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Embrace UX
April 15, 2016 - April 16, 2016
Embrace UX brings together practitioners from a variety of industries to share insights and ideas about crafting compelling experiences for users and customers. Speakers offer fresh insights into experience design and challenge attendees to reflect on their own practice and become better at their craft.
“I was blown away by the quality of content at the conference!”
– 2015 Attendee
From big ideas to hard skills, case studies to panel discussions, we’ve got great speakers lined up for this year’s conference. Check out the confirmed line-up below and keep checking embraceux.com for updates!
Jaime Levy
Author, ‘UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want’
Jaime Levy is an author, college professor and User Experience consultant based in Los Angeles, California. Her book “UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want” was just published by O’Reilly Media.
Dustin Rideout
Vice-President, Strategy, Partner, Sid Lee
A strategic trailblazer and industry leader, Dustin leads a team on cross-functional strategist tackling some of the most daunting transformations facing business today.
Ujwal Arkalgud
Cultural Anthropologist, co-founder of MotivIndex
Ujwal 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.
Jason Partridge
Insight strategist, co-founder of MotivIndex
Jason is an insight strategist and the co-founder of MotivIndex. He started his career as a copywriter developing award-winning advertising for some of the world’s largest brands. Over his 15 year career, Jason’s love for strategy and identifying the human truth helped him rise through the ranks of some of the most recognized advertising agencies.
Sarah English
Principal, Usability Matters
Armed with deep expertise in user-centered design, Sarah has spent well over a decade helping organizations create beautiful, usable interfaces to complex systems.
Shannah Segal
Principal, Usability Matters
As co-founder of Usability Matters, Shannah has played a key part in establishing its stellar reputation. She feels the single most rewarding part of user experience is the opportunity to work with new people. It’s no surprise that her influence has helped us stay true to our roots: people are at the heart of our design practice. Shannah’s unwavering commitment to this ideal is evident in every project, and has contributed to the success of hundreds of client projects.
Judy Mellett
Director, Service Design, Innovation & Strategy, TELUS
As Director, Service Design, Innovation & Strategy at TELUS, Judy’s current focus centers on engaging in purposeful design and delivery of end-to-end service experiences that reinforces TELUS’ brand proposition and sustains customer loyalty
Chris Ferguson
CEO, Bridgeable
Chris leads strategy and design projects with some of the world’s largest and most innovative organizations.
Ty Tekatch
Artist, Filmmaker
Tyler Tekatch is Hamilton born Canadian artist whose work explores the nature of dreams, perception and the religious imagination.