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Design + AI Conference

Friday October 24, 2025
New York City

The Future of Design is Here

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We're Excited

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Gather and Share

Why Are We Doing This?

Generative AI is now embedded in the tools creatives already use. It turns hours into minutes, expands exploration without expanding headcount, and makes rapid testing practical for every team. The result is more options, tighter craft, and faster paths from idea to launch.

Now is the time to pilot, learn, and operationalize AI in your creative process.

WHO IS THIS FOR?

For working creatives and the teams around them: designers, art directors, producers, brand and product teams, agencies, and creative technologists.

If you are building or adopting AI inside a real content pipeline, this is for you. In-house groups at larger orgs and full startup teams will find playbooks they can put to work on Monday.

OUR Speakers

Designers and leaders shaping the future of art, design and technology through emerging tools and ideas

Kelli Anderson

Kelli Anderson

Graphic Designer,
Educator + Author

Kelli Anderson is a graphic designer, educator and author who has been widely celebrated for her work in infographics, branding design, pop up books and risograph animations. She is a Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award nominee, was a fellow at both NYC's Center for Book Arts and San Francisco's Exploratorium, served as Adobe's inaugural creative resident, and was a 2025 Eames Institute honoree.

Anderson's publications include This Book Is a Camera (MoMA, 2015)—which transforms into a working camera—and This Book Is a Planetarium (Chronicle, 2017), which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide in two languages. Her work has been praised by The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Today Show, Wired, and more… Her new book, Alphabet in Motion will be available in bookstore worldwide on November 18th.

Ted Galperin

Ted Galperin

Partner + Director of Retail,
Mythology

Ted Galperin is a Partner and Director of Retail at Mythology (formerly Partners & Spade), where he leads branded retail experience projects for companies including Backmarket, FIGS, Warby Parker, Sonos, and Away. With a background in creative strategy, brand development, and interior design, he bridges insight and storytelling to create impactful retail and cultural experiences.

Ted has spoken on The Future of Brick-and-Mortar Retail at Harvard Business School and presented Retail Reimagined: Storytelling Isn’t Just for Kids —highlighting his work with Mattel and American Girl—at Advertising Week 2024. He also serves on the development committee for the Shaker Museum in Chatham, NY.

Emmett Shine

Emmett Shine

Designer, Entrepreneur
Founder, Little Plains

Emmett Shine is a designer and entrepreneur. Over the past decade, he's co-founded five companies and launched more than 50 brands—backed by seven successful exits. Emmett is a co-founder of Gin Lane, Pattern Brands, and his current digital-focused agency, Little Plains.

He has helped creatively shape and launch iconic names across the direct-to-consumer space, including Harry's, Hims & Hers, sweetgreen, Stadium Goods, Recess, Neuralink, and many more.

Randy Hunt

Randy Hunt

Head of Design, Notion
Chair, SVA MFA Design

Randy Hunt leads design at Notion and chairs the MFA Design program at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has spent over two decades building products, brands, and teams.

His leadership helped shape platforms and identities at Etsy, Artsy, and Grab, and he continues to champion entrepreneurial design education. Recent interviews outline his approach to culture and craft.

Liz Danzico

Liz Danzico

VP of Design, Microsoft AI
Founding Chair, SVA MFA Interaction Design

Liz Danzico is a designer, educator, and writer whose work explores how technology and design shape human connection. Danzico is Vice President of Design at Microsoft AI and Founding Chair of the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts. Prior, she served NPR as Senior Vice President of Digital and Vice President of Design.

Her ideas have been featured in The New Yorker, Wired, and Fast Company, and she has served as a founding member of Adobe’s Design Circle, Founding Board Member of Parsons’ Design + Journalism Program, Founding Board Member of the Austin Center of Design, and Board Member of AIGA NY. She writes and speaks about how creativity shapes the future of design.

Oscar Dumlao

Oscar Dumlao

Head of Design,
Reve

Oscar Dumlao is the Head of Design at Reve, a new platform for generating and editing images. At Reve, he leads design toward a distinct mission among frontier AI labs: training the world’s best foundation model specifically for visual creativity, and building a simple but powerful product around it.

Oscar’s career has focused on building tools to make humanity more imaginative. He shipped the first AI features at Figma, taught design at Stanford University's d.school, and worked at Skiff, Facebook, IBM, and multiple startups. His practice spans product design, brand, storytelling, and investing—all centered on making creative technology more relevant and accessible to everyday people.

Derrick Schultz

Derrick Schultz

Post-AI Artist + Filmmaker
Product Lead at Titles

Derrick Schultz is a post-AI artist and filmmaker. Utilizing machine learning and other computational techniques, his work explores generative abstraction and algorithmic filmmaking. He has produced work for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and more. Derrick was recently the Lead Creative Technologist on Ho Tzu Nyen’s Phantoms of Endless Day, a new work commissioned by the LUMA Foundation that uses generative AI to re-envision the artist’s previously incomplete film. He is a product lead at Titles, helping artists train AI models on their work, maintaining attribution to their original works while allowing a community of creators to explore the artist’s unique style.

In addition to creating his own work, Derrick also teaches machine learning to artists, designers, and image makers. He’s an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP and has previously taught at CalArts, SVA, and The New School.

Pietro Schirano

Pietro Schirano

Founder + CEO,
MagicPath

Pietro Schirano is a leading innovator in AI, design, and technology, renowned for his work in blending artificial intelligence with user experience and product development. He is the founder and CEO of MagicPath, an AI platform that turns natural language and sketches into app UIs and code, and the creator of the viral DesignerGPT website generator.

Pietro has a proven track record of shipping AI-driven product innovations at companies like Anthropic, Meta, and Brex, and his independent projects, such as Claude Engineer and his viral game-generating AI, have reached millions. A strong advocate for open-source AI and ethical development, Pietro is a sought-after speaker and commentator on the future of intelligent systems.

Raul Gutierrez

Raul Gutierrez

Founder + CEO,
Tinybop + PictureStudio.ai

Raul Gutierrez has enjoyed a long career in technology and the arts. He is founder & CEO of Tinybop Inc., a children’s media company, and PictureStudio.ai, a startup making image workflow tools for creative professions.

At Tinybop, Raul has led the development of software that has reached tens of millions of children and produced apps that have won Apple’s iPad App of the Year award. At PictureStudio, he is creating new ways of working in concert with AI to develop visual ideas with a speed once thought impossible.

Raul is an avid photographer, occasional blogger, and unrepentant collector of unusual objects and enjoys speaking about image making with technology.

Dan Batten

Dan Batten

Creative Innovation,
Little Plains & Infinite Garden

Dan Batten is a creative leader focused on brand design, systems, and innovation. He previously led Studio Creative at Hims & Hers, following earlier roles helping build consumer brands at Pattern and Gin Lane.

Currently, he is working with Little Plains and Infinite Garden on new models for how brands and creative agencies operate, exploring how strategy, design, and AI come together to scale personalized experiences.