Join the conversation: Where UX Careers Grow OFF the Screen
Great UX takes teamwork... join us at SYNC UP
If you want to grow in UX, you need to know how to collaborate beyond it.
And by collaboration, we don’t mean sitting in the same meeting with a PM and nodding.
We mean:
💬 Asking the hard questions when strategy gets messy
⚔️ Disagreeing productively when timelines clash with user needs
💡 Finding alignment when nobody speaks the same “language”
🤝 Building relationships that last longer than one sprint
That’s what SYNC UP is about -- a one-night event where designers, product managers, and business leaders come together to talk honestly about what it takes to build great products today.
Just the conversations we actually need to be having.
Why You Should Be in the Room:
✅ Honest conversations with UX, product, and strategy leaders
✅ Free LinkedIn headshots to upgrade your professional profile
✅ A chance to WIN a free ticket to UXCON25
✅ Food, drinks, and real networking (the kind that actually moves your career forward)
What We’re Talking About:
Who really owns the product vision?
How do we balance user needs with business goals and tech feasibility?
What’s design’s role when timelines are tight?
And how are AI, agile methods, and shifting team dynamics changing the game?
Meet the Panelists:
⭐ Joe Natoli – Veteran UX consultant, author, and educator with 30+ years helping Fortune 100s and scrappy start-ups thrive through systems thinking and team health.
⭐ Raven Adaramola – Senior Product Designer at The New York Times, bringing strategic, user-centered design to industries from ed-tech to social good—and featured on the Nasdaq wall in Times Square.
⭐ Alok Jain – Founder & CEO of Reveal, bridging AI and qualitative research to help teams uncover insights without losing the human story.
Let’s face it… most jobs are filled through conversations, not applications.
SYNC UP is your chance to start the kind that matter.
Come ready to listen, challenge, connect, and leave better than you came.
We’ll see you there.
—The UXU Team