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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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Manon Miltenburg

DisciplinesInteraction Design, User Experience, User Interface

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

IndustryMarketing

LocationFred. Roeskestraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Manon strives to humanize the digital world. So she built a squad of UX writers and brand specialists at Mr Koreander, the first European agency specialized in UX writing. Together they create interfaces that speak in a human voice. It’s the most effective way of guiding users towards their goal and add some fun while they’re at...

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Coral Harker

DisciplineGraphic Design

TopicsCreativity, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Storytelling

IndustriesFashion, Marketing, Retail

Coral is Managing Director at London-based branding and packaging agency, Studio...

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Exercising Empathy to Resolve Conflict at Work

DisciplinesBusiness, User Experience

TopicsCommunication, Teamwork

Speaker Whitney Hess

85% of employees experience conflict at work. 25% have seen conflict result in...

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Cherian Porter

DisciplineProduct Design

TopicsProduct Development

IndustryTechnology

Cherian is a non traditional techie with a HR background now ux designer at a major...

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Everybody Hurts: Content for Kindness

DisciplinesContent Strategy, User Experience, User Research

TopicsCulture, Diversity & Inclusion

Speaker Sara Wachter-Boettcher

We all want interfaces that feel human—where the content is friendly and everything...

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Eva Schone

DisciplinesArchitecture, Art, Business, Product Design

TopicsBusiness Strategy, Creativity, Culture, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Management & Strategy, Sustainability

IndustryArts & Entertainment

Eva Schone is the CEO of Trophyology, which she founded with a passion to elevate...

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Change Management in DesignOps

DisciplineDesign Operations

TopicsLeadership, Management & Strategy

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Rachel Posman

Panel presentation and discussion with Friends of Figma. ...

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Catherine Courage

DisciplinesInformation Architecture, Interaction Design, Product Design, User Experience, User Research

TopicsBusiness Design, Culture, Design Strategy, Leadership, Web & Mobile

IndustryTechnology

Catherine is committed to delivering world-class products and services that drive...

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User Research for Agile Teams

DisciplineUser Research

TopicsAgile, Leadership

Speaker Jen Fabrizi

One of the biggest challenges facing UX designers working with agile teams is...

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Use Your Words: Why You Should Write About Your Work

DisciplineUser Experience

TopicsCareer, Communication, Community

IndustryTechnology

Speaker Lisa Maria Marquis

Too often, we leave writing about our work to the "experts"—big, accomplished names...

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Jessica Teal

DisciplinesBrand, Business, Design Operations, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, User Experience, User Interface, User Research

TopicsCommunication, Community, Creativity, Design Strategy, Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Storytelling, Visual Thinking, Web & Mobile

IndustriesMarketing, Nonprofit, Technology

Owner and principal of Teal Media, a full-service creative agency with a conscience....

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Body Languages of Interaction Design

DisciplineInteraction Design

TopicsLeadership

Speaker Irene Au

Interaction design is by now a well-understood discipline. As a professional community we have refined the way we think and talk about what we do and how we do our work. Design is both art and science, yet while we teach methods and practices for hard design skills, we don’t teach practices that address the art of design, which is often mystified as “creative genius”. Irene’s talk will explore how through meditation and yoga we can acquire the most critical skills we need to be great designers: ...

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