Bria Alexander

" We’re seeing these agents trying to represent ourselves online in ways we’ve never seen before - Bria. "

" Impact curated by France Alana was outstanding. "

" David Nicholson is our house scribe, a senior UX designer with a passion for enterprise-scale products. "

" The sponsor sessions are equal in quality and quantity as our main programming and completely free for anyone to attend. "

" Feedback is data, not personal — once you view it that way, it feels less like criticism and more like improvement information. "

" Co-creating operating models with our teams helps us remain resilient even when things get a little hairy and squirrely. "

" Design ops should coordinate initiatives, measure impact, and advocate for designer happiness as a business metric - Peter Bosma. "

" Everyone's sitting on the aisle, your right, my left — you gotta scoot over like two seats. "

" The virtual social event tonight is Cozy Juicy Reel, a fun board game our virtual attendees always love. "

" There will be session notes and sketch notes so you don’t have to take notes yourself unless you want to. "

" The primary way to convene with other attendees is through our Slack channel. "

" Please put your dropdown or your personal agenda in your local time zone so there’s no ambiguity. "

" If you have any questions for the speakers, you really need to put your question in the thread specific to the talk. "

" I often find myself wondering what I really gained from time away from my desk beyond swag and catching up with colleagues. "

" This is a design ops summit. You’re with your people, we get you and we all want you to do well. "

" Cohorts are a super duper fun way to engage with more of our community. "

" David Nicholson is our in-house scribe who produces wonderful sketch notes throughout the conference. "

" MJ Broadband saves our fingers some pain and some stress because we don’t have to take notes. "

" You don’t want to miss out on the sponsor sessions — they’re free and high quality, not sales pitches. "

" There is no need for you to take notes because session notes, videos, and decks will be shared as soon as possible. "

" There’s no need to take notes because session notes, videos, and decks will be shared promptly on the conference site. "

" Saying no with intentionality and clear guidelines creates clarity and focus. "

" Sponsor sessions are not sales pitches; they are content-rich and free to anyone who wants to attend. "

" There’s no need to take notes. All session materials and videos will be shared quickly after presentations. "

" Each of these speakers shares career defining experiences scaling design organizations large and small. "

" When teams are connected to real strategic missions and own their key results, OKRs become positive. "

" We need to slow down decision-making processes so that ethics and systems thinking scale with project scope. "

" There is no need to take notes; session notes, sketchnotes, resource lists, videos, and decks will be shared. "

" If you have more ops people than designers, you risk chaos and underappreciation of what ops actually delivers. "

" If you want to take part in the gifs, laughs, jokes, questions, and links to resources, join us on #deogenerall Slack channel. "

" You can invite your coworker, your brother, your sister, your aunt to sponsor sessions even if they’re not signed up for the conference. "

" Sponsor sessions are completely free, and you can invite anyone you want to those. "

" Yesterday was a lot of fun, but today is going to be even more fun. "

" It is my honor and pleasure to welcome each of you to the 2021 Design at Scale Conference. "