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Doug Powell is a designer with more than 25 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines. A recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis, and the 2014 Fellow Award from AIGA Minnesota, Doug is a lecturer, commentator and thought leader on design issues, having presented at a variety of national conferences and forums including the 2015 Beirut Design Week in Lebanon. Bright Ideas on Minnesota Public Radio, the 2011 Mayo Clinic Transform Conference, and the 2012 TEDx ArtCenter. Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design, the largest and oldest design organisation in the world. He is currently a Distinguished Designer at IBM, directing the program to scale design and design thinking across the global tech company

Kai has worked within the BBC for 11 years. In her current role, Kai looks after the UX&Design internal systems and tools for BBC Digital and Engineering divisions. A large part of the role includes growing the UX&Design capability, education and practice to provide the systems and tools for the BBC across Production and Enterprise. Kai has held a number of positions at the BBC including almost 4 years as BBC's Creative Director. She was also BBC's Senior Interaction Designer where she lead a team of designers on Audience Facing Services, such as BBC iD, user features - commenting, blogs, social features, and automated programme support. Kai has also held senior design positions in GCap Media, Conchango and BSkyB to name a few.

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.

Cheryl is a lover of technology. From a young age, she has built computers and was determined to head in the direction of digital in her career. She strongly believes that technology need to match the growth of the business - by being creative. She has successfully built and developed diverse technical and digital teams at Barclaycard

Chiara most recently led Dell's EMEA Online Customer Experience teams for the Consumer and Small Business Division. She joined Slack as one of her responsibility on the job reference was to keep the team happy which stood out to her.

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.

David Hoang leads a team of product designers who focus on human-centered design, rapid prototyping, and continous learning. He was previously an early member of ExactTarget's global accounts team, founder of an agency, Brand and Global Digital Marketing at HTC, and Director of Design at Black Pixel. He's had the pleasure of working with great clients such as Expedia, Inspirato, Nike, Nordstrom, Starbucks, Whole Foods and several other undisclosed accounts.

He is currently the Head of Product Design at One Medical where he leads the design function and works with engineering and product leadership.

David has a BFA in Visual Arts and his work is profoundly influenced by art, narrative and popular culture. He's based in San Francisco, California but his heart is in New York City.