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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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Martina Borkowsky

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

LocationAmsterdam, Netherlands

To help users shine at what they love doing for a job so they live happy and fulfilled careers - Enterprise UX is the passion that Martina had found very early on. Going through a couple of career changes herself, she is dedicated to create delighting solutions for people performing high responsibility jobs and making critical decisions. She is following this passion as a User Experience Lead for Cybersecurity products. Martina is a big promoter of diversity in teams, design thinking, and innovation....

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Robyn Hwang

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCommunication, Design Thinking, Visual Thinking

Robyn is currently a product designer at Wells Fargo Innovation Group with a focus on...

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Storytelling is a Team Sport

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsStorytelling, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Rayna Anderson

How to tell stories are a multidisciplinary team...

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Silvia Hernández

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Innovation

Born and raised in a small Spanish island located in the Atlantic Ocean, I have since...

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The Narrowing Gap Between Designing for Consumer and Enterprise

DisciplinesBrand, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Leadership

Speaker Amanda Linden

Asana is a whole new way of working. The product is open by default, allows you to...

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Becca Hare

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Becca is a design leader with a decade of experience in UX Research. Her expertise...

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From Designer to Design Lead

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsManagement & Strategy

Speaker Ana Peralta

The learning journey from individual contributor to a first time UX Lead....

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Carina Ngai

DisciplinesGame Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsAccessibility, AR/VR, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Innovation, Product Development, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology

I speak about the practice of design research, product design, and inclusive design....

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Managers, Create Space to be Awesome

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsLeadership, Robotics & AI, Teamwork

Speaker Meri Williams

Meri Williams, CTO of a healthcare startup, talks about stealing lessons from...

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Hacking the Visual Norm

DisciplinesArt, Front-end Engineering

TopicsData, Visual Thinking

Speaker Nadieh Bremer

How to go beyond the default in visualizing data to create more effective charts...

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Shubhra Mohanty

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

Shubhra Mohanty is a top-quality motivational speaker and life coach....

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Don’t Worry, Be Scrappy

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Culture, Design Thinking, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Amy Chenault

Sometimes it takes a whole lot of awful to make something awesome. By persevering and being resilient through failure, we practice tenacity, which helps us grow, learn and get better at what we do. Using science (& data!), cultural history, and real life inspiring stories of UX practitioners like you, we’ll identify how important scrappiness is to building great products, and why being scrappy is crucial to growing not just as individual practitioners, but as an ...

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