Theme 1

DesignOps Craft

What critical skills and best practices empower designers and design teams to succeed? How might we improve upon the fundamentals of our craft? In addition to stories about your design team or org, we welcome perspectives on how operational practices can support broader impact and collaborative problem solving with partners in research, accessibility, security, and regulatory compliance.

Theme 1 Intro
Jon Fukuda
Co-founder, Limina.co

Cartography for Design Communities
Saara Kamppari-Miller
Principal DesignOps Lead, Truist

From Sprints to Systems: Operationalizing Continuous Discovery Through DesignOps
Bianca Jefferson
Director, Product Operations, CompanyCam

Feedback: The Other F-Word
Vanessa Varin
Sr Design Program Manager, Amazon

From Tradition to Transformation: Unlocking Startup Agility in a Legacy Enterprise
Jenny Price
Global Lead Producer for Foundations Human Interface Design & DesignOps, General Motors

All the Ops: Successful cross-functional collaboration
Jake Burghardt
Consultant and Writer, Integrating Research
Jose Coronado
Fractional Design Executive, Independent Consultant
Natalie Dunbar
Principal UX Content Strategist, Author, Speaker
Denise Tilles
CPO / Founder, Grocket

Theme 2

DesignOps Futures

How might we, as DesignOps professionals, extend design’s impact through cutting-edge applications of technology, novel collaboration models, and deeply integrated operational strategies that enable design to drive meaningful business outcomes across domains? How can we operationalize design not just within design teams, but across the full business ecosystem?

Theme 2 Intro
Frances Yllana
Principal Manager DesignOps, Coforma

The (r)evolution of designOps: It’s Time to Think (really) BIG
Patrizia Bertini
DesignOps Leadership, 8x8

Better Together: Towards a new future for Design-Engineering Operations
Aletheia Delivre
Senior Program Manager, Design-Engineering Collaboration and Strategy, Microsoft

Weaving Knowledge Management into the Fabric of Our Design Practice
Sean Baker
Director of Design Strategy and Operations, The Lab at OPM
Sara Romanoski
Supervisory Design Strategist, The Lab at OPM

Designing the Designer’s Journey: Scaling Teams, Culture, and Growth Through DesignOps
Ebru Namaldi
Senior DesignOps Manager, Commencis

DesignOps Exposed: What do our peers really think of us?

DesignOps and the Next Frontier: Leading Through Unpredictable Change
Doug Powell
Executive Design Leader, Consultant & Coach