DesignOps Summit 2022
A Rosenfeld Media Virtual Conference | September 8-9, 2022
For people who lead design operations and their teams
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This year’s overarching Summit theme, “Creating DesignOps Clarity,” sets the stage for DesignOps stakeholders to come together and re-assess the state of DesignOps; find focus and determine priorities amidst increasingly complex demands; and collectively define roles, determine goals, and put forth best practices that reinforce high-quality, sustainable outcomes.
Program Themes
Theme 1: Growing Successful DesignOps Practices and Practitioners
Whether your goal is to become an effective DesignOps practitioner, or to build a DesignOps practice that can scale, you’ll be facing critical decisions every step of the way. Should you focus on strategy or tactics? Does your practice need you to be a visionary leader, a down-and-dirty doer, or a bit of both? And where do you draw the lines between what your practice should and shouldn’t tackle? These sessions from DesignOps peers at such organizations as Salesforce and JP Morgan will help you scope the skills and mindset you’ll need for you, your team, and your org to thrive.
Theme 2: Scaling Design Organizations
The recent roller-coaster ride of hirings and firings underscores how difficult managing DesignOps can be: one day, you’re trying to attract talented people in the face of intense competition and The Great Resignation. The next day, you’re struggling to maintain morale amid news of layoffs. In between, you’re trying to onboard, train, and retain your people, equip them with the tools and knowledge they need for success, and justify the growing investment in your design organization. We’ll explore how DesignOps people at Adobe, IBM, and Santander are growing their design orgs while navigating uncharted waters.
Theme 3: Building an Inclusive DesignOps Practice
The design fields have an immense opportunity to ensure that products and services are designed from the ground up with accessibility and equity in mind. And DesignOps people have a critical responsibility to enable that work. Learn from your peers at such orgs as Loblaw Digital and the government of New South Wales how DesignOps can help develop and support diverse, inclusive design teams that thoughtfully create experiences with everyone in mind.
