SydDT #85: By Design: Great Teams Deliver Great Products - Thoughtworks YConf

YConf is Thoughtworks' annual destination for leaders and practitioners working in customer experience, product, and design at the intersection with tech. Join us for the evening YConf meetup at Thoughtworks Sydney office.

*Please register for the meetup via the Thoughtworks YConf registration page

This year’s theme By design: Great teams deliver great products focuses on developing and inspiring high-performing product teams and the know-how for building organizations that can deliver great products time after time. Our sessions are designed to provide valuable insights for CX, Product and Technology leaders with a keen interest in enabling teams and organizations to deliver great results.

PANELISTS

We will be joined by three product leaders who will be sharing their insights and experiences in building and nurturing successful product and design teams.

• Gaston Guernik, Global Head of UI/UX and Design System at QBE
• Lucy Chen, Head of Product Design at Safewill
• Herry Wiputra, Chief Product Officer at hipages

Gaston Guernik
Global Head of UI/UX and Design System at QBE

Gaston is the Global Head of UI/UX and Design System at QBE and a global CIO award winner. He has nurtured and empowered product teams to achieve better outcomes aligned with business goals and customer needs. He fosters collaborative environments, refining processes, and nurturing individual growth to help teams deliver exceptional product experiences and overall organisational success, fostering greater efficiency along the way.

He has provided Digital Direction in UI/UX, product, research, and customer experience to a range of companies, and also ran his own Digital Agency for 12 years. In collaboration with his teams, he has reshaped, rebuilt, and crafted some of the best brand strategies and experiences out there today.

Lucy Chen
Head of Product Design, Safewill

With roots in computing and psychology, Lucy has been practising HCI/UX/Design for almost 20 year, merging Design and Product leadership to achieve win-win-win for customers, the team and the business. Working mostly with startups and scale ups, Lucy helps teams understand their audience, and marry data with research to achieve product-market fit and stickiness.



Most recently, Lucy was Head of UX at Employment Hero and Chief Product and Design Officer at Kit (a CBA new venture).

Herry Wiputra
Chief Product and Technology Officer, hipages

Herry is currently the Chief Product Officer at hipages, an Australian technology company that simplifies home improvement for trusted tradies and homeowners. He is responsible to drive the product strategy and direction to enable future growth of hipages. Before he fell in love with Product, Herry’s role was mainly in the technology space for almost twenty years. He has an extensive experience in scaling product & engineering organisation through building a culture of empowerment and collaboration among the teams. He strives to create alignment between technology, product, marketing and sales within an organisation, and to help empower product teams with greater ownership and accountability in what they do.

Herry has also previously held roles in other notable companies such as Campaign Monitor, REA Group, Aconex, SGI and Adacel.

EVENT SPONSOR

Thoughtworks Sydney: hosting and providing refreshments.

*Please register for the meetup via the Thoughtworks YConf registration page