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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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Tash Wong

DisciplinesEngineering, Interaction Design

TopicsDesign Strategy, Web & Mobile

Tash Wong is an independent product designer and Chief Coaster Officer of Coastermatic, a friendly Instagram to coaster service. She likes to make things that bring people together in new ways. Prior to co-founding Coastermatic, Tash spent time creating groundbreaking mobile frameworks for the hospitality industry and product consulting for the New York Times and NY-based tech startups. She holds an MFA in Interaction Design from the School of Visual Arts in New York and lives in San...

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Rebecca Sadwick Shaddix

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Content Strategy, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Communication, Community, Creativity, Culture, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Innovation, IoT, Leadership, Management & Strategy, Policy, Social Innovation, Storytelling, Sustainability, Teamwork

IndustriesAdvertising, Education, Marketing, Nonprofit, Technology, Telecommunications

Rebecca advises tech companies on scalable branding, marketing and go-to-market strategies...

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Pay It Forward: How To Mentor Your UX Co-Workers Without Them Realizing It

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Leadership, Teamwork

Speaker Naa Marteki Reed

Want to be a mentor in the UX field, but you’re not sure where to start? Feel like...

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Shamika Goddard

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsDiversity & Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, Ethics, Social Networks, Web & Mobile

IndustriesEducation, Nonprofit, Technology

Shamika is a Ph.D. student, technowomanist and founder of the Tech Chaplaincy Institute...

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Two Sides of the Design Ops Coin

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsCulture, Management & Strategy, Teamwork

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Rachel Posman

How we re-designed our Salesforce UXOps team to adapt organizational scale....

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Erika Hall

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

TopicsDesign Strategy

Erika has been working in web design and development since before Cibo Matto released...

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Content: The Overlooked User Experience

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience

TopicsDesign Strategy, Design Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Brittney Urich

This talk explores the importance of integrating content strategy into UX design....

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Maggie Winters Gaudaen

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Immersive Experience Design, Interaction Design

TopicsBusiness Design, Business Strategy, Career, Creativity, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Visual Thinking

IndustriesAdvertising, Marketing

Maggie Winters-Gaudaen is a partner and creative director at DC agency January Third....

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Robot Etiquette and Experience Design

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsRobotics & AI

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Louisa Heinrich

As digital machines gain greater autonomy, Louisa Heinrich talks about our...

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The Surprising Neuroscience of Gender Inequality

DisciplineBusiness

TopicsCareer, Culture, Diversity & Inclusion, Teamwork

Speaker Janet Crawford

When it comes to the tech industry and gender, the situation isn’t pretty. Yet...

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Samantha Berg

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsCareer, Design Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion

Samantha is an award-winning design leader breaking barriers to shape an industry of...

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Introduction to Service Design

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsService Design

IndustriesEducation, Technology

Speaker Megan Erin Miller

At Stanford, we as staff provide many types of "services" to our community, from administrative support to information technology, security, facilities, and much more. Providing quality, consistent services is at the heart of what we do. Service design is an approach that applies design thinking and human-centered design to services, aiming to create exceptional end-to-end service experiences for our community. Megan Miller will introduce the basics of service design, its core concepts, methods, and ...

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