Aprajit works as a design leader for Gojek's consumer platform - responsible for all the end to end experiences that make it a super app. He works with other product, design, research & engineering leadership to shape the vision and strategy for the platform teams to enable efficiency at the business unit levels like transport, food, etc. Here at Gojek, the teams are driven by value-entered design approach and his responsibility is to help guide the teams to deliver that while being enabled by processes & guided by principles.
 

Prior to this, Aprajit was working as the Head of design for Transport products at Gojek which has everything to do with the ride-hailing & transit services Gojek has to offer in SEA. Before Gojek, he was working as a Design lead for Myntra, India's top fashion e-commerce. After starting as an engineer and stumbling into design, he's now had more than 10 years of experience in design working with MNCs, agencies, startups and more.

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I am a designer by heart leading the UI/UX Design team at Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design in California. After holding roles as UI/UX designer at BMW Group Design and global design agencies in Germany I moved to California with the mission to build and grow a brand-new UX team at Mercedes. The team is embedded in the global Mercedes-Benz design process while maintaining the flexibility and creativity of a startup. Working on the future of mobility has always inspired my work and keeping pace with emerging technologies never gets boring.

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Brigette Metzler is a jump-in-with-both-boots kind of a person who is passionate about the democratisation of knowledge and the use of technology and research to get us there. Brigette believes ResearchOps plays a crucial role in scaling the impact of user research, and most weeks can find her talking ResearchOps. Brigette is the ResearchOps Lead at the Australian government Department of Agriculture, Water, and Environment. From 2017-2020, Brigette led the user research library at Services Australia. Alongside chairing several government communities of practice, she is also the co-chair of the ResearchOps Community, a global community of people discussing ResearchOps — the people, mechanisms, and strategies for scaling research.

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Chris is a product design manager at J.P. Morgan Chase. He spent his UX career in finance where he designed everything from an insider-trading-hunting dashboard to credit risk modelers to a cryptocurrency-aggregator. He revels the chaos/clarity that comes with a good design process and delights in exposing stakeholders to user research. In his free time he cultivates disorder at home by looking after a small pack of lapdogs.

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Eva is part of the Philips Experience Design organization, where she leads a team of designers that are at the cutting edge of integrating design, data and AI. With the team she sets out to explore and deliver solutions that deliver on the promise of precise and personalized care. Eva holds a PhD in the field of human-centered AI and translates her ideas into the health technology context. As strategist she supports her organization in shaping and implementing customer driven strategies, ensuring strategy always starts from the benefit you will deliver. Contributing to the transformation of healthcare, making steps towards Value Based Healthcare motivates her different roles. She is passionate about using the power of design, data and AI to make a difference in the health and wellbeing of people.

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Jaime Zamorano is a Product Design Manager who leads a team in charge of engaging with businesses and build products in a quick and efficient manner; working with multicultural teams at Rakuten Inc, Tokyo.

With 10 years of experience, Jaime worked in many design-related positions: from Front-End developer to graphic and UX designer, until he found his mission: help designers growth and help businesses to adopt a user centric mindset. He believes in the power of collaboration as partners between the customer, business, development, and designers to be the catalyst of convergence and growth.

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Kiyo Yamauchi was leading the research efforts for Twitter in Japan and other markets. During his time at Twitter (2015-2021), Twitter’s user base in Japan increased from 29M (monthly active users) to 50+M. This success came from rigorous research tailored to Japanese research participants, culture, and unique needs.

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Onkar has a decade of experience as a User Experience and Visual Designer and has worked for small and multinational organisations in the UK and abroad. He is also the founder of a UX Meetup community group for beginners based in London but which is open for anyone to join worldwide. He has a wide variety of wider interests ranging from sports, photography, technology and space.

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Tom Lorusso is a Principal User Research Manager in Xbox at Microsoft. He and his team are focused on games and gaming experiences across the entire Xbox ecosystem and Windows. Tom has been working in games for over 9 years, with 20 years of total experience in the User research field. He has been a researcher on phones, operating systems and portable ultrasound. Tom and the User Research team for Xbox Experiences tackle a variety of research questions for areas including social gaming, community, monetization, communication, cross platform gaming, video consumption, accessibility and inclusivity and of course, designing engaging games. He is also a frequent presenter at conferences and universities and is always happy to sit down and talk about games research with anyone who wants to listen. Tom is currently playing way too much Fortnite and Hearthstone and is using any excuse to jump on Xbox to talk to people who don’t live in his house.

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