Ashleigh Axios Ashleigh Axios is a speaker, strategic creative, and an advocate for design’s ability to break barriers and create positive social change. She is Chief Experience Officer and a Partner at Coforma, a digital consultancy and design firm that...
Adam Polansky Adam Polansky is not a new face in the UX Community having been a regular fixture at events and meet-ups around the world for a long time. Even if you never heard of him, you won’t have to...
Amy Jiménez Márquez Amy Jiménez Márquez is the owner and Publisher of Boxes and Arrows, devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design—including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture, and the design of business. She is also the VP...
Natalie Kurz Natalie Kurz has spent the last 20+ years leading both in-house and agency product design teams across enterprise UX, fintech, government, and healthcare — spaces where clarity, trust, and empathy are essential. She’s known for transforming complicated, fragmented...
Jason Cranford Teague Jason is a Web pioneer having designed the first Web based publication in 1994. In the thirty years since, he has worked on numerous products applying creative problem solving techniques to find solutions that innovate and satisfy....
Jess McPheron A tinkerer at heart, Jess McPheron is an ideating and problem-solving enthusiast. Curiosity and a passion for creating led him into the world of product management seven years ago when building his own ecommerce concept. This period of...
Ana Peralta Ana V Peralta is a User Experience Designer, CSPO and User Experience Strategist based in Austin, Texas. Ana is known for her work with the Dell IT Support site, Facebook’s Transparency reports and Disney’s Corporate Retreat e-brochure website...
Jessi Shakarian Jessi Shakarian got her start in tech as a developer, but found that she loved everything that happens before it’s time to code. She works as a freelance UX and accessibility consultant, and is currently the accessibility lead...
Justin Dauer Justin is a multi-faceted, multi-pierced, multi-tattooed designer, author, and speaker. He wrote the celebrated book “Creative Culture,” speaks internationally on culture and design, and is the Vice President of Design at bswift, a CVS Health company. With Josef...
Lisa Dance Lisa D. Dance is a UX Designer/Founder at ServiceEase, a consultancy that helps businesses and non-profit organizations “be easy to do business with” by using user centered research and design. Her background includes re-establishing the user experience function...















