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Teresa Washburn

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking

Teresa Washburn is Head of Platform Services Design at Workday. She leads a global...

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Kat Vellos

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, Interaction Design, Product Design

TopicsCommunity

IndustryTechnology

Kat Vellos is a user experience designer with a passion for helping people...

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Amy Thibodeau

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Design Operations, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership

IndustryTechnology

Director of UX for Shopify’s Platform and UX operations teams....

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Carolyn Hou

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Design Strategy, Innovation, Product Development, Service Design

IndustriesHealthcare, Technology

Carolyn Hou is the Founder of Arlo Labs, a boutique insight and innovation...

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Talia Kerr

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Disability

Talia approaches each project with passion, motivated by the important role effective...

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Briana Gardener

DisciplinesArt, Brand, Graphic Design

TopicsCommunity, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Privilege, Storytelling

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Briana is a photographer and graphic artist based in the Bay Area. Her...

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LaDonna Witmer Willems

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustriesAdvertising, Technology

As a writer and speaker, LaDonna creates and facilitates powerful expressions of voice....

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Ovetta Sampson

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAR/VR, Data, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Robotics & AI

As a Principal Creative Director at Microsoft, Ovetta works with a team of talented...

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Jimena Almendares

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Culture, Data, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

VP of Global Expansion at Intuit, CEO and President of Intuit Payments Inc....

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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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Lauren Dillard

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, User Experience, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Ethics, Product Development, Service Design, Storytelling

IndustryFinance

Lauren Dillard is a problem-solver working at the intersection of storytelling,...

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Elaine Montilla

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy

IndustryEducation

Elaine Montilla is an accomplished Senior Executive with almost two decades as an IT...

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Dianne Que

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCulture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Product Development, Service Design

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Nonprofit, Technology

Dianne Que co-leads Design Operations at Pandora, where she plays a key role in...

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Carey Jenkins

DisciplinesBack-end Engineering, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Ethics, Innovation

IndustryTechnology

Carey Jenkins is CEO of Substantial, a world-class Digital Innovation + Build Studio....

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Anel Muller

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsBusiness Design, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Leadership

Anel Muller is the Design Operations Lead at PayPal. Her unique professional...

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Ramla Mahmood

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCareer, Culture, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

IndustryTechnology

Ramla Mahmood is product designer based in the Washington D.C area. She is currently...

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Laurie Rosenwald

DisciplineArt

TopicsCreativity, Innovation, Social Innovation

An artist at heart, Laurie started her career as an illustrator working with...

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Hina Shahid

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Design Operations, Interior Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCreativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Methodology, Service Design, Social Innovation

Hina is a strategic designer, design researcher, educator and an entrepreneur. ...

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Lola Oyelayo

DisciplinesBusiness, Design Operations, Product Management, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Blockchain, Business Design, Design Strategy, IoT, Leadership, Lean

IndustryTechnology

LocationLondon, UK

Lola operates at a strategic level, helping organisations to see the bigger picture and mitigate their "me too" tendencies. She helps define meaningful, impactful and tangible product visions which they can actually execute. An advocate for digital transformation, she is focused on how to create resilient environments for digital innovation, namely, high-performance design cultures. Alongside working strategically with business leadership, Lola is exploring how design is changing with the emergence of...

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B. Pagels-Minor

DisciplineProduct Management

TopicsAgile, Business Strategy, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Methodology, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

B. is a native of Mississippi who relocated to the Silicon Valley in 2018 from...

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Defining a Just Pittsburgh

DisciplinesImmersive Experience Design, User Research

TopicsCommunity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker Liz Ogbu

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Catt Small

DisciplinesEngineering, Game Design, Graphic Design, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsAgile, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Illustration, Lean, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Catt is a Product Designer, game maker, and developer who enjoys creating interactive expe...

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Connect

DisciplinesEngineering, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Social Networks

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Cynthia Savard Saucier

How can we stay connected through social media without becoming enslaved to these...

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Rouja Pakiman

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsDesign Systems, Design Thinking, Product Development, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Rouja Pakiman is a Product Design Manager currently working on the future of...

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Silvina Rodriguez Picaro

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Graphic Design, Sales

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Communication, Creativity, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Management & Strategy

IndustryMarketing

I am a passionate speaker, willing to inspire and share experiences with the audience....

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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...

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Jacinda Walker

DisciplinesBusiness, Graphic Design, User Research

TopicsCareer, Community, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Service Design, Social Innovation

IndustryEducation

Jacinda is renowned for her work in design, diversity, research, and strategy. She is...

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Real World Discovery Research

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsService Design

Speaker Emma Boulton

Have you ever had to do discovery research with no budget and no user researchers? Or is your discovery process limited to stakeholder interviews and competitor research? The market research industry are constantly berated for relying on focus groups but the same criticism could be levelled at the UX industry’s go-to methodology - lab based usability testing. One to one interviews in a lab are a great research methodology to choose when you have a clearly defined solution and are iterating on it. What ...

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