Emre Ozdemir is a Brooklyn based XR Designer, Developer, Artist, and Educator with over 10 years of experience in architectural design and developing immersive experiences. Currently, he is teaching design studios at the Pratt Institute and independently developing and designing contract-based design projects, digital products, and artworks using Extended Reality technologies.

Aristeidis Bampakos works as a Web Development Team Leader at Plex-Earth, specializing in developing web applications using Angular. He has been a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Angular since 2020.

Aristeidis is passionate about helping the developer community learn and grow. His love for teaching has led him to become an award-winning author of Learning Angular and Angular Projects books.

In his spare time, he enjoys being an occasional speaker in meetups, conferences, and podcasts where he talks about Angular. He is currently leading the effort of making Angular accessible to the Greek development community by maintaining the open-source Greek translation of the official Angular documentation.

Experienced Full-Stack Web Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Javascript ES6, React.JS, Jest&Enzyme, Node.JS, MongoDB, Functional Programming, and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP). Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services from the University of Bucharest.

Samson is a creative and versatile Google certified UX/UX designer and developer

with over 7 years of experience and a passionate tech instructor.

Creative design is his childhood passion and transforming his imagination into digital

contents is his profession. He is a practical problem solver with the ability to

understand a big picture and solve it in a practical manner with a process-driven focus.

He is the Executive Director of Sosarena International, and the founder of Identity

Embassy, a top-notch digital hub, also the President and founder of Finestwine Global,

a youth empowerment platform.

Samson has won several awards including the Abu Dhabi Youth Challenge as 3rd

runner up in 2020. He has led several design and development projects successfully

from ideation to production.

His work has helped people, startups, brands, and organizations bring their ideas to

life with strategic research and accessible projects and also grow revenues,

accelerate customer acquisition, increase web traffic and deliver an industry-leading

competitive advantage.

He is a graduate of Crawford University with various media certifications and likewise

a lifetime student of digital innovations. He is a father and an Entrepreneur.

A design pioneer whose career has already included influential contributions to business, design, marketing, software and user experience, Kelly Jura is driven by the way that people experience ideas. Her deep knowledge of how consumer behaviors, perceptions, and user interaction with technology affect design has led to multiple design patents, industry accolades, and the publication of her thinking in journals and magazines including the Design Management Institute Journal and User Experience Magazine. DMI:Review named Kelly a trailblazer in the 2023 Women & Diverse Design Leaders list. Under her leadership, she helped brand and launch an innovative healthtech company and is currently focused on making communication and knowledge-sharing more accessible through video at ScreenPal. She has also taught two master classes on user journey mapping for the Interaction Design Foundation.

Formerly lead of the Angular Developer Relations Team and keynote speaker at conferences such as ng-conf. Stephen is an Angular Google Developer Expert.

Stephen is currently Head of Developer Relations for Axelar. Stephen builds Developer Relations teams that solve real world problems faced by developers and businesses, and advocates for the needs of the community.

With 22 years in the Software Development industry, Stephen has served as an executive technologist, consultant, and entrepreneur at Google, Trello, Chainlink Labs, and more.

Stephen Chin is Senior Director of Developer Relations at JFrog, author of Raspberry Pi with Java, The Definitive Guide to Modern Client Development, and Pro JavaFX Platform. He has keynoted numerous Java conferences around the world including Oracle Code One (formerly JavaOne), where he is an 8-time Rock Star Award recipient. Stephen is an avid motorcyclist who has done evangelism tours in Europe, Japan, and Brazil, interviewing hackers in their natural habitat and posting the videos on http://nighthacking.org/. When he is not traveling, he enjoys teaching kids how to do embedded and robot programming together with his teenage daughter.

Olivier is the VP of ps_testware SAS, the French subsidiary of ps_testware group. His role is to develop business, recruit the local expert team, build sustainable partnerships, promote software testing and quality.

He is also involved in auditing test projects and organizations and provides high-level consultancy and support.

He was, From May 2019 to April 2023, the president of the ISTQB and is now currently the Vice President of the ISTQB.

Olivier is also the President of the CFTL - the French ISTQB Board and official IREB, IQBBA and TMMi representative in France.

For 25 years he is an international speaker who spoke at A4Q World Conference, Geekle QA, iSQE, Test-IT Africa; SQA-days; BA-days; JFIE; TestWarez; SEETEST; STF; Iqnite; JFTL; JMTL; JTTL; Analyst-days; Quality Week; Eurostar; Dasia…

He's also actively participating in the development of new certification schemes, like IQBBA (Business Analysis) or IREB (requirements engineering) and is co author of various books and articles on software testing.

http://www.olivier-denoo.net // olivier.denoo@pstestware.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivier-denoo/

Michele is Italian, he’s a climber, a dad, a traveler, a font lover, a UX&UI designer in full in love with his job. He's a freelance, he worked with eBay, Samsung, Ikea, Rizzoli. Now he works with Intesa Sanpaolo Bank where he designs UI for the digital online banking.

Nowadays he is also a professor of Graphic and UX&UI Design in Master Schools.

Shannon Kelly is a UX and Digital Marketing Strategist with a BS in Multimedia and Web Design (2005) and over 18 years of product and digital marketing experience. She excels at (and is very passionate about) using data to optimize conversions and design better user experiences. She’s currently studying for a MS in UX Design at Kent State University and is a former UXPA Cleveland board member and ADPList mentor, where she’s helped countless individuals transition into the UX field and upscaled their careers.

Tiziana is a UX Psychologist, with more than 20 years of experience in the design industry. She combines psychological insights with good UX/UI practices and a solid ethical framework to create inclusive designs that will persuade without manipulation or dirty tricks. She strongly believes that ethical design can change the world for the better. She is a member of the Ethical Design Network and maintains its blog.

Tiziana is a senior educator, teaching interactive design, UX, front-end and graphic design and more at different secondary institutions. She has a background that includes a degree in graphic design, a master’s in Media Psychology, certificates in Behavioral Design and Ethical Data Science, along with years of design and web development. She is the leader of the San Diego chapter of the Interaction Design Foundation and mentors many younger designers.

I am a passionate UX Designer, I advocate for a planet centric design and collaborative approach, constantly striving to exceed user expectations and deliver high-quality solutions while adhering to budgets and deadlines. I am excited to collaborate with motivated teams and contribute to meaningful projects, combining creativity with cutting-edge technical solutions. I'm also a singer in electonica musical project with advanced usage of image and

UX Design / UI Design / Interface Design helping clients deliver a simple, customer-centric digital experience to boost their business

An inclusive UX designer with experience at major tech companies like Microsoft and fast-growing startups like Airbnb. After graduating from engineering school, where he focused on inclusive research, he pivoted to design, driven by a passion for building solutions to systemic design problems. Committed to fostering the growth of others in the field, he mentors designers and developers for free on ADPlist.org. In his free time, he dedicates efforts to supporting hackathons, exemplified by his contributions to events like Hack NYU.

D. Ben Woods is an internationally recognized expert on design and its value to business. He has presented and conducted training and workshops for organizations throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has collaborated with international companies and talent; he helped to form, train, and manage a digital design team in India, worked with an electronics startup that developed an electrical engineering capability in central Europe, partnered with data scientists from Australia, and provided consulting and training in Eastern Europe.

Ben works with organizations to understand customer wants and needs and turn those insights into results. Representative outcomes from some projects he has led include: double digit improvements in customer satisfaction; doubling of conversion rates; and identifying new opportunities for monetization.

Ben’s experience spans web, mobile, custom software, and e-commerce; his industry experience ranges from manufacturing, to retail, life sciences, and financial services. He has partnered with clients ranging from small startups to some of the largest companies in the world, including General Electric, Dell, Pfizer, Rio Tinto, Fidelity Investments, and many others.

His career in User Experience began in the late 1990s. Ben has held diverse roles, including UX management at a global B2B firm, full-time and part-time academia, and executive roles. He enjoys solving complex business problems and coaching talent to be competitive UX design professionals.

Ben earned his MS in Information Architecture and Knowledge Management at Kent State University and is a graduate of the Executive MBA program at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.