Valio Con 2025

Designer & Entrepreneur

Dann has been non-stop full-time freelancing as a designer for over 20 years with well-known clients, like: Google, Nike, Airbnb, Meta, Adobe, etc. He created the very popular adventure based conference for creatives called Epicurrence. He's also the author of the popular books: That Portfolio Book + That Freelancer Book.

Designer & Musician

Kathleen is a musician (Lyrah) and product designer. She's been playing piano and singing since she was 3. And in 2022 she quit her product design job at Meta so she could focus on her music project Lyrah full-time.

Designer & AI Evangelist

Linus is a product designer and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience working in tech. These days he writes a lot about AI, technology, and future trends as well as keep up with what's going on in the realm of space, robotics, and the world of finance.

Designer

Rogie is a multidisciplinary designer, illustrator, and builder that loves the intersection of art and code. He currently I works at Figma as a Designer Advocate. He also has built a set of popular Figma plugins.

Designer & Entrepreneur

Rob is a product designer from South Africa. After a decade of freelance, he's taken the leap to work on his products, One Page Love and Show Them, full-time. He is also the creator and host of the popular Yo! Podcast, spotlighting designers, developers, and entrepreneurs.

Founder & Investor

Hiten is long time technology entrepreneur. He currently works on product & growth for the AI Products at Dropbox. Over the last 20+ years, in addition to starting my own companies (Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics, and Nira), he's invested in hundreds of incredible founders and have become a trusted advisor and supporter to help their companies grow.

Founder at Cortical Labs

Hon is the founder and CEO of Cortical Labs, the company that built the first ever commercially available biological computer. Previously, he founded CliniCloud, a medtech startup building connected medical devices. A medical doctor from The University of Melbourne, Hon discovered tech entrepreneurship during research at Johns Hopkins. He's also a full-stack software engineer, machine learning enthusiast, and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016.

Designer & Co-Founder at Lux

Sebastiaan is co-founder and designer at Lux. They make award-winning apps for photography and video like Halide, Kino, Spectre, and Orion. He also runs a small design and photography studio, with a focus on motorcycles, technology and typography. Previously he designed for Apple, Sony, Mozilla, Oracle, frog design, HP, and EA.

Designer & CEO at Northplay

Michael is a Danish designer & entrepreneur. He runs entertainment studio Northplay, Pixelresort and design resource platform Apply Pixels. He’s got a treasure-trove of experience creating his own companies, leading teams of developers and designers and working on countless of succesful products, games and services.

Designer

Claudio is a designer with over two decades of experience working for brands, crafting digital products, and interactive experiences. He's currently Senior Director at Work & Co. Previously he was Head of Design at Opal Camera, Creative Director at Microsoft, Art Director at Fantasy Interactive, and more.

Creative & Video Director

Jeremiah is a creative director, producer, and photographer based out of Los Angeles. He’s worked with a variety of companies such as Figma, Acorns, Meta, 7-11, Tommy Hilfiger, Sony Pictures, Kobalt, and Interscope Records. He has over a decade of experience in digital marketing, video, photography, and digital media.

Evan is an artist that has worked on films and commercials for some of the biggest brands on the planet: Disney, FX, TechCrunch, Astellas, Toyota, GoDaddy, DirecTV, DraftKings, FedEx, and more.

Engineer & Founder of Jazz

Anselm is the founder of Garden Computing, and the creator of Jazz. He is a self-taught engineer who believes serious challenges require serious play and that designers are the better software developers.