Speakers
Ovetta Sampson
Ovetta is Director of User Experience Machine Learning at Google. Her mission is to amplify the beauty of humanity with design while avoiding practices that exploit its fragility. She has more than a decade of experience, working in multiple industries to innovate with various technologies including machine learning and artificial intelligence, IoT, AR/VR. She’s spent more than a decade designing and creating enterprise software solutions for companies all over the globe.
Having led several multidisciplinary teams and organizations at global companies such as IDEO, Microsoft and Google, Ovetta’s sweet spot is taking the deep expertise of engineering, product management and design and creating transdisciplinary practices, policies and teams that produce better, more human-centered products, platforms and services. She has a background in journalism, psychology, history and anthropology and, of course, equity and social justice and uses this foundation in her design practice. She currently is the Director of UX, Core ML at Google LLC.
Combining her M.S. in Computer Science (HCI) with her BA in Communications, Ovetta spends most of her time helping people visualize humanity’s future and how to ethically and with compassion serve people through digital and intelligent products, platforms and services. When she’s not working or teaching graduate school at DePaul University, she’s swimming, biking and running in exotic locales, and occasionally, doing these races called Ironmans.
About the talk
The Planck Value of Design - Collective Leadership
In this talk, Ovetta will describe how she uses the framework of collective leadership to lead multidisciplinary teams for better design. This leadership framework focuses on empowering and supporting leadership at all levels and from all disciplines throughout the design process to push product innovation as well as focus on each team member's career trajectory. By blending a communal approach to leading teams with the design process itself the result is more like an artful game of chance than a team with each player playing his or her part at the right moment to create a transdisciplinary shared outcome.
Q&A with Ovetta Sampson and Alice Quan
Q&A with Ovetta and Alice
The Planck Value of Design - Collective Leadership
In this talk, Ovetta will describe how she uses the framework of collective leadership to lead multidisciplinary teams for better design. This leadership framework focuses on empowering and supporting leadership at all levels and from all disciplines throughout the design process to push product innovation as well as focus on each team member's career trajectory. By blending a communal approach to leading teams with the design process itself the result is more like an artful game of chance than a team with each player playing his or her part at the right moment to create a transdisciplinary shared outcome.