Schedule

Day 1: Talks

Barbican Centre

Registration

Once you've registered, join us for a lovely coffee before the conference kicks off - use the Barbican's Silk Street Entrance and then make your way to the 4th Floor terrace.

Lessons from the Battlefield: The Life of a Changemaker

Leading through Change

Kristin Skinner — Co-author, Org Design for Design Orgs, Founder &GSD

Interview

Kristin Skinner — Co-author, Org Design for Design Orgs, Founder &GSD

Refreshment

Kennedy, Kraft, and Kranz - Lessons from the Leaders of the Lunar Landings

Bob Baxley — SVP, Design and Experience, ThoughtSpot

Group Decision Making’s Dirty Little Secrets

Julia Whitney — Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and Associates

600 One-to-Ones

Cap Watkins — CXO, Primary

Lunch

Mythbusting Millennial Management

Christine Pizzo — Boston Studio Lead, Digital Products, Accenture

(Re)Shaping yourself and your design team

Jason Mesut — Design Partner, Group Of Humans

Don’t wait for luck: Designing personal growth for your team

Melissa Hajj — Director of Product Design, Facebook

Break

Cultural bias in design(ers)

Farai Madzima — UX Lead, Shopify

Design Your Leadership

Irene Au — Design Partner, Khosla Ventures

Welcome Drinks

Join us and Google for a drink or two (or three) in the Barbican's wonderful Conservatory

Sponsored by Google

Day Two: Talks

Barbican Centre

Registration

Registration is a bit later today as you've already got your pass so no need to check in, just grab a coffee before the talks start.

Pioneering Design

Dan Makoski — Chief Design Officer, Lloyds Banking Group

Building (and measuring) the Design Experience

Kim Fellman — Design Experience Manager, Pinterest

Refreshment Break

Pixels, Products and People

Simon Rohrbach — Design leader

Making the Band: The Key to Building a Great Design Team

Nicole Burrow — Design Director, Spotify

Scale is a Social Science

Jacqui Frey — Sr. Director of Design Operations, Mailchimp

Lunch

Building Without Regret

Ryan Freitas — Director of Product Design, Facebook

Leading design from top to bottom

Nick Marsh — Head of Product and Design, Wonderbly

Plans are lies, so let’s keep planning

Randy Hunt — Head of Design, Grab

Break

Panel Debate

First comes scale then comes.....

Stuart Clarke-Frisby — Director of Design, Deliveroo

Dandy day two drinks

It's cocktail hour, and a chance to say goodbye to our day two ticket holders. Join us!

Sponsored by Hubspot

Workshops

Barbican Centre

If you have a three day ticket, hurrah, you join us for the workshops. They are first come first serve, so you choose one workshop in the morning, and then choose another workshop after lunch. We'll be adding the workshops soon - so watch this space for more details. Head to the 4th Floor terrace for registration and we'll direct you to the workshop (hint: they're just passed the Auditorium on the left)

Registration

Frobisher 1

Managing Difficult Stakeholders, for Design Leaders

Julia Whitney — Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and Associates
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Shaping design leaders

Jason Mesut — Design Partner, Group Of Humans
Martina Hodges-Schell — Head of Product Design, Pivotal Labs

Lunch

Frobisher 1

Leading transformation

Alberta Soranzo — Director, Transformation Design, Lloyds Banking Group
Frobisher 4

Design Operations and Program Management

Jacqui Frey — Sr. Director of Design Operations, Mailchimp

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