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Cindy Montgenie

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Culture, Leadership, Management & Strategy

Cindy Montgenie, former award-winning HP executive, is a high-performance strategist,...

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Emily Cohen

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Graphic Design, Industrial Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Communication, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryArts & Entertainment

A brutally honest consultant, Emily Cohen has been honored to consult and work with...

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Jenny Rankin, Ph.D.

DisciplinesData Science, Graphic Design, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Data, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Technology

TED Talker, author, University of Cambridge lecturer, researcher, keynote speaker, Mensan...

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Ana Medina

DisciplinesArchitecture, Back-end Engineering, Engineering

TopicsCareer, Community

IndustryTechnology

Ana is a Software Engineer living in San Francisco. She started her coding career...

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Miriam Ynocencio

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Miriam Ynocencio serves as the Director of Design Technology focused on leading the...

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Anthara Carr

DisciplinesBusiness, Content Strategy, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Innovation, Web & Mobile

IndustryMarketing

A third generation entrepreneur, Anthara Patrice has over 23 years of business experience....

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Tiffany Chen

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Front-end Engineering, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Designer at Microsoft: Inclusive Design and consumer subscription services...

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Tosca Fasso

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCareer, Leadership

IndustryFinance

Tosca is an energetic speaker and executive who aims not just to instruct but to inspire...

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Lynne Dupuis

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Service Design, Social Networks, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesGovernment, Healthcare, Nonprofit

Lynne Dupuis wants to see you shine!...

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Blanca Navarro

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Creativity

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing, Retail

Blanca is an art director and interactive designer living in sunny Southern California....

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Nikki Moeschinger

DisciplinesBrand, Design Operations, Graphic Design

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryMarketing

Nikki Moeschinger is Managing Director of the Australian operations of UK based...

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Kishya Greer

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy

Owner of The Great Exhibition, an e-commerce packaging and branding design studio....

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Katie Swisher

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsCreativity, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Katie is a product manager for an app development company specializing in web and...

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Vanessa Dewey

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Leadership

Throughout her career, Vanessa has been driven by three things: cultures,...

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Heather Toler

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Design Operations, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

IndustryTechnology

With international Graphic and Web Design clients, Heather Toler is a creative whose...

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Megan Kaczanowski

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsCareer, Communication, Security

Megan Kaczanowski is a Threat Intelligence Analyst at S&P Global....

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Roxanne Mustafa

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Lean, Storytelling

IndustriesNonprofit, Technology

She finds it rewarding to apply design thinking to all parts of her life, from making and...

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Shayna Hodkin

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Storytelling

Shayna's Managing Editor of the InVision blog, a design blog with over 2,5m subscribers....

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Andreea Danielescu

DisciplinesEngineering, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Robotics & AI, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Andreea Danielescu, Founder of Antilipsi, has spent the past decade working in voice assistants, chatbots, augmented reality and gestural interfaces. At Antilipsi she focuses on the intersection of HCI and AI. She is also Head of Engineering at CivitasAI, a startup developing conversational bots for law enforcement agencies. She holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Arizona and a PhD from Arizona State University. Prior to Antilipsi, she worked on Intel Real Speech, overseeing...

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Donna Spencer

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Service Design, Taxonomy, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Government, Technology

As a service designer and user experience designer for 20-ish years, Donna solves problems...

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Lead with Design

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Diamond Ho

Ever wonder how a designer at Facebook designs for 2 billion people around the world?...

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Shir Zalzberg

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsData, Design Systems, Entrepreneurship, Illustration, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Shir is the lead UI/UX designer at OverOps and the founder of "Startup Designers" meetup....

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When We Design for Disability, We All Benefit

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker Elise Roy

“I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever...

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Alba Villamil

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Methodology, Social Innovation

Alba Villamil is an independent Design Researcher who specializes in the social...

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Design Systems at Zendesk

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Systems

Speaker Allison Shaw

At Zendesk, our team of 30+ product designers work on 7 different products across 6...

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Torrey Podmajersky

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Product Design

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Torrey designs UX text to help organizations and users meet their goals....

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Styleguide-Driven Development

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Interface

TopicsDesign Systems, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Tatiana Kolesnikova

Designer and developer perspectives on implementation of design systems...

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Sparking Creativity Through Empathy

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy

Speaker Indi Young

Mental models are diagrams that represent the underlying philosophies and emotions...

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Susan Lin

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Susan Lin leads design teams and runs a profitable art business....

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Handling difficult conversations

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCommunication, Teamwork

Speaker Fiz Yazdi

Have you ever had a conversation that you’ve avoided, fudged, or handled badly? Whether it’s an angry exchange or a confrontation avoided, the feelings we’re left with are strikingly similar: a sense of doom, powerlessness, and simmering anger. Conversations can be difficult because they’re high-stakes, they bring up difficult feelings, or they make people feel threatened. Being able to step into those moments and handle them skilfully helps us to build a more honest, open environment, and ...

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