# Event Details - **Event Name**: CWIT Talks - AI in Research & Product Design - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 am – Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: JoinCharlottesville Women in Tech on April 22nd 2026 at 5:30pm to network and hear Karolina Whitmore and Katie Krol, Ph.D speak about AI.About this EventSpeaker InformationBreaking the Glass Ceiling:From Figma to the CodebaseKarolina Whitmore is a Staff Product Designer at TELUS Digital with over experience across experiential, packaging, and digital design. Her background spans designing wayfinding for schools and hospitals, designing packaging for a PepsiCo CPG brand, and ultimately finding her way to product design at WillowTree (now TELUS Digital), where she has spent the past nearly seven years. Today, she uses AI to bridge design and engineering by moving beyond siloed Figma workflows and building directly in the codebase alongside engineers. Originally from Estonia, Karolina enjoys homesteading with her family and tending to their 20 or so chickens.The 2030 Interface: Researching (and Coding) the Future of AIKatie Krol, Ph.D. is a Senior Product Researcher at TELUS Digital with experience investigating human behavior across psychology, neuroscience, and UX. After an academic research career spanning labs and degrees in the US, the UK, and Germany, she pivoted to product and user research in 2022 and has not looked back, forever driven by scientific curiosity in how we perceive, navigate, and interact with the world around us. Most recently, she led a fellowship for the Data and AI Research Team (DART) to define a user-centric vision for AI interfaces in 2030. Katie then leveraged the AI coding tool Cursor to act as her own designer and engineer—building a live, interactive dashboard to interact with the findings from this work, which she’ll share in this talk. Katie lives in Charlottesville with her husband and two cats, and can be found most days watching Star Trek or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/charlottesville/cwit-talks-ai-in-research-and-product-design/100001987014481804 - **Event Categories**: art, it, trips-adventures, trekking - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Charlottesville - **state**: VA - **country**: United States - **location**: 1835 Broadway St - **lat**: 38.0195904 - **long**: -78.4561179 - **full address**: 1835 Broadway St, 1835 Broadway Street, Charlottesville, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: CWIT Talks - AI in Research & Product Design - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/46cb18c7beca6c1061e59406e481569bf41be3a1e2dc8c945ebdb4ca27ade071-rimg-w756-h945-dc7b5b7a-gmir.jpg?v=1775747886 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is CWIT Talks - AI in Research & Product Design being held? - **A:** CWIT Talks - AI in Research & Product Design takes place on Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 05:30 am to Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm at 1835 Broadway St, 1835 Broadway Street, Charlottesville, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing CWIT Talks - AI in Research & Product Design? - **A:** CWIT Talks - AI in Research & Product Design is organized by Charlottesville Women in Tech. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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