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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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tobacco brown

DisciplineArt

TopicsCommunity, Creativity

IndustryArts & Entertainment

LocationMemphis, TN, USA

tobacco brown Ted I Speaker TED Resident tobacco brown is a social artist working at the public intersection of environmental art and restorative justice. trained professionally as a designer, tobacco believes that nature can remediate traumas and heal humanity globally. tobacco’s 2018 TED Talk “What gardens taught me about life” encapsulates nature’s healing properties and energizes her public art...

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Shayna Hodkin

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Community, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Storytelling

Shayna's Managing Editor of the InVision blog, a design blog with over 2,5m subscribers....

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Weighing the Impact of Great Design

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Ethics, Sustainability

Speaker Lis Hubert

Great design is everywhere. In a world that’s gone digital its impact is vast. The...

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Ari Krzyzek

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Design Operations, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Web & Mobile

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

CEO and Head of Strategy at Chykalophia (read: see-ka-lo-fia), Ari Krzyzek helps...

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Speaking Design: Better requirements to get better design

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCommunication, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Audrey Crane

Learn to find the sweetspot between requirements that are too broad, or too specific. ...

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Kim West

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

Kim West, Creative Dir. of ALTR Studio, an independent, women-run graphic design studio....

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Designing Interface Next

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAR/VR

Speaker Kara Miekina

With interfaces breaking out of the comfortable rectangles of laptops and smartphones, des...

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Sarah Doody

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Development, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Sarah Doody is a UX Designer, Researcher, & Career Strategist. ...

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Interview with Samantha Warren

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Design Systems

Speaker Samantha Warren

Samantha Warren, designer at Twitter, talks with Dan Gorgone about discuss how she...

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Build a Better Hiring Process with Design Thinking

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership

Speaker Crystal Yan

How do companies hire? And how does a manager build out a hiring process from the...

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Janet Zaretsky

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCommunication, Leadership, Teamwork

Janet Zaretsky is a master professional executive coach, trainer, author, and speaker...

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The Importance of Being Awesome

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Social Innovation

EventTEDx

Speaker Christina Xu

“Without joy the Awesome Foundation would be the Cheap and Efficient Foundation, which is a lot less catchy.” Christina Xu is a trustee of the Awesome Foundation founded in Boston by 10 friends. Now with chapters worldwide, the independent, self-funded foundation awards $1,000 grants monthly to small projects they deem ...

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