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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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Upasna Gautam

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsCareer, Communication, Leadership, Product Development, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

LocationAustin, TX, USA

Upasna is the Product Manager on the Digital News Platforms team at CNN where she is working alongside CNN’s journalists, engineers, and designers to build the new platform that will revolutionize the way breaking news is delivered to the world. Upasna lives her passion for teaching through processing complex technological topics and distilling them down to their simplest forms so that they can be understood by anyone. She has presented her thought leadership on product management and leadership at...

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Inna Kerzman

DisciplinesProduct Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Design Strategy

Inna is a multidisciplinary experience designer, specializing in customer retention....

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Leading with Integrative Thinking

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Susan Lin

Leading with Integrative Thinking A user-centered culture must grow self-sustainably....

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Ana Peralta

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Founder of FLIT, Principal Product Designer in FinTech, CSPO, Latina/BIPOC based in ATX...

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Deactivate Microaggressions @ Work

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience

TopicsDisability, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Ethics, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Speaker Vivian Acquah

This training is to help people understand how microaggressions undermine inclusion....

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Berta Medina-Garcia

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Culture, Entrepreneurship

Berta Medina-Garcia is a rare breed of speaker and coach – by infusing "classic"...

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Christina Humpf

DisciplinesBusiness, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Privilege, Service Design, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

Head of Design, Senior Manager – UX, CX, SaaS Concepter...

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Puja Parakh

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Design Thinking, Product Development

IndustryTechnology

Puja Parakh a User Experience Manager at Starbucks in Seattle,...

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Workshop – Card sorting

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Methodology

Speaker Stéphanie Walter

I organise UX in Lux workshops. For this edition, we focused on Information Architecture and Cards Sorting. As small groups we tested, the card sorting method to regroup data and create an information architecture of a website and group ...

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