Women Talk Design – Discover brilliant diverse speakers for your next event.

Discover brilliant diverse speakers for your next event

Women Talk Design elevates women and gender non-binary speakers, empowers event organizers with resources to engage more diverse speakers, and offers training and support for new speakers.

Learn more

Find a speaker Get listed as a speaker

Discover diverse voices

I'm looking for

Discipline

Topics

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

Victoria Nduka

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion

Victoria Nduka is a user experience designer passionate about technology,...

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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....

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

Jamal Amanova

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsAR/VR, Business Design, Creativity, Design Thinking

Jamal joins Women Talk Design to elevate the stage with bold, visionary design...

Speakers, Get Featured

Get connected with event organizers interested in engaging women and gender non-binary speakers in design and tech.

Already have an account?

Know a great speaker? Let us know so we can invite them to be part of our directory and amplify their voice.

Nominate them

Speaker Profile

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....

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

Berenice Méndez

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCareer, Culture, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Berenice is a Creative Director living in San Francisco, originally from the border...

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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....

Engage diverse speakers

Our directory includes over 600 women and gender non-binary speakers in design and tech. Create an account to reach out to speakers, save their profiles and talks to help you plan your event, and engage with our community.

Already have an account?

Speaker Profile

Jamie Roberts

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCareer, Leadership, Teamwork

IndustryAdvertising

Jamie Roberts provides creative career support to design professionals across the globe....

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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...

Speaker Profile

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....

Find a speaker

Speaker Profile

Jessica Brown

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

LocationLos Angeles, CA, USA

Jess is the Director of UX at VICE, where she leads the product design team in creating digital experiences that showcase VICE’s distinct storytelling. Since joining VICE, she’s managed the design for five initiatives–a network-wide web redesign, VICE mobile apps, VICE Video, VICELAND digital, and a brand new CMS. Previously, she was the first UX practitioner at Rent the Runway, where she established UX and research practices that brought users’ stories to the heart of the product. In the Bay...

Speaker Profile

Kristin Lueke

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Immersive Experience Design

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Teamwork

IndustryMarketing

Chingona. Creative Strategist. Co-founder of Field of Practice. Another world is possible....

TalkVideo

How to Make Sense of Any Mess

DisciplineInformation Architecture

TopicsTaxonomy

Speaker Abby Covert

In a world where everything is getting more complex and we are all experiencing...

Speaker Profile

Shrut Kirti Saksena

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Methodology, Product Development, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

A UX Researcher. Strategic Thinker. Customer and user advocate. Lifelong...

TalkVideo

The Complex Relationship Between Data and Design in UX

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsData

Speaker Rochelle King

Engineering a website is equal parts vision and adaptation…responding both to how...

Speaker Profile

Liz Ogbu

DisciplinesArchitecture, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Leadership, Social Innovation, Storytelling, Sustainability

IndustriesEducation, Government, Healthcare, Nonprofit

A designer, urbanist, and spatial justice advocate, Liz is an expert on social and spatial...

Speakers, Get Featured

Get connected with event organizers interested in engaging women and gender non-binary speakers in design and tech.

Already have an account?

Know a great speaker? Let us know so we can invite them to be part of our directory and amplify their voice.

Nominate them

TalkVideo

What rock music taught me about identity & transformation

DisciplineArt

TopicsCulture

Speaker Ingrid Dahl

...

Speaker Profile

Tanu Malhotra

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsCulture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Social Innovation, Web & Mobile

IndustryFinance

Tanu is a User Experience Design Manager at IGM in Toronto, where she is working on...

TalkVideo

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...

Engage diverse speakers

Already have an account?

TalkVideo

Responsive Web Design podcast: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Front-end Engineering, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Culture, Design Strategy, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryGovernment

Speaker Naa Marteki Reed

The shifts that happened within federal agency to make responsive web design the baseline...

Speaker Profile

JD Sassaman

DisciplineArchitecture

TopicsCommunication, Innovation, Leadership

IndustryArts & Entertainment

JD currently leads one of the most adventurous, cutting-edge spaces for innovation...

TalkVideoSlides

Lightning fast UX: faking performance when there’s no code left to optimize

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, HTML, Web & Mobile

Speaker Stéphanie Walter

“You have optimized every line of code of your site or mobile app and used all the techniques at your disposal to have the fastest loading time possible. But you don’t have Instagram or Pinterest’s budget, right? Let’s talk about perceived performance and influencing the users’ perception of ...

Helpful Articles

On Speaking

3 Things We Learned from the Designing Your Talk Workshop

By Women Talk Design

Getting Started in Public Speaking

By Rachel Andrews

A formula for speaking fees

By jenn Lukas

more speaker resources

On Organizing

Conference Organizers Can (and Should) Help Move the Needle on Diversity

By Angela Brown

Holding Conferences Accountable: Questions Everyone Should Be Asking

By Steve Fisher

Organizers, here’s what is missing from your Call for Proposals

By Danielle Barnes

more organizer resources

Train up speakers at your company Prepare high potential employees to speak about their work on behalf of your company at conferences and public events. Our workshops equip new speakers with the tools and confidence to propose, craft and deliver compelling public talks. Contact us to learn more →

Connect with a Community of Speakers

Our private online community provides a space for new and experienced, women and gender non-binary speakers to ask questions, offer advice, and share upcoming speaking opportunities.

Request to join →