Speaking

By Rachel Andrews

A formula for speaking fees

By jenn Lukas

more speaker resources

On Organizing

Conference Organizers Can (and Should) Help Move the Needle on Diversity

By Angela Brown

Holding Conferences Accountable: Questions Everyone Should Be Asking

By Steve Fisher

Organizers, here’s what is missing from your Call for Proposals

By Danielle Barnes

more organizer resources

Our Upcoming Events

Speaking workshop

Create A Bio That Attracts

June 6 at 9:00 am

Info & RSVP

Community event

Present Yourself Information Session

June 14 at 5:00 pm

Info & RSVP

Community event

Women Talk Design Speaker Stories: Vivianne Castillo

June 27 at 1:00 pm

Info & RSVP

Speaking workshop

Present Yourself 8-week Program

June 28 at 5:00 pm

Info & RSVP

See All Events

Train up speakers at your company Prepare high potential employees to speak about their work on behalf of your company at conferences and public events. Our workshops equip new speakers with the tools and confidence to propose, craft and deliver compelling public talks. Contact us to learn more →

Connect with a Community of Speakers

Our private online community provides a space for new and experienced, women and gender non-binary speakers to ask questions, offer advice, and share upcoming speaking opportunities.

Request to join →