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Keynote and Q&A: Getting to a Team-Approach in Continuous Discovery

Teresa is a Product Discovery Coach who helps teams gain valuable insights from their customer interviews, run effective product experiments, and drive product outcomes that create value for their customers and their businesses. She teaches teams how to connect the dots between their research activities and their product decisions, inspiring confidence that they are on the right track. Recent clients include CarMax, Snagajob, Spotify, and Tesco.

Before becoming a coach, Teresa spent the majority of her career leading product and design teams at early-stage internet companies. Most recently, Teresa was VP of Products at AfterCollege, an Internet startup that helps college students find their first job. She was CEO of Affinity Circles, an online community provider for university alumni associations and a social recruiting service used by Fortune 500 companies. She also held product and design roles at Become.com and HighWire Press.

Cameron Adams is a co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva – an online design platform started in 2012 that now has over 50 million users. He leads the design and product teams there as well as focusing on future product directions and innovative experiences.

After graduating with a Bachelor of Law/Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne in 2001, Cameron started a design agency that produced work for global clients such as Atlassian, NEC, TEDx and Sydney Festival. When Google came knocking in 2007 he couldn’t resist the call and spent the next 4 years helping the co-founders of Google Maps realise the design vision for their ground-breaking communication tool Google Wave.

Through his work and his writing — which spans five books and numerous articles — Cameron has contributed to the foundations that underpin modern web design and has been asked to speak around the world at events such as South by Southwest, Pausefest, CeBIT, and Web Directions.

Keynote and Q&A: The new cybernetics: systems thinking for the 21st century

Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell is the Director of the 3A Institute (3Ai) and School of Cybernetics at the Australian National University (ANU) and a Vice President and a Senior Fellow at Intel Corporation. She is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development. After completing her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998, Genevieve spent 18 years in Silicon Valley helping guide Intel’s product development by developing the company’s social science and design research capabilities. Genevieve established 3A Institute in September 2017 at the ANU in collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61 with the mission of building a new branch of engineering to effectively and ethically manage the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on humanity through better design and management of technology.