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Design: Born in Afrika

Design: Born in Afrika

There has always been design in Afrika, hidden right in plain sight right before our eyes. Saki Mafundikwa takes us on a journey to showcase some of Afrika's best design.

Come join me at my

30

min

Talk

on

February 18, 2021

at

13:30

CET

Saki Mafundikwa

Founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA), Zimbabwe

Speakers

ADPList

Virtual Mentorship Platform

Alipta Ballav

Head of the Experience Design at Cerner Corporation, India.

Anbuthambi Bhojarajan

President of ICT Academy, India

Andra Magerusan

UX Researcher at Zalando SE, Germany

Andrei Gurgel

Designer at Toptal

Bapu Kaladhar

Founder President UMO Design & UXINDIA Conf

Brenda Laurel

Principal at Neogaian Interactive & IxDA Board Member, USA

Chanetsa Mukahanana

Design System Lead for Standard Bank, South Africa

Christian San Jose

Founder and CEO of UX+, Philippines

Daniel Rosenberg

Founder of rCDO UX LLC, and former UX VP at Oracle, USA

Darshan Gajara

Product Designer at GraphCMS and Founder, Product Disrupt, Germany

Dean Broadley

Founder at Designing Humans and Executive Head of Design at Vodacom, South Africa

Debbie Millman

Founder and Host Design Matters Media, NY, USA

Erico Fileno

Head of Innovation & Design at Visa, Brasil

Framer

No-code prototyping Tool

Jack Moffett

UX Manager, Boeing, USA

Jamie-Lee Easton

UX Lead at Immersion Group, South Africa

Janaki Kumar

Head of Design at JP Morgan Chase’s Commercial Bank, USA

Jane Vita

Design Lead at VTT, Finland

Johnathon Strebly

President of the International Council of Design - ICoD, Canada

Kadambari Sahu

Senior Vice-President, Design at ValueLabs, India

Katja Forbes

Managing Director of Designit, Australia & New Zealand

Kevin Budelmann

Author, President of IxDA & Peopledesign, USA

Kevin Stine

Quantitative UX Researcher - Zalando SE, Germany

Lily Konings

Product Designer at Facebook, USA

Lola Oyelayo-Pearson

Director of UX, Shopify, Canada

Margaux Moulin

Business Developer, Zalando, Germany

Marty Cagan

Founder of Silicon Valley Product Group, USA

Matt May

Head of Inclusive Design at Adobe, USA

Mauro Litsure

User Experience Designer, Moza Banco, Mozambique

Mehera O’Brien

Head of Creative, argodesign, New York, USA

Nazim Iqbal

Founder and Director of Experience Design at HUDE, India

Networking Session

Networking time for attendees to mingle

Pippa Yeats

Co-Founder and Product Manager of Turn.io, South Africa

Priyanka Pathak

Principal, Samaj Studio and Faculty, Arizona State University School of Design.

Randy J. Hunt

Head of Design at Grab, Southeast Asia

Sahana Kumar

Product Designer at Google, CA, USA

Saki Mafundikwa

Founder of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts, Zimbabwe

Sam Yen

Head of Digital Transformation for Commercial Real Estate, USA

Sanmitra Chitte

School of Management, World University of Design, India

Saptarshi Prakash

Senior Product Design Manager at Swiggy, India

Simon Charwey

Anthologist and Founder of African Design Matters, Ghana

Sonja Meriläinen

Senior User Researcher, Zalando, Germany

Stefano Bellucci

Design Consultant at FutureGov, UK

Suné Stassen

Co-Founder and Custodian at Open Design Afrika, South Africa

Surya Vanka

Founder of Authentic Design, former Director of UX at Microsoft, USA

Susan Park

Senior Product Designer at Gladly, USA

Tosh Juma

Managing Director at IDEO.org, Nairobi, Kenya

Udhaya Kumar Padmanabhan

Global Strategic Design Director at Designit, India

WCD Team

The World-Class Designer Conference Team

Zalyia (Za) Grillet

UX Strategist and Serial Entrepreneur, USA

Zoey Nguyen

Product Design Lead, Singapore

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