Schedule
Talks
Registration
08:00 - 09:15
09:30 - 10:15
Leading Design Out of Obscurity
Khoi Vinh
Principal Designer, Adobe
10:15 - 11:00
Bringing Back “Human-Centered”
Kim Goodwin
Author, Designing for the Digital Age. Design &
product leadership consultant and executive
Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Group Decision Making’s Dirty Little Secrets
Julia Whitney
Executive Coach, Whitney and Associates
12:00 - 12:30
Exercising Empathy to Resolve Conflict at Work
Whitney Hess
Empathy Leadership Coach, Vicarious Partners
12:30 - 13:00
600 121's
Cap Watkins
Founder, Practical Works
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
The only one of your kind in the room: Perils and opportunities.
Farai Madzima
UX Lead, Shopify (Canada)
14:30 - 15:00
Language of Design
Amelie Lamont
Product Designer and Writer
15:00 - 15:30
Women in Leadership: 2019
Afternoon break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:45
Earning a Seat at the Table
Hannah Donovan
CEO, Trash
16:45 - 17:30
Insights from a Reluctant Leader
Margaret Lee
Director of User Experience Design, Google
Opening Party - Sponsored by Google. Join us at the
Hoxton Hotel, just a hop & a skip across the road
from the conference venue, at the beautiful rooftop bar
for a drink or two (it's on a rooftop, so there may
be a wait while we get everyone up there, but the view
and cocktails will be worth the wait, promise)
17:30 - 19:30
Talks
Registration
08:45 - 09:15
09:30 - 10:15
The Three Stages of Leadership
Jane Austin
Director of Product Design, Babylon Health
10:15 - 11:00
The Power of an Ally
Steve Johnson
Vice President of Product Design and Studio Design,
Netflix
Rochelle King
Vice President of Global Product Creative, Netflix
Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 - 12:00
Get your sh*t together: How to build a DesignOps team
12:00 - 12:30
Design Ops Teams That Matter
Courtney Kaplan
Director of Design Program Management, Facebook
12:30 - 13:00
The Design Career Journey
Todd Zaki Warfel
Executive leadership and transformation coach, Zaki
Warfel
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30
Three Principles for Building Great Teams: Finding Your Way Amidst The Chaos
14:30 - 15:00
First comes scale, then comes...
Stuart Frisby
Director of Design, Deliveroo
15:00 - 15:30
Leading design from top to bottom
Nick Marsh
Head of Product and Design, Wonderbly
Afternoon Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:45
Design for User Trust
Catherine Courage
VP of Product Design and Experience, Google Ads
16:45 - 17:30
Get off your island
Aarron Walter
VP of Design Education, InVision
Happy Hour Drinks - sponsored by InVision - stick
around at the end of the conference for a drink or two
at the lovely Williamsburg Hotel Bar
17:30 - 18:30
For those of you that have purchased 3 day tickets (only 40 were on sale) - Workshops will be held at the Hoxton Hotel, Williamsburg. Choose one workshop in the morning and again choose one workshop in the afternoon. Workshops are first come first serve, so arrive in plenty of time.
Registration
08:45 - 09:15
09:30 - 13:00
Influencing (and Adapting to) Organizational Culture
Kim Goodwin
Author, Designing for the Digital Age. Design &
product leadership consultant and executive
09:30 - 13:00
Stakeholder Management for Design Leaders
Julia Whitney
Executive Coach, Whitney and Associates
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 - 17:30
The Design Leadership Playbook
Todd Zaki Warfel
Executive leadership and transformation coach, Zaki
Warfel
14:00 - 17:30
Practicing Nonviolent Communication
Whitney Hess
Empathy Leadership Coach, Vicarious Partners