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Reboot at UX Camp Winter 2026 Saturday, February 21st, 2026 at 10am Central (online)! Reboot: Practicing UX In An AI-Shaped World UX Camp Winter 2026 starts the year with a hard reset. Teams are smaller, expectations are higher, and AI...

Rebuild at UX Camp Summer 2026 Saturday, May 30th, 2026 at 10am Central (online)! Rebuild: Shipping Real Products In A Constantly Changing Stack UX Camp Summer 2026 moves from survival to building. AI features, data pipelines, and new tooling are...

Elevate Your Leadership Skills at Leadership By Design 2026 Reframe: Leading UX Through Volatile Times Leadership By Design 2026 centers on responsibility, authority, and the people carrying both in unsettled times. Layoffs, reorganizations, and AI mandates are rewriting how teams...

Twisha Shah Brandenburg Twisha Shah-Brandenburg is a design leader, educator, and strategist with over a decade of experience guiding Fortune 50 companies and startups through transformation. She has led design at Target, BMW, and Venmo, where she helped launch large-scale...

Niketa Jhaveri Niketa Jhaveri is a UX Research and Design leader at Amazon, where she shapes the future of AI-driven experiences across Rufus, Search, and Personalization. With over two decades of expertise in research, design, and innovation, she is known...

Brianna Sylver Brianna Sylver is a nationally recognized innovation strategist who helps Fortune 1,000 organizations and city governments unlock growth, align teams, and lead through complexity. She is the founder and president of Sylver Consulting, a global research and strategy...

Jill Gordon Jill Gordon is a UX lead content designer at Allstate, yoga and meditation teacher, and mom of three children currently between 18 and 22 years-old. Her lived experience in healing trauma informs and brings a powerful genuineness to...

Bex Jeanson Bex Jeanson is a Staff Product Designer at Paylocity, where she designs systems that make work more human. Beyond product work, Bex focuses on mentorship, organizational design, and empowering individual contributors to take on leadership in unconventional ways....

Janda Lane Janda Lane is creator and host of the Behind The Song podcast, a series of essays about the history of classic rock songs with a focus on the lyrics. Music for each episode is produced by her husband...

Cassidy Williams Cassidy loves to make memes and dreams and software. She’s currently the CTO at Contenda. She’s worked for a variety of companies, large and small, advises startups, and she’s had the honor of working on the board of...