Celebrating
WiDesign’21 Speakers
The mission of UMO’s WiDesign Fest 2021 is to educate and empower a million women/girls with the design skills and confidence necessary to get a job by 2030.
As a first and significant step, we invite everyone, not just women, from design and related domains who believe in women empowerment to support and celebrate by being part of WiDesign’21.
Get Inspiration From Industry Leaders. WiDesign Fest will be a mix of inspirational talks by leading practitioners in design, pioneers from the industry, management gurus, social innovators, and many industry UX folks specially curated for you.
WiDESIGN FEST’21
6 March – 17 April 2021
Join the live talks, panels, and workshops by established women leaders.
Live talks every saturday, LIVE / Recorded talks., Live Panel Discussion.
You will pay $10 USD for the 7 weeks
6 March
1
Saturday
7.30 IST
9.00 EST
6.00 PDT
13 March
2
Saturday
8.30 IST
10.00 EST
7.00 PDT
Live Talk
Neeti Gupta
Workplace Partnerships, Facebook
United States
Live Talk
Shweta Gangoli
Sr Architect and BIM Project Manager, Neilsoft Pvt Ltd
India
Panel Discussion
Neeti Gupta
Workplace Partnerships, Facebook
United States
Shweta Gangoli
Sr Architect and BIM Project Manager, Neilsoft Pvt Ltd
India
Neha Saraswat
Senior Manager, Walmart Global Tech
India
20 March
3
Saturday
8.30 IST
10.00 EST
7.00 PDT
Live Talk
Manisha Bhalekar
Head of User Experience Design, DAT Solutions
United States
Live Talk
Rozina Spinnoy
Managing Director, Belgium Design Council
Belgium
Live Talk
Sangeetha Jayaram
Associate Director – Design, Accenture
India
Live Talk
Oishee Sen
Designer, Microsoft
India
Panel Discussion
Madhumita Gupta
Director Of UX, Myntra
India
Upma Varshney
Lead UI/UX Design, Webonise
India
27 March
4
Saturday
8.30 IST
10.00 EST
7.00 PDT
Live Talk
Sabhyata Jain
UX Designer, Microsoft
India
Live Talk
Nitya Kumar
Head of Design, NUMA Bengaluru
India
Live Talk
Priti Saini
Associate Director – Larsen & Toubro Infotech
India
Live Talk
Michelle Parayil
Senior Conversation Designer, Jio Haptik
India
Panel Discussion
Chinmayi Dumbre
Head of Design/Product at MetroGuild Inc
India
Riddhi Mehta
Head Of Design at Tatvic Analytics
India
Priti Saini
Associate Director – Larsen & Toubro Infotech
India
Renu Kaushik
Senior User Experience Designer, ServiceNow
India
3 April
5
Saturday
8.30 IST
10.00 EST
7.00 PDT
Live Talk
Vidhya Appu
Design, Shop101
India
Live Talk
Sneha Bhadauria
Sr. Product Designer at Centime, Inc.
India
Live Talk
Anurati Srivastva
Associate Project Officer, UNESCO MGIEP
India
Live Talk
Kadambari Sahu
Senior Vice President-Design at ValueLabs
India
Panel Discussion
Dhanashree Manohar
Senior UX Designer, NextUX Design Agency
India
Suruchika Singh
Sr. UX Designer, Informatica
India
Dhruti Soni
Founder, Women In Design
India
Ashoomi Dholakia
Senior Design Researcher, Honeywell
India
10 April
6
Saturday
8.30 IST
10.00 EST
7.00 PDT
Live Talk
Sandhya V
Senior Interaction Designer, frog
India
Live Talk
Thea Betts
Product Design Lead, Roam
NEW ZEALAND
Live Talk
Prathima Inolu
Chief Designer, Divami Design Labs
India
Recorded Talk
Kavitha T
Experience Design Lead, ThoughtWorks
India
Recorded Talk
Pranava Tandra
Designer, Microsoft Teams
India
Panel Discussion
Neelam Gulrajani
Design, CureFit
India
Shahee Hiran
Product Design Lead, Flipkart
India
Shey Cobley
Global Head, TCS Interactive
UNITED KINGDOM
17 April
7
Saturday
8.30 IST
10.00 EST
7.00 PDT
Live Talk
Jyotsna Malhotra
Lead Experience Designer, Verizon
India
Live Talk
Vaishnavi Reddy
Founder, Origin UI UX
India
Live Talk
Vaishali Kalra
Brand Designer, GetVital
India
Recorded Talk
Lakshyya Mahalwal
Product design, Syfe
India
Recorded Talk
Romi Dey
Senior UX Designer, YUJ Designs
India
Live Talk
Kranti Vanjari
Design Lead, WNS Global Services
India