2000+
Attendees
40+
Talks
5
Workshops
50+
Speakers
Unlimited
Experiences
Build the Right Product, Faster Together
The conference that bridges the gap between UX, UI, Dev and Product
Product Development is Broken
66%
of features fail to deliver value
Microsoft started tracking every feature and discovered that only 33% of good ideas actually delivered the expected value
42%
of people have their hands tied
The delivery team know what is best but they are blocked by company structure and policies from doing the right thing.
22%
more time spent on rework
Teams that use legacy development practices spend more time on rework which kills motivation and slows delivery.
There's a Better Way of Building Products
Projects involve functions temporarily working together to deliver a set scope, but this limits the ability to learn about customers and forces a more short term view. What we need is for the right mix of skills across Product, UX, Design, Dev and Ops to be working together to learn, build and continuously improve the product.
Meet our first 2020 speakers
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Kevin Lee
Chief Product Officer, eBay Korea
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Kevin Lee
Chief Product Officer, eBay Korea
Kevin Lee, Chief Product Officer at eBay Korea, is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of products and services for Korea's largest e-commerce company operating under Gmarket, Auction, and G9. In this role, Kevin oversees the team of design, product, and engineering to drive innovation initiatives and deliver great products to extend the market leadership.
Previously, Kevin was Vice President and Head of Design at Visa, Inc, responsible for setting the vision to help designing digital products and Visa's design system has been recognized by Fast Company for 2017 Innovation by Design Awards. Prior to Visa, Kevin led the design studio at Samsung responsible for the overall product strategy and launch of Gear Fit. Kevin was also responsible for the global design team at eBay and Paypal, as well as Whirlpool Corporation designing and launching consumer products with CES awards. Before Whirlpool, Kevin led a global team at GE Healthcare launching Vscan where it was named by TIME magazine as The 50 Best Inventions of 2009.
Dana Lawson
VP of Engineering, GitHub
Dana Lawson
VP of Engineering, GitHub
Dana Lawson has 20 years of experience as an engineer and engineering leader. She has worn many hats to complement a product's lifecycle through her leadership roles at Heptio, Invision, New Relic and GitHub where she currently serves as VP of Engineering. With a background in fine arts, she brings her creative vision to chart new waters and lead the engineering teams of the future.
Greg Bell
VP, Software Development, Hootsuite
Greg Bell
VP, Software Development, Hootsuite
Greg is an enthusiastic technology leader who loves building high performing teams that bring innovative software products to market. As the VP of Software Development at Hootsuite, Greg leads a team of 200 software developers across 6 offices that develop battle-tested technology for over 16 million users to engage with their customers on social.
Lindsay Silver
VP, Product, Conde Nast
Lindsay Silver
VP, Product, Conde Nast
Lindsay is the VP of Product for Conde Nast. In this role he drives the development of Conde Nast's products across content management, consumer, and advertising product areas. Before Conde Nast Lindsay worked at a variety of technology companies in engineering and product management roles, always focused on developing systems that empowered users using data and thoughtful UIs. Lindsay is a California-native and transplant to New York, who still makes frequent pilgrimages to the Sierras and west coast to ski, surf, backpack, and explore.
Lynsey Thornton
VP of UX, Shopify
Lynsey Thornton
VP of UX, Shopify
Peter Wang
CTO, BuzzFeed
Peter Wang
CTO, BuzzFeed
Peter is an experienced operator in scaling teams, building products, and growth strategy-from early-stage, growth-stage to corporate environments, across financial services, ad tech, media, commerce, and health. Peter is an engineer by training, an artist at heart, and a father by choice.
Rebecca Parsons
CTO, ThoughtWorks
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Rebecca Parsons
CTO, ThoughtWorks
Dr. Rebecca Parsons is ThoughtWorks' CTO. She has more years of experience than she'd like to admit in technology and large-scale software development. She recently co-authored the book Building Evolutionary Architectures with colleagues Neal Ford and Pat Kua.
Before ThoughtWorks she worked as an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, after completing a Director's Post Doctoral Fellowship at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Her interests include parallel and distributed computation, programming languages, domain specific languages, evolutionary architecture, genetic algorithms, and computational science.
Rebecca received a BS in Computer Science and Economics from Bradley University, and both an MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University.
Richard Dalton
Head of Design, Verizon
Richard Dalton
Head of Design, Verizon
Richard Dalton is the Head of Design at Verizon, where he leads a team of 250 designers who create human-centric experiences for over 100 million customers. Richard mixes business and design skills with an entrepreneurial spirit about how to design a design team - one that's human-centered, business-savvy, and committed to fostering an inclusive, thriving culture.
Parul Goel
Head of Product, Monetization, PayPal
Parul Goel
Head of Product, Monetization, PayPal
Parul is a Product Leader at PayPal, and heads payments for the PayPal Commerce Platform. She is passionate about enabling easy payments for her customers. In her career spanning over fifteen years, Parul had been part of several complex product builds, some have been very successful while others have served as great life lessons. She loves introspecting, and continually learning new ways to build products that support complex use cases and yet exemplify simplicity to their customers.
Outside of her role, Parul is one of the leaders of Product Excellence Programs at PayPal, and an active member of the Women in Product community. Parul is passionate about effective communication at work. She believes that learning to voice your ideas and opinions effectively is a powerful tool to elevate yourself and your career. She loves to give back by mentoring women and helping them.
Parul holds an M.S in Computer Science from Columbia University.
A selection of previous 2019 Speakers
Christopher Slowe
CTO & Co-Founder, Reddit
Christopher Slowe
CTO & Co-Founder, Reddit
Chris is the founding engineer of Reddit, he helped build it, sell it & filled the role of CEO for a period. Now he has returned as CTO with a long to-do list including redesigning the platform, internal development & overall organisational growth. This is an excellent time for Chris to join us & share his take on product redesign. UXDX Conference provides a community for teams to collaborate & implement best practice for product development & reducing conflicts that arise during project handoffs.
Michael Gough
Vice President of Product Design , Uber
Michael Gough
Vice President of Product Design , Uber
Michael is the Vice President Product Design at Uber, leading a talented and diverse team of over 250 designers and researchers that are helping shape current and future versions of Uber experiences.
A longtime advocate for quality in digital experiences, Michael has become obsessed with the way the digital world interfaces with the physical world, and the way complex systems are created, adapted and disrupted.
Prior to joining Uber he was the Chief Design Officer for the Office Product Group at Microsoft. He also spent 10 years as the Vice President of Design at Adobe. Gough was the Chief Creative Officer at Macromedia, the Vice President of Brand Design at Nike, the Chief Creative Officer of Quokka Sports and the Creative Director of Construct. Prior to his move to the digital world he spent 12 years as an architect helping shape the physical world more directly.
Cindy Chastain
SVP, Global Customer Experience and Design, Mastercard
Cindy Chastain
SVP, Global Customer Experience and Design, Mastercard
Cindy is SVP, Global Customer Experience and Design at Mastercard. Her team's mission is to advance the company's ability to deliver exceptional end-to-end experiences and elevate the brand through customer-centricity and great design. She led the recent relaunch of the Mastercard brand identity, including a comprehensive design system. She is focused on building scalable practices around human-centered innovation and design, including how to partner more closely with technology. And she is co-leading an effort to drive customer-centric cultural change. Before joining Mastercard, Cindy was an Executive Creative Director in the Business Transformation group at R/GA, focused on solving business problems at the intersection of brand, product innovation and CX strategy with clients, including Nike, Volvo, Verizon, and others.
Sebastien Fabre
Head of UX, Mobile & Portals, LEGO Group
Sebastien Fabre
Head of UX, Mobile & Portals, LEGO Group
Sebastien Fabre is Senior Director and Head of UX, Mobile & Portals at LEGO Group, with strategic and tactical ownership of the User Experience agenda within Business Technology.
Postgraduate Human Factors Engineer and Analyst Programmer Engineer with 18 years international industry experience in user-centered design, Sebastien worked previously at Fujitsu in Munich where he started from scratch, grew and managed the Design, UX Research & Usability team. He also headed the Brand Design & UX of Fujitsu RunMyProcess, a sister company based in Paris.
Prior to that, Sebastien worked as UX Research Manager at Orange Group, delivering multi-country user experience research projects which met the needs of internal clients and as an R&D Engineer, representing France Telecom at Research Forums and European Projects.
Sebastien started his professional career at Intel Corporation and his usability curriculum at Kodak.
As a side activity, Sebastien is teaching User Centered Design & Usability methodologies from User Needs gathering techniques to conception and testing of User Interfaces at several French universities.
Gerrit Kaiser
Design Leader, Spotify
Gerrit Kaiser
Design Leader, Spotify
Gerrit is a design leader with a hybrid design/technology background . He has been crafting digital products for close to 20 years - based in Melbourne, London, Berlin and now Stockholm, Sweden. His practice is centred around code as a material and bridging the gaps between software development disciplines.
At Spotify, Gerrit and his team are focused on building systems and tools that empower the company's engineers, designers, writers and product managers to build better products, faster.
Rashi Khurana
VP of Engineering, Shutterstock
Rashi Khurana
VP of Engineering, Shutterstock
Rashi is a Vice President of Engineering at Shutterstock where she oversees the front end E-commerce, Platform and Mobile engineering teams. Since joining Shutterstock in 2016, Rashi helped lead three teams through a technology transformation, all the while managing day-to-day operations of delivering a quality product to customers. Rashi is passionate about managing teams of engineers to deliver above expectations everyday and building resiliency into all initiatives.
Rashi earned a master's degree in Information Technology and Management at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, she worked at Orbitz in Chicago for seven years, before moving to New York City.
Paul Adams
SVP of Product, Intercom
Paul Adams
SVP of Product, Intercom
Alan Klement
Partner, Revealed
Alan Klement
Partner, Revealed
Alan has dedicated himself to discovering what causes consumers to buy and use products. This led him to create Demand-Generation Analysis (DGA) - a systematic way of studying and predicting demand.
Alan's latest venture is Revealed - a technology platform designed to help anyone obtain, validate, track, and share demand generation data. Individuals and teams use these data and the insights they yield to become better at making and selling products that people will buy.
In October 2016, Alan released the first book dedicated to Jobs to be Done theory: "When Coffee and Kale Compete".
Nix Crabtree
Lead Principal Software Engineer, ASOS
Nix Crabtree
Lead Principal Software Engineer, ASOS
As the Lead Principal Software Engineer in ASOS Technology, Nix Crabtree is responsible for Software and QA Engineering, UI Engineering and Data Engineering across the organisation. His role has a simple brief: come in every day with one aim - make engineering and engineers at ASOS better. Nix joined ASOS in March 2015 after six years at Avanade where he lead the Cloud & Integration Practice. Nix worked on both Azure and on-premises solutions with customers such as Skype, Blinkbox, Barclays, Best Buy and ASOS.
How UXDX Enables Change
In order to change long established, and embedded, working practices you need the appetite for change followed by both top down and bottom up support.
Motivation
Hear how our world class speakers are benefiting from product teams that are working together to solve the problems of their customers and meet the key business objectives
Personal Ability
Hands-on training targeted on the new tools and techniques that cross functional product teams need
Organisational Ability
Learn how to the world's leading companies are aligning their product teams across their organisations and empowering them to deliver
It is unique to bring together the UX and development community under the shared goal and mission. UXDX is challenging the conventional, discipline oriented conferences.
Kevin Lee, VP & Head of Design, Visa
All product builders, all designers and all developers should be here - together. Best content event in Dublin.
Deirdre Ni Luasaigh, CEO, Culture Ark
It's all too easy to fall into the silos of our individual disciplines. UXDX is explicitly about bringing people from different roles together.
Emmet Connolly, Director of Product Design, Intercom
There are a lot of ideas to help teams improve their product processes. UXDX is the first time its put together in a way that actually works!
Richard Dalton, Head of Design, Capital One
Finally we have a holistic view of product development, which includes design.
Lara Hanlon, Design Lead, IBM
Companies That Attend
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UXDX - Experience the Event
Register for our 50% Pre-Sale on 17th April
We will be releasing a limited sale of tickets on 17th April for €495 each. Even though the tickets are half price they still include full access to UXDX 2020 including the two days of talks and workshops as well as the networking events around Dublin. Register for the Pre-Sale today.