Design Operations Symposium 2022

First Sessions Announced

We are busy developing an exciting agenda for the Design Operations Symposium 2022 so keep your eyes peeled for details. Register for the event and be the first to hear about new sessions and speakers!

In the meantime, check out the first 3 sessions announced:

DesignOps for DesignOps

As DesignOps practitioners we spend all our time trying to optimize and empower everyone else to do their best work. How do we apply DesignOps to our own work so we can empower ourselves, as individuals and teams, to build successful DesignOps functions, and make DesignOps benefits more accessible to teams of all sizes and resources – all while growing our own impact on the companies we serve?

This session aims to advance the DesignOps discipline by taking a step back and showing us how to look at our own work and goals, and apply the same amount of compassion to ourselves as we do our stakeholders and teams.

Francis Yllana, Senior Manager Design Operations, Coforma

Casual Contracts for Ops People

Whether you work for a small company or a big, complex organization, as an ops practitioner you’ll need to work with others cross-functionally. A lot. Often, you’ll need to ask for help, information, and deliverables from colleagues so as to complete your work.

This talk will walk you through some tactics for handling these “casual contracts” that can spring up when collaborating and show you how to get and give clarity in these interactions.

Tess Dixon, Director of Design Operations, Condé Nast

Panel: Meeting the Challenge of Scaling Effectively

How what Design Operations does helps Product Design Teams achieve their goals

More and more companies are investing in Design Operations.

DesignOps practitioners, including program managers, focus on everything from team culture and events to optimizing processes and improving design workflows. They help Product Teams achieve their goals. They ensure output expectations are met and that commitments to deliver the best user experience possible are fulfilled.

Which prompts the questions: How does DesignOps fit into the larger Product Development ecosystem and why are the specialized roles within DesignOps even necessary?

In this session, we discuss how the people in DesignOps work with:

• Technical Program Managers
• Product Operations
• Product Managers

and why it is essential for all the roles to be compatible and for the people who occupy them to collaborate – so best to deliver the goals of the ‘Product Organization’.

We explore how DesignOps is an integral part of the hidden work that must be placed at the intersection of design, research, product development, and leadership.

Moderator: Jilanna Wilson, Head of Design Ops, Zendesk

This event is co-located with the Festival of Creative Operations and Photo Studio Operations Forum, by registering, you also get access to these two events and even more content.

The first sessions for the Festival of Creative Operations 2022 include:

• Building and Scaling Winning Teams with Peacock TV
• Panel: Success Stories: Improving Organizational Value and Alignment Through Creative Operations with BGB Group
• Panel: Challenges, Shifts and Trends with White & Case
• Scaling the Creative Director Role with Disney Parks, Experiences and Products

View more here.

The first sessions for the Photo Studio Operations Forum 2022 include:

• How Augmented Reality, 3D Models and the Metaverse can help Photo Studio Operations with Mixed Reality I/O
• Panel: The Culture Shift with Forecast

View more here.