Speakers and Team

Featured Speakers

Neil Barrie
Co-founder & Global CEO, TwentyFirstCenturyBrand
Steve Portigal
User Research, Portigal Consulting
Author, Interviewing Users and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries
Victor Udoewa
Service Design Lead, CDC
Tricia Wang
Tech Ethnographer

Speakers

Nicole Aleong
Senior Design Researcher, TPXimpact
Robin Beers
Founder, Ubuntu Culture Company
Megan Blocker
Director of User Research, DigitalOcean
Dane DeSutter
Data Scientist, Catalyst Education
Mujtaba Hameed
Senior Research Consultant, Stripe Partners
Savina Hawkins
Strategic UX Researcher & Prompt Engineer, Meta
Nalini Kotamraju
Senior Vice President, Research & Insights, Salesforce
Peter Levin
Principal Researcher, HubSpot
Fatimah Richmond
UXR Programs & Strategy, Google
Andy Warr
Director of Portfolio Research & Insights, Dropbox

Workshop Instructors

Subhasree Chatterjee
Data Analytics Manager, LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Alexandra Jayeun Lee
Director of Research and Data Science, Microsoft
Steve Portigal
User Research, Portigal Consulting
Author, Interviewing Users and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries
Archana Shah
Principal UX Researcher, LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Curators

Jemma Ahmed
Head of Insights, Bumble
Christopher Geison
Staff Researcher, ServiceNow

Staff

Bria Alexander
Sr. Design Program Manager, Adobe
Melissa Burnett
Senior Design Cross-Product Lead, Dell Technologies
Lead Facilitator
Lauren Cantor
Business Strategist, Freelance Consultant, Field & Edge, LLC
Conference Librarian
Karen Corbett
Director of Operations, Rosenfeld Media
Julia Hansen
Marketing and Operations Coordinator, Rosenfeld Media
Manuel Herrera
Educator, Illustrator, Speaker
Michelle Kaplan
Director of Business Development, Rosenfeld Media
Elle Kyle
Operations Manager, Rosenfeld Media
David Nicholson
Sr. UX Designer, PwC
Session Noter
Ed Rosenfeld
Managing Member, Rosenfeld Media
Louis Rosenfeld
Founder, Rosenfeld Media
Nelly Wollenberg
Virtual Host

Cohort Facilitators

Dave Hoffer
Designer