Speakers and Team

Featured Speakers

Vincent Brathwaite
Design Leader, Speaker, and Educator
Lisa Gironda
Chief of Staff, Consultant
Kat Vellos
Principal, Kat Vellos Design & Consulting

Speakers

Jackie Ajoux
UX Program Manager, Electronic Arts (EA)
Adrienne Allnutt
Director of Design & Research Operations, LinkedIn
Suzan Bednarz
Senior Manager, Design Operations, Cigna
Patrizia Bertini
iXD Design Operations Lead, Intuit
Meredith Black
DesignOps Consultant
Dean Broadley
Founder, Designing Humans
John Calhoun
Director of UX Product Operations, Salesforce
Jonathon Colman
Senior Design Manager, Intercom
Patrick Commarford
Design Principal, IBM
Maggie Dieringer
Design Operations Lead, Uber Eats
Ana Ferreira
Head of Design, Doist
Jon Fukuda
Co-founder, Limina.co
Ariba Jahan
Director of Innovation, Ad Council
Dr. Karl Jeffries
Founder, DrKarlKJeffries.com
Michelle Morrison
Design Operations Manager, Dropbox
Rachel Posman
Director of UX Team Operations, Salesforce
Alison Rand
Senior Director, Head of Design Operations, InVision
Benjamin Real
Design & UX Director, BBVA Mexico
Ruzanna Rozman
Senior Product Designer, Procter & Gamble
Farid Sabitov
Senior Experience Designer, EPAM Systems
Allison Sanders
Senior Program Manager, Mailchimp
Hilary Sunderland
Design Operations Advisor, Cigna
Melissa Tsang
Lead Design Program Manager, Salesforce
Dominique Ward
Design Operations Lead, Atlassian
Alla Weinberg
CEO, Workplace Relationship Expert, Spoke & Wheel

Workshop Instructors

Kristine Berry
DesignOps Program Director, IBM Z
Dan Mall
Founder + CEO, SuperFriendly
Jenny Price
DesignOps Lead, IBM

Curators and Staff

Bria Alexander
Design Program Manager, Adobe
MJ Broadbent
CX Design Leader, Graphic Facilitator, Virtual Scribe
Karen Corbett
Operations Manager, Rosenfeld Media
Jose Coronado
VP Design Operations | Head of DesignOps, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Adeline Crites-Moore
Associate Marketing Director, Rosenfeld Media
DJ Heo
UX Researcher
Michelle Kaplan
Director Business Development, UX Training & Event Sponsorships at Rosenfeld Media
Dave Malouf
Sr. Director of Strategy & Operations Design, Northwestern Mutual
David Nicholson
Business Analyst
Andrea Nuñez
Database and UX Manager, Rosenfeld Media
Ed Rosenfeld
Principal and COO, Rosenfeld Media
Louis Rosenfeld
Principal, Rosenfeld Media
Kristin Skinner
Co-author, Org Design for Design Orgs
Alana Washington
Program Manager, Uber Freight

Cohort Facilitators

Coby Almond
Design Lead for Tanzu Observability, VMware
Asha Barry
Chief of Staff, Consumer Experience Platform Design, Capital One
Fabian Boehm
Lead Researcher at Digital Dackel Inc.
Christian Crumlish
Product and UX Leadership Consultant, Design in Product
Kathryn Hautanen
Former Director, Mad*Pow's Center for Health Experience Design
Andrew Heber
User Experience Lead, ZS
DJ Heo
UX Researcher
Brian Hochhalter
Product Design and DesignOps Leader
Vincent Matyi
UX Manager
Kristen Ramirez
Experience Designer
Dana Sheik
Senior UX Manager, PayPal
Jenny Shirey
UX Consultant
Wendy Stengel
IA/UX Professional
Briana Thomas
Design Program Manager, Capital One
Changying (‘Z’) Zheng
DesignOps, Cloudflare