Join us for a curated, one-day gathering of designers, thinkers, and builders who are working at the frontier of how AI is changing design. This will be a rare opportunity for focused conversation and connection at a moment of unusual possibility for the craft.
The Assembly is an invitation-only event and free of charge, intended for designer practitioners and leaders, founders of design tool startups, and investors focused on the space. A limited number of tickets are available by request.
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Speakers
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Ian Silber
Head of Product Design
OpenAI
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Joel Lewenstein
Head of Design
Anthropic
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Liz Danzico
VP of Design
Microsoft AI
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Noah Levin
VP of Design
Figma
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Nad Chishtie
Head of Design
Lovable
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Eric Snowden
Head of Design
Adobe
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Rachel Been
SVP of Design
Expedia Group
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Josh Clark
Founder and Principal
Big Medium
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Ben Blumenrose
Co-founder and Managing Partner
Designer Fund
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Sarah Stein Greenberg
Executive Director
Stanford d.school
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Helen Maria Nugent
Dean of Design
California College of the Arts
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Jeffrey Veen
Host
True Ventures, Typekit
Agenda
Designers, leaders, founders, and investors from a wide range of companies will be participating in an active group conversation mixed with panel discussions and design tool demos from startups.
Practice If foundation models become as good at producing design as they've become at writing code, what is the future of the designer's role? How does the job (and the teams they’re on) change? Does this allow an accelerated path for designers to elevate into more strategic roles? Or do design, product, and developer roles start to collapse?
Diffusion We may only have 1% of the design capacity we need for the world. But what if we do increase designer productivity by an order of magnitude? Will design be a superpower? Or will we trap current design in amber, perpetually automating sameness.
Material AI capabilities, growing more powerful week by week, are also new idioms for design. What kind of space opens up for new types of interactions, new capabilities? What if “products” get boiled down to “capabilities for agents” and user experiences shift to agents acting on our behalf?
We’ll explore these themes and more through a series of fireside chats, panel discussions, and group conversation.
A reception will follow the conversations for attendees to meet and connect.
The Assembly is organized and hosted by Jeffrey Veen, whose career spans three decades as a designer, entrepreneur, investor and author. veen.com/jeff
