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

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, not less. What can you make now that you couldn’t a year ago? What happens when AI is thoughtfully integrated in the design process, not

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 off… You want more, but you’re not quite sure what “more” looks like. Other than continuing to work in tech, people around you are either

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 the edge of one’s creative comfort zone and unfolds through a series of inquiries that reveal the undercurrents shaping each person’s creative practice. The ethos

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 after-hours events, workshops, and social hours. Every guest arrives with a hand-sized piece of art they’ve made. A sketch, a poem, a tiny ceramic, a

Calling all design-curious, AI-curious, and anyone who has wanted to see what designing an intelligent system actually looks like, end to end. Spend 90 minutes at California College of the Arts workshopping the full arc of designing an AI agent. In three activities — Enact, Author, Deploy — small groups of 3–6 bodystorm a scenario,