Skyler Reed Senior UX & UI Developer, SmartRG / ADTRAN Skyler Reed’s is currently the Senior UX designer and UI developer for the networking R&D company SmartRG / ADTRAN. Skyler is an artist, writer, and musician living in Portland, OR, a current graduate...
Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. They are an internationally recognized design advocate and speaker, a researcher at the...
Dana Chisnell About the Speaker Dana Chisnell relentlessly works across government pushing teams to sincerely care about the needs of the people they’re serving through and by design. She does this by asking hard questions to help teams know whether...
Arthur Smid About the Speaker Arthur Smid is a community organizer and communications specialist living in Portland, Oregon. His research into participatory political processes led to volunteering with the Code for America brigade network in Eugene and Portland....
Travis Kriplean About the Speaker Travis Kriplean has been designing and building communication systems to help people think better together, first in academia (HCI/CSCW) and more recently as an entrepreneur and independent researcher. His work expands on the design...
Katie Swindler UX Strategist, Manager, Allstate Insurance Company About the Speaker Katie is a user experience strategist who writes and speaks on topics related to human-centered design. Originally educated as a theatre director, she brings a unique perspective to...
Nathan Shedroff Seed Vault Ltd About the Speaker Nathan is a serial entrepreneur, customer experience and business strategist, education innovator, author, and speaker. Currently, he is the executive director of Seed Vault Ltd, a Singapore-based, open, independent...
Amelia Abreu UX Night School About the Speaker Amelia Abreu is a writer, design researcher and the founder of UX Night School. Based in Portland, Oregon, she has worked with teams at eBay, Nike, Mozilla, Microsoft Research and Intel, as well as startups and cultural...
Stacy Taylor UI/UX Designer, Auth0 About the Speaker Stacy Taylor is a product designer at Auth0, where she creates a better user experience for developers and security professionals to provide safe and secure products for their users. She began her career as a...
Tatiana Mac Product Designer & Speaker About the Speaker Tatiana Mac (she/they) is an independent American engineer who works directly with organizations to build clear and coherent products and design systems. She believes the trifecta of accessibility,...
Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D CultureEncode About the Speaker Since 2005, digital anthropologist and New Relic product researcher Ali Colleen Neff, Ph.D. has been studying the ways people all over the world use, make, and circulate digital things. In her work as a professor...
Using UX for Good Building a Better World The world’s a mess. The number of problems we face and the technology involved, grows exponentially from year to year. Yet our job is to make it all work. From a UX design perspective, addressing these issues can seem like a...
