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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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Tanya Bhandari

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Service Design, Social Innovation, Storytelling

IndustryNonprofit

LocationKigali, Rwanda

Tanya is a communication designer from India who has been working in the social impact space for over a decade. She is currently a Design Lead at YLabs in Rwanda, leading projects around sexual reproductive health, mental health and economic empowerment for youth. In the past, she has worked as design lead at UNICEF’s Office of Innovation in New York. Before and during that time, she had the opportunity to work at NYU ITP, the School of Visual Arts, Center for Urban Pedagogy, and Teach for India. In...

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Ashley Doucette

DisciplinesArt, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Systems, Illustration, Innovation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Ashley Doucette is a Digital Product Design leader with 15+ years of experience....

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Designing for VR/AR Workshop

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAR/VR

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Di Dang

In consumer-facing VR/AR, we are seeing the rise of immersive computing,...

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Mofoluke Ayoola

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Service Design

An empathic, design-driven and user-centric expert with over ten years of collective...

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Building a Product Management Function From The Ground Up

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsCulture, Leadership, Management & Strategy

Speaker Charlene Lee

During this session, you’ll hear from Charlene Lee, who left Google Maps to start...

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Stella Guan

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Industrial Design, Interaction Design, Interior Design, Product Design

TopicsAdobe XD, Career, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Typography, Web & Mobile

IndustryEducation

Stella Guan is an award-winning multidisciplinary designer, creative director,...

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The Leader’s Guide to the Care and Feeling of Humans

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsLeadership, Teamwork

Speaker Kara DeFrias

Kara DeFrias is a leading UX Director with a stellar resume spanning private and...

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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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Stop looking for work-life balance, aim for work-life integration

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer

Speaker Maggie Jandova

Understand your values, purpose and what to focus on in different stages of your life...

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Growing Civic Technology in New York City

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Social Innovation

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Genevieve Gaudet

Closing panel of BigApps 2017 mentors...

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Emily Campbell

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Product Development, Service Design

Emily is a veteran design and product practitioner. She is currently a Senior...

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DesignOps Curious? Learn about the Fundamentals of Design’s Secret Sauce

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Culture

IndustryTechnology

EventMeetup

Speaker Rachel Posman

🚀 Design Operations creates the environment for designers to do their best work and amplifies the impact and effectiveness of the design organization at scale. Boiled down, we enable designers to focus on design. Design organizations cannot effectively scale without strategic operational leaders experienced at solving ambiguous problems, anticipating evolving needs, navigating the changing tides of complex organizations and creating solutions that adapt to changing technology, culture and pace. ...

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