Agenda - BeMore Festival 2022

Opening keynote

by Felix Lee

Co-founder & CEO, ADPList

Felix will kick things off with opening remarks and some exciting product announcements.

Inspiring Mentorship In Africa - Keynote

by James

Co-founder, ADPList

James will share the journey of ADPList in Africa.

Working With Big Brands As A Freelancer

Maitreyee Kalaskar

Freelance Art Director

22nd Sep, 6:20am - 7am PST

The Importance Of Brand Design

Parinaz Kassemi

Arianna Orland

Andrew Chen

Jon Howell

21st Sep, 10:20am - 11am PST

Chart Your Own Career Path

Roberto Aiello

Ademola Adekanbi

Yulin Liu

Meagan Ryan

Derek Jouppi

21st Sep, 10:20am - 11am PST

Demystifying Thought Leadership To Boost Female Representation

Sakshi Shukla

Content Creator, Marketing Advisor

21st Sep, 10:20pm - 11pm PST

The REAL Day In The Life Of UX Researchers: Necessary Soft Skills You Weren’t Taught

Don Hill

Jiaorui Jiang

21st Sep, 10am - 10:40am PST

Greener Design

Shane Tierney

Sandra Pallier

21st Sep, 10am - 10:40am PST

From Industrial Designer to Product Designer & Content Creator

Edward Sudjono

Product Designer

21st Sep, 10pm - 10:40pm PST

Be You: Defining Your Personal Brand

Wendy Johansson

Co-founder + Chief Product Experience Officer, MiSalud

21st Sep, 11:20am - 12pm PST

Jumping Into Web3 As A designer

Jessica Phan

Prev. Head of Design, OpenSea

21st Sep, 11:20am - 12pm PST

Q&A with Stacy Sherman

Stacy Sherman

Vice President Marketing, Agent (AX) & Customer Experience (CX), Liveops, Inc

21st Sep, 11:20pm - 22nd Sep 12am

How To Build A Successful PM Career

Ricky Omoareghan

Arthur Ng

Deepika Rudra Murthy

21st Sep, 11:20pm - 22nd Sep, 12am PST

How To Thrive As A Woman In Tech

Shalvi Sharma

Rebecca Lubitz-Marchena

Kristine Yuen

Aarianna Barnes

Sinem Yucel

21st Sep, 11:40am - 12:20pm PST

Helping First-time Internet Users Achieve More

Nikita Chandawale

Sr. Design Researcher, Microsoft

21st Sep, 11:40pm - 22nd Sep, 12:20am PST

Evolution Of Tech In Music

Sumit Kumar Singh

Principal Product Manager, Microsoft

21st Sep, 12:20am - 1am PST

The Future Of Design Is Machine Learning

Natalie Kuhn

Director of Design, Capital One

21st Sep, 12:20pm - 1pm PST

What Tech Companies Are Looking For When It Comes To Product Design

Sangli Li

Product Design Lead, Content Creator, Facebook

21st Sep, 12:20pm - 1pm PST

Personal Brand Identity And Social Media In Design Industry

Jan Mraz

Co-founder & Head of Product Design, Atheros Intelligence

21st Sep, 12am PST - 22nd Sep, 12:40am PST

Design Leadership - Leading With Empathy

Riya Thosar

Director of Product Design, SAP

21st Sep, 12pm - 12:40pm PST

Can Building Your Narrative Muscle Get You A Seat At The Table?

Anuja Singhal

Narratives and Product Design, Microsoft

21st Sep, 1:20pm - 2pm PST

Collaboration Doesn't Have To Be Hard

Shriya Shekhar

Meesh Lin

Andrew Sandler

Dava Guthmiller

Leonam Espindola

21st Sep, 1:20pm - 2pm PST

Conscious Leadership: What A Popular Parenting Technique Taught Me About Being A Better Manager

Jess Huang

Senior Manager Strategic Design, Bain & Company

21st Sep, 1:40pm - 2:20pm PST

Own Your Career Journey Even If You Do Not Yet Know The Destination

Courtney Maya George

Design Leadership, Amplitude

21st Sep, 1:40pm - 2:20pm PST

The Home Depot : UX Mentor panel: Navigating UX career growth in an enterprise organization

Liz Juhnke

Elaine Torres

Trey Banks

Brian Irving, Eunji Jeong

Tommy Dietz, Nicholas Busman

UX Leaders, The Home Depot

21st Sep, 2:20pm - 3pm PST

Working Out Of Your Cultural Comfort Zone

Abdullah Zaiter

Software Engineer, ASML

21st Sep, 2pm - 2:40pm PST

Evolving Your Career Growth: Discussion & AMA

Rebecca Lubitz-Marchena

Yina Smith-Danenhower

Everest Nwagwu

David Luong

Franco Falaschi

21st Sep, 2pm - 2:40pm PST

Designing Ambient Experiences

Jatin Bajaj

Senior Product Manager Tech, Amazon Prime Air

21st Sep, 3:20pm - 4pm PST

Building An Effective Product Strategy

Anshul Kumar

Senior Manager, Product, Wayfair

21st Sep, 3:20pm - 4pm PST

Designing For Localization And Internationalization

Amr Thameen

Senior Product Designer, Squarespace

21st Sep, 3:40pm - 4:20pm PST

Basketball... (And The Lessons I've Learned in Design Leadership)

Milton Jackson

SVP, Experience Design, Bank of America

21st Sep, 3:40pm - 4:20pm PST

Design In Enterprise vs. Digital Agency or Startup

Anthony Viviano

Senior Interaction Designer, Bloomberg

21st Sep, 420pm - 5pm PST

Imposter Syndrome, As A Leader And Designer

Stephen Gates

SDGates Creative

21st Sep, 4:20pm - 5pm PST

The Importance Of Diversity For The Design Community

Drew Montgomery

Ethel Zlotnik

Khairul Bahriah

Ryan Yao

Erica Ellis

21st Sep, 4:20pm - 5pm, PST

How To Build A Killer Content Design Portfolio

Neeru Nagarajan

Content Design, Meta

21st Sep, 4pm - 4:40pm PST

Product Led Growth

Crystal Widjaja

Chief Product Officer, Kumu

21st Sep, 5:20pm - 6pm

Lessons From My First Design Leadership Role At A Startup

Jessica Ko

Co-Founder & CEO, Playbook.com

21st Sep, 5:20pm - 6pm PST

Integrating Accessibility Into Your Product Lifecycle

Nandita Gupta

Accessibility Program Manager, Microsoft

21st Sep, 5:40pm - 6:20pm PST

Mini-workshop Toolkit: Easy To Run, Interactive Workshops To Build Better Products

Katie Le

Nicolas Backal

21st Sep, 6:20pm - 7pm PST

Why To Love Your Career In Product Or Design

Joe Cahill

Design Services Manager, Unqork

21st Sep, 6pm - 6:40pm PST

Is Service Design One Of The Stranger Things?

Federico Francioni

Head of Digital Ecosystem, Meta

21st Sep, 7:20pm - 8pm PST

The Growth Of Tech In Southeast Asia

Charmaine Ng

Jared Koh

Zheng Wei QUAH

21st Sep, 7:20pm - 8pm PST

Is Your Workflow 'Close-minded'? An Engineering Approach To Finding Research Insights With A Classic Tool

Ava Allen

User Research Lead, McKinsey

21st Sep, 7:40pm - 8:20pm PST

Helping Low-design-maturity Organization Build Design Capability

Hongqiao LU

Expert Associate Partner, Design, Mckinsey

21st Sep, 8:20pm - 9pm PST

Thrive Outside The Lines

Leandro Incetta

Bronwen Rees

Leandro Incetta

21st Sep, 8pm - 8:40pm PST

Monetizing Your Skills As A Creative Professional

Ansh Mehra

Senior Product Designer, Zuddl

21st Sep, 9:20am - 10am PST

User Research Or Gut, What Drives Key Decisions In An Early Stage Start-up?

Arjun Arora

Co-founder & CEO, Betafi

21st Sep, 9:20am - 10am PST

Why Designers Should Also Be Technical

Joey Kilrain

Founder/CCO Experience Design, DED

21st Sep, 9:20pm - 10pm PST

How To Transition From IC To Design Manager

Saptarshi Prakash

Director of Design, Swiggy

21st Sep, 9:20pm - 10pm PST

The 3 As Of Psychological Safety

Magda Miu

Engineering Manager, Adobe

21st Sep, 9:40am - 10:20am PST

Mentoring To Improve Leadership Skills

Aisha Owolabi

James Carleton

Jason Silver

Rose Iorillo

Jered Odegard

21st Sep, 9:40am - 10am PST

Designers: It’s not you/the job; It’s your portfolio

Robert Paige

Creative Director, Instacart

21st Sep, 9:40pm - 10:20pm PST

Design Leadership Q&A

Ethan Eismann

Jess Clark

Design Leaders, Slack & Calendly

21st Sep, 9am - 9:40am PST

Creating A Safe And Inclusive Environment For Feedback

Harrison Wheeler

Sr. Design Manager, Poduct Design, Linkedin

21st Sep, 9am - 9:40am PST

Growth With No Code

Emily Lonetto

Director of Community, Webflow

21st sep, 11:40am-12:20pm PST

Production And The Lost Art Of Soft Skills

Darryl Kay

Lead Producer, Revolving Games

21st sep, 2:20pm - 3pm PST

Heuristic Evaluation For Better User Experience

Somesh Patil

User Experience Designer, Moonraft Innovation Labs

22nd Sep, 12pm - 12:40pm PST

Identifying AI ML Opportunities In Your Product

Jayasri Nagrale

Product Design Manager, ServiceNow

22nd Sep, 1:20am - 2am PST

3 Types Of Roadmaps Every PM Needs To Master

David Wang

Group Product Manager, Linktree

22nd Sep, 1:40am - 2:20am PST

Thriving Now, Ahead of A Cookieless World

Ademola Adekunbi

Platform Solutions Consultant, MEA, Adform

22nd Sep, 2:20am - 3am PST

Transformation from Shy to Confident Leader

Ermi Isais

Senior Product Designer, Shift

22nd Sep, 2am - 2:40am PST

Product Leadership - From Discovery to Delivery

Eric Chan

Lead Product Manager, Grab

22nd Sep, 3:20am - 4am PST

Conditions Design - The Mystic Art of Influencing Outcomes

Michael Tam

Global Design Director, IBM iX

22nd Sep, 3:40am - 4:20am PST

Inclusive Design : Designing Product For A Billion Users

Prashanth Shanmugasundaram

Interaction Designer, Google

22nd Sep, 4:20am - 5am PST

How Collaboration & Empathy Shaped Our Most Impactful Campaigns

Andri Rahmad Wijaya

Head of Marketing, Flip

22nd Sep, 4am - 4:40am PST

Building Content That Always Stands Out

Manisha Gupta

Staff Experience Designer, Adobe

22nd Sep, 5:20am - 6am PST

Democratizing UX Research: A Constantly Swinging Pendulum Problem

Shrut Kirti Saksena

Senior Experience Researcher, Adobe

22nd Sep, 5:40am - 6:20am PST

How to accelerate your journey to senior engineer (Frontend/UI)

Devang Paliwal

Engineering Leader, Yellow.ai

22nd Sep, 6:20am - 7am PST

How To Beat Impostor Syndrome And Feel Good In Your Role

Lan Belic

Senior Product Designer, Booking.com

22nd Sep, 6am - 640am PST

Breaking Your Marginalized Mentees into Tech

Noemi Lantz

UX/UI Designer, Whisker

22nd Sep, 7:20am - 8am PST

Mental Health. Overcome Your Inner Critic

Theo Johnson

Cami Travis-Groves

Robert Surrency

Joanne Wang

Andrés Richero