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Erin Pinkley

DisciplineBrand

TopicsCreativity, Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Teamwork, Visual Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Erin runs the Brand Team at Zendesk....

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Maria Teresa Stella

DisciplinesProduct Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Design Thinking, Methodology

IndustriesMarketing, Technology

UX Designer and HCI graduate...

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Meeta Mathur

DisciplinesGraphic Design, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Product Development, Teamwork, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesFinance, Technology

Meeta Mathur is VP, Experience Design at MineralTree Inc., a B2B fintech SaaS company....

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Emily Campbell

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Design, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Product Development, Service Design

Emily is a veteran design and product practitioner. She is currently a Senior...

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Jasmine Patel

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Career, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryNonprofit

Senior Interactive Designer, Philadelphia Museum of Art...

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Cara Miller

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Design Strategy, Design Systems, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Product Development, Visual Thinking

IndustriesEducation, Marketing, Nonprofit, Technology, Telecommunications

Instrumental in crafting digital solutions for numerous Fortune 500 companies....

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Alexandra Fiorillo

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Leadership, Social Innovation

Alexandra is the Founder and CEO of GRID Impact, a social impact design Collective...

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Jeannie Huang

DisciplinesArt, Design Operations, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Management & Strategy, Teamwork, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Product designer at Adobe exploring how to empower creatives...

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Kelly O’Brien

DisciplinesContent Strategy, Information Architecture, Product Design, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Design Thinking, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

Content designer @Intercom. News junkie, language weirdo, all-purpose nerd. (she/her)...

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Jenny Shirey

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsAgile, Career, Communication, Culture, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Lean, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Jenny specializes in helping teams make technical products that users love....

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Janey Lee

DisciplinesProduct Design, Product Management

TopicsBusiness Design, Career, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Management & Strategy, Product Development, Teamwork

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Finance

Janey is a product designer who thinks a lot about experimentation, design for social...

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Joy Davis

DisciplinesArt, Fashion

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion, Installation & Curation, Storytelling, Visual Thinking

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Fashion

Joy Davis is an independent scholar of fashion and cultural studies. She has B.A.s in...

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Monique Dubbelman

DisciplinesArchitecture, Content Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership

Monique Dubbelman works as an independent UX designer and content strategist for her...

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Jennie Moore

DisciplinesBrand, Business

TopicsCareer, Communication, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustryAdvertising

Jennie is an award-winning creative director and copywriter at WONGDOODY, Seattle....

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Minal Bopaiah

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy, Graphic Design, Sales

TopicsCommunication, Creativity, Culture, Design Systems, Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership, Privilege

Keynotes that open doors in people's minds....

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Elisa Sunga

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Product Management, User Experience

TopicsBusiness Design, Creativity, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Storytelling

IndustryTechnology

Elisa Sunga is a UX Program Manager at Google where she has been growing and learning...

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Stephanie Lucas

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsEthics

IndustryTechnology

Stephanie Lucas is a Designer at LinkedIn, focusing on trust, ethics and privacy...

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Ashley Hefnawy

DisciplinesBrand, Content Strategy

TopicsAccessibility, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Ethics, Storytelling, Web & Mobile

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Marketing, Technology

Ashley Hefnawy is a Brooklyn based multidisciplinary creative writer....

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Anna Abovyan

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience

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

IndustryHealthcare

LocationPittsburgh, PA, USA

As a User Experience Manager at M*Modal, a speech technology company in Pittsburgh, Anna brings order to the chaotic world of medical documentation. She leads a passionate team of cross-discipline designers as they turn awkward workflows into joyful experiences. UX process improvement, multi-modal interactions, and endless opportunities to improve the little things around us are among her top interests. Anna holds a Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from the Russian-Armenian...

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Lenora Porter

DisciplinesFront-end Engineering, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface

TopicsCareer, Community, Creativity, Diversity & Inclusion, Illustration, JavaScript, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Lenora Porter, a full-time pixel pusher and avid community leader found her footing...

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Go Beyond

DisciplineImmersive Experience Design

TopicsAccessibility, Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker Glenda Watson Hyatt

Glenda Watson Hyatt shares a life changing fear in this amazing...

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Vanessa Colina

DisciplinesBrand, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsIllustration

Vanessa is a User Experience Designer based in Washington, DC. Her focus is in user...

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Emotional Trauma, Machine Learning and the Internet

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCulture, Data, Social Networks

Speaker Caroline Sinders

This is a talk on machine learning, emotional data, and how design affects behavior,...

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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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How to Coach Enterprise Experimentation

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsLeadership, Teamwork

Speaker Alissa Briggs

Learn how to lead experimentation in enterprise by becoming an experiment coach....

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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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IBM Design Thinking and Agile Subset

DisciplinesInteraction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsDesign Thinking

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Soo Yun Kim

IBM CIO Design & Luminary Company visit A presentation about IBM Design Thinking...

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Data, Beauty and Action

DisciplinesArt, Back-end Engineering, Engineering, Front-end Engineering

TopicsCulture, Data

IndustriesArts & Entertainment, Education, Technology

Speaker Omayeli Arenyeka

Gallatin seniors share inspiring stories that developed from their academic...

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Kate Okrasinski

DisciplinesDesign Operations, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Creativity, Culture, Design Strategy, Diversity & Inclusion, Innovation, Service Design

IndustriesEducation, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Marketing, Nonprofit, Telecommunications

Kate is Director of Innovation at MAKE Studios. Drawing from her experience as an...

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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 development. But we often overlook the skill of learning. We often focus on what we need to learn rather than how we’ll learn it best. As a result, we learn less effectively and less efficiently than we could. In this presentation, Jessica will share methods you can use to improve your learning, in a way that works most effectively, for you. She'll also share tools that helped her during her own learning ...

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