It Takes a Team

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.

As the head of UX at The Financial Times, Annmarie is responsible for User experience design, across the organisation. She heads up a multi-talented team of UX designers responsible for designing the FT's digital experiences for our global audience as well as the internal systems and tools used by the business and editorial teams.

Annmarie joined The Financial Times in September 2016 after a lifetime at digital agencies such as Digitas LBi and Agency.com helping companies such as British Airways, BT, Lloyds bank, Avis, Dulux and Marks & Spencer transform digitally and innovate their services for the complex needs and behaviours of the modern customer.

Passionate as ever about user centered design and putting yourself in the users shoes at every step of the creative process, Annmarie believes empathy is at the heart of creating a great customer experience.

Bryan is the CTO at Skyscanner, responsible for enabling a 400-strong global team of software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and designers to earn the trust of hundreds of millions of travelers around the world by delivering a simple, elegant product experience.

Bryan has previously held leadership roles at Amazon Web Services, Skype, and Microsoft.

Passionate about disruptive innovation, technology and building great companies. Val's work has been featured in national and international publications including New York Times, Forbes & TechCrunch.

Growth = product ( design x engineering) ^ marketing

Fabienne is leading the Product Innovation & Design Group at Mercedes-Benz Vans in Silicon Valley, transforming ideas into tangible prototypes.

As one of the first employees of Mercedes-Benz's Future Transportation initiative, she helped building a new footprint from scratch in Menlo Park, California, and scaling the team to over 40 people in three years.

Fabienne comes from a diverse innovation experience through Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Porsche, and frog Design, before joining Mercedes-Benz Vans. 
She graduated from Hamburg University in Germany with a dual Master's degree in Industrial Engineering and Business and studied abroad at Columbia University in New York. 

Paolo Malabuyo is a user experience designer, creative leader, and educator. He's currently a Director of User Experience for YouTube Advertising at Google, where he leads an international team of designers and researchers responsible for enabling a healthy ecosystem for YouTube and its billions of users worldwide, and an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley, where he teaches a graduate-level course on Human-Computer Interaction & User Experience.

He has a uniquely broad portfolio of experience working across: consumer to enterprise; blue sky to blue ­chip; hardware, software, and service; TV, desktop, mobile, and automotive; entertainment to productivity; platform to content. Previous highlights include the Netflix global experience on the web & TV devices, the Mercedes-Benz ''Luxury In Motion'' autonomous driving research car, the Xbox 360 game console & Xbox Live online service, and Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge video game for Xbox.

Originally from the Philippines, he studied Art & Design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and now lives & works in Silicon Valley.

For over 20 years, Matt has been making new products and new technologies accessible, attractive, and effective for people. From virtual reality and medical devices to household appliances, his designs are attainable innovations informed by the needs and desires of users. At Fitbit, Matt works with teams of passionate and inspired designers, researchers, and strategists who use their creative talents every day to help people lead healthier, better lives.

Phil Keslin is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Niantic, Inc., creators of Pokemon GO. Started in early 2011 and Incubated within Google, Phil led the engineering team in exploring the convergence of mobile, geo and social within a range of applications leading up to the launch of Ingress and FieldTrip. Prior to Niantic, Phil was a contributor to StreetView, GMail and Lively products while at Google. Additionally Phil was a GPU Architect at NVIDIA and a key contributor to the design and development several of their GPUS. In 2000, Phil joined up with John Hanke to found Keyhole. As its CTO, Phil led the development of the Earthviewer application which would later become Google Earth following the company's acquisition by Google. Phil received his MBA from Southern Methodist University and his Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Eva Deckers is Design Director at Philips Design, leading the Data Enabled Design team and responsible for several Strategic Design activities. After finishing her master Industrial Design, focusing on system and interaction design she obtained her PhD on artificial intelligence from a design perspective. She investigated and designed the perceptual and social intelligence of a system rather than its cognitive abilities. After joining Philips in 2013 she focused on strategic design, at that moment a new competence within Philips Design. In that role she was design lead for one of four strategic domains of Philips and she is responsible for a design thinking program to support business strategy, the so called Business Value Proposition. Since 2017 she leads the Data Enabled Design competency team, building a design approach in which data is utilized as creative material as well as building strong data enabled design propositions. In her presentation she will introduce the team, capabilities, goals and achievements through inspiring showcases. This will give the audience a flavor of how Philips Design in picking up on designing for the increasingly connected world and how this asks for new ways of working for designers, developers and data scientists.

Anna leads one of the biggest product teams in iZettle's Growth Product area that includes web and mobile developers, backenders, UX and visual designers, test automation and analysts.

She started her first business at the age of 6 and spent most of her career in the world of entrepreneurship - growing and scaling businesses on 3 different continents during the last 10 years. 

She holds a double masters degree in engineering and economy that helps her to move fast in the tech world, solve complex problems and build efficient and autonomous teams. She is passionate about technical entrepreneurship and solutions that improve customers' everyday life.

Originally from Russia, Anna now lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Anna enjoys helping young entrepreneurs on topics of customer validation, growth and business models. You can reach out to her over linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sitni/

Adam is the Chief Product Officer for Kessel Run, a United States Air Force initiative to revolutionize the way the Air Force builds and delivers software. Adam leads over a dozen balanced product teams who build cloud-native software applications to optimize the planning and execution of air warfare at the U.S. Air Force's Air Operations Centers worldwide. He is passionate about large-scale digital transformation and enacting culture change where it seems most improbable.

Started out as an artist, but fell into tech through my love of logic.
Accidentally formed a company producing flash animations and games.
Sold out and became a front-end tech lead for an ad agency. Got bored
and wanted to go freelance but was approached by adyen. After 5+ years,
really enjoying the ride. Still making and showing paintings.

Rija Javed is one of the first female CTOs in the UK Fintech industry. She heads up engineering, product, data and design at MarketInvoice. Her prior stint was in Silicon Valley where she headed up the core business area for automated financial adviser Wealthfront. One of her focus is to bring more diversity to STEM by mentoring folks across different age groups and socio-economic backgrounds.

Emmet is Director of Product Design at Intercom where he helps a growing, global design team to create and ship the best work they can. Before joining Intercom Emmet worked for Google in Zurich and San Francisco. There he designed Google Flight Search, and co-founded and designed Android Wear. He got an MA in Digital Art from the University of Plymouth mostly by accident. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children on purpose.

Alice is Chief Product Officer at WorldRemit, a service which helps users send millions of pounds to family and friends around the world each month. Alice sets the product vision for the 90-person product and engineering team at WorldRemit, and leads the product and UX team to invent, design and deliver new products and features that meet the needs of users in over 140 countries. Alice holds a double first MA from the University of Cambridge and a Henry Fellowship from Harvard University.

Richard graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in 1994 with a degree in Software Engineering that he didn't know what to do with. In 1999, two web-design start-ups later, he moved to the US. He's been leading design teams in large organizations ever since, first with Vanguard, then at USAA and now in New York City as Head of Design for Capital One's 450-strong design organization.

Richard is active in the design community, having spoken at conferences across the country on the topics of design leadership, measurement, and the importance of experience management systems. He chaired the 2008 IA Summit in Miami which gave him a new appreciation for conference organizers everywhere.

He has an unhealthy obsession for Mental Model diagrams. His table tennis and juggling are good, his guitar playing is not, and he gets very uncomfortable writing third-person bios of himself.

For the past 20 years, Ronen has been successfully merging technology and design together into useful and accessible products, defining interactive experiences across various devices and platforms. Prior to co-founding eToro in 2007, Ronen has designed products ranging from medical devices, household appliances as well as numerous desktop and web applications.

Ronen holds a BA in Industrial Design from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and an MA in Product Design from the Royal College of Art, London.

Today Ronen oversees the product and engineering departments for eToro.