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Teresa Schmedding

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCommunication, Management & Strategy, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit

Teresa Schmedding is a content marketer with expertise in digital strategy....

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Noreen Whysel

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Policy, Privilege, Security, Service Design

Noreen is a designer who is fascinated by what happens at the edges of disciplines. ...

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Tanarra Schneider

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Management & Strategy, Privilege

Tanarra is a Managing Director in Accenture's Design and Innovation Practice, Fjord....

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Kat Zhou

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Robotics & AI, Security

IndustryTechnology

Product designer @IBM exploring how to @ethicallydesign in tech....

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Lily (Lalitha) Chandrasekher

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Lily is a user experience researcher, design strategy advocate, and educator...

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Mirella Marie

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

Mirella Marie is the founder and creative director of Vertigo, an internationally...

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Nina Krishnan

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Methodology, Social Innovation

IndustriesEducation, Finance

Nina is a digital product designer driven by a desire to design simple, end-to-end...

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Karen Reilly

DisciplinesDesign Operations, User Experience

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

Karen Reilly is a UX Design Manager at Workday where she manages two product teams...

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Ran Liu

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsData, Design Strategy, Design Systems

Ran is a data-driven product designer who creates delightful user experiences through...

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Jessie Marman

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Web & Mobile

IndustriesAerospace, Technology

As a product designer, Jessie’s experiences span from working with small startups...

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Stacey Mendez

DisciplineIndustrial Design

TopicsCreativity

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Stacey is an experienced design leader with a history of working in product design....

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Stéphanie Walter

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Business Design, Creativity, CSS, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, HTML, Service Design, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Senior UX Designer Mobile Expert, Speaker, Writer, #GDE Product Design...

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Christina Beard

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership

IndustryHealthcare

A deep interest in solving real problems for real people inspired Christina to step...

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Kanchana Muralidhar

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Practice head North America: Digital transformation through Design thinking...

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Karen Cross

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Karen Cross is the Head of Content Design at Atlassian. ...

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Rachael Frank

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Information Architecture, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Agile, Creativity, Design Strategy, Management & Strategy, SEO, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

Rachael has been asking people hard questions for well over 15 years at this point....

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Capri LaRocca

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Environment, Ethics, Innovation, Lean, Service Design, Social Innovation, Sustainability, Visual Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

Capri LaRocca is a City Experience Manager at Minerva Schools where she designs...

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Lada Gorlenko

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Community, Design Thinking, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

UX practitioner, manager, trainer, speaker, conference organizer, and community builder....

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Stephanie Lawrence

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics

IndustriesGovernment, Healthcare, Retail

Stephanie is a UX designer and researcher with a background in psychology and data analysis. She is based in NY, and has worked on a variety of digital products in healthcare, government, and e-commerce. She has also written and spoken about the importance of ethics and inclusivity within the design...

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Nicola Rushton

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Lean, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Nicola is a product design consultant, UX researcher, writer, business owner, and nomad....

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The Power of CSS

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Interface

TopicsCSS

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Una Kravets

This talk will go over some of the superpowers of CSS. From fauxtoshop to recreating...

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Sameera Kapila

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

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Sam is a designer at thoughtbot living in Austin, TX. ...

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Ancient Methods for New Interfaces • Vicki Tan & Christine Cha

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Vicki Tan

Meditation has become something that we hear about all the time in the age of digital...

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Sonya Highfield

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Entrepreneurship

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Finance

Sonya Highfield is a Boston born and bred entrepreneur dedicated to helping creative...

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Innovation for Store 4.0

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Innovation, Management & Strategy

IndustryRetail

Speaker Samantha Starmer

This presentation discusses the future of retail and how to innovate to stay ahead of the ...

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Vanessa Colina

DisciplinesBrand, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsIllustration

Vanessa is a User Experience Designer based in Washington, DC. Her focus is in user...

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The Unicorns of China: Divergent Evolution on the Chinese Internet

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Culture, Social Networks

Speaker Christina Xu

The Chinese internet remains an abstraction to many outsiders due to technical,...

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Nela Dunato

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Design Strategy, Typography, Visual Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Arts & Entertainment, Marketing

Brand designer, writer, teacher & author of the book “The Human Centered Brand”...

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Finding Meaning and Purpose in Our Work and Creating Higher Value: A Whole Systems Approach

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCulture, Leadership, Management & Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Beatrice Ungard, Ph.D.

This talk was presented within the context of an IT employee retreat for an institution in the Silicon Valley. It argues that finding meaning and purpose at work requires employees to take a whole system approach and consider the role they can play in lifting up the potential of the system they...

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