Big Things are Coming. What's next for product design in the era of AI and automation.

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Business has never needed design more than now to unlock the potential of AI but are designers ready?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The last decade has seen a decline in the value of design in corporations with most businesses focused one-dimensionally on shareholder value at the expense of their core services and workforce leaving US customer experience satisfaction at all time lows.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>As we enter the era of AI today's market leaders are unaware that they have never been more vulnerable to losing their customers workforce and market share</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>This is the moment for product design leaders to reset and become the driving force to transform their organizations into leaders in the era of AI.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Topics include:</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Why design (and Design Thinking) fell flat in organizations over the last decade and why it is poised for its biggest moment yet</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The end of customer-centricity</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The three dimensions of strategy that product design leaders must prepare for with AI</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The case for design to own front-end code</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Transforming a company from silos to a </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>System-led Organization™</em></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Why using Figma for component design systems can cost business from $10k's to $1MM's</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>How to reset the value of design in your business</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Quantifying empathy</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>How Agentic AI will fundamentally disrupt the 1-1 relationship brands have with customers</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A product design leader with over 20 years experience Stephen has been leading companies like IBM JPMorgan Chase PepsiCo and Cognizant through radical transformation </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>throughout the digital age. </span></p>