Uxpa International 2023 | User Experience Professionals Association - UXPA | 20 June 2023 | Austin Marriott Downtown, 304 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78701, USA

Join us this summer for over 50 inspiring sessions, a full day of interactive pre-conference courses and over 100 speakers!

Agenda:
• Decision-making in a time of uncertainty
• Redesigning the design studio: new format, better outcomes
• You built it and no one came – why good designs miss and how to recover
• Cool or creepy? The role of artificial intelligence in the design process
• A framework to define an out of box experience using measurable experience metrics
• We finally have a seat at the table, now what?: how u.S. Digital Corps fellows are navigating the challenges of design in the federal government
• Making UX a business outcome: a framework
• When you’re the only unicorn on the enterprise farm
• Ready or not? Data and insights on the future of UX
• Exploring the effects of personal impact communicated through eco-feedback technology for reducing food waste
• I don’t think you are solving the right problem
• Building and evolving a design system that aligns UX strategy with the business
• Hijacking treejack – using reverse card sort to determine both the feature names and the categories used to cluster those features, an iterative process
• The report is dead, long live the report! How to communicate usability research findings for maximum impact
• Rinse and repeat: automate your ux operations so you can spend time on the work you really love
• Learn how to get over personas by swiping right on user roles
• How to grow a participant garden
• Engaging cultural differences for inclusive design in a globalized world
• Behind the bias: dissecting human shortcuts for better research & designs.
• Redesigning the design interview – how candidates and businesses can find the right “fit” by rethinking hiring practices from first principles
• How to manage and lead a global research team
• High-fives over zoom: creating a remote-first creative team
• Ux enterprise story: how to apply a process to a company without process.
• How teams hire UX researchers today: a survey of current trends and best practices.
• Tips on how to work and live with 5 types of imposter syndrome
• Design team health: Measuring it and ways to make team adjustments collaboratively
• Managing UX research vendors for success
• Inside The UX Studio
• Best practices for unmoderated think-alouds: How to walk a stranger you’ll never meet through one of the most challenging protocols in usability testing
• Disrupting Inaccessibility: Applying A11Y-focused discovery & ideation for product design
• Redesigning an automotive feature from gasoline to electric vehicles: A case study in innovation, branding, passion, and perseverance
• Start strong–lessons learned from associate programs to platform your junior staff for excellence and lasting success.
• Don’t Forget the Humans! Elevate needs through jobs to be done in generative research
• UX Education: The Postsecondary Landscape
• How to balance strong user experience with enhanced security within an agile framework? Lessons learned and best practices
• Let’s discuss ethics and politics in UX
• Dealing with Massive change: What we did when execs asked us to test *EVERYTHING*
• Lessons for new managers
• Data science and UX: Smarter together
• Designing diverse teams
• How Can UX Make History Accessible? Adventures in storytelling through UX
• The Struggle is Real: Early UX career advice, experiences and commiseration
• UX research: Optimizing collaboration with project research sponsors
• How We Experience Everything | And How To Design For It
• Creating a framework in digital research to include people with disabilities
• Experience Maps – A designer’s framework for working in Agile teams and managing UX Debt
• UX Fracking: Using mixed methods to extract hidden insights
• Using triangulation to capture the 2020 Census user experience
• Using the SQUACK Feedback Formula to improve design critiques and feedback sessions about research, content, and product deliverables
• Rethinking design processes for inclusion
• Dialogue like a pro to level up your UX

2023 Speakers

Abby Goodrum
Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University

Agatha Kalichenko
Clinical Advisor and Sr. Human Factors, UX Consultant, Sage Research & Design, Inc.

Ahmad Alhuwwari
UX/UI Manager, Orange Jordan

Alex White

Ali Cuthbertson
CIO Design Operations Agile Program Manager, IBM

Allison Veronda
Senior UX Researcher, John Deere

Amanda Kassick
UX Researcher, Roku

Amy Oetting
Sr. User Experience Researcher, John Deere

Andrew Schall
Senior Director Experience Design Research, Mayo Clinic

Angie Avera
Lead UX Researcher, Peloton

Annette Tassone
UX Researcher Creative Director, IBM

Anika Bausom
Senior User Experience Designer, Research Collective

Ashley Connor
UX Researcher, Usability Sciences

Bhuvana Narayanamurthy
Sr. Consultant, UX Design, Concentrix Catalyst

Bo Kim
Senior Product Designer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Brianna Koch
Senior Product Designer, Artera

Cali White
UX Research Manager, Hilton

Carol Righi
Senior Director, UX Research, Bold

Caroline Little
Senior Experience Design Researcher, Mayo Clinic

Charlotte Newman
Senior UX Researcher, U.S. Bank

Chris Becker
Sr. User Experience Design Consultant, BTTR

Christy Harper
Co-Owner, Managing Partner, End to End User Research

Cindy Weber
Senior UX Research, John Deere

Clara Kliman-silver
Staff UX Researcher, Google

Corinne Mayans
Head of Product Design, PixieBrix

Costanza Volpini
Product UX Design Engineer, Logitech

Craig Peters
Founder, CEO, Awasu Design

Dan Healy
Head of User Centered Design, Zaizi

Dan Jones
Product Designer, Garmin

Danie Sandoval
Head of Design, Stemma

Dara Chilton
Texas State University

Darby Siscoe
UX Research Manager, Hilton

Dorinne Hammons
User Experience Lead, Exxon Mobil

Elizabeth Dressler
Staff User Experience Research Manager, Google

Elizabeth Nichols
US Census Bureau

Elizabeth Rodwell
Assistant Professor of Digital Media, University of Houston

Emily Masterson
AVP of Product Design, Southern New Hampshire University

Felix Faucher
Visiting Professor, École de technologie supérieure

Greg Hallihan
Principal, Human Insights

Huatong Sun
Associate Professor of Digital Media Studies & HCI, University of Washington Tacoma

Inga Wisniewski
Associate Director, User Experience, Wolters Kluwer

Jaisie Sin
PhD Candidate, University of Toronto

Jason Telner
Senior User Experience Researcher and Designer, IBM

Jeeyoung Yang
Design Lead, IBM Cloud

Jen Romano
Sr. UX Manager, Google

Jenny Wang
Product Designer, GSA

Jessamyn Edwards
Senior User Experience Designer, Amazon Web Services

Jessia Schafer
User Experience Lead, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Jill Mugge
Sr. Manager Digital Accessibility, Hilton

Jillian Gilburne
Design Fellow, U.S. Digital Corps

Joe Lengfellner
Sr. Director, Clinical Research Informatics & Technology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

John Romadka
Director, Global Accessibility Research Services, UserZoom

Jon Temple
Design Principal, IBM

Jonathan Rubin
User Research Team Lead, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Josephine Giaimo
Membership & Operations Lead, User Experience Professionals Association, New Jersey Chapter

Joshua Maxwell
User Experience Researcher, Oracle NetSuite

Julie Jensen
Founder, Rut Wrecker

Kate Walton
User Experience Design Principal, ExxonMobil

Kathi Kaiser
Co-Founder and Partner, Centralis

Kathleen Carroll
Leading Human-centered Design, HHS InnovationX, U.S. Digital Corps

Katie Parmeson
Director, User Experience Services, Ciena

Keith Instone
Digital Experience Research Analyst, Stratascale

Kelly Rose Cayne
Senior UX Designer, Strategy & Design Systems, Logitech

Kyle Qin
UX/CX Design Researcher, Wolters Kluwer

Kyrsten Novak
Sr. UX-HF Design Researcher, Amazon Kids

Lacy Kelly Ramos
Design Fellow, U.S. Digital Corps

Larysa Nadolny
Associate Director of Research, Rightpoint

Lauren Schaefer
Director of UX, Seesaw Learning

Lawton Pybus
UXR Manager, UserZoom

Leemor Yuravlivker
Associate Director, Product Design, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Li Wen Huang
Principal, User Experience Research, Consumer Insights, Discover Financial Services

Lubina Bogoeva
AVP, UX Design, Chubb Insurance

Madison Dunaetz
UX Accessibility Consultant, US Bank

Manasa Swaminathan
University of Indianapolis

Maranda Bodas
Staff Content Designer, Google

Marty Gage
Vice President User Experience Research, Lextant

Maz Karimian
Strategy Director, ustwo

Meira Chefitz
User Experience Researcher, IBM

Michael Buckley

Michael Diaz
Principal Product Designer, Dell Technologies

Michelle Polyak
Design Fellow, U.S. Digital Corps

Mike Donahue
UX Manager of Design Systems, Highmark Health

Min Sohn
Senior Product UX Designer, Logitech

Mohamed Sheik-Nainar
Director, User Experience, Synaptics Incorporated

Mohit Gupta
User Experience Manager, CDK Global

Nancy Bouvier
Project Portfolio Manager, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Naomi Enzinna
Senior UX Researcher, Accessibility, UserZoom

Nicholas Johnson
Manager, User Experience, Channel Advisor

Nikkala Thomson
UX Developer and Solution Specialist, Applied Information Sciences

Nikki Ramos
Design Fellow, U.S. Digital Corps

Nina Anusavice
U.S. Digital Corps Fellow, UX Research and Design, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Nina Barraco
Senior Experience Researcher, Rightpoint

Olivier ST-CYR
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto

Paige Valentine
Design Talent Manager, ExxonMobil

Patricia Orsini
AI Experience Content Designer, IBM

Paul Jaye
Sr. User Research Director, Indeed.com

Paul Mcinerney
Senior Manager, UX Research, CIBC

Rebecca Baker
VP, Product Design and Research, Southern New Hampshire University

Rebecca Destello
Senior UX Research Manager, Google

Renata Panchal
Associate Director, Clinical Research Product Management at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Rocio Werner
Vice President, UX Design Research Manager, U.S. Bank

Ron Vutpakdi
Design Principal, ExxonMobil

Samuel Chapman
Digital User Experience Analyst, Internal Revenue Services

Sangeeth Jeevan
UX Researcher, UserZoom

Sarah Cheng
Senior UX Designer, Comcast

Seonghee Lee
ML Research, Carnegie Mellon University

Shannon Halgren
Sr UX|HF Consultant, Sage Research & Design

Shannon Mcconnell
Product Designer, Truth Initiative

Shelley Feuer
Research Psychologist, U.S. Census Bureau

Sierra Patterson
Sr. User Experience Researcher, U.S. Bank

Snigdha Ramkumar
Accessibility Analyst, User Vision

Sogra Nishath
Director of Research & Validation, Out-Of-Box Experience Strategy and Content Experience, HP

Stephan Kotin
UX Research Manager, Amazon

Stephanie Marsh
UX Research Operations Lead, Springer Nature Group

Swapnali Thakar
Director, UX Research and Strategy, Level Access

Tacy Holliday
Director, EPMO & Compliance, AIS

Tanya Payne
User Experience Design Researcher, NetSuite

Tasha Valdez
UX Design Researcher, ExxonMobil

Thomas Callaghan
Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics

Thomas Carpenter
UX Research Manager, John Deere

Thomas Stokes
Lead UX Research Consultant, UserZoom

Thomas Watkins
Principal and Founder, 3Leaf

Tiffany Kieboom
Lead, UX Research, Benevity

Tim Campbell
UX Researcher, Usability Sciences

Timothy Ballew
Sr. User Experience Manager, Expedia Group

Timothy Keirnan
Interaction Engineer, Ford Motor Company

Tyler Waite
Advisory Data Scientist, IBM

Vyas Shenoy
Product Development Engineer, Ford

Wesley Chiu
Product Manager, Vmware Tanzu Labs

William Althoff
Lead User Experience Researcher, End to End User Research

Xieyining Huang
Director of Global Research and Data for Wellness and Resiliency, TaskUs

Zack Rosenberg
Principal Client Partner, ustwo

KEYNOTE:

Adrienne Guillory
COO, Usability Sciences Corporation

Christina Goldschmidt
Head of Product Design, Etsy