Submissionsare closed
The call for speakers is closed while we finish building the seventh-edition programme.
Thank you to everyone who proposed a talk, roundtable or workshop. The lineup is being announced now — the next call opens after the summit.
The rooms
we programme.
20–30 minutes on the mainstage, or a panel with peers. Bold stories, not a keynote circuit.
10–15 minutes to spark an idea or share a sharp case study.
30–45 minutes where the room works. Leave with a tool, not a quote.
45 minutes, 8–12 peers, Chatham House Rule. You set the stage; the room does the rest.
Four threads.
One mandate.
The promise was bigger than the screen. What should design’s mandate mean now — for products, services, and decisions, not just interfaces?
What made the mandate shrink? Org charts, delivery models, rituals, and metrics narrowed the job. Show us how you pushed back.
What AI changed. The cost of making, testing, and synthesizing is falling — but new conditions don’t create better outcomes on their own.
What design must protect and raise. When output gets faster, the quality of decisions, systems, and judgment gets harder to hold.
We make speaking
worth it.
Round-trip to and from Toronto.
At a nearby hotel, arranged by us.
Two invites, off-record.
A professional video plus attendee notes.
Closed
for now.
The seventh-edition programme is set. We are not taking new proposals until after November — the sections above stay up so you know what we look for when the next call opens.