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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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" Two companies, Klarna and Duolingo, went all in on AI replacing humans and then recanted - Christopher. "

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

June 10, 2025

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" We are obligated to treat each other with kindness and respect as part of this virtual community. "

Day 3 Welcome

September 25, 2024

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" Sponsor sessions are optional but incredibly high quality content, not sales pitches. "

Day 2 Welcome

September 24, 2024

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

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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" Resilience means the capacity to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties or toughness. "

Theme 1 Intro

September 23, 2024

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" We need standardized role definitions, not everyone is a manager just because they manage initiatives - Peter Bosma. "

Charting the future of DesignOps: A community workshop

April 18, 2024

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" If these two voices don’t work for you, you can reach out at conferences@rosenfeldmedia.com. "

Opening Remarks Day 2

March 26, 2024

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

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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" You can change the time zone on Rosenfeld Media’s website to reflect your local time. "

Opening Remarks

January 8, 2024

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" No need to take notes at this conference. We share notes, sketch notes, videos, and decks very quickly. "

Opening Remarks

October 4, 2023

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

Opening Remarks

October 3, 2023

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" This conference is the opportunity I saw to design an experience that felt personal to our community. "

Theme Two Intro

October 3, 2023

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" If any of those adjectives do not apply to how you’re feeling right now, we wanna know. "

Opening Remarks

October 2, 2023

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" Lauren Cantor keeps all those links and other resources so we don’t have to be googling while listening. "

Opening Remarks

March 29, 2023

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" Slack is the way you ask questions to the speakers, and it’s where most of the community interaction happens. "

Opening Remarks

March 28, 2023

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" This is absolutely not the time for us to be throwing our hands up in the air and giving up on Research. "

Opening Remarks

March 27, 2023

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" Adjust your conference time zone setting depending on where you are to avoid confusion. "

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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" MJ Broadband’s sketch notes will make your conference experience 10 times easier. "

Opening Remarks

November 16, 2022

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" The next big thing will be knowledge management powered by new no-code and integrative tools. "

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

Bria Alexander

" Please read our code of conduct. Every participant should feel safe, included, and welcome. "

Welcome

September 8, 2022

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

Theme Two Intro

September 8, 2022

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" An OKR coach told us to think of OKRs like a health panel at a physical—you have KPIs for status and OKRs for change targets. "

OKRs—Helpful or Harmful?

January 20, 2022

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" Being a positive deviant means confronting challenges with limited resources but innovative, community-based approaches. "

Reflect and Chart Forward

December 10, 2021

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

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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" Sponsor sessions are free for anyone, whether you paid to attend or not, so invite your coworkers, friends, and family. "

Opening Remarks

September 30, 2021

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

Opening Remarks

September 29, 2021

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" You are the reason why we are able to have such high quality programming that we do have at this conference this week. "

Opening Remarks

June 11, 2021

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" If you want to take notes during this presentation, there’s really no need — we’ve got you covered. "

Opening Remarks

June 10, 2021

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

Opening Remarks

June 9, 2021

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