Speakers

Helen Keighron
Helen Keighron Helen Keighron is a fractional design executive and startup advisor focused on helping SaaS companies of all sizes unlock the business value of design and avoid common scaling pitfalls. Formerly Senior Director of Product Design at HubSpot and...
Marc Rambeau
Marc Rambeau Marc leads content strategy, content design and copywriting at U.Group. His team cuts through the cruft to drive action and simplify services. They help protect Americans from loan sharks, promote our national parks, fight child hunger and more....
Meena Kothandaraman
Meena Kothandaraman With 35 years of experience and as co-founder of twig+fish research practice, Meena has consulted to emphasize the strategic value of qualitative research across product, space and service. Meena pays particular attention to the credibility, transparency and communication around...
Susan Salvi
Susan Salvi Originally from (sincerely) wonderful Pittsburgh, Sue Salvi is an actor, improvisor, and writer who now lives in Chicago. She will occasionally assault you with her brain offerings using her mouth as a vehicle, while on stage at various...
Megan Kellie
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....
Chris Avore
Chris Avore Chris is a Vice President & Head of Design who leads teams, drives product strategy, and helps executives understand the value of design. He has championed design, research, and content strategy to improve the services people use every...
Carmen Bocanegra
Carmen Bocanegra Since she first learned to talk, Carmen has asked a lot of questions. This led to a desire to understand the how/why/what behind almost everything, a love of experimentation, and academic pursuit of science. She ended up working...
Carmen Medina
Carmen Medina Carmen is an organizational heretic and all-purpose troublemaker whose only real expertise is asking stupid questions and noticing odd, new things that might amount to something…or maybe not. Carmen spent 32 years at CIA but when you meet...
Christian Lane
Christian Lane Christian Lane is a Chicago-based musician, and podcast producer for the Behind The Song podcast. After major-label releases with his former band, Loud Lucy, his original compositions have appeared in TV and film including Confessions Of A Teenage...
Lindsey Latiolais
Lindsey Latiolais Lindsey is a former UX Researcher with over 10 years in the field, and most recently a former Product Manager with about a year and a half of experience. After severely burning out and losing her job a...
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