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Kevin Bethune - Reimagining Design: An Incredible Journey

Kevin Bethune inspires with his incredible journey across engineering, business & design, shares how to keep calm inside of a nuclear reactor, and shines a light on design’s diversity blind spot.
Highlights include:
⭐ Are designers too in love with the future state?⭐ Where did you put your fear while working inside a nuclear reactor?⭐ How was your Dad a servant leader and why did that inspire you?⭐ What does it mean that there have only been 300 black ArtCenter graduates?⭐ How do you explain a systemically racist America to your son?
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Who is Kevin Bethune?
Kevin is the Founder and Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life, a strategic design consultancy that helps companies like PepsiCo, Nike, and Berkshire Hathaway, to bring a multi-disciplinary, human-centred and innovation-focused lens to business.
Graduating from Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Kevin started his career in the nuclear energy industry with Westinghouse Electric, where he became closely acquainted with the ins-and-outs of nuclear reactors. 
After earning an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, Kevin joined Nike, in a business role. However, his curiosity soon led him to footwear designa, where, thanks to the mentorship of D’Wayne Edwards, he would design the record-breaking Air Jordan Fusion 8 shoe.
Seeking new horizons and to solidify his creative foundation, Kevin left Nike for a Master of Science in Industrial Design at the prestigious ArtCenter College of Design where he now serves on the board of Trustees. He is also the Board Chair for the Design Management Institute.
Immediately before founding dreams • design + life, Kevin was a co-founder of the strategic design & innovation capabilities at TWO top tier management consulting firms - Booz & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group. 
His first book, "Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation" was published by The MIT Press in March, with the forward written by his good friend, the legendary technologist and designer, Dr. John Maeda.
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Find Kevin here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbethune/Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinbethuneWebsite: https://www.dreamsdesignandlife.com/
Kevin’s book:
Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation - https://www.kevinbethune-reimaginingdesign.com/
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Noelle Russell - Others Don’t Get to Choose Your Path to Success

Noelle Russell provides a beacon of light for anyone who’s staring down a dragon, as she shares her against the odds and remarkable journey to and through technology.
Highlights include:
⭐ What is wing clipping and why is it dangerous?⭐ Do you really have over 130 voice enabled devices in your home?⭐ Why did your Dad teach you that other people don’t get to choose your path to success?⭐ How has your son’s disability inspired you to raise awareness of the potential of AI?⭐ What can people who are struggling to find their voice in the workplace do?
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Who is Noelle Russell?
Noelle is a multi-award winning technologist, entrepreneur and big tech executive, who has invested the past 25 years in helping people to understand, productise and ethically apply emerging technologies to their businesses.
She is currently a Global Partner in AI and Analytics at IBM, where she works with business leaders to speed up their digital transformations, and to reinvent their business models through the creative application of technology.
Prior to joining IBM, Noelle was the Vice President of Digital Technology at National Public Radio. She has also held senior roles at Microsoft as a Principal Product Manager in AI and at Amazon, where she was a Senior Architect working on Alexa. 
Alongside her busy corporate career, Noelle is also the CEO of the AI Leadership Institute, a global organisation that she founded to empower and inspire senior executives to think deeply about AI and how to apply it responsibly.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noelleai/ X: https://twitter.com/noellerussell_ Website: https://noellerussell.ai/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@noelleaiInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/noelle.ai
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Milton Jackson - Why Crabs Can’t Climb Out of Buckets

Milton Jackson graciously gives Brave UX’s first poetry reading, reflects on the critical importance of role models, and shares his aspirations for a more inclusive world.
Highlights include:
⭐ Poetry reading: Love Lost in Likes⭐ What led you to a career in technology and design?⭐ Has the lack of black designers been painfully obvious to you?⭐ Where did your confidence to teach public speaking come from?⭐ Why isn’t the written word more central to the experiences we design?
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Who is Milton Jackson?
Milton is the SVP of Experience Design for Wealth, Wellness, Rewards and Retirement at Bank of America, where he’s helping to redefine how the business serves its customers.
Before joining Bank of America, Milton was the AVP, Head of Digital Design and UX at The Hartford, a Fortune 500 insurance and investment company.
And, earlier in his career, Milton spent five and half years at ESPN, where he was responsible for leading the UI and UX for ESPN.com, ESPNFC.com and ESPNDeportes.
Alongside his busy corporate design career, since 2014 Milton has also been the Founder and CEO of PicSpotr, a proudly black-owned company and CRM that’s specifically designed to empower professional photographers to build their businesses.
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Find Milton here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heymiltonj/Twitter: https://twitter.com/milton_jksnWebsite: https://www.picspotr.com/ADPList: https://adplist.org/mentors/milton-jackson
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Peter Merholz - Demystifying Design Leadership

Peter Merholz demystifies design leadership, openly shares the ups and downs of a trail-blazing design career, and how we can keep design “weird” without getting fired.
Highlights include:
⭐ What is the fundamental job of the designer leader?⭐ Why do design leaders find it difficult to figure out what their job is?⭐ What advice did Obi Wan give Luke that design leaders need to hear?⭐ Why are you a design pragmatist and not an idealist?⭐ What do design leaders need to know about politics and relationships?
#DesignLeadership #UX #UXDesign #AdaptivePath #BraveUX
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Who is Peter Merholz?
Peter is the Founder and Principal at Humanism at Scale, the consulting practice he started in 2019 to amplify the practices and potential of design teams by shaping design organisations and bolstering design leadership.
Before founding Humanism at Scale, Peter was the VP of Design at Snagajob, where he oversaw design for both product and marketing. Peter has also held positions such as Senior Director of Design at Jawbone, VP of Global Design at Groupon and VP of User Experience at Inflection.
But it is his role and the almost 11 years he invested as a Co-Founder and the Head of Design Practice of Adaptive Path - then the world’s leading UX strategy and UX design firm - that he is perhaps best known for.
In 2016, Peter co-authored “Org Design for Design Orgs” with Kristin Skinner, which was the first book to address building and managing effective in-house design teams. 
And, last millennia, Peter coined the term blog. How cool is that!?
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Find Peter here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petermerholz/Twitter: https://twitter.com/petermeWebsite: https://www.petermerholz.com/Peter’s book:
Org Design for Design Orgs - Building and Managing In-House Design Teams:https://orgdesignfordesignorgs.com/
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Audrey Cheng - Resolving the Tension Between Product and UX

Audrey Cheng shares her journey from lab scientist to CTO, why she redefined career success, and how UX and product can work better together.
Highlights include:
⭐ Why did you have to leave redefine career success?⭐ Should product leaders be leading design orgs?⭐ How do you involve stakeholders in UX design, in a meaningful way?⭐ Should designers seeking influence consider a move into product?⭐ How do you handle demands for features from stakeholders?
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Who is Audrey Cheng?
Audrey is the Chief Technology Officer at Imagr, the first vision-only, white-label, autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves.
Before joining Imagr, she was the CPO at SnapComms, an Everbridge company. At the same time, Audrey was also the Head of Global UX for all of Everbridge’s products, working closely with the CTO - Dr. John Maeda.
Prior to Everbridge, Audrey was the VP of Product at Pushpay, the world-leading digital engagement and giving platform for churches.
In 2019, Audrey was recognised by Leading Women in Product, as the Product Leader of the Year for Australia and New Zealand.
A clear communicator and a passionate product person, Audrey has been invited to deliver talks at UXDX Asia Pacific and Mind the Product, and has been a repeat guest on the Fearless Product podcast.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-cheng-b495a02/Twitter: https://twitter.com/audjcheng
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Dan Hill - Technology Is the Answer, but What Was the Question?

Dan Hill challenges us to think differently about our cities and civic spaces, to consider the second order effects of our work, and to think carefully about the questions we’re asking.
Highlights include:
⭐ Who should be responsible for the negative externalities of technology?⭐ When and why did the financialisation of our public spaces begin?⭐ Technology is the answer, but what was the question?⭐ Do people have cause to be grumpy about cycle lanes?⭐ Why do we make cities?
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Who is Dan Hill?
Dan recently finished up as the Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova, the Swedish Government’s innovation agency, to become the Director of the Melbourne School of Design, at the University of Melbourne in Australia. 
He has also been an Associate Director and Head of Arup Digital Studio, a Strategic Design Lead at SITRA (Finland’s government innovation fund) and the Head of Interactive Technology and Design at the BBC.
Dan was one of the Mayor of London’s - Sadiq Khan’s - inaugural Design Advocates. He has been a Trustee of the Participatory City Foundation and he is a founding member of the UN HABITAT Council for Urban Initiatives.
The author of the influential book “Dark Matter & Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary” and a a prolific blogger, Dan has been writing about design, technology, cities and culture for over 20 years on his blog, “City of Sound”.
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Find Dan here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cityofsound/Twitter: https://twitter.com/cityofsoundWebsite: https://www.cityofsound.com/Blog: https://cityofsound.medium.com/
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Jodine Stodart - Keeping Stakeholders Engaged with Design

Jodine Stodart shares how to get and keep stakeholders engaged, why it’s important to develop your understanding of self, and the timeless power of listening.
Highlights include:
⭐ How important are stakeholder interviews for UX success?⭐ Can UX be successful if customer centricity isn’t a strategic focus?⭐ How do you help stakeholders to make sense of design artefacts?⭐ Why do leaders need to be more conscious of their impact on others?⭐ How do you help someone to see another person’s perspective?
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Who is Jodine Stodart?
Jodine is the Managing Director of Fireside Consulting, the UX & Design Coaching, Service Design, Regenerative Design, and Conscious Leadership Coaching practice that she founded in 2019.
As someone who is inspired by the potential for design to help solve complex problems, Jodine is also the co-founder of the online UX community called UXCONNECT, through which she runs regular leadership retreats.
Prior to Fireside Consulting, Jodine was a Director of User Experience at Digital Arts Network in New Zealand, where she worked with key clients such as Auckland Council, Countdown Supermarkets, and Spark.
She was also a Senior User Experience Consultant at Optimal Usability, a leading New Zealand design research consultancy that was sold to Price Waterhouse Coopers in 2014. 
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodinestodart/Twitter: https://twitter.com/jUXpositionWebsite: https://firesideconsulting.biz/
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Special Episode: Brendan Jarvis & Lou Rosenfeld - Framing Tomorrow by Questioning Today

Brendan Jarvis & Lou Rosenfeld bring you a special episode that features Brendan’s keynote from Design at Scale 2022 - Framing Tomorrow by Questioning Today.
Highlights include:
⭐ What’s been going on for Lou, lately?⭐ What were the best parts of Design at Scale 2022?⭐ How is the field been coping with global uncertainty?⭐ Where can people find out more about the DesignOps Summit?⭐ Brendan’s opening keynote from Design at Scale 2022
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Who is Lou Rosenfeld?
Lou is the Publisher and Founder of Rosenfeld Media, through which he and his team release some of the best books on UX, produce world-class conferences, and curate a number of specialist design communities.   
He is also the host of the Rosenfeld Review podcast and the co-author of “Information Architecture for the World Wide Web”, often fondly referred to as The Polar Bear Book. 
Who is Brendan Jarvis?
Brendan is the insatiably curious Managing Founder of The Space InBetween, formerly an award-winning digital design studio and now the only specialist UX research practice and world-class UX lab in New Zealand.
His mission? Helping enterprise design leaders to develop brave and inclusive design cultures, through effective UX research and research experiences that build the capabilities of their teams.
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Find Lou here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisrosenfeld/Twitter: https://twitter.com/louisrosenfeldWebsite: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rosenfeld-media
Find Brendan here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanjarvis/Twitter: https://twitter.com/brendanjarvisWebsite: https://thespaceinbetween.co.nz/Podcast: https://braveux.podbean.com/
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Matthew Holloway - Design Maturity Starts with Designers’ Maturity

Matthew Holloway shares what it was like to lead SAP’s design thinking transformation, why designers need to get their house in order first, and the importance of purposeful rest.
Highlights include:
⭐ What was it like working with Don Norman at Apple?⭐ Does design maturity start with designers’ maturity?⭐ Why can’t you impose design culture over night?⭐ How can design leaders get a seat at the top table?⭐ Do critics of Design Thinking have a legitimate axe to grind?
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Who is Matthew Holloway?
Matthew is an independent design consultant with over 25 years of experience scaling high performance product design teams for some of the world’s largest companies.
As VP in the Office of CEO at SAP, Matthew worked with Hasso Plattner (the Co-Founder and Chairman) and Henning Kagermann (the then CEO) leading the global Design Thinking transformation of SAPs 60,000-person development, sales and consulting services divisions.
After leaving SAP, Matthew took on the role of VP of Product Design & User Experience for Shutterfly. While there he led an aggressive programme of ongoing product improvements, as well as a strategic programme that resulted in an estimated $50 million dollars of annual savings. 
He has co-founded two companies, including Atlas Informatics - a machine learning based personal search technology - that counted Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Microsoft amongst its investors - and was acquired by Xinova in 2017.
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maholloway/Website: https://matthewholloway.com/
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Bill Albert, PhD - Quantifying the User Experience

Bill Albert reflects on what it takes to run effective UX research, why evaluating more than usability is important, and how UX leaders can unlock better budgets.
Highlights include:
⭐ Are UX leaders who aren’t quantifying UX derelict in their duties?⭐ Why is UX sometimes the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff?⭐ How can UX leaders secure enough budget to enable UX research?⭐ Should UX research be concerned with measuring preferences?⭐ Who was Dr. Tom S. Tullis and what impact did he have on your life?
#UX #UXResearch #UserResearch #UXR #Usability #UsabilityTesting #MixedMethods #DesignLeadership #BraveUX
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Who is Bill Albert?
Bill is the SVP, Global Head of UX & Customer Development at Mach49, a growth incubator and accelerator for global 1,000 businesses that has over $50B in market cap and counting.
Prior to joining Mach49, Bill was an Adjunct Professor in Human Factors at Bentley University and the Executive Director of the Bentley University User Experience Centre for nearly 14 years. 
Along with the his good friend, the late Dr. Tom S. Tullis, Bill is the co-author of two books, Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing, and Presenting Usability Metrics and Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-Scale Online User Experience Studies.
Since 2013, Bill has been the Co-Editor and Chief of the Journal of User Experience. A peer-reviewed, international, online publication that’s dedicated to promoting and enhancing the practice, research and education of UX design and evaluation. 
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Find Bill here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/walbert/Twitter: https://twitter.com/uxmetricsCompany: https://mach49.com/Journal of UX: https://uxpajournal.org/Bentley UX Center: https://www.bentley.edu/uxc/
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