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Bria Alexander

DesignOps Curator

Bria Alexander is a Senior Design Program Manager, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) consultant, and an International Speaker, Facilitator, and Interviewer. She currently supports Unified Experience and Brand Experience Programs within Adobe’s Design organization, where she also leads the San Jose site of the Black Employee network and the Creative Cloud Product Representation and Equality team.

With over 10 years of facilitation and hosting experience, Bria has served as the curator and emcee for Adobe’s Design Summit, and for Rosenfeld Media’s Design Operations Conference. She has also served as host for all Rosenfeld Media conferences for the past 2 years including the Advancing Research Conference, Design at Scale Conference, Design Operations Conference and Civic Design Conference.

Outside of her professional commitments Bria enjoys travel, live music, and a great bottle of wine. You can find Bria on LinkedIn under her full name, or on Instagram @briaismynameoh.

Rosenverse talks by Bria:

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" You have to keep AI at arm’s length so you can critique it and not blindly trust it - Christopher. "

Day 1 Panel: Up to the Minute: The latest in AI’s impact on UX

June 10, 2025

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" Lauren Cantor is our house librarian and has made an outstanding contribution to the conference. "

Day 3 Welcome

September 25, 2024

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" Sometimes resources are available as soon as an hour or 30 minutes after the talk, like the team is working miracles. "

Day 2 Welcome

September 24, 2024

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" Manuel Herrera, our sketch noter, has contributed wonderfully to visually capturing the spirit and content of the conference. "

Day 1 Welcome

September 23, 2024

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" Always approach from a place of kindness and think about the experience you want people to have as the water that keeps trees bendable. "

The Big Question about Resilience: A panel discussion

September 23, 2024

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" The stories you’re gonna hear today really reflect the world we live in, design operations, and resilience. "

Theme 1 Intro

September 23, 2024

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" Operations is the de-risking activity that creates scalable processes for better outcomes - Theresa. "

Charting the future of DesignOps: A community workshop

April 18, 2024

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" Please stop by the Rosenfeld Bookstore to check out signed books and brand new titles. "

Opening Remarks Day 2

March 26, 2024

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" Please stand up and hold each other’s hands, and on three, raise them high and shout Yeah so virtual can hear you. "

Opening Remarks Day 1

March 25, 2024

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" The themes this year include transforming century-old industries, startup to enterprise, the outsider’s perspective, and partnering to transform. "

Welcome

January 8, 2024

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" Our sponsors offer sessions with no sales pitches, just incredibly high-quality content. "

Opening Remarks

January 8, 2024

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" Sponsor sessions are completely free and not just a normal sales pitch, they’re very similar to the main programming. "

Opening Remarks

October 4, 2023

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" Sponsor sessions do not overlap at all with the main programming. It is 100% fully optional. "

Opening Remarks

October 3, 2023

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" Documentation your team will actually use, how to define and maintain a design ops roadmap, AI as a design partner. "

Theme Two Intro

October 3, 2023

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" Please post your questions in the thread associated with each presentation so we can see and address them. "

Opening Remarks

October 2, 2023

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" Please be sure to make sure you change your conference itinerary to your local time zone. "

Opening Remarks

March 29, 2023

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" We could not do this conference without our incredible sponsors who spend a lot of effort thinking about ways to enrich our programming. "

Opening Remarks

March 28, 2023

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" Bria is the bringer of dad jokes and the glue of the conference. "

Opening Remarks

March 27, 2023

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" Because this is virtual, we have a digital swag bag with goodies you can access via QR code or URL. "

Opening Remarks

November 18, 2022

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" If anything's going wrong on your end, please reach out to help-customer-desk-service in Slack for tech help. "

Opening Remarks

November 17, 2022

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" I didn’t say conference because this is really a highly polished snapshot of a conversation this community is having. "

Opening Remarks

November 16, 2022

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" It’s not just about design; build relationships with HR, product management, sales, and more. "

Connecting the Ops: Plenary Panel and Closing Circle

September 9, 2022

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" Take advantage of the digital swag bag — it’s our way of replicating in-person perks in a virtual world. "

Opening Remarks

September 9, 2022

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

Welcome

September 8, 2022

Bria Alexander

" The community of practitioners is the way we carry each other through difficult moments. "

Theme Two Intro

September 8, 2022

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" Language matters—make your OKRs user-centric and customer-focused to avoid them feeling like overhead. "

OKRs—Helpful or Harmful?

January 20, 2022

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" Everyone, both speakers and participants, understood the assignment of civic design from day one. "

Reflect and Chart Forward

December 10, 2021

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" This is our third and final day of the design operation Summit 2021. "

Opening Remarks

October 1, 2021

Bria Alexander

" We still don’t know if head of design ops will evolve toward a COO role or some other senior position. "

State of DesignOps Panel

October 1, 2021

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" Kay Abba is a business and project analyst, UX designer, and project manager who brings multifaceted expertise to our note-taking. "

Opening Remarks

September 30, 2021

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" Technical difficulties happen, so please use hashtag.deo help within our Slack channel or email for support. "

Opening Remarks

September 29, 2021

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" Day three is about keeping people at the center of an expanding enterprise, which is tricky but so important. "

Opening Remarks

June 11, 2021

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" Our cohort facilitation sessions are one of the best parts of this conference. "

Opening Remarks

June 10, 2021

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" If you have trouble logging in or streaming, please go to hashtag DAS help in Slack for support. "

Opening Remarks

June 9, 2021

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