Speakers and Team

Speakers

Paul Bakaus
CEO and Founder, Renaissance Geek, Inc.
Ben Blumenrose
Managing Partner, Designer Fund
Beth Chappell
Senior Manager, Product Design (AI & Creator Tools), Articulate
Josh Clark
Principal of Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design
Christian Crumlish
Author of Product Management for UX People
Anil Dash
Principal and Co-Founder, antitech
Claire Dhoosche
Senior DesignOps Manager, Criteo
David Eisner
VP Product Design & Research, Founder of CraftAmplify
Erika Flowers
Principal Service Designer, Author, Facilitator
Paul Ford
Co-Founder, Aboard
Elyse Holladay
Staff Design Engineer, Color Health
Benjamin Jackson
Founder, Offtrail
Joy KendiMwiti
Senior Creative Lead, Dalberg Design
Veronika Kindred
Designer and Researcher at Big Medium, Co-author of Sentient Design
Allan Lowson
Head of Experience Design and Research, Arity
Adekunle Oduye
Independent UX Engineer
Snehal Pendharkar
Vice President Experience Research, JPMorgan Chase & Co
Kritika Sony
UX Designer, PromptPath AI
Rikki Teeters
Sr. UX Designer, Amazon
Peter Van Dijck
UX and AI builder, CEO Sputnik Legal
Vanessa Varin
Sr. Design Program Manager
Amelia Wattenberger
Developer, Designer, and Prototyper
Changying (Z) Zheng
Head of Product Experience Operations, Cloudflare

Workshop Leaders

Erika Flowers
Principal Service Designer, Author, Facilitator
Llewyn Paine
Principal of Innovation Strategy, Llewyn Paine Consulting
Dan Saffer
Assistant Professor of the Practice, Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Curator

Llewyn Paine
Principal of Innovation Strategy, Llewyn Paine Consulting

Program Associates

Aras Bilgen
UX Consultant / Trainer
Yulya Besplemennova
Partner and Service-System Design Lead, Oblo
John Donmoyer
Head of Product Design, Deno
Kim Wilton
Senior Program Manager, User Research Operations

Staff

Melissa Burnett
Lead Technical Program Manager, Dell Technologies
Lead Facilitator
Lauren Cantor
Business Strategist, Freelance Consultant, Field & Edge, LLC
Conference Librarian
Karen Corbett
Director of Operations, Rosenfeld Media
Nathan Gold
Speaker Coach
Michelle Kaplan
Director of Business Development, Rosenfeld Media
David Nicholson
Sr. UX Designer, PwC
Conference Session Noter
Ed Rosenfeld
Managing Member, Rosenfeld Media
Louis Rosenfeld
Founder, Rosenfeld Media
Allysia Edwards
Publishing and Events Coordinator, Rosenfeld Media