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We provide simultaneous interpretation for all the talks, please bring your ID card or passport to get earphones

Confirmed Speakers

Keynote talk

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  Andrea Carlon

  UX and Design Manager
  italki

  Andrea is an italian designer with a background in service design and visual communication based in Shanghai.
  He is currently in charge of the UX and Design efforts at italki, a language education startup that connects native language teachers of any language to millions of learners from all over the world.
  Before landing at italki, he worked at Continuum and CBi China Bridge in Shanghai and Epoca Ricerca in Bologna, consulting for clients like Volvo, Nissan, SC Johnson, Changhong and Trenitalia.
  In his free time he also collaborates with Xinchejian, China’s first hackerspace, and with Tongji University as a visiting professor at the Master in Product-Service System Design.

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  Anh Hoang

  Director of Special Projects
  Dyad / RisingVietnam

  Anh Hoang is the Founder of RisingVietnam, a nonprofit that provides high-achieving Vietnamese with fully funded educational heritage trips and entrepreneurship in residence programs. She was formerly the Director of Special Projects at Dyad where she led global operations and design. Dyad is a digital platform that connects China's best and brightest to the world's top universities and was named Asia's Top Startup in 2015. When not at her desk or traveling around Asia, Anh enjoys sharing her love of the culinary arts by teaching charitable cooking classes. She was featured in a 2016 documentary as one of Shanghai's Rising New Chefs. Anh was a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin where she was a Woman's Scholar.

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  Dominic Winkler

  Head of UX
  Bosch UX China

  Dominic is heading the Bosch internal design and innovation agency, Bosch User Experience (UX), here in Shanghai. He joined Bosch UX at the start of 2012 in Stuttgart, Germany. In Stuttgart he was mainly working on designing as well as prototyping simple and interactive user-centered solutions across the whole range of Bosch products. With his move to Shanghai, China in 2014, he could then combine his passion for creating new design concepts with his other passion for China, its culture and language. Before joining Bosch, Dominic completed his Master with focus on Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). While studying in Christchurch, he worked as tennis coach at different tennis clubs as well as interaction designer at Civil and Natural Resources Engineering. Prior to moving to New Zealand he lived in China for a couple years, where he mainly studied Chinese (Mandarin).
  Apart from his passion for design and China, you can find Dominic traveling the world or just around the next corner on a rugby pitch.

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  Franco Papeschi

  Creative Director
  frog

  Franco is a Senior leader in the global UX industry with more than 12 years of experience in Europe, Africa and Asia, specialising in telecommunications and education. He co-founded “Design Jams” in London in 2010 and has a double Master of Science in Communication Sciences, Ergonomics and Human Factor.
  Prior to joining frog, Franco held experience and service design management positions at Education First (Shanghai), the Web Foundation (London), Vodafone Global (London).
  He has guest lectured at the Interaction Design Institute in Italy and is a regular on the keynote speaking circuit including Interaction 13 in Canada, Global Forum on Innovation 2011 for the World Bank, and UX Australia 2015.

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  Georgia Guo

  Head of Innovation
  McDonald's China

  Georgia Guo is currently Innovation Director of McDonald’s China, leading innovation strategy and projects. She was previously Innovation Strategy Director of China Industrial Design Institute, founding partner of Joint Thinking Innovation and IDEO China Marketing Director. Her expertise focuses on product/service design strategy and business model innovation. She is an active business writer and speaker, being one of the most widely read columnists of Forbes China and frequently mentoring start-ups. She holds a Diploma in Strategy and Innovation from Oxford University and a Master in Mass Media and Politics from University of Liverpool.

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  Jake Fowler

  Senior UX Designer
  Autodesk

  Jake is a Sr. UX Designer and Product Owner for Autodesk Fusion 360, a cloud-based 3D CAD software for industrial and mechanical product designers. His primary roles are prioritizing and designing Fusion 360’s on-boarding and 3D modelling experiences. Jake has been at Autodesk for 10 years, previously working at the Cambridge, UK office before moving to Shanghai in 2012.

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  Jenny Yang

  Director, Innovation Strategy & Design
  CBi 桥中

  Jenny has a cross-disciplined background in Design and Business Consulting. Jenny started her early career specializing in interior design and branding strategy, and developed strong portfolio in creative industry across various areas including marketing research, branding strategy, advertising, interior design, art curatorship and project management. Later on, she has moved in business with intensive practices in the startups, marketing operation and business consulting.
  Jenny strongly resonates with “user-centered” design philosophy. She believes creative ideas need to have a potential to be executed. In combination with innovation strategy, the purpose of design is to solve the complex business problem, as well as create sustainable value for both users and clients through business implementation.
  Jenny is able to adept at consumer insights with sophisticated marketing research and innovation management skills, and quickly establish the execution plan driven by both quantitative and qualitative research.
  Jenny graduated from Melbourne Business School with a MBA degree, also received a dual-degree in Interior Design and Visual Communication from Swinburne University, National School of Design.

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  姜明蕾

  Product Manager
  Tezign

  Minglei Jiang is a Senior Product Manager at tezign.com. After graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, she started her career as a Product Manager at Douban more that 4 years ago.
  Back in douban, Minglei was once working at Movie/Music Department and in charged of amount of projects including movie awards, music playlists, artists music player, the music golden fleece plan ( which is the first project within China that pay for online music streaming in a direct and transparent way ), etc. She is well experienced with product user experience design and familiar with the field of creative people and digital music market.
  From 2016, She started a new career at Tezign and began to face the challenges of designing 2B product.

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  Ge Jin 金葛

  Founder
  S.Lab

  Jin Ge is a seasoned product strategist, experience designer, and ethnographer who is good at turning human insights into creative products, service and business solutions. At S.LAB, he focuses on orchestrating co-creation projects with companies, universities and social organizations, and explore topics like omni-channel retail experience and the future of automobiles in the sharing economy. Previously at IDEO, he led a number of experience design and business model innovation projects that went to market. Jin regularly writes for Chinese and English media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times China, CBN Weekly, China Economic Review, and CNNGo. He has also been invited by NPR and the BBC to comment on macroeconomic and social issues in China.

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  Joe Xia 夏一平

  CTO
  Mobike

  2015年1月，作为联合创始人创办了摩拜单车。摩拜单车创造了一种通过移动互联实现单车共享的新模式。经过一年多的努力，摩拜单车已经累计投入了近万辆智能共享自行车在上海运营，成功打造了全球首个最大的商用无桩的共享自行车服务。摩拜单车希望通过这种共享模式能够为城市缓解交通拥堵，减少环境污染。
  夏一平是国内车联网领域资深的产品技术专家。曾经在福特，菲亚特克莱斯勒的车联网产品研发部门负责产品和技术的研发，拥有国内外发明，实用新型和软件著作权专利等20多项。

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  Joyce Liu 刘珺婕

  Interaction Designer
  Bosch UX / Cheese Videos

  Joyce is a multi-disciplinary designer.
  She is currently an Interaction Designer at Bosch UX. She and Junchao Lv founded CheeseVideos, an independent UX lab to explore and solve daily life challenges.
  As a committee member at Startup Grind Shanghai, she runs the entrepreneur community and organizes monthly events.

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  Junchao Lyu 吕俊超

  Senior designer
  Booking.com / Cheese Videos

  Junchao is a crossover designer.
  He is now working as a Senior Designer at Booking.com. Together with Joyce ,he founded CheeseVideos, an independent UX lab to explore and solve daily life challenges.
  Junchao was an architect with rich experience in the digital media, interactive installations and video production.

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  Kyle Lin

  Senior Manager, UX Design
  Continuum

  As a Senior Manager in UX Design, Kyle leads Continuum’s digital design practice. In the past 10 years, Kyle had worked in many international IT companies. He believes that effective innovation should come from artfully balancing the needs and interests of both business and customers through human-centered design. Prior to joining Continuum, Kyle has managed impactful projects in a wide range of industries, He has led an e-commerce startup from zero to one. He also co-founded a startup from seed to A round funding. Moreover, He is the co-founder and president of IxDA Taiwan, a platform that facilitates dialogue between designers, academia and corporations.

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  Mauricio Estrella

  VP of Product Design
  Stackray

  Mauricio “Momo” Estrella is an Ecuadorian Digital Designer with 15 years of experience on UI/UX, Digital Product Design, Education, and Entertainment. He has worked with brands like EF Education First, Lincoln, Audi, Microsoft, Disney, among others. He has published several pieces on creative management, behavior change, and design strategy, and is currently working at a SF-based startup as VP of Product Design. His background is in Computer Science and Psychology.

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  Michael Headrick

  Mobile Product Owner
  VML

  Michael Headrick is a Product Owner working between Singapore and Shanghai, China for VML, an American based agency. He focuses his work on helping large multi-national companies localize their digital strategy and platforms to Asia, specifically China. Michael has a wide background in Architecture, User Research, and User Interface Design that informs his work.

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  Ronan Berder

  CEO & Founder
  Wiredcraft

  Founder and CEO of Wiredcraft, bouncing between Shanghai, Berlin and the US. Ronan is a jack-of-all-trades with skills stretching from engineering and design, to business development and management. This often translates in him leading the UI & UX discussions for software products.

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  孙震 Sam Sun

  Design Director
  WM Motor 威马汽车

  Mr. Sam Sun is the Design Director at WM Motors. He holds an M.S. degree in Automotive Design from the Coventry University in U.K. He has specialized in Automotive Design through his impeccable track record first as a Designer at Bentley, then as the Senior Design Manager at of Passenger Vehicles at SAIC, later as the Design Director at Foton Motors, and recently as the Chief Designer at Bertrand. Mr. Sam Sun devotes to influence and revolutionize people's lifestyles with smart-car technologies. In 2015 Mr. Sam Sun successfully led the design of a concept car, Project N, which showcased the prominent concepts of smart-car technology and interactive design philosophies.

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  Siddharta Lizcano

  Experience Design Director
  Razorfish, Publicis.Sapient

  Siddharta is an award winning Independent Creative Director formerly of frog Shanghai. For 9 years he has cultivated expertise in the practice and management of User Experience Design, Human-Centred Innovation, Product Strategy and Design Research. Helping established and emerging companies in Europe and APAC to be conceive, design and bring to market products and services that create lasting impact in both the business and their customer's lives. He holds a Masters with Distinction from the University of the Arts London in Interactive Media.

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  肖又歌

  Interaction Designer
  frog

  Youge is an interaction designer II at frog Shanghai. He has a great passion to connect the user with technology and business. He is keen to help the client to envision the future with a design-driven mind and build the best-in-class user experience.
  Before frog, he has worked in Asia, Europe and US with start-ups, design agencies and leading IT firms. Youge joined frog Amsterdam in 2014 and was relocated to Shanghai in October 2015. He has worked on varies interaction and strategic projects in retail, telecom, automobile, finance and e-commerce industry in multiple locations including Amsterdam, Shanghai, Sydney and Singapore.
  Youge has spent four years studying industrial and interaction design in Beijing and Taipei for his bachelor. He also holds a honours master degree in Strategic Product Design in Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

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  张酉麟 (小火)

  Art Director
  UC browser

  张酉麟（小火）曾就职于新浪、腾讯、百度、雅虎、联想研究院，现效力于阿里巴巴UC浏览器，任职艺术指导。十年以上体验设计、互联网、图形界面设计经验。早年和朋友创办iconfans（现UI中国），投资设计师的咖啡馆，发起Dribbble华人帮组织，并与优秀网页设计、站酷网、意匠id、Ixdc、ChinaUI等组织关系紧密，为当前互联网公司中最具个人影响力的设计大咖。

Workshop

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  Annie Chang

  Head of Internationalization UX
  Google

  Annie Chang has been working on user experience field at Google, Microsoft and Motorola for more than 15 years. Currently, she is the head of the UX of the Internationalization department at Google, where she helps the Google teams and the users to move their products to the global market. Before that, Annie worked on a few Google’s revenue source products including DoubleClicks advertising platform, AdWords, AdMob, and Google Analytics where she created multiple v1 products, and drove multiple product integrations. When at Microsoft, Annie was in charge of the Windows Live Mobile platform. At Motorola, she was one of the leads who propelled the first generation of the touch-screen smartphone platform. Annie is known as experienced at UX strategy and architecture, and can solve complex platform problems.

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  Hsun Tang

  Head of UX, Measurement Design
  Google

  Hsun Tang acquired various types of design, user research, design strategy and UX management experiences throughout her career from multi-media, web, TV/Mobile devices, client software, e-commerce platform, search and big data design. She’s established world class UX teams in China, Japan, Korea and Silicon Valley and delivered products that impact broad range of users and markets.
  Currently, Hsun is leading Google’s Ads Measurement UX in Mountain View, California to envision UX ecosystem, create intuitive solutions and to inspire team to push the boundaries of what's possible to the world’s most complex multifaceted big data analysis problems.

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  James Chiu

  ECD of UI/UX
  Razorfish,Publicis.Sapient China

  James’ expertise is in innovating how brands connect with consumers through multi-channel experiences.
  Chiu’s work spans pure play digital, integrated and above-the-line agencies, he has directed and crafted numerous multi-channel, commerce, brand, marketing and campaign experiences for clients such as Ray-Ban, Marks & Spencer, Net-a-Porter group, Max Factor, adidas Originals and Levi’s. Additionally Chiu co-founded Camohood, a niche limited edition streetwear ecommerce retailer in 2005. His projects have been awarded and recognized by the likes of BIMA, FWA and Webby.
  As Executive Creative Director of UI/UX, Chiu is responsible for leading the Publicis.Sapient UI/UX team, which works across key clients including Nike, Heineken and China Eastern, conceptualizing experiences that breed brand-consumer interaction and developing experiences that transform clients’ businesses.

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  Karlen Chang

  Creative Director & Co-Founder
  mixMotion

  Karlen Chang is a Canadian artist and designer. He is Co-Founder and Creative Director of mixMotion, a design firm creating physical interactive experiences and environments. Since 2000, Karlen has been exploring the intersections of art, design and technology to create emotionally powerful experiences. His work uncovers the emergent social relationships and behaviours between people and interactive environments. He has exhibited his work in Canada, France and Switzerland. His clients have included, Red Bull, Aveda, Google and Deloitte. His creative process bridges the digital world to the physical world, discovering innovation in our everyday lives.

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  Raymond Chin

  CCO
  Publicis.Sapient China

  Ray’s absolute truth is that he wants to be the best creative he can be. He knows his ability to handle stress (racing street cars illegally), his endurance (staying awake for days making short films) and his patience (volunteering at a mental hospital) will see him through.
  Along the way, he has worked in places as diverse as Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, New York and London on accounts as varied as Hennessy, Citibank, Ford, Levi’s, Mcdonalds, and United Airlines, to name a few. While bagging various advertising awards at Cannes, D&AD, Clio, The One Show, Spikes, Adfest and The Effies.
  He now functions as the Chief Creative Officer of the Publicis.Sapient platform in China, molding winning brand experiences at the crossroads of technology and creativity.

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  战国栋

  Font designer/Teacher
  Dalian Nationalities University

  大连民族大学设计学院教师/SGDA会员/汉仪字库签约字体设计师/纽约ADC会员
  2001年本科毕业于吉林艺术学院美术设计学院
  同年就职于大连民族学院设计学院，担任视觉传达工作室教师
  2008年赴日留学，就读于爱知县立艺术大学大学院美术研究科，字体设计专攻。
  2011年完成［文本明朝］［铁线黑体］［绛云明朝］［瑞意］四款字体的提案试做，作为大学院毕业设计作品在毕业答辩时发表，并获得当年的［优秀作品奖］被爱知县立艺术大学收藏。取得硕士学位。
  2011年4月归国，回到大连民族学院设计学院继续任教。
  2012年底与汉仪字库合作开发瑞意宋体字库，2016年3月正式发售。

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  Brandon Owens

  Brandon Owens is a digital product management & data guy with 12+ years experience working for startups and big brands. He's originally from the US and worked at Playboy in Chicago, heading up their digital marketing for 5 years. He then did an MBA at INSEAD in Europe/Singapore before taking a digital product management role at EF Education First in Shanghai.
  After a few years he left there to join a "word-of-mouth" digital marketing agency startup as their head of product & tech. He's now working on a new startup that uses small digital interactions via WeChat to increase consumer involvement and build smarter companies. On the side he also runs Beertelligence, which gathers small groups of smart people together for beers.

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  Mauricio Estrella

  Mauricio “Momo” Estrella is an Ecuadorian Digital Designer with 15 years of experience on UI/UX, Digital Product Design, Education, and Entertainment. He has worked with brands like EF Education First, Lincoln, Audi, Microsoft, Disney, among others. He has published several pieces on creative management, behavior change, and design strategy, and is currently working at a SF-based startup as VP of Product Design. His background is in Computer Science and Psychology.

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About the UIUX Conf

Join artists, designers, font masters, pixel aficionados, and more at the first ever UI/UX Conference in Shanghai on October 15th-16th, 2016. This two-day community driven conference will feature 20+ talks focusing on storytelling, design strategy, best practices, creative inspiration and more. Count on experienced speakers sharing their expertise and experiences from international companies and thriving startups. 

The conference celebrates the one-year anniversary of the UI/UX Designers Meetup Shanghai. Notable speakers from the UI/UX Design Meetup will make appearances at the UI/UX Conf, including Design Leads & Creative Directors representing Frog, Paypal, Google, Starbucks, Imagination, Ming Labs, Wiredcraft and more. Join the afterparty, included in your ticket price, for the celebration with your fellow designers.