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Anupriya Sahu

DisciplinesFurniture, Product Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking

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

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Ana Costa

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsDisability

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

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Carol Scott

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Ethics

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

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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...

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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...

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Lyn Barrett

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsTeamwork

IndustryTechnology

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

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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Sucheta Rawal

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Storytelling

IndustryEducation

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

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Karren Knowlton

DisciplineBusiness

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

IndustryEducation

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

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Kritika Kushwaha

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Sustainability

IndustryTechnology

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

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Abi Jones

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Management, User Research

TopicsCareer, Design Systems, Ethics, Innovation, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Robotics & AI, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

Location3400 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, USA

Abi Jones leads a team of designers and researchers in Google Health, an organization that works across a variety of medical specialities to dramatically improve the availability and accuracy of medical services, with a focus on cancer (breast, lung, prostate) and diabetic eye disease. Prior to joining Google's research arm, Abi co-founded a startup within Area 120, Google's internal incubator, and led design for products in Google's Security & Privacy, Fiber, and Search teams. Her long-term focus is...

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Kritika Kushwaha

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Sustainability

IndustryTechnology

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

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Emma Tzeng

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCulture, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Emma writes the user interface for Project Fi, Google’s mobile phone service. She...

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Nati Asher

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Leadership, Methodology, Sustainability, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Nati Asher leads a team of designers in the area of Field Services at Salesforce,...

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Linda Secondari

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Design Operations, Graphic Design, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Teamwork

Integrates Design Thinking + business experience to develop creative solutions....

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Windy Chien

DisciplineArt

TopicsCreativity

IndustryArts & Entertainment

I became an artist in one year. And if I can change my life, you can too....

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Content Amid Chaos

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsCommunication, Design Strategy, Management & Strategy

Speaker Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Organizations are messy places: politics thwart progress, departmental squabbles are status quo, and decision-making often takes months. This chaos makes its way right to our websites, filling them with crap users don’t want, need, or sometimes even understand. We’re practicing content strategy now, so what gives? Why are we still designing around all this clutter and corporate-speak? Because strategy documents and style rules alone won’t make people actually produce content that meets users’ ...

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