Speakers Panel

Ernest Hui, Head of Design at Cathay, leads a team focused on creating innovative, user-centric designs. With extensive experience in UX research, they drive design strategies that enhance user experiences and achieve business goals. Ernest excels in user research, interaction design, and usability testing.

Bharati has 17 years of experience in market research, insights, and design. She is a certified Design Thinker from MIT Sloan University. She holds a bachelor’s in Economics and a PG in Marketing. She is data agnostic and has worked on qualitative, quantitative, analytics, digital, design, and consultative projects across different markets globally. She has worked on commercial as well as public sector projects. In her current role, she is the UX Research Lead for the Global Experience Design team at HP. She has presented her work and thought pieces at several conferences, including ESOMAR, MRMW, IIEX, and MRSI, across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Tridib has had over a decade-long journey in UX design, leading projects for clients in insurance, finance, and government sectors across APAC, Mumbai, and Dubai. Now, at Thales, Tridib finds himself witnessing and contributing to a scaling user-centered design practice within a large enterprise organization. Having built lean UX teams, Tridib is passionate about co-creating processes while nurturing team growth. For him user research & design is fundamentally about uncovering and solving problems, whether involving an interface or not.

People are complex and emotional beings. We can track ‘what’ and ‘how’ they do things or take decisions, but we often are unaware of ‘why’ they do it. The discovery of ‘why’ can only happen when you understand the truth of real people in the real world, which is the reason why I love research.

Shruti Umesh Chakke is a transdisciplinary designer working at the intersection of regenerative education, experience design, and mobility. She is the Founder of Regenerative Nomads - Learning with the Soul & Soil, a Himalayan learning ecosystem in the making that reconnects youth with land, culture, ecology, elders, and local futures.
Rooted in the belief that every village holds knowledge, every landscape holds wisdom, and every young person holds potential, her work explores how place-based learning can help communities facing migration, cultural loss, and ecological change imagine regenerative futures. Through Regenerative Nomads, she supports young people in becoming rooted thinkers, creative problem-solvers, and stewards of their homeland.
Shruti studied Experience & Museum Design at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and holds a Master’s in Transdisciplinary Mobility Design from IED Torino. Her work across the Himalayan region spans curriculum design, community museums, indigenous knowledge systems, village transformation, and mobility as a living relationship between people, place, and opportunity. Her explorations in Cosmic Education and Transdisciplinary Design have received the SDGs Design International Award for Quality Education three times, in 2020, 2022, and 2023.