Leading Design London 2023

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  • Eric Snowden - Be a better design leader

    As the VP of Design, Digital Media at Adobe, Eric Snowden manages a multidisciplinary team of designers responsible for Creative Cloud and Document Cloud applications and services. In the more than eight years Eric has been with Adobe, he has gone from leading design for Creative Cloud Mobile to ...

  • Ovetta Sampson - Designing design leadership for an automated future

    Ovetta Sampson is a tech industry professional who strives to amplify the beauty of humanity with design while avoiding practices that exploit its fragility. She has more than a decade of experience, working in multiple industries to innovate with various technologies including machine learning a...

  • Matt Davey - Designing direction

    Matt is a design leader seasoned in shaping and scaling teams. For the last decade he's been at 1Password where he lead user experience, research and design as the Chief Experience Officer. Matt is proud to have helped ship 1Password across multiple platforms, scaled the design and research team,...

  • Payal Wadhwa - Raising the bar: Transcending the debate around quality

    Payal is on a deliberate and conscious journey to affect change as a creative leader. She leads teams of inspiring designers, product managers and technologists and holds dear the tenets of good collaboration, curiosity, craft and continuous learning.

    Over the last two decades, she has worked at...

  • Lou Downe - Bad services: Why services fail and what we can do to make them work

    Lou Downe is author of Good Services, the bestselling book on how to design services that work and the founding director of the School of Good Services, an organisation that helps people to build the skills they need to design and scale great services.

    They are the former Director of Design for ...

  • Maja Raunbak - Navigating design leadership levels and spheres of influence

    Maja Raunbak is a seasoned senior executive leader within Strategic Digital Transformation, Product Design and Development. She has +15 years experience in various strategic digital product roles in media tech companies.

    Maja has headed In-house agencies and Design departments in MediaTech / pub...

  • Teak Tse - Amplifying design, reducing friction, easing the pressure

    Teak Tse is Director of Design Systems & Operations at Sky, supporting product design teams that look after Sky Glass, Sky News, Sky Sports and NOW.

    From Hong Kong to London, Teak has designed product experiences at Orange, BBC and Skype, to name a few, and observed how different teams use desig...

  • Julia Whitney - Emotional intelligence: What I wish I’d known

    Julia Whitney is an executive and leadership coach. She helps Design, Product and Tech leaders iterate to excellence, increasing their self-awareness and resourcefulness along the way. Her current client list includes leaders and leadership teams from DropBox, ANZ Bank, Zoopla, Toyota, The Econom...

  • Līga Lētiņa - Building trust: A path for strong teams navigating through change

    Liga is Head of Design at Printify, Print on demand platform, leading a remote first multidisciplinary team of product designers, researchers, graphic designers and photo & 3D designers. Liga is an experienced UX, service design leader with 12+ years of experience in design and strong believer in...

  • Remya Ramesh - Leading the change you do not believe in

    A design leader, Remya Ramesh has been growing and leading multidisciplinary global teams for nearly two decades. With a business, design, and technology background, Remya weaves nuanced interdisciplinary thinking into inclusive digital product experiences.

    Remya is passionate about women in tec...

  • Lauren Pleydell-Pearce - Chief Creative Officer: The success – and failure

    Lauren is the Chief Creative Officer at PwC UK, leading a diverse team of strategists and designers. Her mission is to collaborate with organisations, leveraging design to address strategic challenges, whether it's crafting new brands or innovating products, services, or immersive experiences. Sh...

  • Temi Adeniyi - Put your own mask on first

    Temi is a product design leader at Instagram. In a career spanning over 12 years, her work has run the gamut from design in advertising and tech to building and leading award-winning design teams.

    The talk was recorded at Leading Design London 2023. Find out more about the event here - https://l...

  • Hugo Cornejo - Designer to founder: from Monzo to Packfleet

    Meet Hugo Cornejo, a Madrid-born tech enthusiast and entrepreneur.

    Trained as a software engineer and interaction designer, Hugo moved to London in late 2014, driven by his passion for early-stage projects. A few months later, he joined Monzo as their first designer and founding member.

    During ...

  • Lauren Currie - Designing with love; communities and power

    Lauren Currie OBE, is the Founder of UPFRONT, an organisation on a mission to change confidence, visibility, and power for 1 million women. Bond 7 supported over 2000 women from 24 different time zones.

    For the last seven years Lauren was chairperson of leading maternity discrimination Pregnant ...