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DesignOps Summit videos, speaker decks, tripnotes and sketchnotes now available

Speaker decks, presentation videos, Natalie Hansen’s tripnotes, and MJ Broadbent’s sketchnotes are now available via the conference’s program page; enjoy! You can also see all the photos from the conference here.

We hope to see you again next year—or even sooner at Advancing Research 2020 (March 30-April 1 in New York City)

—Lou Rosenfeld and the DesignOps Summit team

Tickets to the Inaugural Advancing Research 2020 Conference now Available

Tickets are now available! Register now.

What makes the Advancing Research 2020 conference unique?

  • A research-driven conference: Practicing what we preach, we’ve designed the conference and its program based on two robust phases of user research, involving nearly 1,000 responses and analysis from over a dozen highly-experienced researchers.
  • A diverse, compelling speaker line-up: We’re carefully selecting speakers for their ideas and for the diverse perspectives and experiences they represent. 40% of our conference proposals come from members of under-represented groups; 17% come from new speakers.
  • Presentations that set the standard for quality: Once we select our speakers, we work with them iteratively over months to prepare and rehearse their presentations.
  • Our attendees shape and lead the industry: You’ll meet more research leaders, high-level research managers, and experienced research practitioners than you’ll find at perhaps any other conference.

Who should attend the Advancing Research 2020 conference?

  • Experienced researchers: People who conduct research projects, select methods and develop methodologies, design studies, and evaluate products and services.
  • Research team leaders and managers: People who select research tools and platforms, hire and onboard researchers, manage research operations, develop methodologies for their teams, and represent research in the C-suite.
  • Senior leaders, innovators, and strategists: People who have invested heavily into building cutting-edge research organizations.

4 new episodes of the Rosenfeld Review podcast: DesignOps leaders at UberEats, Shopify, J.P. Morgan Chase, Docusign, and more

Advancing Research Call for Speaker Proposals Has Closed

Thank you so much to everyone who submitted their proposal to speak at the very first Advancing Research conference! 

New Episode of the Rosenfeld Review Podcast: The Evolution of Joint Futures Conference with Producer Angelos Arnis

Audio: The Evolution of Joint Futures Conference with Producer Angelos Arnis

In this episode of the Rosenfeld Review, Lou and Angelos Arnis, Producer of the Joint Futures Conference in Helsinki, Finland (September 2-5, 2019), discuss the evolving landscape of design professionals’ needs, and how the Joint Futures Conference has changed to suit them.  Rosenfeld Media is pleased to partner with Joint Futures this year to offer four full-day workshops on September 5, 2019.

For more about the workshops click here.
For more about Angelos visit his website.
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DesignOps Summit 2019 Program Announcement

According to our user research, you want a conference program that offers practical information (tools, techniques, and take-aways that you can bring back to the office), and you’re motivated by these three themes:

  1. Proving Value, Measuring Outcomes
  2. Partnering Outside Design
  3. Change Management

The DesignOps Summit’s two-day main program (October 23-24) is designed with those needs in mind. And our six day-long workshops (October 25) delve even more deeply into the topics you’ll need to develop modern Design and Research Operations.

—Dave Malouf, Kristin Skinner, Abby Covert, & Lou Rosenfeld (program chairs)

DesignOps Summit 2019 Full-day Workshops Open for Registration

Looking for an opportunity for deep design learning? We’re offering six transformational day-long workshops at the DesignOps Summit in New York City on October 25.

  • Creating Career Ladders for DesignOps with Brennan Hartich and Amanda Weisfeld
  • ResearchOps 101: How to Get ResearchOps Off the Ground with Kate Towsey
  • Understand and Change Your Work Culture Through Meetings with Kevin M. Hoffman
  • Operating Design Systems: Curating a Product, Serving Products with Nathan Curtis
  • Design Your Design Organization with Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner
  • Design Operations and Program Management with Jacqui Frey

Read more about these full-day courses and register.

Apply for one of three scholarships to the DesignOps Summit 2019

We’re offering three scholarships to deserving designers, researchers, and students to attend the upcoming DesignOps Summit 2019 in New York City, October 23-24.

Design professionals from underserved groups are especially encouraged to apply. Please answer these questions before midnight ET, July 25 to apply for a scholarship to attend the 2019 DesignOps Summit. Your response won’t be shared with anyone aside from our judges and Rosenfeld Media staff.

Apply now.

—Lou Rosenfeld and the DesignOps Summit 2019 team

Note: We will reimburse expenses up to $700USD for those traveling from outside NYC or $1200USD internationally.

DesignOps Summit pre-launch ticket sales end July 9

Purchase your ticket to the third DesignOps Summit before July 9 to take advantage of the best price we’ll offer—Save up to $650.

DesignOps Summit is the first conference dedicated to showing design leaders how to create design capacity that keeps pace with change. Our first conference (November 2017 in New York City) sold out. In 2018, we returned to New York for another sold out event. View the program from last year’s conference here. Visit our YouTube channel for recordings of all presentations.

The third DesignOps Summit will take place in Brooklyn, October 23-25—typically lovely, crisp fall days in New York City. We’ll convene for the main conference (October 23-24) at the brand new auditorium in CityTech’s New Academic Complex in Downtown Brooklyn. The conference venue is accessible to Manhattan via subway or taxi, and walkable from the Brooklyn or Manhattan Bridge. The New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge—a five-minute walk from the conference venue—is the official DesignOps Summit Hotel. We’ve arranged a discounted rate for a limited number of guest rooms (first come, first served). We’ve also arranged for a block of rooms at the nearby Sheraton Brooklyn, also at a discounted rate. Book by September 30, 2019.

A variety of sponsors will host our day-long workshops in various New York locations on October 25. Interested in being a host sponsor? We’d love to talk.

HOW TO KEEP UP WITH THE DESIGNOPS SUMMIT

Join our DesignOps Community and follow @rosenfeldmedia on Twitter.

That’s a wrap! Presentation recordings, speaker decks, sketchnotes, and tripnotes from Enterprise Experience 2019 are now available

Presentation recordings are available on YouTube, speaker decks are now all posted to Slideshare, MJ Broadbent’s lovely-as-always sketch notes, and tripnotes by Stephen Wolf are now all available from the conference program page.