Kelly Dern

Senior Staff Designer, Adjunct Professor, seasoned keynote speaker

Kelly Dern is a Senior Staff Product Designer at SoFi, where she shapes the future of personal finance. She is responsible for the design vision, strategy, and execution of innovative, user-centric fintech solutions that impact millions of users.

Prior to joining SoFi, Kelly worked on Gemini for Meet at Google, Google Nest, start-ups, and Adidas on various product and UX projects, ranging from hardware-software integration to health tech solutions. She received a Google Product Excellence Award for her design work on Inclusive Design Works, a game that simulates different impairments. Kelly enjoys learning new skills and sharing her knowledge as a speaker, teacher, and advisor in the design community.

Portrait of Kelly Dern

Upcoming talks & conferences

Kelly Dern speaking on stage
Kelly Dern at a podium

Previous talks

  • UX Brighton
  • UX Days, Tokyo
  • AI UX Summit, 2026
  • AI UX Summit, 2025
  • Caffeinated mornings, Boulder, CO
  • PUSH UX, Munich, 2025
  • UXDX
  • AIXD2024
  • Geekle AI UX Summit
  • STHLM Xperience Conference, Stockholm
  • UX Nordic
  • Equipt (x3)
  • UXDG Summit, 2023
  • Rosenfeld DesignOps Summit
  • Experience Design Summit Year Zero, 2023
  • Many summits, workshops and conferences at Google
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Teaching & lecturing

University of Delft, Netherlands

Guest Lecturer