Jeff is a designer and Agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX and Lean UX and a highly sought-after international speaker. In addition, Jeff is the author of the O'Reilly book "LeanUX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience". Jeff has led teams at TheLadders, Publicic Modem, WebTrends, Fidelity, and AOL. 

Karen is a Senior Director for User Experience Design at PayPal. She’s been working on the future of money through design and has been leading PayPal’s transformation to collaborative methodologies of Lean UX & Agile. Karen has a long track record of helping businesses realize their strategic objectives through design. She’s long been an advocate for collaborative & iterative processes, as a way to enable a faster feedback loop with users. 

Experienced Senior Director in the design and development of online consumer products with over 20 years experience inside businesses such as IBM, Yahoo!, Global Radio andITV. Has built a reputation for profitability leveraging technology and mobilising teams incomplex organisations to radically change the way products and services are delivered. Over the last decade, has been at the forefront of changes in online media consumptionacross product categories including Video on Demand, News, 2nd Screen TV companionapps, and Radio. Has worked internationally for organisations as diverse as traditional Broadcasters through to early stage online start-ups. 

Leading and building a great team of researchers who work within agile, multidisciplinary teams to create continuous connection between the British government and its citizens as it transforms to become digital by default. Leisa has a background in formal User Centred Design, Design Research and Information Architecture combined with a passion for making these practices more accessible and more successful for companies with limited time or resources, and for those who work using Agile or Lean methodologies.

Lee is using Lean methods as the catalyst to take new products to market and redefine delivery methods at Hearst. Putting the customer firmly at the centre of empowered of cross-functional launch teams.
Lee has been leading product developments for 10yrs + in media incl. FT.com, News UK and Hearst.

Rochelle King is Global VP of Design and UX at Spotify where she oversees the teams that are responsible for user research and designing the product experience at Spotify. Prior to Spotify, Rochelle was VP of User Experience and Product Services at Netflix, where she managed Design, Enhanced Content, Content Marketing and Localization. Collectively, these groups were responsible for the UI, layout, meta-data and presentation of the Netflix service internationally across all platforms.

Des is the co-founder and Head of Customer Success at Intercom, working with customers on a daily basis, which gives him first hand knowledge of how to make things people want. Founded in 2011, Intercom has replaced traditional help desks and email marketing products with one, simple platform for thousands of businesses.

After editing his own fanzine, freelance journalism and a brief spell in the RCA press office Paul joined the Polydor press team in 1999 before going onto re-boot the Fiction Records label in 2004. From there he became Polydor’s head of digital in 2008 before taking the group Director of Digital role at Universal Music in 2010. He learn about a music service launching in 2014, how new approaches were employed to deliver meaningful value to cusomters and the business. 

Dr Tendayi Viki is an academic who teaches Organizational Psychology and Entrepreneurial Innovation at the University of Kent (UK). Holds a PhD in Psychology and an MBA. He is also the Principal Consultant and Founder at Benneli Jacobs and Company, a strategy and innovation consulting firm that helps large organizations develop innovation teams and launch new products using lean startup methods. Dr Viki has previously co-founded several companies including Tasksauce, Book Editions and Research Innovations. He blogs about innovation and organizational behaviour at www.tendayiviki.com.

Before starting The Difference Engine, Farrah worked with the world’s most respected brands, including Apple, Microsoft, Disney, Samsung and UPS, as a copywriter, digital creative director, group planning director, brand strategist, qualitative researcher and innovations lead, at creative and strategic agencies, including Wieden + Kennedy, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, Digitas, Hall & Partners, and OTX. 

I've worked in a variety of industries from manufacturing to telecoms to media and was fortunate enough to witness the lean manufacturing drive at the end of the 90's. I'm passionate about creating environments where people can do their best without reproach. I also believe that quality should not be compromised. I carry with me a toolbox of techniques and thought processes that provide a way forward for whatever task may be at hand, be it bootstrapping a new product stream, forming organisational vision or correcting wayward projects. Oh, and I'm a people-friendly techie :) 

Yossef's been working with computers for most of his life. What he cares about now is people — helping them work together, helping them learn together, helping them build great things together. Helping them make the world a better place

Jordan is a tech and consumer product entrepreneur. He is a Springboard Mobile alumn and has founded four companies. He has worked in tech transfer, created a children’s pushchair, launched a female cosmetic and been EIR at #1seed. Jordan holds a MEng from Oxford and successfully escaped an early career in corporate finance.

Sal founded Leancamp a community led, non-profit event which connects founders of all levels and which has run in more than a dozen countries. Now he helps accelerators and entrepreneurship programmes make better founders at Founder Centric. 

David helps organisations change how they create and deliver value. He's advised teams responsible for millions of dollars of revenue embrace the shift from "can we build it" to "should we build it". When he's not advising Silicon Valley Startups and the Fortune 500 David can be found speaking, writing and leading workshops on lean startup, business model generaion and customer development. 

Made by Many is a digital product innovation company helping big companies to innovate and take new products to market. 

What gets us excited is making products that are used habitually by millions of people; things that last and grow, and become indispensable; that are sustainable not superficial. This is the kind of new stuff we make out of the internet.