Women Talk Design Speaker Stories: Upasna Gautam

About Women Talk Design Speaker Stories

There isn’t one singular path to public speaking. Folks decide to speak for a variety of reasons, get started in different ways, and have their own techniques for preparing for talks and dealing with nerves.

Learn about the journeys and experiences of incredible women and nonbinary speakers with our new series: Women Talk Design Speaker Stories. Join us as we interview one of our speakers to learn the topics they are currently speaking about and why, how they find speaking opportunities, their advice for getting started with public speaking, and more.

You’ll have the opportunity to ask your own questions and connect with folks from the Women Talk Design community. We hope you’ll leave inspired to share your own ideas and experiences, and get out there and speak.

Stick around after the conversation for breakout discussions. During this time you can connect with other people in the Women Talk Design community and discuss what you learned.

About our speaker

Upasna Gautam has been public and keynote speaking for the last decade, and is a regular speaker at conferences like SXSW, INBOUND, Grace Hopper Celebration, the Digital Summit series, and TEDx.

In Upasna's role as Product Manager on the Digital News Platforms & Services team at CNN, she works with CNN's engineers, designers, editors, and journalists to develop and optimize the content management technology that delivers breaking news to the world. Upasna has been working in the tech industry for the last 15 years, where she has been an integral part of delivering technical, data-informed solutions for brands such as Ford Motor Company, PCMag, Mashable, Mars Corporation, and Kimberly-Clark.

Outside of her day job at CNN, Upasna is an avid public speaker, writer, tech career coach, meditation teacher, Community Lead with Google's Women Techmakers, and a Product Management mentor with the News Product Alliance. In 2022, Upasna was awarded a Top Product Coach honor by Reforge, Products by Women, and Scale Higher.

Upasna's publishes a monthly LinkedIn Newsletter about mindful productivity and leadership called "Working from Aum." You can subscribe to it here.

Agenda

• 5 minutes | Welcome
• 20 minutes | Conversation with Upasna Gautam
• 20 minutes | Audience Q&A
• 15 minutes | Breakout conversations

Come with your questions! We’ll see you soon.

Event Details:

The $5 USD ticket fee goes directly to our speakers. We don’t want anyone to be turned away due to a lack of funds. If the ticket fee is a barrier, please use the code WTDcommunity to register for a free ticket.

You will receive a link to join Zoom 24 hours prior to the event.

Automated captioning will be available.

The event is open to everyone. Please take a moment to read through Women Talk Design's Code of Conduct before RSVPing. You can see a complete list of Women Talk Design's upcoming events here.