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Manon Miltenburg

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCommunication, Product Development, Storytelling, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustryMarketing

Manon Miltenburg (Amsterdam, 1984) is Director at UX writing agency Mr Koreander...

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Jaime-Alexis Fowler

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Privilege, Social Innovation, Teamwork

Jaime-Alexis Fowler, Founder & Executive Director of Empower Work...

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Christine Park

DisciplinesGame Design, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsAR/VR, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Innovation, IoT, Product Development, Voice UI, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Design leader, strategist, author of bestselling “Designing Across Senses,” O’Reilly Media...

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Deborah Oladeji

DisciplineFashion

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Storytelling

IndustryFashion

Hello, I am a young and black driven girl planning not to be limited by my age or...

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Cindy Montgenie

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Culture, Leadership, Management & Strategy

Cindy Montgenie, former award-winning HP executive, is a high-performance strategist,...

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Emily Cohen

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Graphic Design, Industrial Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Communication, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryArts & Entertainment

A brutally honest consultant, Emily Cohen has been honored to consult and work with...

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Jenny Rankin, Ph.D.

DisciplinesData Science, Graphic Design, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Data, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Technology

TED Talker, author, University of Cambridge lecturer, researcher, keynote speaker, Mensan...

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Ana Medina

DisciplinesArchitecture, Back-end Engineering, Engineering

TopicsCareer, Community

IndustryTechnology

Ana is a Software Engineer living in San Francisco. She started her coding career...

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Miriam Ynocencio

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Miriam Ynocencio serves as the Director of Design Technology focused on leading the...

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Anthara Carr

DisciplinesBusiness, Content Strategy, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Social Innovation, Web & Mobile

IndustryMarketing

A third generation entrepreneur, Anthara Patrice has over 23 years of business experience....

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Tiffany Chen

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Front-end Engineering, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Service Design

IndustryTechnology

Designer at Microsoft: Inclusive Design and consumer subscription services...

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Tosca Fasso

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsCareer, Leadership

IndustryFinance

Tosca is an energetic speaker and executive who aims not just to instruct but to inspire...

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Lynne Dupuis

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Service Design, Social Networks, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustriesGovernment, Healthcare, Nonprofit

Lynne Dupuis wants to see you shine!...

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Blanca Navarro

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Creativity

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing, Retail

Blanca is an art director and interactive designer living in sunny Southern California....

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Nikki Moeschinger

DisciplinesBrand, Design Operations, Graphic Design

TopicsCareer, Creativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Storytelling, Teamwork

IndustryMarketing

Nikki Moeschinger is Managing Director of the Australian operations of UK based...

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Kishya Greer

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design

TopicsAgile, Business Design, Communication, Creativity, Design Strategy

Owner of The Great Exhibition, an e-commerce packaging and branding design studio....

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Katie Swisher

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsCreativity, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Katie is a product manager for an app development company specializing in web and...

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Vanessa Dewey

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Leadership

Throughout her career, Vanessa has been driven by three things: cultures,...

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Yuan Wang

DisciplinesArt, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCreativity, Storytelling

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Technology

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA

Yuan Wang is a designer, artist, and craftswoman. She is currently a design manager at Airbnb. Previously she was a senior designer at Twitter and Mozilla. Yuan enjoys connecting with the audience through personal stories. She aspires to speak to inspire, not to impress. Since the age of 4, Yuan has always been dancing and performing on stage. Performing arts is her primary inspirations for mastering storytelling and building stage presence. Topics She is spoken or written about: FINDING MY VOICE...

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Stephanie Akkaoui Hughes

DisciplineArchitecture

TopicsCulture

Stephanie is part of a new breed of young visionary architects, who operate beyond...

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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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Problem Clients: How to Spot Them and Turn Them Into Good Ones

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsTeamwork

IndustryMarketing

Speaker Ilise Benun

Battling big egos and unfair deadlines? You’re not alone. But for solopreneurs and...

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Jenny Rankin, Ph.D.

DisciplinesData Science, Graphic Design, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Data, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustriesEducation, Technology

TED Talker, author, University of Cambridge lecturer, researcher, keynote speaker, Mensan...

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The Importance of Being Awesome

DisciplinesUser Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Social Innovation

Speaker Christina Xu

“Without joy the Awesome Foundation would be the Cheap and Efficient Foundation,...

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Eva-Lotta Lam

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, User Interface

TopicsIllustration, Visual Thinking

Eva-Lotta Lamm is a User Experience Designer, illustrator and visual thinker. She...

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How and Why to Start Sketchnoting

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Illustration, Visual Thinking

Speaker Veronica Erb

Sketchnoting is like notetaking, but with more flair and more focus. Hand lettering...

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The Cost of Missing Something

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Culture, Data, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Tricia Wang

Why do so many companies make such bad decisions? Tricia Wang demystifies the...

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Karen Kaushansky

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsDesign Strategy, Innovation, Methodology, Robotics & AI, Voice UI

IndustryTechnology

Karen Kaushansky is a Conversational Interface Designer and Product Designer, ...

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Sketching Interfaces

DisciplineUser Interface

TopicsCommunication, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

Speaker Eva-Lotta Lam

Sketching is a crucial tool for designers to have in their skillset. It’s cheap, fast and easy to learn. Many design and product teams today have embraced sketching as part of their (agile) process. In her talk, Eva-Lotta will first cover a few basics and explain how you can build on what you already know and do. She will talk about how you can refine your sketching skills and how to apply them more effectively, both on your own as well as when working with a group. She will share examples, tips ...

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