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Joy Davis

DisciplinesArt, Fashion

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Fashion

Joy Davis is an independent scholar of fashion and cultural studies. She has B.A.s in...

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Monique Dubbelman

DisciplinesArchitecture, Content Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

Monique Dubbelman works as an independent UX designer and content strategist for her...

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Jennie Moore

DisciplinesBrand, Business

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustryAdvertising

Jennie is an award-winning creative director and copywriter at WONGDOODY, Seattle....

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Minal Bopaiah

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, Sales

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Privilege

Keynotes that open doors in people's minds....

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Elisa Sunga

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

Elisa Sunga is a UX Program Manager at Google where she has been growing and learning...

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Stephanie Lucas

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsEthics

IndustryTechnology

Stephanie Lucas is a Designer at LinkedIn, focusing on trust, ethics and privacy...

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Ashley Hefnawy

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Marketing, Technology

Ashley Hefnawy is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary creative writer....

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Eileen Hoff

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Senior Executive Global Product Design, Strategy, UX, UCD Methodologies & Design Thinking....

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Anjali Managoli

DisciplineEngineering

TopicsAgile, Career, Communication, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, IoT, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Anjali Managoli has 16+ years of experience, working in different domains like...

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Laurel Beyers

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Disability, IoT, Leadership, Lean, Product Development, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Marketing, Technology

Laurel is a product designer who values honesty and vulnerability in all facets of...

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Teresa Swingler

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

TopicsAgile, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, IoT, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Service Design, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryAerospace

Teresa Swingler is the Director of User Experience at Honeywell Aerospace....

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Tutti Taygerly

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Innovation, Leadership

Tutti brings her 20+ years of design experience into executive coaching....

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Julia Duffy

DisciplinesBusiness, Sales

TopicsCareer, Leadership

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Julia came out of the womb speaking non-stop and only shuts up when she sleeps...if...

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Pauline Munga

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Social Innovation

Following proven success in corporate retail as a systems-thinking Fashion Designer...

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Grishma Jena

DisciplineData Science

TopicsData

Grishma Jena is a Data Scientist with IBM Watson in San Francisco. She delivers talks...

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Marina Razakhatskaya

DisciplinesArt, Engineering, Immersive Experience Design, User Experience

TopicsAR/VR, Innovation, Installation & Curation, IoT, Robotics & AI, Storytelling, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustriesAdvertising, Arts & Entertainment, Marketing, Retail, Technology

Creative Technologist who builds physical-to-digital experiences that might cause delight....

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Lisa Ghisolf

DisciplinesGraphic Design, User Interface

TopicsDesign Thinking, Web & Mobile

Designer and WordPress developer freelancing for 16 years....

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Alexis Lucio

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAccessibility, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

Alexis (she/her) is a designer focused on accessibility, diversity, equity, and inclusion....

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Nelly Kam

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Motion & Animation, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Community, Culture, Design Systems, Ethics, Innovation, Methodology, Teamwork, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

LocationSaint Petersburg, Russia

Product designer at Alan.ai, building Voice UI for enterprise. Also: math tutor at @foxford_edu Past: ux-writer at @TInkoff, softdev at @Aeroflot, GeoSpace Digital...

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Rose Kue

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Business Strategy, Career, Community, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Service Design, Social Innovation, Teamwork

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

Rose Kue is a Design Researcher and Strategist with extensive experience weaving...

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Applying a Five-Phased Credible Approach to Qualitative Research

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsPolicy

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Meena Kothandaraman

Meena Kothandaraman from twig+fish will review a case study that involved...

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Lea Suela Schwegler

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Data, Design Strategy, Environment, Ethics

Lea Suela Schwegler is a Communication Designer and Design Strategist. Her work...

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Bankrupting Gamification – When a Method Becomes Mythologised

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsDesign Strategy

Speaker Karen Cham

I have 23 years experience in human centred digital transformation design; I design...

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Hannah du Plessis

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Social Innovation

IndustryEducation

After a career in interior architecture in South Africa, came to the U.S. to teach in...

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Design For Change: Sprinting Away From Poop

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsAccessibility, Culture, Social Innovation

IndustryHealthcare

Speaker Nidhi Jalwal

Consider yourself lucky if you have a toilet at your home, because one in three...

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Auriea Harvey

DisciplineGame Design

TopicsStorytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Auriea Harvey (USA/BE) received a B.F.A. in Sculpture at the Parsons School of Design...

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How Uber Builds Trust in Self-Driving Cars

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsInnovation

IndustriesAutomotive, Technology

Speaker Molly Nix

A dive into how Uber designs for trust in self-driving cars....

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Collaborative Creativity through Improv

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture

Speaker Cheryl Platz

Cheryl draws from her decade as an improv performer to inspire your design organization....

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Pazit Kagel

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsBlockchain, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship

IndustriesFinance, Technology

I am a designer who is passionate about solving real complex problems. Trained as an...

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Helping researchers do their best work. How Research Ops can help.

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsLeadership

EventNUX

Speaker Emma Boulton

Helping researchers do their best work. How Research Ops can help. In 2018, the Research Ops Slack community (@TeamReOps) undertook a global adventure with the #WhatIsResearchOps project culminating in the Research Ops Framework. As the definition and framework has been shared at conferences and meet ups, we’ve been asked a lot of questions such as, ‘how does this work in practice?’ and ‘how do I get started?’. In short, we’ve realised that it depends. You first need to understand what’s ...

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