Saturday, March 22 2025 / Leadership
Join us for Championing the User: Creating Cultures that Advance UX Maturity. Learn to assess UX maturity, foster user-first cultures, and drive collaboration. Discover strategies to elevate UX at every level—whether through cross-functional pods that break silos or communities of practice that share knowledge. We'll explore real-world successes and failures, equipping you with actionable insights to champion UX and position it as a key driver of organizational success.
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Manager, Digital Content, University of Calgary
Jessica is a UX leader, strategist, and designer with 15+ years of experience turning complexity into clarity. After business school, she worked in international non-profits, researching how products move through global markets and shape economies. This foundation in systems thinking now fuels her UX approach, as she blends design thinking with a systems lens to create scalable, user-centered solutions. She has led UX and content design teams, elevating UX to the forefront of enterprise strategy to drive impact by fostering a strong design culture. Passionate about learning design and education, Jessica has taught interaction and content design courses at Bow Valley College and UCalgary.
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Manager, Digital Experience, at University of Calgary
Nicola is a strategic digital leader with 15 years of experience driving user-centered transformation across agencies, non-profits, and higher education. She specializes in leading cross-functional teams, optimizing digital experiences, and streamlining processes for meaningful impact. Passionate about human-first design, Nicola fosters cultures that empower teams to navigate complex challenges and innovate through UX and digital strategy.
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building UX communities in Alberta
Building on the success of our previous UX Camps in Edmonton, the 2025 conference promises to be an engaging and dynamic gathering of UX professionals, designers, developers, and innovators from across the province.
The partnership between Calgary UX and Edmonton UX represents a shared vision of fostering a thriving user experience community across Alberta. By joining forces, these two groups bring together the unique strengths of their respective regions, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.
Calgary UX is a vibrant community fostering connections among UX professionals through workshops, networking, mentorship, and creative collaboration.
Our goal is simple: to connect and grow a community of people across disciplines and industres that share a passion for design and UX.
We acknowledge that the Calgary area where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet is a place of confluence where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally occurs. Indigenous peoples have their own names for this area that were in use long before Scottish settlers named it Calgary.
The Métis call the Calgary area Otos-kwunee. In the Blackfoot language, they call this place, Moh-kins-tsis. The Stoney Nakoda Nation refer to the Calgary area as Wîchîspa Oyade and the people of the Tsuut’ina nation call this area Guts-ists-i. We would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta.
This includes: the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai collectively known as the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi First Nations, comprised of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations; and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. The City of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Indigenous urban Calgarians, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, who have made Calgary their home.
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