Speakers Meet the speakers of UXPA International 2026 Meet the speakers of UXPA International 2026 Trevor Calabro Vice President of User ResearchAscensusOpening Keynote Speaker Denise Miqueli Director of Product DesignZumba FitnessClosing Keynote Speaker Janel Anderson FounderWorking Conversations Shruthi Andru UX Designer IIAdobe Jillian Berger Director of ResearchWorkiva Linda Borghesani LecturerTufts University Oscar Cariceo Manager UX ResearchScotiabank Sidharath Chhatani Senior Product DesignerParentSquare Lou Cimaglia Principal Content StrategistFidelity Investments DomenickCimino Ashley Connor Principal UX ResearcherUsability Sciences Ali Cuthbertson Strategic LeadershipLiberty University Sarah Deak UX DesignerPurdue University Rebecca Destello Senior UX Research ManagerMeta Jaitra Dixit UX ResearcherConstant Contact Koichiroi Doi Joint General ManagerSumitomo Mitsui Trust Group NadiaDoutcheva Senior UX ResearcherDeloitte Lisa Eichorn Senior Director of User Experience DesignRiskonnect Jamila Evilsizor Staff Design Researcher & Lead of Inclusive ExperiencesSam's Club Amber Fields Founder & CEOBlack UX Labs & Helpfulhand.ai Jean Fox Research PsychologistUS Bureau of Labor Statistics Marty Gage Vice President of Design ResearchLextant Mary Gansallo Senior Product DesignerMicrosoft Noel Gee Head ofResearch Partner ProgramMazeSponsored Session Speaker Danielle Giffort Principal UX ResearcherIpsos Gladys González Quesada UX Independent Consultant Claudia Gutierrez Product and Artificial Intelligence ConsultantClaudia Gutierrez Consulting Tommy Hemmer Senior UX DirectorIpsos Leo Hoar Founder & CEOUXR Institute Jack Holmes Service DesignerJack Holmes Consultant Ltd Anna Janiszewska UX / Brand StrategistRoche Niketa Jhaveri Senior Manager, User ExperienceAmazon Mike Jin UX DesignerNutanix Jeff Johnson Adjunct ProfessorUniversity of San Francisco Samyukta K UI / UX DesignerPredigle RajeshKalidindi Accessibility CoachIndependent Consultant Tony Kim CEOProtoPie Clara Kliman-Silver Staff UX ResearcherGoogle Tiffany Liaw Senior UI / UX DesignerHarvard Medical School Joe Lalley FounderJoe Lalley Experience Design Beth Loring Founder and Principal ConsultantLoring Human Factors Karolina Lovejoy FounderGlobal Start Academy EliseLundequam Senior Design ResearcherSam's Club Belinda McCall Director of UX / Product DesignEmpyrean Benefit Solutions, Inc. Shane McCormack Senior UX / UI DesignerRiskonnect Mrudu Lahari Malayanur Product ManagerMogli Technologies Maryam Maleki Principal UX ResearcherMicrosoft Lucy Marino Executive Director, Marketing & CreativeRobert Half Beth Martin Branch ChiefDHS HQ Sara Mastro Vice President, Operations and Product ManagementPerceptronics Solutions Gina Montgomery Director of AI,Automation & AnalyticsArmanino Deborah Moyaki Doctoral Candidate of Engineering Education and Transformative PracticeUniversity of Georgia Jonathan Mugmon Principal - Wayfinding DirectorPopulous Bhuvana Narayanamurthy UX Independent Consultant Sarah Nikkhah Advisor, Senior Principal UX ResearcherEli Lilly and Company KathleenO’Brien Visual DesignerIBM Stacey Oliver LecturerUniversity of Texas, School of Information | LangXR Janaina Pantoja Staff UX ResearcherGoogle Ramtin Ranjpour PhD Student of Communication & Media StudiesUniversity of Oregon Molly Rempe Senior Staff UX ResearcherWorkiva Jennifer Romano FounderUXR Coach Michael Ronen Founder & CEOWonderland Immersive Design Shrut Kirti Saksena Staff Experience ResearcherAdobe LaurenSchaefer Director of UXSeesaw Learning Andrew Schall UX Leader & StrategistServiceNow David Schlossberg ProfessorAustin Community College Mark Scott Director of UXApplied Systems Twisha Shah-Brandenburg UX Leader, CommercialTarget Ted Stark Director, UX ResearchDeloitte Thomas Stokes Senior UX ResearcherTruist Jason Telner Senior User ResearcherQualcomm Jon Temple Design Principal (Emeritus)ex-IBM SarahThompson Senior Experience SpecialistNielsen Norman Group Christina Vandenoever Associate UX DesignerPurdue University Daphne Villarreal Principal UX Researcher Independent Consultant Thomas Watkins Principal UX Architect3Leaf Consulting Max Wechsler-Azen Senior UXRWorkiva Guthrie Weinschenk COOThe Team W Johanna Weitbrecht Research AssistantStuttgart Media University Basil White ACT-IAC Federal Innovation Council Kenny Wilson Director of AI and AutomationPurdue University Natalie Wright Senior UX DesignerRiskonnect Xiao Yu Founder & UX ResearcherUXplore Solutions
Meet the speakers of UXPA International 2026