Keynote Speakers

• Jina Anne

  

  Jina is a design systems advocate. At Opvitae, she is an advisory board member, focused on design. At AIGA San Francisco, she is a committee lead, focused on content direction for the blog and social media channels. In the Google Developers Experts program, Jina is a Product Design Expert. She has been making websites for over 22 years, and working professionally in the industry for over 15 years. She is currently advising, coaching, and consulting with companies on design systems, visual design, and user experience.

  At Amazon, Jina was Senior Design Systems Lead for a new, special projects team. At Salesforce, Jina was lead designer on the Lightning Design System. She also lead the overall Salesforce UX community and evangelism efforts, by acting as Editor-in-Chief for the Salesforce UX blog, managing the Twitter account, organizing and setting up sponsorships for meet ups and conferences, and coordinating speakers. She led the CSS architecture and style guide for the Apple Online Store. She also worked at GitHub, Engine Yard, Crush + Lovely, inferno, Oden, and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. Through consulting, she’s worked on projects including W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, Mass.gov, Deloitte, FedEx, and International Paper.

  Jina organizes Clarity, the premiere Design Systems conference. She founded the global Design Systems Coalition and its inaugural chapter, the San Francisco Design System Coalition. She runs the Design Systems Slack which currently has over 10,000 members, and she curates the Design Systems publication on Medium. She also created the Design Systems Jobs board.

  Jina is on the Sass core team, where she leads the brand design and website for Sass. She organizes The Mixin (a Sass and front end meet up). And she curates Sass News.

  Jina co-authored the Design Systems Handbook (DesignBetter.Co by InVision), Fancy Form Design (SitePoint), and The Art & Science of CSS (SitePoint). She was a tech editor for Sass for Web Designers (by Dan Cederholm, A Book Apart) and Sexy Web Design (by Elliot Jay Stocks, SitePoint). She has written articles for publications including A List Apart, 24 Ways, The Pastry Box, Sitepoint, net Magazine, and Treehouse.

  Jina has keynoted Design Systems London, Design Systems Conference Helsinki, CSS Dev Conf, and ConvergeSE, was a featured speaker at Adobe MAX, and has also spoken at events such as AIGA Design Conference, An Event Apart, Beyond Tellerand, Smashing Conference, and many more.

  Jina has been featured in net Magazine and Print Magazine featured her as a leading San Francisco creative.

  She has been said to be one of the most cheerful goths.

• Jeff Sauer

  

  Jeff Sauer is the Founder of Data Driven U, agency owner, business coach, blogger at Jeffalytics, lecturer, and a recently retired digital nomad after 4+ years on the road. A firm believer in data-driven marketing, Jeff’s work has been featured in many industry publications and “best of” lists. Jeff has had 15,000+ digital marketers enroll in his Google certification programs. He has delivered over 100 keynote presentations and workshops in 20 countries.

• Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson

  

  Emily Thompson is a long-time business coach and creative warrior, helping retailers, makers, coaches, and designers develop an online business model and grow their creative business. Emily shares her expertise on the Being Boss podcast, and brings together creative entrepreneurs to continue the conversation in the Being Boss community where together they talk shop and connect. She is also the founder of Almanac Supply Co., a retail business that makes and curates products that help people connect with nature.

  Kathleen Shannon is the co-founder of Being Boss and is currently the creative director at Braid Creative and Consulting, a branding agency she co-founded with her sister in 2011. Braid Creative helps entrepreneurs, small businesses and organizations blend their personality into the work they do with their positioning & messaging, brand identity, and marketing tactics.

  Emily and Kathleen are business besties who are always looking for their next collaboration — including the book they co-authored, published in 2018, Being Boss: Take Control of Your Work and Live Life on Your Terms – available anywhere books are sold.

• Anjuan Simmons

  

  Anjuan Simmons has led software development teams for over two decades, and he excels at shipping features that customers love while also managing healthy teams. He’s delivered software for large global management consulting companies like Accenture and Deloitte as well as a number of startups. Anjuan’s approach to leading teams combines the rigor of large corporations with the scrappy style of new ventures.

  He is also an energetic and informative speaker who presents at conferences, universities, and corporations around the world on topics including leadership, diversity and inclusion, and effective software development practices.

  Anjuan has an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Texas A&M University.