Behind every great hackathon is a community of people who believe design can change how the world builds. Our mentors, judges, and speakers bring that belief — and years of hard-won experience — into the room.
They come from the companies shaping AI, the studios defining interaction design, and the startups proving that taste is a competitive advantage. They mentor because they remember when someone did it for them.
This is the network that makes Designpreneurs more than a weekend — it's the reason participants leave with new ways of thinking, and sometimes, new careers.
Ekin Zileli
UX ResearchInstagram
Stephen Russel
UX LeadGoogle
Josh Burton
AI Product DesignerMeta
Chi Pham
Lead Product Designer25madison
Dar Min
Senior Product DesignerOscar Health
Haotian Wu
Interaction DesignerGoogle
Tingyu Su
Founding DesignerYoulify
Yinja Murnan
Senior Experience DesignerJ.P. Morgan
Shambhavi Varma
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Dev Makker
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Dana Jafferson
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Jinha Lee
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Timothy Wang
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Dominic Barret
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Ziyuan (Zoey) Zhu
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Michelle Cortese
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Snow Yunxue Fu
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Anthony Koithra
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Danilo Maiko Saito
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Meijie Hu
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Grace Redman
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Jexi Lo
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Sophie Lee
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What I didn't expect was how much I'd learn from the hackers themselves. They come in with questions that cut straight to the core of what we do in product design — and I always leave these weekends thinking differently about the work I do at Instagram.
Ekin Zileli
UX Research, Instagram · Mentor, Designpreneurs Hackathon
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