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Schedule

Day 1 - Talks

SFJAZZ Center

Registration

We'll have fresh coffee to get your day started right! Please bring some ID with you to collect your pass. we can't wait to meet you!

The Three Stages of Leadership

Jane Austin — Chief Design Officer, Flo Health Inc.

Design the Team You Need to Succeed

Christina Wodtke — Author and Professor, Stanford University

Delicious coffee (other drinks are available) Break

Group Decision Making’s Dirty Little Secrets

Julia Whitney — Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and Associates

The Manager's Guide to 1:1's:

Abi Jones — UX Manager, Imaging & Diagnostics, Google Health

Mythbusting Millennial Management

Christine Pizzo — Boston Studio Lead, Digital Products, Accenture

Lunch

From IC to Management: Why Design Leadership has Nothing to do with Design

Samantha Warren — Director of Design, Creative Cloud Services, Adobe

Leading From The Middle, Lessons from the IC track

D. Keith Robinson — Lead Product Designer, Atlassian

The Elements of Leadership

Russ Maschmeyer — Primer, Co-Founder & CEO

Refreshment Break

Panel

Kate Aronowitz — Design Partner, Google Ventures
Steve Johnson — Vice President of Product Design and Studio Design, Netflix
Katie Dill — Head of Design, Stripe
Margaret Gould Stewart — Vice President, Product Design, Facebook

Leading successfully, through leading ourselves

Aaron Irizarry — Sr. Director of Design, Capital One

Welcome Drinks

Join us for a delicious drink or two from our friends at Google

Sponsored by Google

Day 2 Talks

SFJAZZ Center

Registration

Leading through change

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

The Atomic Unit of Design Is The Team

Peter Merholz — Design organization consultant, Humanism at Scale, LLC

Coffee break

Growing Design at Monzo

Hugo Cornejo — Co-founder, Packfleet

That Post-IPO Life: Learnings from the other side

Audrey Liu — Executive Vice President, Head of Design, Lyft

Leading a business by design

Lynsey Thornton — GM of Store Management, Shopify

Lunch

Gen 2

Frank Yoo — VP of Design & Research, Coinbase

Crafting culture to design better products

Anisha Jain — Director of Product Design, Cruise Automation

Mastering Success

Julie Zhuo — Co-founder and Author, Inspirit

Refreshment break

Designing the Intersection of Government, Cancer, and the People

Kara DeFrias — Director of Experience Design, Obama White House

First comes scale then comes.....

Stuart Clarke-Frisby — Director of Design, Deliveroo

Workshops

SFJAZZ Center

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.

Registration

Stakeholder Management for Design Leaders

Julia Whitney — Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and Associates

Coach, Diplomat, Champion, Architect: A Workshop on Design Leadership Fundamentals

Peter Merholz — Design organization consultant, Humanism at Scale, LLC

Lunch

Design Management and Operations: Enabling the health and effectiveness of your design organization

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

Laying a Foundation for Effective Design Teams

Aaron Irizarry — Sr. Director of Design, Capital One

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