Intersection WebConference

Roberta Tassi is the founder and design lead at oblo, creator of Service Design Tools and Professor of Interaction Design at Politecnico di Milano University. Always interested in exploring the potential of service design and supporting its growing practice, to tackle the most complex challenges of our current ages.

Yulya Besplemennova is a service designer and system thinker at oblo, focus of her work is design of complex systems which put together human and technological components. She is also a scientific coordinator of Service Design Tools and has just finished The Terraforming research programme at Strelka Institute .

As a design leader, Adam's work blends systems thinking, HCD, anthropology, and organisational behaviour to foster more collaborative, creative and customer-centric organisations. In 2015 he and co-author Aaron Irizarry released Discussing Design: Improving Communication & Collaboration Through Critique with O’Reilly Publishing. 

Ashley's passion is creating the conditions for collective creativity. She curates experiences to help organizations accomplish their strategic aims, and has built her career exposing leaders to human-centered design as a means to respond to complex challenges for which they do not have a preexisting roadmap. 

A researcher at Artefact, Felix Chang describes his job as “a little bit like the Sorting Hat in Harry Potter” because he strives to read people and situations to find the deeper themes and insights. As an Associate Strategy Director, Felix uses his research abilities on a range of projects at Artefact, from healthcare to IoT.

Szymon Kaliski designs and develops digital tools and data‑driven interfaces.

He runs flow/control — a boutique research & development studio. They work on projects ranging from experimental interfaces for drug development, through dashboards for European Space Agency, to data visualization pieces for Google I/O or Mayor of London.
 

Adrián Bolonio is an experienced Team Lead, Frontend Developer, and Web Accessibility (a11y) advocate. He is from Spain, but since 2012 he is living in Vienna (Austria). When he is not at the office he enjoys a good read, working his way through any delicious recipe, and indulging his love for traveling to new places.

Nicola is a product designer, creative generalist and lifelong learner. She loves to help teams be lean and bake design and research into the product process so that they never lose focus on the user. She leads design sprints to create validated, well researched products that get into users' hands quicker.
 

Currently International DesignOps Lead at Intuit in London, Patrizia Bertini has developed her approach to design and DesignOps through 20 years of international experience in usability, accessibility, web design, design management and user research. 

Gianni Puglisi is a Senior Frontend Web Developer at Triplesense Reply, since 2014. He worked with the latest main Javascript frameworks, but currently he is focused on React. Also proudly nerd, cats lover and TV series addicted.

Fabio Fierro, after a degree in communication and a master degree in multimedia projects management, started his career as frontend web developer, with focus on responsive design and micro-animations. He's now working as external consultant in Triplesense Reply. When he's not having fun with code, he mostly likes playing guitar and watching thriller movies.

Maria Shoaib is a Pakistani woman in Technology, working as a Software Engineer at Ericsson, Sweden whose previous roles were Engineer and Product Manager. 

Dean Schuster has been creating user-centered digital products for 25 years and specializes in defining, designing, and building complex, data-intensive, digital products. Dean has led strategic engagements for regional organizations as well as the Fortune 100. 

Ayesha Mazumdar currently works across multiple teams at Optimizely as a Senior UX Engineer, where she collaborates with engineers and designers on Optimizely’s design system, component library, and application frontend. Outside of work, she mentors students at the Holberton School to help empower people from all backgrounds to succeed in the tech industry.

Originally a Civil Engineer, António Capelo changed his career to become a Software Engineer and has been working on the web from big product companies to startups and consultancy agencies. He's from Porto (Portugal), loves frontend technologies and he's interested in pleasant UI/UX, WebGL and Design Systems. He enjoys running and doing yoga and — as an amateur — he dabbles with music and photography.

Dario Chiappetta is a Data Scientist and Software Engineer with a years-long interest in Conversational AI. He has witnessed the age of computing evolve from being very complex and technical, to a stage where the language of machines is becoming closer and closer to the language of humans. By the end of his career, he would like to see that gap closed.

Andrea is solution architect and CTO @ Managed Designs, focusing on architecture and methodology topics. He is co-author of “Architecting Applications for the Enterprise” by Microsoft Press and contract professor for Politecnico di Milano. 
Community-wise, in 2001 he co-founded UGIdotNET, the first Italian .NET User Group and he's board member of Accessibility Days, the longest-established Italian conference pertaining to the development of accessibile software. 

With a strong focus on technology, Fabio graduated in Computer Science Engineering with a dissertation on Robot Automation and Artificial Intelligence. 

In the end of 2012 he co-founded Musement - acquired by tour operating giant  TUI Group in 2018 - where he’s now still involved as Chief Technology and Data Officer. 

Fabio is also an Advisor at IULM Innovation Lab & the Coordinator of the Digital Marketing Master at TAG Innovation School.