Speakers

Trine Falbe has worked with UX for 20 years. She is dedicated to ethical design and currently works with innovation in the education space alongside building digital products as an entrepreneur. She’s written two books: White Hat UX (2017) and The Ethical Design Handbook (2020).

Rachel is a Senior Designer, with 10+ years experience working with award-winning Design Agencies, ground-breaking Startups, and on teams at Google since 2013 (Chrome, Search, Duo). Clients and collaborators include Seth Godin, BMW/DriveNow, Doctors without Borders, and Freeletics. She has led 20+ Design Sprints, driving organisational change with Doctors Without Borders, and transforming translation in Chrome. She co-founded the first German version of the Maker Faire (Make Munich, and founded Design Jam (designj.am).

Jim Kalbach is a noted author, speaker, and instructor in design, customer experience, and strategy. He is currently Chief Evangelist at MURAL, the leading online whiteboard. Jim is the author of three books: Designing Web Navigation (O’Reilly, 2007), Mapping Experiences (O’Reilly, 2016), and most recently The Jobs To Be Done Playbook (Rosenfeld, 2020). He is also the Co-founder and Principal at the JTBD Toolkit, an online resource with learning, trainings, and content. Jim blogs at experiencinginformation.com and tweets under @jimkalbach.

Aarron Walter is Director of Product on the COVID Response team at Resolve to Save Lives. Previously, he was VP of Content at InVision, and founded the UX practice at Mailchimp where he helped grow the product from a few thousand users to more than 10 million. He's the author of a number of books, the latest of which is a second edition of Designing for Emotion. Aarron's design guidance has helped the White House, the US Department of State, and dozens of major corporations, startups, and venture capital firms. Aarron co-hosts the Webby nominated Design Better podcast and a new podcast called Reconsidering about making a life while also making a living.

Konrad is currently Senior Product Designer for menu experience at Delivery Hero. Working as a product designer for the last 10 years, Konrad first started his journey in Kentucky USA. Half American half Polish, with a formal background in research psychology and human factors, Konrad's product design history involves numerous startups and digital agencies, living and working in New York City, Shanghai China, Kraków Poland, and now resides in Berlin. Konrad loves surfing, snowboarding, and photography.

Rama Gheerawo is an international and inspirational figure within design. He won a ‘Hall of Fame’ award for his work at the Design Week Awards in 2019 and was named a 2018 Creative Leaders by Creative Review alongside Paul Smith and Björk, As Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design, he uses design to address issues around age, ability, gender and race. He is a serial innovator in the fields of Inclusive Design, Design Thinking and Creative Leadership having personally led over 100 projects working internationally with governments, business, academia and the third sector with clients such as Samsung, Toyota, AgeUK and Panasonic. He champions inclusive and empathic approaches for individuals and organisations through his pathfinding work in Creative Leadership, with training delivered globally to thousands of people including over 700 civil servants. He is in high demand as a keynote speaker, and writes, curates exhibitions and runs workshops for audiences that range from students to business executives. Rama sits on a number of advisory boards and committees for awards, universities and organisations such as the UK Design Council, The International Association for Universal Design, the Design Management Institute, The Bhavan Institute for Indian Culture and the RSA Decolonising Design Initiative. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the Katowice Academy of Fine Art.

Renee Reid is a Manager of UX Design Research and has led both human-centered design research projects across Consumer and Enterprise products including Search and Discovery, Trust & Privacy and Identity. She currently leads a team of researchers on Enterprise Marketing solutions at LinkedIn. A sought-after dynamic international speaker, moderator, & panelist, Renee has spoken & conducting workshops on a range of engaging topics including, Responsible & Inclusive Design, Research as a Partner not just a Practice, Pivoting into UX, Finding Success & Leading as an Individual Contributor, Research Investigating no Validating, Putting the Human first in User Research, Planting your Success and more. Her professional passions include inspiring & discovering the next generation of Design Researchers as well as helping more underrepresented individuals become leaders in UX & Design. A proud Historically Black College and University (HBCU) alumna from Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia; Renee also received her Master’s in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from the University of California, Irvine. When she is not conducting research, or speaking at an event, you can also find Renee mentoring students & professionals, teaching head wrap classes, she is an investor & advisor to startups, and an active Board Member with 2 non-profits in the California Bay Area; Opportunity Junction and Inneract Project. Always adorned in one of her many signature headwraps, in 2020 Renee launched her popular podcast, Tech Wrap Queen (available on Spotify & across podcast platforms) helping to amplify black voices in Tech, Design and Culture through dynamic conversations that inform and inspire.

I am someone who loves being part of a creative, supportive and collaborative design team that builds engaging experiences for digital products at a company that fosters a culture that values design thinking and makes it a priority in how the company runs and solves problems. I currently get to do all of the above in the Experience Design (XD) Group at EY. The Group is divided into Strategy, Creative, and Technology disciplines. The XD Group collaborates heavily with leadership and stakeholders to align with business goals and strategy.

Doug Powell is an award-winning designer with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines. A recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis, and the 2014 Fellow Award from AIGA Minnesota, Doug is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues. He has presented at a variety of global conferences, forums, and universities including Beirut Design Week in Lebanon, Fortune's Brainstorm Design in Singapore, and Yale School of Management. He was on the jury of the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards. Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design, the largest and most established design organization in the world. Doug is Vice President of Design at IBM, where he is responsible for design leadership, design practices, and the community of designers company-wide.