Embrace UX speaker: Ujwal Arkalgud

Embrace UX (@EmbraceUX) will be taking place Friday April 15th – Saturday April 16th at the Lincoln Alexander Centre in downtown Hamilton. Featuring a line-up of experience design thought leaders at a gorgeous venue (with breakfast, lunch, and snacks included), a party at the Collective Arts Brewery, and 250 attendees from around North America – Embrace UX is Hamilton’s annual premier tech and design event!

Embrace UX speakers will be profiled every few days until April, but register soon, as the 20% early bird discount expires on February 14th!

Ujwal Arkalgud

Ujwal (@interpretivist) is a cultural anthropologist and the co-founder of MotivIndex. He started his career as an in-field researcher conducting immersive ethnographies in the entertainment and travel sector, where he discovered his love for understanding human behavior and the underlying motivations that drive the decisions people make every day. Over the next decade, whilst taking on a number of different roles both client and agency side, Ujwal continued to hone his craft as a researcher and strategist working with global brands such as Microsoft, Ford, Hewlett Packard, Lowe’s, Subaru, Mercedes-Benz, G.E and many more.

Ujwal has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and spends a lot of his time studying and understanding consumer culture. He writes for the Huffington Post and speaks and blogs regularly on the role of culture in helping organizations emotionally connect with their audiences and solve business problems.