Speakers and Team

Speakers

Giovanna Alonso
Product Designer & Design Discipline Analyst, BBVA Mexico
Cennydd Bowles
Managing Director, NowNext
Sheri Byrne-Haber
Accessibility Architect, VMWare
Edward Cupps
Principal User Experience Designer, Workiva
Sha Hwang
COO and Co-founder, Nava
Wendy Johansson
Global Product Experience Leader, Amazon
Fotina Koutropoulous
Associate Director - Delivery, Simple Machines
Niko Laitinen
Senior Designer, Nitor
Davis Neable
Director, UX, Manulife Canada
Prerna Makanawala
Vice President of User Experience & Engineering, Palo Alto Networks
Joseph Meersman
Senior Director, Design, Intapp
Peter Merholz
Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale
Lona Moore
Global Design Community Manager, ExxonMobil
Malini Rao
Director, User Experience, UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group)
Cornelius Rachieru
Managing Director, Ampli2de Inc.
Guy Segal
Director, UX, Manulife
Matt Stone
Employee Experience Designer, USAA
Nora Tejeda
Design Discipline Manager, BBVA Mexico
Tutti Taygerly
Leadership Coach
Surya Vanka
Founder & Chief Designer, Authentic LLC
Meaghan Waters
Product and Experience Design Principal, ThoughtWorks

Workshop Instructors

Dan Mall
Founder + CEO, SuperFriendly
Billie Mandel
Educator, Facilitator, Coach, Founder - Synaesthetics LLC
Peter Merholz
Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale
Sophia Prater
UX Strategy Consultant and Coach
Bram Wessel
Founder and Principal, Factor

Conference Curators

Uday Gajendar
UX Architect, Automation Anywhere
Lada Gorlenko
Senior Director of Research at MURAL
Kit Unger
VP, Product Design, MURAL

Conference Staff

Bria Alexander
Design Program Manager, Adobe
MJ Broadbent
CX Design Leader, Graphic Facilitator, Virtual Scribe
Melissa Burnett
Lead Facilitator
Karen Corbett
Operations Manager, Rosenfeld Media
Adeline Crites-Moore
Associate Marketing Director, Rosenfeld Media
Michelle Kaplan
Director Business Development, UX Training & Event Sponsorships at Rosenfeld Media
David Nicholson
Business Analyst
Andrea Nuñez
Database and UX Manager, Rosenfeld Media
Ed Rosenfeld
Principal and COO, Rosenfeld Media
Lou Rosenfeld
Principal, Rosenfeld Media
Nelly Wollenberg
Associate Director of Communities and Conferences

Cohort Facilitators

Nepunnee Birondo
Designer transitioning to UX Researcher Aspiring Digital Nomad, 1st Stop: Istanbul
Andrew Heber
User Experience Lead, ZS
Andrew Korf
User Experience Manager, ZS
Lisa Lokshin
Senior Product Designer, Grubhub
Elena Naids
Design Strategist, ExxonMobil
Nitya Nambisan
Senior UX Researcher, Indeed
Bibiana Nunes
Design Consultant
Ilona Posner
UX Consultant & Educator, U. of Toronto
Kristen Ramirez
Experience Designer
Andrei Urse
Sr. UX Designer | Founder, Researchloop.net
Maggie Yue
Lead Product Designer, Cloudflare
Changying (‘Z’) Zheng
Design Leader, Cloudflare