Speaking & Mentoring
Judge & Mentor : UC Berkeley AI Hackathon, co-hosted by SkyDeck and CalHacks, June 2023, July 2024
Fireside Chat : Design Leadership invited by Rethink. April 2022
Invited Panel Speaker : Design Leadership Panel on RemoteDesignWeek invited by DesignXCommunity. Oct 2021
Opening keynote speaker for day four at the Savvy UX Summit 2020 : Organized by Savvy UX Summit, Online (Dec – 2020): Attended by over 5000 attendees across 20 countries.
Speaker : Resilience at Design Inspire Conference, organized by Valuelabs, India – Remote (Nov – 2020)
Speaker : Design and Product Leadership at Global Experience Summit, organized by TechCircus, London – Remote (Nov – 2020)
Speaker : Designers’ Third Eye – by Heads Of X Series: Heads of Design Conference, Online (Aug -2020)
Portfolio Workshop: Storify your UX project. I led a two-part workshop series, “Storify Your UX Project,” aimed at helping designers craft engaging, story-driven portfolios. This free workshop supported designers impacted by COVID-19, offering practical tips to make their UX projects more memorable and improve job prospects.
Outcome and response. June 2020
Speaker : Design your design presentation organized by UX Design and Prototyping, San Francisco (Jan – 2020) Recording
Speaker : Narrative and Storytelling organized by San Francisco UXDesigners, San Francisco (Dec – 2019)
Featured Speaker : Product Design Mentor night @ Salesforce, San Francisco (Dec – 2019)
International speaker at UXLive Conference, London by TechCircus- Leadership track: Storytelling for design leaders (Nov 2019)
Speaker: Taking your product from Meh! to Yeah! at Techstars Startup Weekend Hackathon- Blockchain for Good (Oct 2019)
Product design mentor : Techstars Startup Weekend Hackathon- Blockchain for Good (Oct 2019)
Mentor talk : Designing design presentations @ Tradecraft, San Francisco (Oct – 2019)
International speaker at UXIndia 19 Conference, Hyderabad India – Design leadership track. Topic: Storytelling as a strategic tool (Sep 2019)
Design mentor at TechStars #inclusiveEd19 Startupweekend (Jun – 2019)
Guest Speaker : Product and UX @ Product School, San Francisco (Oct – 2018)
Panel Speaker @ San Francisco Design Week ’18 (June 2018)
Guest speaker for UX Design Class @ UC Berkeley Ext – San Francisco (January 2018)
Judge for HCI final Project Faire – CS 247 @ Design Studio, Stanford D.School (Mar 2017)
Writing
Featured in:
Brave UX: Becoming a Better Design Leader
on The Space InBetween & Brave UX with Brendan Jarvis 🇺🇦Podcast by Brendan Jarvis (Feb 2024)
Written Interview on Beyond the PX – Medium Publication by Shivam Dewan (August 2021)
Enterprise product design on UI Breakfast Podcast by Jane Portman (March 2020)
UX in cybersecurity on Defense in Depth, CISO Series Podcast by David Spark and Allan Alford (Dec 2019)
Interview on Career Path Smart Career Planning Podcast by Helen Chao (July 2018)
Invited Panel Speaker : Design Leadership Panel on RemoteDesignWeek invited by DesignXCommunity. Oct 2021
Writings
Written and co-authored
What Is Your Relationship With AI?
We talk a lot about what AI is doing to our work.
May 26, 2026 / Read More
Emotion in Design
Our goal as Enterprise UX designers is to create simple, intuitive, and delightful experiences that attract customers to our company’s pr...
Mar 25, 2021 / Read More
Enterprise Design — UX Challenges
1/ Design challenge for enterprise - users and the buyers of the product are different and Both are important! #enterpriseUX
May 18, 2017 / Read More