Emerson Taymor
SVP, Design
New York City, New York, United States
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Emerson Taymor is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and currently the SVP of Design at InfoBeans as well as the creator of multiple hospitality brands in New York City. He co-founded the digital product studio, Philosophie, where he worked with enterprise executives and startup founders to launch over 300 digital products before it was acquired by InfoBeans in 2019.
In the digital world, Emerson works with leaders to help them unstick their big digital ideas through rapid experimentation and making.
In the physical world, he helped create one of the hottest speakeasy concepts in the East Village and one of the top rated cocktail bars in Brooklyn.
He loves weaving together these two worlds, exploring new parts of the world and being a sports fanatic.
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Bytes and Bitters: Insights from hospitality for digital products
What can digital products learn from top hospitality brands? Join Emerson for a journey inside the walls of the world’s finest bars, restaurants, and hotels – what makes them succeed isn’t just their physical allure, but a mastery of principles that are equally relevant to digital products. Whether you’re steering a startup or an enterprise, operating in B2B or B2C, the lessons will resonate. Discover the parallels that blend the best of both worlds, uniting the tangible charm of physical spaces with the dynamic potential of digital platforms. Upgrade the way you build digital products, making them not just functional, but memorably delightful.
This talk will weave together the two worlds of hospitality brands and digital products.
Why hospitality? After all, bars, restaurants and hotels have a different business model than digital products. They have limited scale. The type of talent that works within is vastly different than those that build digital products and will be in the audience.
Why me to give this talk? Because I have built hundreds of digital products for my clients and have one of the top rated cocktail bars in Brooklyn (Philomenas) and top speakeasy clubs in NYC (Sincerely, Ophelias).
But who doesn’t like a beautiful bar, a spectacular hotel or a mind-melting meal?
Hospitality is about experience. It is about community. It is about loyalty. There are many parallels. This talk focuses on five, high-impact principles that can be applied to any team building digital products
For each of the five principles I will share tangible examples from hospitality companies as well as digital products that have excelled in it. This talk is fun and informative with lessons that can be applied to people’s work immediately to drive stickier and more engaging products.
Building High Performing Distributed Global Teams
In an era of widespread remote and global teams, the key to launching exceptional digital products is deeply rooted in team dynamics. This talk explores overcoming challenges faced by distributed teams, such as communication breakdowns, obscured progress, and cultural gaps.
Learn how GenAI can actually enhance the human elements of teams. We'll reveal proven strategies that have driven our teams to achieve remarkable success in digital product delivery, including:
- Leveraging GenAI to enhance communication and accelerate research processes
- Instituting specific rituals that cultivate a culture of trust and collaboration
- Mastering the art of effective remote workshops
Discover how these approaches not only mitigate common pitfalls, but also harness the unique strengths of global teams. Whether you're a design visionary or a product leadership pioneer, learn how to bridge the gap between potential and performance, making your remote teams not just functional, but phenomenally successful.
Talk with slides - 25 - 60 minute options
Target audience: design, product and engineering leaders who have struggled working with global and remote teams and want help improving performance. Leaders who are curious about how GenAI can improve the product build lifecycle, but need specific playbooks to try and execute.
Recently spoke about this at a UXDX New York Community Event and will be speaking at World Product Alliance in Las Vegas in May
GenAI: A New Renaissance in Product Development
Drawing inspiration from the Renaissance, a time of explosive cultural and economic growth, we explore how GenAI is poised to revolutionize product development. I’ll explore its groundbreaking impact on global collaboration, user research, and product development process. I will also highlight potential caveats and pitfalls. This talk promises an action-packed look at GenAI's role in shaping a new era of human-centric and economically impactful product development, ensuring you're equipped to experiment in this modern renaissance.
I gave this talk first as a 10 minute lightning talk at a ProductTank event in NYC in 2024. I more expansive 30 minute and 45 minute version has been created as well where I am able to go into more suggestions instead of 3 per area.
Toronto Machine Learning Summit 2024 Sessionize Event
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