UX & PM Networking Breakfast
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Join us for an opportunity to network with leading UX (user experience) and PM (product management) specialists at Google and your fellow industry professionals. The program will include a case study highlighting UX and PM collaboration at Google with time designated to learning from your peers over breakfast.
Agenda
8:00 Registration & breakfast
8:30 Welcome remarks
8:40 Case study: User Experience and Product Management collaboration
9:00 Panel discussions
10:00 Networking
10:45 Goodbye
*We are in the process of confirming a great speaker panel for the event. Kindly note the agenda and that speakers are subject to change. Please check the website for the most up-to-date information.
Anneke Rietzel
Staff User Experience Designer
Anneke leads a team of UX Designers and Researchers focused on creating better collaborative awareness across large, distributed companies like Google. After studying design Anneke started her career self-employed in order to fund further studies in computer science. She then joined the HMI team at BMW, worked at several agencies and gave design lectures at schools & universities, until landing at Google 6 years ago.
Ganesh Shankar
Senior Product Manager
Ganesh leads a team of product managers on Google’s Corporate Engineering team, focused on making Googlers the happiest and most productive workforce in the world, and extending GSuite Enterprise products with the technology that helped Google scale. Hailing from Australia, Ganesh started his career as a biomedical engineer, founded an education startup while travelling Asia, and for the last six years has worked as a Product Manager at Google in Sydney, London and Munich.
Klaus Herrmann
Product Manager
Klaus is the product manager for Knowledge and Discovery in our Corporate Engineering team, giving Googlers easy access to the right information at the right time. A Munich local and physicist by trade, Klaus has previously build products as both a software engineer and product manager in e-commerce, search, content management and online gaming.
Meagan Timney
Staff UX Researcher
Meagan Timney is a UX Research Lead at Google in Mountain View, California. She joined Google in 2016, and currently oversees key enterprise research efforts and strategy for Stadia. Prior to Google, Meagan managed the user experience team at Inkling, a digital publishing startup in San Francisco, CA. She has worn many hats, including designer, researcher, and manager, at small agencies, Silicon Valley startups, and now Google.
Michael Gucwa
Product Manager
Michael is the product lead for Stadia’s developer experience (stadia.dev). Prior to Google, Michael worked at Xfire, a PC gaming chat client, and Trion Worlds, a PC game developer, best known for “Rift”.
Robert Barlow-Busch
UX Design Lead
Robert leads a team of UX designers and writers on Stadia, Google's recently announced cloud gaming platform. Prior to Google, he held executive positions in UX at both product companies and agencies. Robert is co-founder of Fluxible, Canada's UX Festival — an annual week-long event that supports the country’s user experience community.
Sabine Borsay
Product Manager
Sabine is the Product Manager on Chrome Identity, focused on bringing Google-powered experiences to users across their devices via Sign in and Sync. For the last 9 years, she’s been working at Google in Ireland, San Francisco and Munich. Prior to Google, Sabine worked on academic research in the field of Computational Neuroscience and as a UX Designer and Researcher at IBM.
Susanna Zaraksky
Content Strategist, Material Design
Susanna has been working at Google for over four years in California, specializing in accessibility and how to design products that work in emerging markets and for people without regular access to the Internet. Outside of work, Susanna is an avid language learned and traveler.