Laena McCarthy
Laena is a serial entrepreneur—a founder, advisor and consultant for a handful of startups in NYC and beyond. She coaches and educates lean entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and career changers who crave financial freedom and an integrated work-life. Laena is a thought leader in the career development and innovation space, designing curriculum with an EdTech startup that improves people's careers and lives. She develops programs, strategized learning objectives, and creates materials to help students become great designers and product managers. She primarily focuses on instructional design for product managers, and subject matter experts to produce and maintain the core of the student experience for programs in UX/UI and Product Management, as well as consulting and collaborating in the STEM world-- she was awarded the United States Antarctica Service Medal by the Department of Defense for her work with the National Science Foundation.
Speaker Sessions
Edit Your Photos in a Snap with Luminar Neo
Our instructor will guide participants in exploring the AI-powered photo editing tools of Luminar Neo in this workshop.
Create Platform-Flexible Videos With Pika Art
Quickly generate a diverse range of videos based on different prompts, with the ability to iterate rapidly and efficiently.
Luma AI for 3D video creation
Our instructor will show you how to use Luma AI to capture and share stunning videos with ease.
Generate Photo-realistic Images for Your Website With Jasper Art
Our instructor will guide participants in using AI art generation prompts with Jasper to create captivating images for marketing content.
Generate UX User Stories and Personas in Moments with Userdoc
In this workshop, we will use AI to help you generate user stories, acceptance criteria, personas, and user journeys.
Write a UX Research Plan that Actually Works with Looppanel
In this workshop, we will transcribe your user interviews, generate automatic notes from interviews, snip videos of your interviews to create clips for presentations and organize all of your research data in one place, making it easy to identify trends and patterns.
Text-to-Image Generation with DreamBooth and Stable Diffusion XL
Learn how to create descriptive images and generate words within images using DreamBooth and Stable Diffusion XL in this hands-on workshop.
Turn Text Into Video Ads with DeepBrain AI
In this workshop, we will learn to use DeepBrain AI to create video ads in a wide variety of styles using text-to-video generation and upload them to YouTube.