2019 Speaker Series: Smart Stuff

Smart Stuff Alternative Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence & Augmented Interactions This year we explore the opportunities and challenges alternative interfaces, artificial intelligence, and augmented interactions bring to our futures. Learn MoreSee Events AI seems...

Robin E. Way

Robin E. Way Founder and CEO at Corios Robin has over 35 years’ experience in the design, development, execution and improvement of applied analytics models for clients in the banking, insurance, payments, brokerage and energy industries. Mr. Way is on the Faculty of...

David Dylan Thomas

David Dylan Thomas Founder, CEO at David Dylan Thomas, LLC David Dylan Thomas, author of Design for Cognitive Bias, creator and host of The Cognitive Bias Podcast, and a twenty-year practitioner of content strategy and UX, has consulted major clients in entertainment,...

Julie DeBari

Julie DeBari Head of Design Operations at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design Julia is currently the Head of Design Operations at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. She has over two decades of experience in UX working in a wide range of roles and...

Jena Nesbitt

Jena Nesbitt Director Product Strategy at Pine Crest Fabrics After being let go from her first studio design job, Jena Nesbitt took a chance and attended an event that changed her life. She realized what she was missing in her life by getting out of her field and...

Sanda Erdelez

Sanda Erdelez Interim Dean and Professor at the Simmons University in Boston, MA As an information scientist, Sanda Erdelez has spent more than 30 years researching information encountering (IE), also known as the serendipity of bumping into interesting and useful...

Leo Frishberg

Leo Frishberg Director of User Experience at athenahealth Leo Frishberg currently serves as Director, User Experience, at athenahealth and is an active member of the User Experience community both locally and internationally. For over 20 years, he has served on the...

Seda Evis

Seda Evis Designer-in-Residence at University of California San Diego’s Design Lab Seda Evis is a design strategist and a creative business leader with extensive experience in technology, operations, planning, design and design research. Her superpower is systems...

Cheryl Platz

Cheryl Platz Design Director at Riot Games Cheryl Platz is the author of Design Beyond Devices: Creating Multimodal, Cross-Device Experiences and a world-renowned designer whose work on emerging technologies has reached millions of customers across multiple...

Dylan Wilbanks

Dylan Wilbanks Product Design Manager, Syniti About the Speaker Dylan Wilbanks (he/him) is currently Product Design Manager at Syniti, an enterprise cloud company solving the complex data problems of business. His career has included stops at HP Enterprise, Apptio,...

Kate Pincott

Kate Pincott Remote Design Coach About the Speaker Kate is a Remote Design Coach helping to unblock creatives through connecting to their inner wisdom and throwing in there some design operations strategy too! Kate has spent 11 years in the design and tech industry...

Cyd Harrell

Cyd Harrell About the Speaker Cyd Harrell, Cyd is well known in industry and government for her creative approach to UX research and service design. She believes you can answer any question as long as you are fearless and creative about methods. She was the VP of...

Kevin Hoffman

Kevin Hoffman United States Digital Service About the Speaker Kevin Hoffman, Twitter, Linked In Currently serving a four year term of service as part of the United States Digital Service, where he is the head of design operations for the VA.gov and the lead of the...