Conference Team

Speakers

Tim Allen
VP, Design & Research, Instacart
Angelos Arnis
Design Operations Manager, Smartly.io
Peter Boersma
DesignOps Consultant
Jay Bustamante
UX Strategist, VMware
Zariah Cameron
Co-Director of Community + Research, Aroko Cooperative
Jeff Courcelle
VP, User Experience & Chief Designer, MicroStrategy
Bassel Deeb
Design Programme Lead, frog (part of Capgemini Invent)
Kelly Dern
Senior Product Designer, Google
Nina Jurcic
Design Manager; Design System & DesignOps Advisor
Lauren Lin
Designer, Researcher, Student, Northwestern University
Pippa Lomas
Design Operations Manager (Research), BT
John Maeda
VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft
Sahibzada Mayed
Trauma-Informed Researcher, Abolitionist, Pause & Effect
Liza McRuer
Senior User Experience Designer, Ad Hoc LLC
Peter Merholz
Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale
Lori Muszynski
Executive Director, Design Evolution - People, JPMorgan Chase
Elena Naids
Senior UX Designer 2, AdHoc LLC
Will Osborn
Service Design Director, frog (part of Capgemini Invent)
Tim Parmee
Lead Experience Designer & Strategist, Thoughtworks
Matt Raw
VP, Product Design Culture & Operations, The New York Times
Erin Robertson
Design System Program Manager, Northern Trust
Theresa Slate
Design Operations Lead, Northern Trust
Abbey Smalley
Former Head of Design Programs, Amazon
Spencer L. A. Stultz
Sr Program Manager, Product Equity, Adobe, Inc
Maria Taylor
CEO & Principal Consultant, Limina
Erica Tjader
VP of Design and Research, SurveyMonkey
Gabrielle Verderber
Manager, UX Operations, AppFolio
Deanna Washington
Design Program Manager, Adobe Design

Curators

Bria Alexander
Sr. Design Program Manager, Adobe
Jon Fukuda
Co-founder, Limina.co
Saara Kamppari-Miller
Inclusive DesignOps Program Manager, Intel

Workshop Instructors

Daphne Bourne
Design Operations Practices Lead, Atlassian
Patrizia Bertini
DesignOps Leadership, 8x8
Emory Edwards
User Experience Researcher
Dan Mall
Founder, Design System University
Dave Malouf
Director of Design Operations, Teladoc Health
Peter Merholz
Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale
Farid Sabitov
DesignOps Consultant, EPAM Continuum

Conference Researchers

Adrienne Allnutt
Director, Design Operations, Servicenow
Patrizia Bertini
DesignOps Leadership, 8x8
Peter Boersma
DesignOps Consultant
Timothy Gilligan
Design Chief of Staff, Capital One
Rachel Posman
Senior Director, Design Operations, Salesforce
Dianne Que
Director, Global Product Design Operations
Dominique Ward
Head of Design Ops, Atlassian
Frances Yllana
Senior Manager DesignOps, Coforma

Staff

Kate Bellissimo
Student, Stanford University
Conference Librarian
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
Nathan Gold
Speaker Coach
Julia Hansen
Marketing and Operations Coordinator
Manuel Herrera
Educator, Illustrator, Speaker
Michelle Kaplan
Director Business Development, UX Training & Event Sponsorships at Rosenfeld Media
Elle Kyle
Operations Manager, Rosenfeld Media
David Nicholson
Sr. UX Designer, PwC
Session Noter
Ed Rosenfeld
Managing Member, Rosenfeld Media
Lou Rosenfeld
Principal, Rosenfeld Media