Dr. Natalie Petouhoff

CEO • Competitive Consulting Advantage

Dr. Natalie Petouhoff is one of the world's leading experts in customer and employee experience, authoring the Wall Street Journal best-selling book Empathy in Action: How to Deliver Great Customer and Employee Experiences at Scale.

Luke Wroblewski

Managing Director • Sutter Hill Ventures

Luke is currently a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier he was a Product Director at Google after it acquired Polar in 2014, where he was the CEO and Co-founder.

Simonie Wilson

UX Design Manager - Conversation Design • Allstate

Simonie Wilson is known as the SME in Conversation Design at Allstate, holding a Masters in Computational Linguistics, with over 25 years in the business.

Darren Hood

Senior UX and CRO Strategist • Education Dynamics

Darren is the Senior UX and CRO Strategist for Education Dynamics and Professor of Practice at Michigan State University.

Rocio Werner

VP, UX Research Manager • U.S. Bank

Rocio leads a team of UX researchers at U.S. Bank as a UX Research Manager in the Business Banking digital studio.

Kaiden Anderson

Lead Product Manager • Nike

Visionary & Team Builder Extraordinaire; passionate about being a catalyst of culture through intentional conversations that inspire purpose & belonging in & out of the workplace.

Angela Byers

Senior Director of Product Marketing • Microsoft

Angela Byers is responsible for Microsoft's customer experience solutions.

Jean-Baptiste Kaloya

Head of Design • Bpifrance

At Bpifrance, I lead the entire design team (+35 designers), where I focus on the entire product design lifecycle while empowering a culture of mastery and talent development.

Apurva Misra

Senior Machine Learning Engineer • Truckstop

Apurva Misra is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Truckstop and also works with a Data Engineering Bootcamp to help people with non-technical backgrounds enter the data field.

Matthew Phillips

Executive Director • J.P. Morgan

Matt Phillips heads Design for Markets Operations Transformation, where his team applies an AI-first approach to reinventing the tools and workflows utilized by back office teams.

Lindsey Liang

Lead Product Designer • The New York Times

At The New York Times, I build premium ad experiences to support its mission of seeking the truth and helping people understand the world.

Ryan Leffel

VP, Head of Design • Priceline

Ryan Leffel is a user experience and product leader with expertise crafting user-centric design strategies, building teams, and evolving design processes.

Elizabeth Churchill

Senior Director of UX • Google

Dr Elizabeth Churchill co-chairs Google's UX Leadership Council (UXLC), and co-founded Google's UXR Steering Committee which she co-chaired for 2 years.

Jacob Miller

Principal Product Manager • Figma

Jacob is a product manager for Figma leading the design system features of the product.

Amy Lanfear

Chief of Staff • Microsoft Security UX

Amy has over 20 years of experience in UX at Microsoft, including various leadership roles across different business areas.

Demetre Arges

Executive Director of Product • The New York Times

Demetre is a Design Leader with over 20 years of expertise in vision, strategy, and implementation of user experiences across both digital and physical landscapes. At The New York Times, Demetre leads teams to invent and optimize digital advertising experiences across all surfaces.

Sindhuja Narasimhan

Founder • Abracadabra Books

Sindhu Narasimhan is a product design leader with over a decade of experience in building early products.

Connor Joyce

CEO • Desired Outcome Labs

Connor is a mixed-methods researcher and behavioral scientist with experience at Microsoft, Twilio, Tonal, and Deloitte.

Mrinali Kamath

Product Design Director, Safety & Security • Ford

Mrinali is a Design Director for Ford Model E’s safety and security team.

Mohit Gupta

User Experience Leader • CDK Global

Mohit is an accomplished UX leader at CDK Global, prioritizing "WHY > HOW > WHAT." With a master's in design and a bachelor's in computer engineering, he boasts over a decade of global industry experience.

Jill Mugge

Senior Manager, Digital Accessibility • Hilton

Jill is a Digital Accessibility Senior Manager who works with teams to find inclusive solutions to inaccessible digital problems.

Andrew Hogan

Head of Insights • Figma

Andrew leads Insights at Figma, where he researches design and shapes company thinking.

JonDelina Buckley

VP, Customer Experience Strategy • Synchrony

For more than 15 years, jD has successfully led teams in the introduction of human-centered, holistic and strategic design and research initiatives for both products and services.

Anna Dahlström

UX designer • Story & UX AB

Anna is a Sweden-based UX design leader and author of 'Storytelling in Design' for O'Reilly.

Rajasi Desai

Senior UX Researcher • MathWorks

Rajasi is a Senior UX Researcher at MathWorks, where she leads the Inclusive UX Group.

Susan Hura

Chief Design Officer • Kore.ai

Susan Hura, PhD is a passionate advocate for the primacy of linguistics in conversational experience design who serves as Chief Design Officer at Kore.ai.

Brooke Hopper

Principal Designer, Machine Intelligence & New Technology • Adobe

Currently Brooke is exploring the role of machine intelligence & new technology in creativity.

Oxana Loseva

Sr. UX Researcher Accessible & Inclusive Design • Vanguard

I have a background in Service Design and have spent the last 5 years in UX Research.

Sayena Majlesein

Senior Design Lead • Microsoft

In addition to visual and interaction design, my areas of expertise include AI design, human-centered machine learning, ethical design, feminist HCI, and motion design.

Cali White

Senior Manager, Experience Design Research • Hilton

Cali White started her research journey about 10 years ago in the healthcare industry where she strived each day to ensure patients were the center of every decision.

Varshine Chandrakanthan

User Researcher • Webex (Cisco)

Varshine is a valuable part of the mixed method researcher at Webex (Cisco). With 5 years under her belt, she has a deep understanding of work collaboration space.

Darby Siscoe

Senior Manager, Experience Design Research • Hilton

Darby leads her teams to formulate research strategies that accomplish business goals, provide a more human digital experience, and establish better connections between product teams and their guests.

Naghmeh Nouri Esfahani

Senior UX Researcher • Cisco

Naghmeh is a senior UX researcher with over 12 years of global experience conducting user research using mixed methods across different continents and an expert in conducting Ethnographic research.

Karen Clark Cole

CEO & Cofounder • Blink

Karen is primarily focused on company vision and developing strategies to get there.

Tom Satwicz, Ph.D.

VP of Research & Partner • Blink

Tom helps client teams gain empathy for their customers through mentorship and project direction.

Lea Martin

UX Researcher • Blink

Lea Martin is a UX researcher at Blink who is endlessly curious and loves connecting with people to uncover the why behind experiences, habits, and rituals.

Brigitt Rains

VP of Operations & Partner • Blink

Brigitt Rains works on web, mobile, graphic, game design, & development to custom SharePoint applications, video, and print - now VP of Operations at Blink.

Kelly Franznick

CIO & Cofounder • Blink

Kelly is the Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) and Cofounder of Blink UX. He focuses on the future of Blink’s tools, services, and methods while also working on unique project requirements.

Joe Welinske

Accessibility Director & ConveyUX Program Manager • Blink

Joe is Blink's accessibility director and the program director for Blink's annual conference ConveyUX.

Savina Hawkins

Cofounder • Altis

Savina Hawkins founded Altis, a startup that utilizes AI to decode customer conversations and generate insights grounded in evidence.

Dona Sarkar

Chief Troublemaker • Microsoft AI and Copilot Extensibility Program

Donna is running 100 experiments as the Chief Troublemaker of the Microsoft AI and Copilot Extensibility Program. Her goal is that people all over the world can use Microsoft’s AI and Copilot programs to reason over their OWN data and truly make AI useful for their business.

Atulya Chaganty

UX Designer • Blink

Atulya Chaganty is an interdisciplinary UX Designer. She loves design problems that are like the annoying tangled ball of Christmas tree lights: knotty, complex, with lots of ins and outs that she can unravel into warm, shiny joy.

Scott Lambridis

VP of Design • Blink

Scott helps ensure a high standard of excellence in all UX work.

Brittany Schiesel

Head of Research • Blink

Brittany is passionate about people and technology. Her goal is to improve people’s lives by delivering insights that help create human-centered products, services, and experiences.

Geoff Harrison

Chief Design Officer • Blink

As VP of Design Services, Geoff leads a team that designs and creates cross-platform digital experiences for start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

Anne Vande Creek

Director of Client Relations & Partner • Blink

Anne Vande Creek is a leader in client services, business development, and creative and strategic design services for the tech industry and consumer brands.