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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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Amy Jo Kim

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsCommunity

Amy Jo Kim, Ph.D. is a recognized expert in the field of online community design. She is the founder and creative director of NAIMA, a 21st century design studio that has designed online environments for a wide range of clients, including America Online, Adobe Systems, AT&T, CyberCash, Electric Communities, Fujitsu, Mpath Interactive, MTV, NetNoir, Nickelodeon, Oracle, Paramount, PlaceWare, Redgate, Sony, Viacom, and Yahoo. She also teaches online design at Stanford University. Her article on the...

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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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IBM Design Thinking and Agile Subset

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Soo Yun Kim

IBM CIO Design & Luminary Company visit A presentation about IBM Design Thinking...

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Lina Alvarez

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsDesign Thinking, Service Design

IndustryGovernment

With an interdisciplinary background, Lina Alvarez has spent most of her career...

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Prototypes: Why You Must Fake It Before You Make It

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Thinking, Lean

Speaker Sarah Doody

Leverage a prototype to “fake” your product so you can validate before you build....

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Social Networks

IndustryTechnology

Speaker and author of Technically Wrong, Design for Real Life, and Content Everywhere....

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Shifting Culture With Onsite Self-Care Strategies

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Social Innovation

Speaker Alexia Georghiou

Self-Care at Work, Positive Thinking, Work-Life Integration...

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Merril Cledera

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Graphic Design, Product Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Product Development

IndustriesAdvertising, Arts & Entertainment, Marketing

Merril is the founder & creative director of Oden, a design studio based in New York City....

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Practicing a new way of being in the world

DisciplinesBusiness, Immersive Experience Design

TopicsTeamwork

Speaker Hanna du Plessis

Is getting along with individuals or groups that we disagree with a skill that can be...

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Why I’m an architect that designs for social impact, not buildings

DisciplineArchitecture

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Social Innovation

IndustryHealthcare

Speaker Liz Ogbu

A talk about making the imperative of architecture to be more than creating better buildin...

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Nidhi Jalwal

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Social Innovation

IndustriesHealthcare, Nonprofit

Nidhi believes that design is the act of attuning to observations and building...

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Body Languages of Interaction Design

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsLeadership

Speaker Irene Au

Interaction design is by now a well-understood discipline. As a professional community we have refined the way we think and talk about what we do and how we do our work. Design is both art and science, yet while we teach methods and practices for hard design skills, we don’t teach practices that address the art of design, which is often mystified as “creative genius”. Irene’s talk will explore how through meditation and yoga we can acquire the most critical skills we need to be great designers: ...

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