Uday Gajendar

" You can’t develop a career just mastering a tool; those become obsolete as technology evolves. "

" Melissa Burnett creates order out of chaos as a leader of leaders and facilitator of facilitators. "

" This is a conference, but a conference is just a polished snapshot, just a point in time of a conversation. "

" Give a s**t. Care about your topic, and convey that enthusiasm to make a talk resonate. "

" Can you believe it? This is our fourth and final theme in this journey. "

" We encourage you to continue engaging with Slack channels and offer your own thoughtful questions to our speakers. "

" There are no best practices because trauma responses are so individual and culturally specific. "

" Acknowledgment and validation of someone’s experience alone is trauma-informed and trauma-responsive leadership. "

" What if we activated human virtues like trust, care, hope, respect, and dignity in the work we do and in our products? "

" This conference is about continuing threads of conversations we each bring to bear. "

" IIDX washing is when teams replicate existing UI elements and claim better user experience without deeper changes. "

" How do you create a sense of craft in an environment fraught with ambiguity, complexity, and anxiety? "

" Professional spaces often suppress deep trauma behind a middle-class promise of protection that isn’t real. "