Saturday, March 22 2025 / Leadership
This panel explores how to promote cross-functional teamwork, demonstrate design’s value to stakeholders, and build trust through open knowledge sharing. Learn practical strategies to align teams, advocate for design, and balance delivery goals while fostering a culture of collaboration and shared success.
Director, Service Design for the Government of Alberta
Fouad is a Service Design and product leader with industry experience in fintech, energy, social services, retail and government industries with a demonstrated history of success working with organizations to meet their business goals. He is skilled in product management, business model innovation, problem finding, service design, customer research methods, and managing remote cross-functional design and development teams. Fouad has expertise in bringing products to market across industries through ideation, process flows, business modelling, prototyping, user testing and release for both B2B and B2C products. He is a proud graduate of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program focused in Executive Management from Royal Roads University.
Partner, Chief Experience Officer
Albert leads zu's Experience Design division and has been a key force behind its growth since 2002. With years in the trenches working with most of zu’s client roster, his journey spans from the era of static websites to digital ecosystems.
Through hundreds of design sprints, workshops, training sessions, and leadership retreats, Albert has mastered the art of strategic collaboration—helping teams break down silos, align on goals, ideate solutions, and execute with a shared vision.
Albert’s deeply reflective nature and storytelling craft bring together logic, reasoning, and humour, making him one of Canada’s most sought-after design leaders and speakers.
Director of Design and UX
A seasoned design leader, Ian has spent the past two decades helping teams and organizations achieve success through storytelling and the development of intuitive, human-centered digital products. His passion for quality, rooted with a strong foundation of design principals and a proven track record of success in delivering high-quality user experiences and artifacts, has allowed him to become a humble champion of his domain. He is a results-driven leader who understands the importance of growing customer value through research and empathy, and regularly seeks to build environments that foster growth and enjoyment.
VP of Product, Motivity
Raul Nemes is a 25 years veteran in UX design and product management. His work spans varied industries including Investment Banking, Health Care, K-12 Education, Oil & Gas, and Defense with companies such as Curve Dental, SMART Technologies, McKesson Medical Imaging, and General Dynamics. His products are used in homes, classrooms, board rooms, hospitals, clinics, and military vehicles.
Raul currently works with Motivity on clinical software for behavior therapists who help children with autism learn the skills they need to live healthy and productive lives.
Although Raul moved from UX to product management in 2015, user-centered design thinking still drives all his decisions. Outside work, Raul loves spending time with family and friends and even has a small woodworking business.
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Friday, March 21, 2025
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
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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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