Speakers and Team

Speakers

Francesca Barrientos, PhD
Sr. Design Strategist, Cisco
Kevin Bethune
Founder & CCO, dreams • design + life
Amy Brana Stuart
Head of Design Operations, Viamo
Luz Bratcher
Director, Golden Repair
Tiffany Cheng
Product Design Lead, Loopio
Emily Danielson
Sr. Design Strategist, ExxonMobil
Adel Du Toit
Head of User Experience Center of Expertise, The Boston Consulting Group
Anat Fintzi
Staff UX, The Home Depot
Reginé Gilbert
Designer, Educator, Author
Jess Greco
Director, Product Experience Design, Mastercard
Brendan Jarvis
Managing Founder, The Space InBetween
Sarah Kinkade
Director, Brand Design and Strategy, Signifyd
Rachel Minnicks
Manager, Enterprise UX, The Home Depot
Mariana Ortiz-Reyes
Director of Product Design and Experience, Signifyd
B. Pagels-Minor
Thought leader on product and culture development within technology companies
Rusha Sopariwala
Senior Manager, Product Design, Wayfair
Barb Spanton
Director, User Experience, Varian Medical Systems
Liam Thurston
Senior Director, User Experience, Loblaw Digital
Nicole Umphress
Education Designer, IBM
Alana Washington
Senior Design Manager, Uber Freight

Workshop Instructors

Natalie Dunbar
Principal UX Content Strategist, Author, Speaker
Joshua Mauldin
Director of Design

Curators

Uday Gajendar
Design Manager, Aurora Solar
Lada Gorlenko
Senior Director of Research at MURAL
Kit Unger
SVP, Design, MURAL

Staff

Bria Alexander
Design Program Manager, Adobe
Emcee
MJ Broadbent
CX Design Leader, Graphic Facilitator, Virtual Scribe
Sketchnoter
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
Adeline Crites-Moore
Marketing Director, Rosenfeld Media
Nathan Gold
Speaker Coach
Michelle Kaplan
Director Business Development, UX Training & Event Sponsorships at Rosenfeld Media
Elle Kyle
Operations Coordinator, Rosenfeld Media
Phill LoFaso
Senior Director, Marketing & Sales, Rosenfeld Media
Kat Meyer
Director, Conferences and Communities, Rosenfeld Media
Ed Rosenfeld
Principal and COO, Rosenfeld Media
Lou Rosenfeld
Principal, Rosenfeld Media
Shivangi
User Experience Designer
Scribe

Cohort Facilitators

Vianka Aloras
UX Director, On-Property Digital Experiences, Marriott
Sandeep Chahal
Lead Service Designer, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Lauryn Claassen
Senior Content Designer, Collective Health
Jef Desourdy
Manager, User Experience Design, Deloitte Digital
Dave Hoffer
Managing Director - Inclusive Design and Accessibility, PwC
Sebastian Malo
Group Experience Design Manager, Deloitte Digital
Elena Naids
Sr. UX Designer, Ad Hoc LLC
Mike Oren
Senior Manager, Design Research, Klaviyo
Kristen Ramirez
Experience Designer, Procore Technologies
Changying (Z) Zheng
DesignOps Lead, Cloudflare