Dr. Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard is an interaction designer, design researcher and scientist working at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Norway. Through speculative and feminist design, she explores the future of intimate technologies for menstrual and sexual health. Her work raises questions related to gender and sexuality, and the political, cultural and ecological aspects of future technologies such as conversational agents, wearables, and AI/ML. She is also the co-founder of the Speculative Futures Stockholm Chapter, and a BioArt Coven member.

Revathi Kant is a Design & Innovation strategist with over  15 years of experience in applying Design Thinking. She is  a firm believer of disruption with design and  is excited  about how design can impact and elevate lives.

A marketing veteran, and a multifunctional hybrid thinker,  she has the knowledge and experience of transforming  insights grounded at the intersection of Business, User benefits and human psychology into innovative strategies  and offerings that lead to revenue growth.

She was featured in the “W-Power Trailblazers 2019” list  by Forbes India.

Jashish Kambli is the founder of Future Factory, one of the Asia's leading innovation & design firms. With 2 decades of global award-winning experience,
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Jashish is known for his design of iconic products such as a low-cost insulin pen, offgrid refrigerator, and other remarkable innovations. He is committed to create a better world by design.

Phil has been a Visual & UX Designer since 2001 and has experience designing across a variety of devices and platforms. He recently served as Experience Design Director at McKinsey & Co. and Digital Design Director at General Electric (GE) Aviation.  

He is also the founder of The Design Futures Initiative (DFI), a nonprofit that organizes the international Speculative Futures meetups and PRIMER conferences in the US and Europe. An educator and futurist, his events  bring together designers, futurists, and strategists from all over the world to teach and speak about designing for the future and the ethical challenges around emerging technologies.

Shamik is a design leader whose career has taken him on journey across the worlds of startups, academia, finance and tech companies. In his current role at Spotify, his mission is to help create the next generation of audio products that foster meaningful connections between creators and fans.
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He also teaches Design prototyping at summer schools around the world in places like Costa Rica, Denmark, Japan and India. Currently based in Sweden, he finds creative inspiration from diverse sources like visual cultures, culinary arts, nature and often the antics of his toddler son.

John Gero is a Research Professor in Computer Science and Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

He is the chair of the international conference series Artificial Intelligence in Design, the conference series Design Computing and Cognition and the international conference series Computational and Cognitive Models of Creative Design.

Professor Gero is an international consultant in the fields of design research, design cognition and neurocognition, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence in design and technology policy.

Jan Willem Tulp, a data experience designer who creates data visualisations, has helped organizations like Scientific American, Popular Science and Nature to deliver scientific research to a broad audience using data visualisation. He has assisted Philips, Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Marktplaats find and communicate insights in data by creating lightweight custom visual analysis tools and also helped organizations like UNICEF, UNESCO, World Economic Forum and Gavi convey significant messages to general public. His work has been exhibited at various venues and has appeared in different books.

Manuel Lima is the Design Lead and Startup Mentor at Google. An RSA Fellow and TED Speaker, Lima studies design and information to create incredible visualizations and mapping.
He is an excellent instructor, educator and is also the author of 3 bestseller books: Visual Complexity, The Book of Trees and The Book of Circles.

This talk will cover a comprehensive list of design principles and guidelines in order to better organize, display, memorize, and ultimately, interact with information. Manuel will pull from a variety of fields and practices, and showcase multiple examples from different products, platforms and services.

Jayanta Mukherjee is the India R&D Site Leader for the Communications Technology Group (CTG) of Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). In his R&D Site Leadership role, Jayanta works on the global CTG R&D agenda, which includes building Software Products and Platforms for the 4G and 5G networks, innovate on product Customer Experience and grow World class Engineering Talent.

Parul Tyagi has been leading HPE Experience Studio design team for over 4 years now. With total 16+ years of IT industry experience, she specializes in the application of human-centered design and research practices to solve enterprise UX challenges.