3-day AI & Design conference

3-day AI & Design conference

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Exploring how AI is reshaping creativity, digital products, and the future.

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Partnership in 2026

The companies

The companies

Sponsorship & Collaboration with Industry Leaders

Schedule

What you can expect

Forward brings together designers and builders exploring what’s next: from emerging tools to new creative workflows shaping digital products.

Upcoming Events

Hackathon

INSEAD SINGAPORE: Startup Hackathon

Designpreneurs’ first-ever collaboration with INSEAD’s entpreneurship program on AI startups x design.

No speaker assigned

Hackathon

INSEAD SINGAPORE: Startup Hackathon

Designpreneurs’ first-ever collaboration with INSEAD’s entpreneurship program on AI startups x design.

No speaker assigned

00:00

NUS Conference Singapore: Future of Design

ACM DIS Conference x Designpreneurs, featured event to discuss the future of AI design.

Yuki Watanabe

NUS Conference Singapore: Future of Design

ACM DIS Conference x Designpreneurs, featured event to discuss the future of AI design.

Yuki Watanabe

12:30

Hackathon

San Francisco: Agentic Design Hackathon

Agentic design meets startups – Come define the future of agentic design with us, calling all founders and designers.

No speaker assigned

Hackathon

San Francisco: Agentic Design Hackathon

Agentic design meets startups – Come define the future of agentic design with us, calling all founders and designers.

No speaker assigned

14:00

Hackathon

Seoul x S.Korean Government: AI & Innovation Design

Designpreneurs Hackathon is heading to Seoul, South Korea! We're bringing our first-ever startup design hackathon to Asia- uniting global AI startups and emerging talent to prototype the future of innovation with the S.Korea government.

Daniel Cho

Hackathon

Seoul x S.Korean Government: AI & Innovation Design

Designpreneurs Hackathon is heading to Seoul, South Korea! We're bringing our first-ever startup design hackathon to Asia- uniting global AI startups and emerging talent to prototype the future of innovation with the S.Korea government.

Daniel Cho

15:30

Panel

Inside the Hiring Room: AI Design Coffee Chat

This AI design coffee chat explores how AI is reshaping interaction design and what companies are looking for in the next generation of designers. Through candid conversations on portfolios, hiring, and industry shifts, participants gain practical insights into the future of AI design with recruiters from Google Creative Lab.

Alison Patel

Panel

Inside the Hiring Room: AI Design Coffee Chat

This AI design coffee chat explores how AI is reshaping interaction design and what companies are looking for in the next generation of designers. Through candid conversations on portfolios, hiring, and industry shifts, participants gain practical insights into the future of AI design with recruiters from Google Creative Lab.

Alison Patel

11:30

Day 3

Human × AI

Exploring how AI shifts the role of designers - from execution to direction, taste, and decision-making.

Day 3

Human × AI

Exploring how AI shifts the role of designers - from execution to direction, taste, and decision-making.

Day 3

Human × AI

Exploring how AI shifts the role of designers - from execution to direction, taste, and decision-making.

2025 & 2026

Program

New York City x CUNY TECH

AI design program that introduces NYC students to AI through hands-on workshops and a curated hackathon. This intensive experience builds confidence in AI while connecting real-world application with big tech industry exposure with mentors and judges.

Aya Parker

Program

New York City x CUNY TECH

AI design program that introduces NYC students to AI through hands-on workshops and a curated hackathon. This intensive experience builds confidence in AI while connecting real-world application with big tech industry exposure with mentors and judges.

Aya Parker

Program

New York City x CUNY TECH

AI design program that introduces NYC students to AI through hands-on workshops and a curated hackathon. This intensive experience builds confidence in AI while connecting real-world application with big tech industry exposure with mentors and judges.

Aya Parker

11:30

Hackathon

SXSW: Fashion Retail x AI Creator Hackathon

Designpreneurs at SXSW! Bringing together a community of AI-driven creators, fashion and beauty brands, and builders at the heart of FuturePIXEL House.

Aya Tanaka

Hackathon

SXSW: Fashion Retail x AI Creator Hackathon

Designpreneurs at SXSW! Bringing together a community of AI-driven creators, fashion and beauty brands, and builders at the heart of FuturePIXEL House.

Aya Tanaka

Hackathon

SXSW: Fashion Retail x AI Creator Hackathon

Designpreneurs at SXSW! Bringing together a community of AI-driven creators, fashion and beauty brands, and builders at the heart of FuturePIXEL House.

Aya Tanaka

13:00

Hackathon

University of Arizona x Parsons : AI Startup Design Hackathon

What happens when you fly designers and engineers across the country and put them in a room together for 48 hours? Real startups meets building AI prototypes. Built from scratch by builders from Parsons × University of Arizona. The first-ever cross-coast AI design hackathon in NYC.

Kenji Sato

Sofia Martinez

Alex Morgan

Hackathon

University of Arizona x Parsons : AI Startup Design Hackathon

What happens when you fly designers and engineers across the country and put them in a room together for 48 hours? Real startups meets building AI prototypes. Built from scratch by builders from Parsons × University of Arizona. The first-ever cross-coast AI design hackathon in NYC.

Kenji Sato

Sofia Martinez

Alex Morgan

Hackathon

University of Arizona x Parsons : AI Startup Design Hackathon

What happens when you fly designers and engineers across the country and put them in a room together for 48 hours? Real startups meets building AI prototypes. Built from scratch by builders from Parsons × University of Arizona. The first-ever cross-coast AI design hackathon in NYC.

Kenji Sato

Sofia Martinez

Alex Morgan

14:30

2023 & 2024

Hackathon

Civic Design hosted by AIGA & Designpreneurs.

We’re launching Civic By Design: The AI Challenge with AIGA and the NYC government partner. A hands-on & immersive AI hackathon, where AI designers and civic innovators prototype ethical, human-centered solutions for real NYC city challenges.

Elena Petrova

Alex Morgan

Hackathon

Civic Design hosted by AIGA & Designpreneurs.

We’re launching Civic By Design: The AI Challenge with AIGA and the NYC government partner. A hands-on & immersive AI hackathon, where AI designers and civic innovators prototype ethical, human-centered solutions for real NYC city challenges.

Elena Petrova

Alex Morgan

Hackathon

Civic Design hosted by AIGA & Designpreneurs.

We’re launching Civic By Design: The AI Challenge with AIGA and the NYC government partner. A hands-on & immersive AI hackathon, where AI designers and civic innovators prototype ethical, human-centered solutions for real NYC city challenges.

Elena Petrova

Alex Morgan

10:00

Talk

Design Your 2026: Intension Setting & Vibe Coding

A guided 55-minute experience for design students to pause, reflect, and intentionally design their 2026. Join a guided meditation, set intentions, and turn your goals into a personalized AI vibe-code with an AI designer from Meta.

Lisa Ellis

Talk

Design Your 2026: Intension Setting & Vibe Coding

A guided 55-minute experience for design students to pause, reflect, and intentionally design their 2026. Join a guided meditation, set intentions, and turn your goals into a personalized AI vibe-code with an AI designer from Meta.

Lisa Ellis

Talk

Design Your 2026: Intension Setting & Vibe Coding

A guided 55-minute experience for design students to pause, reflect, and intentionally design their 2026. Join a guided meditation, set intentions, and turn your goals into a personalized AI vibe-code with an AI designer from Meta.

Lisa Ellis

10:00

Hackathon

AI Design Hackathon

SVA BFA Design’s biggest ever AI design hackathon for all sophomores, juniors, and seniors – prototype AI powered idea in 24 hours.

No speaker assigned

Hackathon

AI Design Hackathon

SVA BFA Design’s biggest ever AI design hackathon for all sophomores, juniors, and seniors – prototype AI powered idea in 24 hours.

No speaker assigned

Hackathon

AI Design Hackathon

SVA BFA Design’s biggest ever AI design hackathon for all sophomores, juniors, and seniors – prototype AI powered idea in 24 hours.

No speaker assigned

13:00

Workshop

AI Design Workshop

Become an AI UX Designer in 2 hours, powered by Google and Verizon AI Designers.

Alison Patel

Jonas Reed

Workshop

AI Design Workshop

Become an AI UX Designer in 2 hours, powered by Google and Verizon AI Designers.

Alison Patel

Jonas Reed

Workshop

AI Design Workshop

Become an AI UX Designer in 2 hours, powered by Google and Verizon AI Designers.

Alison Patel

Jonas Reed

15:00

Talk

How To Break Into Interaction & AI Design Career

Hosted by hiring managers and recruiters from Adobe, Google, and Ramp – a unique event for recent grads on how to launch your career in UIUX, interaction, and AI Design

Marco Silva

Alison Patel

Talk

How To Break Into Interaction & AI Design Career

Hosted by hiring managers and recruiters from Adobe, Google, and Ramp – a unique event for recent grads on how to launch your career in UIUX, interaction, and AI Design

Marco Silva

Alison Patel

Talk

How To Break Into Interaction & AI Design Career

Hosted by hiring managers and recruiters from Adobe, Google, and Ramp – a unique event for recent grads on how to launch your career in UIUX, interaction, and AI Design

Marco Silva

Alison Patel

15:00

Hackathon

AI Design Hackathon

The first-ever AI design hackathon with Parsons, bringing together the next generation of designers shaping the future of AI powered creativity, collaboration with Adobe, Microsoft, Google, etc.

No speaker assigned

Hackathon

AI Design Hackathon

The first-ever AI design hackathon with Parsons, bringing together the next generation of designers shaping the future of AI powered creativity, collaboration with Adobe, Microsoft, Google, etc.

No speaker assigned

Hackathon

AI Design Hackathon

The first-ever AI design hackathon with Parsons, bringing together the next generation of designers shaping the future of AI powered creativity, collaboration with Adobe, Microsoft, Google, etc.

No speaker assigned

15:00

Hackathon

XR Design & Entrepreneurship

Bringing together the brains behind the product from Meta, Ideo, Spatial io, Transfr & Plai to share XR startup entrepreneurship and how design empowers the XR product for investors, designers, and founders.

Lisa Ellis

Hackathon

XR Design & Entrepreneurship

Bringing together the brains behind the product from Meta, Ideo, Spatial io, Transfr & Plai to share XR startup entrepreneurship and how design empowers the XR product for investors, designers, and founders.

Lisa Ellis

Hackathon

XR Design & Entrepreneurship

Bringing together the brains behind the product from Meta, Ideo, Spatial io, Transfr & Plai to share XR startup entrepreneurship and how design empowers the XR product for investors, designers, and founders.

Lisa Ellis

15:00

Location

Our Global Footprint

Set along the Dojima River, Grand Cube Osaka brings together architecture, atmosphere, and accessibility in the heart of the city.

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