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Vanessa Mason

DisciplineContent Strategy

TopicsDesign Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Service Design

Vanessa Mason is co-founder and managing director of P2Health Ventures. Prior, she...

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Andrea Mignolo

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Leadership

Andrea is a designer who has been exploring interactions between humans and...

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Margaret Stewart

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsLeadership

Margaret is a seasoned user experience executive with over 15 years experience...

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Laurie Frick

DisciplineArt

TopicsData

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Laurie Frick is a data artist exploring the bumpy future of data captured about us....

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Tash Wong

DisciplinesEngineering, Interaction Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Web & Mobile

Tash Wong is an independent product designer and Chief Coaster Officer of...

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Nadia Udalova

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsAgile, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Nadia is a Digital Product Designer who helps organisations infuse design into their cultu...

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Elizabeth Grigg

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Motion & Animation, User Experience

TopicsStorytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Elizabeth Grigg is a keen observer and big talker. She has put these skills to work...

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Karen VanHouten

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCulture, Design Strategy, Teamwork

Over 20 years in enterprise UX have left Karen a tiny bit unhinged, kind of sweary,...

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Lara Hanlon

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsStorytelling

Lara Hanlon is a designer, design thinker, explorer, and maker. As Designer in...

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Tatiana Kolesnikova

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Lean, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Experience designer with academic background in both IT and design. ...

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Stephanie Nguyen

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsIllustration, Typography

Stephanie is the Director of Design at Coinsquare where she is responsible for...

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Ingrid Dahl

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsCommunication, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Service Design

IndustryEducation

Ingrid Hu Dahl is the Director of Learning Experiences at Capital One, creating a...

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Madonnalisa Chan

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience

TopicsCommunity

IndustryTechnology

Madonnalisa Chan has been involved in the IA/UX community for close to 20 years, from...

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Christina Koehn

DisciplinesBrand, Graphic Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Christina Koehn is a Principal Design Manager at Microsoft, where she started working as a...

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Delia Grenville

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Career, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Delia Grenville is a research scientist, technology strategist and innovator. She is...

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Nishat Akhtar

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Nishat Akhtar is an associate creative director at Instrument, an adjunct professor...

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Josephine Wong

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Community, Culture, Design Strategy

IndustryEducation

Jo believes everyone is capable and responsible to contribute with actions within our reac...

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Natalie Dunbar

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Management & Strategy, Web & Mobile

IndustryHealthcare

Natalie is a Content Strategist who specializes in building engaging content experiences...

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Donna Spencer

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Service Design, Taxonomy, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Government, Technology

LocationMelbourne VIC, Australia

As a service designer and user experience designer for 20-ish years, Donna solves problems and designs great experiences. She has worked with a wide range of client types, including government, telecommunications, insurance, retail, not-for-profit, higher education and many more. Recognised internationally as a leading UX practitioner, Donna is a regular conference speaker, has written three books: on information architecture, card sorting and writing for the web. Donna also teaches workshops, mentors...

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Desiree Garcia

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Community, Design Strategy, Robotics & AI, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Dezzie Garcia is a product designer at Automattic, working on the future of WordPress. ...

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Let’s Build a CSS Game

DisciplineFront-end Engineering

TopicsCSS, HTML

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Una Kravets

Let’s live code a game together using just CSS and HTML! This talk will demonstrate...

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Sara Ortloff Khoury

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Design Strategy, Leadership

As director of user experience design for Google Cloud, Sara leads research &...

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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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Become a Better, Self-Driven Learner

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer

IndustryEducation

Speaker Jessica Ivins

Self-driven learning is its own, indispensable skill. It’s essential to our career...

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Paola Mariselli

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Paola loves connecting with people and empowering them to create and grow by sharing her c...

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Design Leadership in Business

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Design Leadership in Business

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Leadership

Speaker Maria Giudice

Be inspired by “accidental entrepreneur” Maria Giudice, as she shares her journey...

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Equality

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, User Experience

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork

Speaker Sam Kapila

Giving people the same opportunity requires acknowledging not everyone starts with...

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Abby Covert

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsTeamwork

IndustryTechnology

Abby Covert is a senior staff information architect at Etsy. She specializes in delivering...

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Scrit Scrit

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience

TopicsInnovation

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Allison Shaw

The official introduction of Scrit Scrit, a platform that promotes handwriting as a powerful tool for expression, problem solving, and sharing. Learn about the necessity of handwriting, the historical evidence, and the app itself. --- Scrit Scrit makes it easy to capture and showcase your handwritten work, allowing you to form greater connections with your friends, your work, and yourself. The app is designed to merge the best of today's technology with the best of the analog world, mixing the...

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