Katie Swindler
User Experience Strategist at Allstate | Author of Life & Death Design (USA)
Katie leads the experience strategy for Allstate online marketing products including the Allstate.com quoting experiences and My Account. Originally educated as a theatre director, she brings a unique perspective to digital work. She believes if brands wish to truly connect with consumers they must combine emotion and utility, storytelling and technology. Prior to joining Allstate, Katie was a UX Director at FCB Chicago where she was the UX lead on the 2016 global redesign of JackDaniels.com as well as leading experience design for many other clients such as Cox Communications, and Toyota Financial Services.
itoday's speakers
Surya Vanka
Founder & Chief Designer at Authentic Design | Former Director of user experience at Microsoft (USA)
Jonas Vonlanthen
Partner at Liip Digital Progress | Expert in agile management and self-organisation
Thomas Wiesel
Stand-up comedian (CH)
Laïla von Alvensleben
Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL (CH)
Yves Pigneur
Author of Business Model Generation | Value Proposition Design | The Invincible Company | Professor Emeritus UNIL (BE - CH)
Marc Gruber
Vice President for Innovation at EPFL, full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL (DE -CH)
Ramatoulaye Diallo
CEO of Orange Money in Sénégal and Director of Mobile Financial Services in the Orange Sonatel cluster across 5 countries (SEN)
Paul Watson
Eco-activist & Founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (CAN)
Jake Knapp
Author of Sprint | Make Time | Creator of the Design Sprint process at GV (USA)
Kai Haley
Head of UX Methods and Process at Google | Lead Google Sprint Master Academy (USA)
Alex Osterwalder
Author of Business Model Generation | Value Proposition Design | The Invincible Company | Co-author of Testing Business Ideas (CH)