Meet the team
The speakers bringing first-hand experience to the stage. The workshop leaders running hands-on sessions. The curators shaping the program. The staff keeping everything running. Everyone who makes Shift UX worth attending — in one place.
Speakers and Team
Jon Fukuda
Co-founder
Abby Covert
Chief Sensemaker
Stefanie Hutka
Founder & Head of Design Research
Jemma Ahmed
Advancing Research Curator
Llewyn Paine
Strategy Consultant
Dan Saffer
Assistant Professor of the Practice
Christopher Noessel
Author & Design Principal
Brooke Hopper
Sr Principal Designer, Machine Intelligence & New Technology
Candi Williams
Coach and Content Design Leader
Dan Brown
Principal
Sean McKay
Founder, Product Strategy & Design Consultant
Alison Rand
Senior Director, Head of Design Operations
Jamika Burge
AI Design Insights Lead
Changying 'Z' Zheng
DesignOps Leader and Educator
Jesse James Garrett
AI Transformation Consultant & Private Leadership Advisor
Sophia Prater
UX Strategy Consultant and Coach
Catt Small
Staff Product Designer & Author of The Staff Designer
Sheryl Cababa
Author of Closing the Loop
Hang Xu
Design Recruiter
Dave Hoffer
Design Leader
Joe Elmendorf
Creator of Shitty Maps and Principal
Melissa Burnett
Lead Technical Program Manager
Frances Yllana
Delivery Ops Lead
Robert Fabricant
Co-Founder & Partner
Peter Merholz
Independent Consultant & Coach
Louis Rosenfeld
Founder, Publisher, & CEO