Cindy Alvarez (she/her)

After more than a decade leading product and UX in startups, Cindy Alvarez is tackling her biggest challenge: bringing continuous learning, customer understanding, and ‘cloud-native thinking’ to teams within Microsoft. She’s the author of Lean Customer Development: Build Products Your Customers Will Buy, and hosts a membership-based community offering toolkits and curated advice and tactics for enterprise organizations working through innovation and change projects at http://www.cindyalvarez.com/foundry. You can follow her on Twitter at @cindyalvarez.