Career Jumpstart for creative professionals

A career development event, providing you with actionable insights and strategies to jumpstart for your career development journey! You’ll learn fresh, career-specific content on emerging industry trends, and insights on resume/CV writing, interview preparation, personal branding, and networking, to get you onto a new, and exciting path to career success in today’s competitive market, all served via a conversational approach to learning.

September 18, 2024

11:00 am

12:00 pm

PST

TRACKS:

Entrepreneurship

ALL SPEAKERS

Christian Garcia-Scheer

SVP, Creative Strategy, Bank of America

I’m an award-winning creative strategist, proud father of 2, husband, and a kick-ass career coach, bringing global, unique perspectives, and innovative solutions to the conversation. From “one-man-show” startups, to Forbes’s 500 Top enterprise companies. He has built and led teams to success for the company as well as fostering great careers within those teams. As a career coach, he has successfully helped over 11K people find their way and seized a new career path. He hopes to inspire you into taking the first steps into a new chapter in your career journey!

MORE SESSIONS

Cultural Intelligence in Design: Understanding Global Audiences

This session offers a unique perspective on designing for a global audience by bridging the gap between cultural intelligence and user-centric design. We'll delve into the specific challenges and opportunities of designing for the next billion users, emphasizing the importance of understanding cultural nuances and adapting design strategies accordingly. Through real-world examples, case studies, and expert insights, we'll provide actionable takeaways for designers to create inclusive and impactful solutions that resonate with diverse cultures worldwide.

Shivam Gupta

User Experience Designer, Google

Phoebe Yu

UX Designer, Visa

See details

Groundbreaking Work

Mastering the Painless Design Critique

A design critique is one of the best ways for a designer to better understand how to improve their work and create great designs. The feedback we get through a formal critique can help us make better decisions, overcome obstacles, and strengthen our craft. However, receiving a critique is probably one of the hardest things we'll do in our work, and if delivered poorly, we can end up feeling demotivated, or even defeated. Join us for a critique workshop, where you will learn from an experienced design director what goes into an effective (and painless!) design critique.

Guy Segal

Director, Design & Design System, Thomson Reuters

See details

Groundbreaking Work

Overcoming Setbacks in Your UX Job Search

Rejection is an inevitable part of the job application process, often leaving professionals questioning their skills and losing motivation. In this session, I’ll explore the common challenges and pain points job seekers face and will discuss practical tips for handling initial rejections, turning them into valuable learning opportunities, and strategies to refine and improve your applications for future rounds.

Marzie Nadali

Entrepreneur & UX Coach, MarziUXD

See details

Career Growth & Leadership

Strengthen Your User Research Superpowers to make an impact, influence stakeholders, and be a leader

UX'ers face several challenges, but we all have superpowers, and it's time to strengthen them. In this talk, Kuldeep will provide the 'WHAT,' the 'WHY,' and the 'HOW' to develop and use these superpowers. Kuldeep Kelkar is the author of this new book, 'Strengthen Your User Research Superpowers.' Similar to a deck of cards, Kuldeep will share 52 superpowers across 4 sections: (1) Strengthen Core (2) Nurture Organizational Engagement (3) Demonstrate Leadership (4) Elevate Expertise. Join this talk; it will be insightful and actionable.

Kuldeep Kelkar

Senior Partner, UXReactor

See details

Groundbreaking Work