Leadership Collective
Leadership Collective
Andrew Hogan
3:00 - 3:20P
Turning visions into reality
3:00 - 4:00P
Leadership Collective
3:20 - 3:50P
Why we build what we build
3:00 - 3:20P
Turning visions into reality
We’ve all built new products to better support different customers. But what if that group is also crucial to making visions a reality? Avantika Gomes will offer an inside look at Figma’s efforts to launch, and iterate, on Dev Mode. It’ll be a meta look at leading a vision into reality - and a lesson that a launch is the beginning, not the end.
Avantika Gomes
she/her
Director of Product at Figma
Avantika currently leads Figma’s efforts on Design Systems, Prototyping and Developer Tools, exploring ways to bring the worlds of code and design closer together. She has over a decade of product experience, having held product roles at Pinterest, Microsoft, Google, and Birchbox, with a particular focus on collaborative, creative products that help people visually express themselves. She was also recently featured in Product50, a list of the top 50 most innovative people in product, as a winner in the Best Design Leader category
3:00 - 4:00P
Leadership Collective
Andrew Hogan
he/him
Head of Insights at Figma
Andrew leads Insights at Figma. His research focuses on the digital product and design industry and the ways the most successful teams work. Previously, Andrew spent 7 years at Forrester, a leading research firm, analyzing the intersection of design and tech.
3:20 - 3:50P
Why we build what we build
Why did Figma ship what it did this year? Join the team for a look into what we’ve learned observing the most successful companies and a glimpse into the way Figma works
Sho Kuwamoto
he/him
Vice President of Product at Figma
Sho Kuwamoto is Vice President, Product on Figma editor. Prior to that he held product leadership positions at Medium, Macromedia, and Adobe. He’s known for having deep customer focus and a love for helping people create.
Jenny Wen
she/her
Design Manager at Figma
Jenny leads the design team behind FigJam (and other new, top secret, exciting things) at Figma. She helped bring FigJam to market in 2021, and also worked on some of Figma’s collaboration features — search, file browsing, and Community.
Marcel Weekes
he/him
Vice President of Software Engineering at Figma
Marcel Weekes is VP of Product Engineering at Figma, where he supports a talented team in the development of best in class design collaboration tools that empower individuals and teams to create together. He enjoys the challenge of building collaboration tools with high craft and quality. Prior to Figma, Marcel was at Slack where he held various leadership roles in core product.
Outside of work, Marcel is an avid advocate for diversity in tech and is actively involved in mentorship programs aimed at supporting underrepresented groups in technology."
Katie Szeto
She/her
Product Manager at Figma
Katie is the Enterprise product manager at Figma. She oversaw the launch of Figma’s Enterprise plan two years ago and helped open Figma’s New York hub. Prior to Figma, Katie was Director, Chief of Staff to the CEO at Dropbox. Katie has bachelor and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from MIT. In her free time she dances on a semi-professional salsa dance team in New York.
session hosts
Andrew Hogan
he/him
Head of Insights at Figma
Andrew leads Insights at Figma. His research focuses on the digital product and design industry and the ways the most successful teams work. Previously, Andrew spent 7 years at Forrester, a leading research firm, analyzing the intersection of design and tech.