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Interviewed on BBC World in 1999 for one of the young Industrial designers from India.
2009: UX conference, Seoul
With Sir Don Norman at Research conference in Seoul, South Korea
2017 - Design Thinking workshop
I have been conducting many design thinking workshops in my office and external at conference. Here is a recording of the same at Intuit.
Sep 2025: Design Mentorship Panel at UXIndia 2025, Hyderabad
Design Mentorship
https://2025.ux-india.org/
What an incredible and energizing experience at UX India Conference! uxindiaconf (ux-india.org)
I was a speaker back in 2007, and after almost 18 years am back in a panel discussion on Design Mentorship. It was both a learning and engaging session, with inspiring insights from designers across diverse backgrounds.
Aug 2025 : BITS Pilani - CONQUEST
Startup Mentorship
https://conquestbits.org/mentors
Conquest, an initiative by the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, BITS Pilani, is India's First Student-Run Startup Accelerator. They help the best founders build great businesses and raise funding. I am one of the mentors and participated coaching some of the business. Here i am in conversation with CEO of SugarStrings.ai
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/conquestbits_conquestforstartups-activity-7338109682328260609-Xqji?
JAN 2025: HI-RES’25, IIT ROORKEE
https://www.esummit.in/hires
Presented on :
Crafting Customer Journeys and Driving Business Impact
Summary:
Discover strategies for designing experiences that align with key stages of the customer journey—awareness, acquisition, engagement, activation, and retention. Learn how to create targeted designs that address customer needs at each phase, from initial brand discovery to fostering long-term loyalty. By understanding the customer lifecycle, you can craft tailored experiences that guide users smoothly through every step of their journey.
SEP 2024: Panel Discussion Invite - Product Strategy and Design Management
Design Management
Enjoyed participating in the Design Leadership discussion with NID students. Thanks to Atul Joshi for inviting me. My partners were- Joy Banerjee: VP and Sr. Director of Design at Zomato, Ramesh (RK) is the Head of Digital, Data and Cloud Delivery groups at Mphasis.
introduce students to basic concepts in Product Management and Strategy, including Product Lifecycle, Software as a Product and Service, Software Development Processes, Agile (Scrum) and Lean methods, Product Strategy and Prioritization
Nov 2020 : UX Masterclass- Peepal design
Designing for Super Apps
Presented on the anatomy of supper apps and how the Asian market is driving this concept where you have all-in-one products like commerce, food, medicine, flight tickets, hotels, grocery, movies, payments and BNPL, etc
Sept 2020 : IXD Conclave NID : Multimodal interactions
Sep 2020 : VoiceTech- The advantages of voice recognition for Retail and E-Commerce
Abstract
Highlight on how voice enabled commerce can break the litracy barrier in India for tier 2 cities for shopping on mobile apps
Nov 2020 : IndiaHCI 2020 - Importance of design system.
Panel members
1)Victoria Stanbach : Informatica
2) Sameer Chavan : FLIPKART
3) Pradeep Joseph: [24]7.ai
4) Sandeep Datar: Oracle
Oct 2020 : inc42.com Product summit - https://theproductsummit.co
Nov 2019: Design Thinking for Project Managers, Chennai
Humbled to speak in front of 400 senior Project Managers. Thanks for the opportunity
Dec 2019 : Machine learning talk
Oct 2019 : Product Jury
Had a great time being on the jury at Institute of Product Leadership CMIRT Bangalore last weekend. Awesome student projects.
Jun 2018 : Build for Million Users
-Venture Catalyst, Bangalore
Jun 2018 : Presentation on Product Management
– Institute of Product Leadership
NASSCOM - Feb 2017 : Design for India
Spoke on Design Thinking for Indian startup companies. http://design4india.in/
UBS Transform - Jan 2017 : Design Thinking Conclave
Presented on applying Design Thinking techniques in building creativity at http://www.ubsforums.com/
Dec 2016 : HCI India Conference – IDC, IIT Mumbai
Participated in panel discussion for women in design. http://indiahci2016.org/
Design At Business - Dec 2016 : SAP
Spoke on applying design thinking at enterprise companies. https://designatbusiness.com/
UNICOM - Nov 2016 : Workshop on Design Thinking
conducting workshop on Design Thinking for engineers and product managers.
NASSCOM - Oct 2016 : Future of manufacturing
Joined panel discussion on applying Design Thinking to manufacturing. Discussed personalization in mass production.
From left - Regu ayyaswamy VP TCS, Prasanna Gonuguntla VP Mercedes Benz, Jim Thompson VP Unisys
NASSCOM - Sep 2016 : BPM Strategy
from left - Mike Mattsen CEO MattsenKumar, Pradeep Joseph Director Bosh, Thakurdas Paul - Sr Director Manhattan Associates,
NASSCOM - Sep 2016 : Design Thinking
Top picture from left - Pradeep Joseph Director Bosh, Saumitri UX Chief Samsung, Thakurdas Paul Sr Director Manhattan Associates
View all pictures at http://www.photosameer.com/Designtalk
IXDA 2015 Conference, San Francisco
Showcased my Intel fab worker wearable app at Intel booth.
CHI 2012 Conference, Paris
IXDA 2011 Conference, Ireland
Met friends, Steve Portigal and Daniel Szuc
UI-UX Summit 2014, Bangalore
Presented on wearable design
Mobile World 2013, Bangalore
Spoke on Mobile Design using sensors.
TeachEase 2012, Hyderabad
Student workshop at IIIT Hyderabad on mobile designs
CAUE 2008 Conference, Pune
UMO 2007 Conference, Hyderabad
Presented on "Persuasive Design" for consumer websites. Designing for cross selling and unselling. Business centric design principles and UX architecture.
UPA 2005, Hyderabad
As a president of Usability Professional's Association"https://uxpa.org", brought together different companies in Hyderabad to share knowledge and learnings in UX.
IHCI 2004, Bangalore
Presented at the first HCI India conference.
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