Vidhya Krishnamoorthy
Software Engineering Manager, Vice President, Morgan Stanley
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Vidya Krishnamoorthy is a Software Engineering Manager and Design System Tech Lead at Morgan Stanley with 18 years of experience building enterprise-grade UI systems across global teams. She specialises in front-end architecture, performance, accessibility, and future-ready UI foundations. A co-chair of the Women in Technology and UX/UI communities, Vidya champions women’s empowerment in tech, mentors engineers, and regularly speaks on software craftsmanship, UI engineering, and how modern tooling including AI is reshaping day-to-day engineering practice.
Vidhya's other interests include exploring places and cultures, travelling solo as an Indian female, psychology/mental heath, mentoring and Neurodivergence/ADHD.
Designing for Every Direction: Logical CSS for Global, Adaptive, and Effortlessly Reversible UIs
As the web becomes increasingly global, modern UIs can no longer assume left-to-right text, fixed layout directions, or static component structures. Interfaces today must support internationalisation, RTL languages, vertical writing systems, and dynamic layouts that reflow across responsive dashboards and design systems.
In this talk, we explore how Logical CSS enables a fundamentally more resilient approach to UI architecture. You’ll see how properties like margin-inline, border-block, and inline-size allow layouts and components to adapt automatically to writing direction, writing mode, and layout orientation - without duplicating styles or introducing fragile overrides.
Through real-world examples, we’ll look at supporting Arabic and Hebrew, enabling vertical Japanese layouts, designing components that flip seamlessly as layouts change, and building design-system primitives that remain stable across products, regions, and use cases. We’ll also cover practical migration strategies, local testing techniques, and the mindset shift from physical directions to flow-based design.
Whether you’re building a global application, maintaining a design system, or planning for the long-term evolution of your UI, this session will help you create future-proof, direction-agnostic interfaces - designed for every direction.
Coded by AI, Crafted by Humans: What Defines the 2026 Software Engineer?
AI-driven coding tools are no longer experimental; they are actively reshaping how software is built in 2026 and beyond. As code generation, refactoring, and testing become increasingly automated, the engineer’s role is shifting from writing every line of code to guiding, validating, and shaping intelligent and high performant systems.
This talk explores how AI can accelerate development by handling boilerplate and complex scaffolding, while engineers focus on what matters the most: Scalable architecture, User-centric design, Performance, Accessibility, and long-term maintainability. Using practical examples from software engineering across domains, we’ll examine where AI adds real value and where human judgment remains critical.
We’ll look at the realities of collaborating with AI in production: such as crafting prompts that produce usable code, reviewing and debugging AI-generated output, and building guardrails to manage hallucinations, security risks, and hidden technical debt. The session also addresses the responsibilities that come with AI-assisted development, including ethics, transparency, and explainability.
The defining skill of the 2026 engineer isn’t speed…it’s intentionality! Software Engineers should apply domain expertise, context, empathy, and intuition to solve complex problems AI can’t tackle alone.
Join me on this session to explore this blend of AI efficiency and human ingenuity, shaping a future where code is generated by machines, but crafted with purpose by us.
Intro to Web Accessibility and Frontend/UI Development Tools to Test Accessibility
Our users belong to many categories, and they don't necessarily 'see' websites the way we do or use the same 'user-agent' to access, due to many situational restrictions or disabilities, or a combination. Hence, it is important to develop web applications that are accessible to all users. This talk is focused on providing an Introduction to Web Accessibility and how to use different development and testing tools to improve Web Accessibility.
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