Kathi Kaiser Kathi Kaiser is co-founder and partner at Centralis, a Chicago-based UX consultancy. She leads a top-notch team in creating great user experiences for global clients, start-ups, and cultural institutions. When Kathi’s not at the whiteboard or in the...
Rudy Rigot Rudy is brand new to Chicago, and loving every bit of it! In a previous life, he was a software engineer at Apple for a while, founded his own startup (Holberton School, a 2-year software engineering school in...
Megan Kellie Megan Kellie is a writer, actor, improviser and illustrator. She lives in Chicago where she regularly repurposes cardboard and goes to Blick. She performs all around the city, and has just started showing her art things in places....
Garrett Polifka Garrett Polifka is a User Experience Team Lead with fifteen years experience in the creative industry; ranging from marketing to front-end development as well as software design. At Paylocity, Garrett is responsible for contributing to the organization’s design...
Sofia Millares Sofia Millares is the Creative Director of Product Design at Nasdaq. For the past four years she has been overseeing the styling and global functionality for the entire product suite offering. Alongside her team, she is determined to...
Autumn Schultz Autumn is a Senior Product Designer and Researcher at Trunk Club in Chicago. She’s been involved in design and UX for several years and has worked for companies of all sizes, most notably Orbitz and Belly in addition...
Chicago Camps, LLC was formed and founded with the intention of bringing high-value, low-cost events to the User Experience community. We support new and experienced presenters alike, offering several events throughout each year. We provide proposal support to help get...
Erin L. Thomas, PhD Erin Thomas is Diversity Manager for Grant Thornton LLP, responsible for diversity and inclusion strategy, programming and evaluation in all 60 US offices. Prior to this role, she served as Argonne National Laboratory’s first Gender Diversity...
Xavier Wynn For the past 25+ years, Xavier has driven successful brand solutions for a range of Fortune 500 companies. Currently a Group Creative Director at Manifest, he is a proven leader in overseeing experience, design and content teams, as...
Amanda Schonfeld Amanda Schonfeld is a talent acquistion nerd. Hiring designers is her true love, but she also spends quality time with technologists, strategists, product folks, and client services people too. She possesses an uncanny ability to professionally matchmake. Amanda...
