Our speakers are innovators, influencers and practitioners.
They bring a global perspective, and lead the debate in lean thinking.
We're announcing new speakers every week. Here are our confirmed speakers.
Jeff Gothelf
Jeff is the co-author of "Lean UX" and works with companies around the world to improve their organisational effectiveness.
Melissa Perri
Melissa speaks and consults globally on product management and user experience.
Johanna Kollmann
Johanna is a lean and agile UX practitioner, and an experienced speaker and consultant.
Tendayi Viki
Tendayi works as a strategy and innovation consultant to help large organizations develop their innovation capabilities so that they can innovate like startups.
Jared Spool
Jared M. Spool is the founder of User Interface Engineering and a co-founder of Center Centre.
Sophie Freiermuth
Sophie is a Lean Startup, product management, UX and Agile expert, and director of London-based UX consultancy Baguette UX.
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Umesh Pandya
Umesh has been working as a designer for over 15 years and is passionate about helping organisations make “inclusive not exclusive” digital products.
Roman Pichler
Roman is a leading product management expert specialising in agile and lean practices.
Cennydd Bowles
Cennydd Bowles is a digital product designer and writer. He has a decade of experience helping companies realise the benefits of good designe.
Jane Austin
Jane has worked as a UX in The City, in start ups, at agencies, in government at GDS and is now Head of UX at The Telegraph.
Chris Matts
Chris Matts has over 10 years of experience in investment banking including strategy work as a practitioner rather than as a consultant.
Josh Seiden
Josh Seiden is a designer, author, coach, and product leader. He works with startups and large companies to create new digitally-enabled products and services.
Ben Yoskovitz
Ben Yoskovitz is an entrepreneur, angel investor and author. In 2013 hee co-wrote Lean Analytics, a book designed to help people use data to build companies faster.
Jiri Jerabek
Jiri leads UX across Telegraph’s mobile apps, where he is responsible for improving the current applications. Previously Jiri was part of the BBC Research & Development team, and he has also worked on a range of products for National Rail Enquiries, Freesat, Canon and American Express.
Dana Chisnell
Dana Chisnell is a UX research nerd (her words) and an elections geek who has trained thousands of people, including government workers, to test their designs.
Cindy Alvarez
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