Speakers and Team

Keynoters

Gregory Petroff
VP, Chief Design Officer, Cisco Secure, Cisco
Ovetta Sampson
Director, User Experience Core ML, Google

Speakers

Helen Armstrong
Professor & Director, Master of Graphic & Experience Design, North Carolina State University
Sarah Barrett
Principal IA Manager, Microsoft
Dr. Jamika D. Burge
Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Sheryl Cababa
Author of Closing the Loop
Jenny Chang
Lead Product Designer, Amplitude Analytics
Boon Yew Chew
Senior Principal UX Designer, Elsevier
Jess Greco
Director, Product Experience Design, Mastercard
Milan Guenther
Enterprise Designer, Intersection Group
Todd Healy
Vice President, Experience Strategy, Mastercard
Clara Kliman-Silver
Staff UX Researcher, Google
William Newton
Principal Product Designer, Amplitude Analytics
Paul Pangaro, PhD
Visiting Scholar, School of Architecture and School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University
Ren Pope
Principal, Info-Do
Carol Smith
Sr. Research Scientist, Human-Machine Interaction, AI Division Software, Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University

Workshop Instructors

Gary Carlson
Principal, Factor Firm, LLC
Dan Rosenberg
Chief Design Officer, rCDO UX Consulting
Adjunct Professor, San Jose State University
Carol Smith
Sr. Research Scientist, Human-Machine Interaction, AI Division Software, Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Bram Wessel
Principal, Factor Firm, LLC

Curators

Uday Gajendar
Design Manager, Aurora Solar
Husani Oakley
Creative Executive

Staff

Kate Bellissimo
Student, Stanford University
Conference Librarian
MJ Broadbent
CX Design Leader, Graphic Facilitator, Virtual Scribe
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
Michelle Kaplan
Director Business Development, UX Training & Event Sponsorships at Rosenfeld Media, LLC
Elle Kyle
Operations Manager, Rosenfeld Media
David Nicholson
Sr. UX Designer, PwC
Session Noter
Kristen Ramirez
Design Manager, Design Systems, Procore Technologies
Lead Facilitator
Edward Rosenfeld
Principal and COO, Rosenfeld Media
Lou Rosenfeld
Principal, Rosenfeld Media

Cohort Facilitators

Melissa Casburn
VP of Design, Coforma
Sandeep Chahal
Lead Service Designer
Jef Desourdy
Manager, User Experience Design, Deloitte Digital
Anna Effort
Senior Product Designer, Mezmo
Sean Fitzell
User Experience Researcher
Dave Hoffer
Founder, MPQD
Andreas Huebner
User Research Leader
Mary Lukanuski
VP, Product Design
Peter Merholz
Chief Humanist, Humanism at Scale
Alexis Oh
Product UX Designer, IKEA
Kristen Ramirez
Design Manager, Design Systems, Procore Technologies
Lead Facilitator
Ami Walsh
Frances Yllana
Senior Manager DesignOps, Coforma
Changying (Z) Zheng