Join us at Peak Design’s HQ in the historic American Industrial Center for a night celebrating San Francisco’s rich bag design legacy. Hear directly from local designers in a panel discussion, connect with fellow carry obsessives, and check out a community show-and-tell of favorite bags. A rare chance to gather the Bay Area’s bag design

The Career Prototype allows participants to take a deeper look into who we are and validates or challenges our career paths.  Start by hearing from two design founders, Jeanette Numbers

Join us at the Erica Tanov Atelier in Berkeley for an evening of conversation, collaboration, and art. This gathering brings together two East Bay design studios with over a decade of creative partnership between them, and with more ahead. Creative Growth, an Oakland-based arts organization serving artists with developmental disabilities, has built thoughtful relationships with

Join Skip for a hands-on exploration of wearable robotics for all ages. This interactive event turns complex concepts like motors, circuits, sensors, and AI —into something tangible, intuitive, and fun.

Place experience consultancy, City ID, welcomes you to their San Francisco studio to learn about their work in shaping the experience of places around the world. Jason Smith and Halle

A design-led exploration of what our use of AI reveals about us. AI is often framed as a story of intelligence, capability, and acceleration. But beneath every prompt is something

New tools don’t just speed up old work. In the right hands, they push boundaries and open a door to what didn’t exist before. Stranger, sharper, more specific. More human,

You have a life that, on paper, is working. Work is going pretty good. You have something that looks, from the outside, like the version of success people aim at. But something feels

The (un)Conscious Creative A blend of plenary and small-group conversations invites participants into deeply engaged, unguarded, and intentional provocations—designed to explore the creator behind the creator. The experience begins at

Art Swap: Celebrating Multitudes is a co-created gallery and art-trading happy hour from Coqtail Hour, the Bay Area’s new pop-up creative community built around bringing artists and creatives together through