Veteran product manager, agile, lean, ux and product design evangelist.

Jeff Patton is the glue that connects good product management and strategy, lean user experience and agile delivery practices together. He has authored numerous articles, essays and, most recently, a book, “User Story Mapping.” An independent consultant with a unique teaching and speaking style, he uses hand-drawings and engaging storytelling to share his passion for product design.

Jeff has a long, involved history in product design. He has designed and developed software for the past 20 years on a wide variety of projects from on-line aircraft parts ordering to electronic medical records. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000. In particular, he has specialized in the application of user-centered design techniques to improve Agile requirements, planning, and products. From his work with Tomax to Thoughtworks, you can review his work on his Linkedin profile. Jeff is an independent consultant, providing training, coaching and consulting services. He’s also available to lecture and speak at various conferences and events.

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3-4 June in Warsaw, Poland.

Kara Pecknold is a Creative Director and a Design Research lead at frog with more than 15 years of experience. She has had the opportunity to work with clients across a variety of sectors from energy, education and international development to health, automotive and financial services.

She is the global lead for frog’s Collective Action Toolkit, a collaboration and creativity tool that enables groups of people anywhere to organise, collaborate, and create solutions for problems affecting their community. Prior to frog, she ran her own design research consultancy in Vancouver, Canada.

She speaks, teaches and writes on design research methods as well as building creative capabilities within organizations. Outside of work, Kara enjoys yoga, dancing and hiking as well bringing people together around food, drink and the shared table.

Jane is an award-winning designer and has spoken and given keynotes at conferences all over the world (she once flew to Chile for the weekend to do a talk – ask her about the earthquake).

She loves building high performing design teams and helping make companies, big or small, more customer centred.

She currently works as Director of Product Design at Babylon Health, whose mission is to put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on earth.

Prior to this she led the design team at MOO, grew the team at The Telegraph from one to twenty, at the same time as leading the redesign of the website and several apps, and has worked at GDS (home of gov.uk), in an online trading firm, in start-ups and in agencies.

Val Scholz serves as Head of Engagement for Revolut, a technology company that is disrupting finance and Europe’s fastest growing startup. Val was awarded the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2018.

‘You Can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf’

This is the motto Eik Thyrsted Brandsgård lives by, surfing being agile ideas and waves being our increasingly complex world. Eik is passionate about helping teams to collaborate towards a shared outcome in ways that creates flow, fun and results.

It is a combination of an academic background from studying Humanistic Informatics at University of Aalborg mixed with very hands-on applications of agile, lean, design thinking, design sprints and a healthy dose of project management that have shaped Eik. He started his career in a number of digital startups and then pursued his dream of working at LEGO where he since 2005 has taken on roles as project manager, producer, product owner, scrum master, people manager and leader. Eik is currently Agile Coach Director in Product & Marketing Development at LEGO.
Eik lives in Denmark with his Norwegian wife and their three sons and when they are not all playing with LEGO they sail, ski, snowboard and mountainbike. Eik is a keen photographer and he loves a good movie.

Oh – and Eik enjoys surfing in real waves too!

Jay Kaufmann has been developing digital products for over 20 years and managing designers for 10. At Zalando, he scaled up the Product Design guild by a factor of 6… playing a central role in setting up hiring processes, cultural triggers, professional development frameworks and performance management processes. He currently heads up the teams of “embedded” designers working in strong multi-disciplinary teams with product managers and engineers to deliver customer-centered product solutions for Zalando’s core fashion e-commerce business.

Javier is a designer from Argentina, specialising in UX design for digital products. He has designed for both large organisations (Telefonica, Yahoo, Zara and InfoJobs) and startups. At the moment, Javier is part of the UX team at UEFA.

After moving to Barcelona, Javier started designing apps already back in 2009 (do you remember Blackberry?.) A few years later, in 2013, he co-wrote and published "Designing Mobile Apps", a book that summarised his knowledge on the field.

This experience as writer led him to publish regularly on Smashing Magazine, and other websites, about the learnings (and struggles) of being a designer.

Currently embracing a nomadic lifestyle, Javier has travelled to more than 60 countries, offering workshops, lectures and trainings in many of them (including China, with almost-simultaneous translation.)

Javier is always willing to help on design, so don't hesitate in contacting him on Twitter.

I am an experience designer loving to design the myriad of “digital things for people’s use”. I like to be called experience designer because in the end, it’s all about designing an experience through your products. Beyond UI. Beyond features. I enjoy solving complex problems with simple yet smart solutions and design value-added products by combining strategic thinking, creative interaction design skills and good command of user research. Currently I am working at Zalando as Principal Product Designer, having a blast shaping Zalando’s next fashion platform and working in the intersection of interaction design, AI/machine learning, and user insights specific to fashion & shopping.

More at www.clementinejinhee.com

My life mission is to create things, mainly digital or musical, that help people express themselves better. One way I’m currently doing this is as a Product Design Lead at Zalando, Europe’s leading online platform for fashion and lifestyle. I want to help people, especially through cracking online personalization, creatively express themselves to the world through their fashion choices. Before Zalando, I worked in US startups Grooveshark (backed by Intel) and Moveline (backed by Techstars), and then I moved into the agency world designing for clients such as LG Electronics' Smart TV and Disney.

I'm a digital pioneer and creative leader with close to 20 years of global experience at the intersection of design, innovation, brand and marketing. With a background that is both consultant and client-side, and a track record in successfully designing & launching innovative brands & services, I bring empathy and understanding of different roles and cultural nuances to complex projects and programmes of digital transformation.

Currently Chief Product Officer in Synerise. Previously CPO in iTaxi and Head of Products in PizzaPortal (Delivery Hero Holding).

Ex-Board member and co-owner of Senfino Software House. Co-founder of Proseed Magazine, ex head of business in Lovemobile (o2 group) and ex head of mobile products in o2.pl. University lecturer and IAB instructor. Co-founder and lecturer in AppAcademy; 46 on list of 50 most creative in business (Brief Magazine Poland).

Google Product Strategy Expert. Author of the book "Mobile for Managers”.

Avid admirer of mechanical watches.

Andra Baragan is an experienced conversion optimization specialist and a certified ConversionXL Optimizer and Data Analyst. She has worked with over 80 online businesses and has brought over 6 figures in increased revenue for them. She is the founder of Ontrack Digital, a conversion rate optimization agency.

Itamar Gilad is a consultant, author and speaker specializing in product management, strategy, and growth. Over the past 20 years he held senior product management and engineering roles at Google, Microsoft and other companies. At Google Itamar launched Gmail's Tabbed Inbox and lead Gmail's growth team (resulting in 1Bn MAUs). Itamar writes a popular product management blog and is the creator of a number of product management methodologies including GIST planing and The Confidence Tool.

Werner Puchert is an Ex-Deloitte hotshot, devoted father and dispenser of both words of wisdom and humour. He spends most of his time in Poland these days, even though he hails from South Africa. His current projects include a podcast, a book, a business and an extraordinary conference at a castle. Sadly, all this pales when compared to his waistcoats, but that has to be experienced in person. To be honest, so does Werner.

He has led Creative and User Experience teams and worked on several Mobile and Digital Transformation Strategies. In 2015 he contributed to launching the first Deloitte Digital in Central Europe. He established his consultancy in 2018 to grow a practice focused on unlocking the transformational potential of experience design.