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Erin Young

Slide UX
Founder and User Experience Architect
Austin, Texas Area
Websitehttps://slideux.com/
As founder of Austin-based User Experience consultancy Slide UX, Erin helps product teams and marketers create products that are useful, usable, good-looking, and optimized. Slide's remote, full-time team of user-centered designers and researchers serve clients nationwide, including popular national brands like Sysco, UPS, Indeed, Harvard, and Atlassian. On the fintech side, we've worked with companies in banking, credit, blockchain, investments, health finance, and commodities, and more.


Monday, October 1
 

8:00am

Free Coworking at MELD - All Day MELD CoworkingFILLING

9:00am

Women in Tech Summit Capital FactoryChristy Abizaid • Lisa Andrade, • Sara T Brand • Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette • Dr. Meredith Butterfield • Sehr Charania • Julia Cheek • Kirk Coburn • Juliana Garaizar • Cindy Kent • Erin Keys • Sarah Jones Simmer • Patti Soch • Van Truskett • Claire Vo • Leslie Wingo • Zeynep Young

12:30pm

FinTech Track | How Austin Tech is Disrupting Real Estate (@ Capital One Café Downtown) Capital One CaféWill Mitchell • Marc Smookler • Holly Tachovsky • Capital One Café

2:00pm

FinTech Track | FinTech for Good Panel (@ Capital One Café Downtown) Capital One CaféTony Aguilar • Capital One Café

3:30pm

FinTech Track | Founder Stories: Built for Success - If You're Off by Inches on the Ground, You'll be Thousands of Miles Off in Outer Space (@ Capital One Café Downtown) Capital One CaféChris Palmisano • Henry Yoshida • Capital One Café
 
Tuesday, October 2
 

8:00am

Free Coworking at MELD - All Day MELD Coworking Social Impact Track | Act Like a Brand: Using the Power of Your Brand to Create Social Change The Center for Social InnovationJustin Foster • Tiffany Galligan • Sharon Miller

9:30am

Social Impact Track | How Austin Becomes the Nation's Capital for Diverse, Homegrown Tech Talent The Center for Social InnovationRuben Cantu • Preston L. James II • Ada-Renee Johnson • Jan Ryan • Matt Stephenson

2:00pm

Smart Cities Track | Transportation Startups: Connecting People to Healthcare Austin Chamber of CommerceSherri Greenberg
 
Wednesday, October 3
 

8:00am

EdTech Track | The Importance of Soft Skills in a High Tech World (Capital Factory, 16th Floor) Capital FactoryBrittany Hicks • Edgenuity Free Coworking at MELD - All Day MELD Coworking

2:00pm

University Track | The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion within Startup Culture (UT, Rowling Hall) Robert B. Rowling Hall, The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of BusinessDr. Luis Martins • Preston L. James II • Charlie Jackson • Blanca Lesmes • Christine McCarey • Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship • The UT Master of Science in Technology Commercialization (MSTC) Program

3:30pm

Food and CPG Track | The Intersection of Food, Technology, and Wellness (The Refinery) The RefineryJenni Lee • James Coffman • Joe Kerby • Stephanie Scherzer • Danielle Sobel
 
Thursday, October 4
 

8:00am

Free Coworking at MELD - All Day MELD Coworking

9:15am

Marketing and Branding Track | Your Brand is Customer Experience (@ The Refinery) The RefineryDenise Antoon • Craig Crisler

10:30am

HR and Culture Track | The Road to Remote (@ Walmart Tech) Walmart Tech ATXNicki Bellington • Ashley Kujawski • Hired

11:45am

HR and Culture Track | Lunch & Learn: Avoiding Burnout - Basic Lifestyle Guidelines & Kinesthetic Team Building (@ Walmart Tech) Walmart Technology CenterOlivia Jimenez • Amanda Martin O'Brien • Hired

1:00pm

HR and Culture Track | Lightening Talks - How Culture Drives Customer Experience, Employer Branding: Telling your Story, and Workforce Automation (@ Walmart Tech) Walmart Tech ATXAnton Groom • Elijah May • Leif Wennerstrom • Hired

2:15pm

Design Track | Ethical Startup is the New Fashion (@ WeWork Barton Springs) WeWork Barton SpringsJonnyka Borman • Dina Chavez • Kate Davis • Emily Green • Jen Lewis • Quinn Smith • WeWork

3:30pm

Marketing and Branding Track | The Shark Tank Effect: Lessons from becoming a $15M business overnight (@ The Refinery) The RefineryJulia Cheek
 
Friday, October 5
 

8:00am

Free Coworking at MELD - All Day MELD Coworking