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Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. The company’s award-winning technologies and software have redefined business, entertainment and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime and through any medium.
We are Mucho, the global boutique design studio. We create design with meaning from our locations in Barcelona, San Francisco, Paris, and New York.
We make software for people who make things.
If you’ve ever driven a high-performance car, admired a towering skyscraper, used a smartphone, or watched a great film, chances are you’ve experienced what millions of Autodesk customers are doing with our software. With Autodesk, you have the power to make anything.
First Republic Bank is an American full-service bank and wealth management company offering personal banking, business banking, trust, and wealth management services, catering to low-risk, high net-worth clientele, and focusing on providing personalized customer experience.
Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm that connects opportunities at great companies with highly skilled job seekers. We offer contract, temporary and permanent placement solutions for finance and accounting, technology, marketing and creative, legal, and administrative and customer support roles.
Named to Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies and 100 Best Companies to Work For® lists and a Forbes Best Employer for Diversity, Robert Half is the parent company of Protiviti®, a global consulting firm that provides internal audit, risk, business and technology consulting solutions. Explore our talent solutions, research and insights at RobertHalf.com.
We reimagine the way the world moves for the better.
Movement is what we power. It’s our lifeblood. It runs through our veins. It’s what gets us out of bed each morning. It pushes us to constantly reimagine how we can move better. For you. For all the places you want to go. For all the things you want to get. For all the ways you want to earn. Across the entire world. In real time. At the incredible speed of now.
Landscape is an internationally recognized brand strategy and design studio committed to the creation of forward-looking identities and experiences. We translate narratives into systems to create long-term, scalable business value.
The studio embraces the arts and technology equally, providing guidance to clients that pursue influential change through their products and services.
Four One Nine is a versatile community studio and creative agency, founded by Sonya Yu. Its collective of creatives and strategists refine and build atypical ideas across branding, events and digital content. Located in San Francisco’s SoMA district, its physical and agency offerings serve as connective tissue that brings people together and unusual ideas to life — so community and culture can thrive.
Manual is a design and visual communication studio in SF. Our work strives to uncover the intangible essence of a brand and express it through unique visual solutions. In doing so, we give brands more value and distinction.
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence.
We define and inspire popular culture. We create brands and design products. We pursue the unexpected.
We fight gravity.
We are a technology company based in South San Francisco that has designed a carbon neutral process to transform organic waste into sequestered carbon. We’ve named the material that we produce OurCarbon to hint at the fact that the feedstocks we work with for our processes are all anthropogenic and we all share the burden of ensuring that this material doesn’t end up in a landfill.
At bombilla creative, we harness culture, community and creativity to ignite awareness and action in the U.S. We’re an all-woman-of-color team and a national network of diverse creatives of all disciplines who are #litonpurpose and creatively using our skills to amplify systems-changing organizations. Through the activism of our clients, we’re touching the lives of thousands of humans across the country.
Blink UX, an Mphasis company, is the leading user experience (UX) research, strategy and design firm, that works with Fortune 500 to start-up companies to create meaningful digital products, brands, and experiences. With studios in Austin, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, and Seattle, Blink brings over two decades of experience using its evidence-driven design process for major clients such as Amazon, Microsoft, NASA, Robinhood, Sonos and Starbucks. Learn more at https://blinkux.com.
For 10 years Box Clever has developed consistently innovative physical products & experiences that delight consumers and build category-leading brands, generating significant business & shareholder value. We’re just getting started!
In 2021 we were honored to be recognized by Fast Company as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Design Companies.
C3 AI is a leading enterprise AI software provider for building enterprise-scale AI applications and accelerating digital transformation.
Chime is a financial technology company founded on the premise that basic banking services should be helpful, easy and free. We want to profit with our members, not from them. That’s why our model doesn’t rely on overdraft fees, monthly service fees, service fees, minimum balance requirements, and more.
Cruise is building the world’s most advanced all-electric, self-driving vehicles to safely connect people with the places, things, and experiences they care about.
A cooperative staffing and training agency
A Creative Studio for Digital Experience Design. Digital Ambiance is a multi-disciplinary design studio that works at the intersection of architectural, artistic, and experiential environments. With a passion for creating bespoke placemaking features and interactive digital installations, we integrate new technology and custom design to build features that come to life and capture the viewers’ attention and imagination.
At Duality, we are building an enterprise metaverse for solving real world problems.
We are a design agency with deep expertise in industrial design, branding, packaging design, UI/UX, and strategy. Collaboration is what sets us apart from all other creative agencies. We enlist your team, you enlist ours, and together we create.
33SIXTY is a luxury lifestyle company exclusively representing FLEXFORM with flagship showrooms in San Francisco and Los Angeles since 2014. In 1959 FLEXFORM was launched by the Galimberti brothers, in the small town of Meda, Italy. Artisans handcrafted sofas and upholstered chairs from the finest materials that would be sold into century-old apartments in Milan and the lavish villas overlooking Lake Como.
frog is a leading global creative consultancy, part of Capgemini Invent. Partnering with passionate leaders and visionary entrepreneurs, we apply creativity, strategy, design and data to re-invent businesses, drive growth and orchestrate customer centric transformation.
Together we strive to shape a regenerative future that is both sustainable and inclusive for businesses, people and planet.
At Gantri, we believe in creator-led design. By harnessing digital manufacturing technologies and embracing unique storytelling, we’re generating an opportunity for creators to see their designs come to life.
We’re blazing a new trail for premium lighting by skipping the tradeoff between design and price, form and function, quality and sustainability. The modern consumer deserves great design without compromise and at Gantri, we’re making that a reality.
Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google. We work across teams to create content and produce events that showcase Google’s design work and champion innovators in our field.
Habitat Horticulture creates and sustains distinctive living walls and botanic installations that transform the spaces they inhabit. Founded in 2010 by horticultural pioneer and artist David Brenner, our mission is to produce awe-inspiring plant-centric spaces that cultivate and deepen our connection with nature and enliven the built environment.
We are problem solvers, improvisors, artists, craftspeople, thinkers, collectors, adventurers, roll-up-our-sleeves doers.
We are a collection of people who love intersections: Cultures, genres, tastes, industries, techniques, forms, materials, personalities, ideas-smashing, crashing, hugging, high-fiving. To us, the way the world tends to divide up design is a tragic oversimplification. We think weird is high praise. But if oblique inspiration is our rabbit hole, it’s the details that bring us back. We are craft-obsessives, completely in love with the minutia of typography, materials and experience.
IDO empowers the next generation of innovators. We believe the world’s most complex problems require diversity of thought. We introduce this concept one project at a time.
Our mission is to foster curiosity, promote creativity, and build self-confidence in youth from marginalized communities through design education.
IBM is a multinational technology company founded in 1911. With operations in over 170 companies, it employees over 3000 designers. At IBM, we believe in world-changing progress: the full application of intelligence, reason, and science to improve business, science, and the human condition.
Industrial Craft is a multi-disciplinary design studio which has integrated an industrial design agency with a new street-level design and furniture store.
Driven by the pursuit of meaning centered design and embracing the idea that objects bring meaning into our lives, Industrial Craft strives to develop and showcase products that connect deeply with people.
LiquidView makes the world’s most beautiful virtual windows. The three window Panorama is launching Q3 and the Single Window will launch Q2 2023.
Insight, Ideas, Strategy for Creative Brands
LMNL Studio is a new strategy and design firm focused on the essential nature of material understanding in future immersive environments. Founded by Marcus Guillard (One Hat One Hand), Jamie Shaw (Cogs & Marvel), and Nick Moser (Lumisan), LMNL (pronounced “liminal”) uses narrative and experiential design principles to create human-centric ecosystems that connect physical and virtual worlds.
Lyft is one of the largest transportation networks in the United States and Canada. As the world shifts away from car ownership to transportation-as-a-service, Lyft is at the forefront of this massive societal change. Our transportation network brings together rideshare, bikes, scooters, car rentals, transit and vehicle services all in one app. We are singularly driven by our mission: to improve people’s lives with the world’s best transportation.
Our two-year, low-residency MBA in Design Strategy program (DMBA) is a graduate business program with five four-day residencies held each month of a semester. Set against the backdrop of the Bay Area, a region known for its unshakeable belief in a better world, the MBA in Design Strategy trains future leaders to question, listen, and put human needs at the center of decision-making.
Media.Monks is a digital-first marketing and advertising services company connecting the dots across content, data & digital media, and technology services. We offer brands seamless access to a nearly 6,000-strong team of digital talent in 33 countries. We believe everyone has something of value to offer, and that sustaining a truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace begins with fostering an environment where people can be themselves, authentically, every day.
Mithun is an integrated design firm dedicated to creating positive change in people’s lives. As a national practice with offices in San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles, we are a unified design studio with an open and collaborative spirit founded on a process of inquiry and listening.
Mike & Maaike is an internationally recognized design studio known for a diverse experimental body of work ranging from furniture to technology to transportation. Led by Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers, the studio mixes a European design atelier approach with the progressive perspective of San Francisco. Their distinct backgrounds and thoughtful design approach create strong conceptual narratives in their projects. Mike & Maaike’s work is recognized internationally and exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. They have been named on over 70 patents and are featured on Fast Company’s list of 100 Most Creative People in Business.
Multistudio is the evolution of Gould Evans. Our new identity captures the multiple ways we design to uncover possibilities and engage the world.
Since its founding in 1974, the studio has blossomed from a humble vision of two University of Kansas classmates into a socially-engaged design collective pushing the edge of service-based practice.
Native Design is an independent design company, with world class capabilities across multiple design disciplines from insight to launch. We add billions to the value of our clients’ businesses, through unique growth strategies that develop valuable IP and contribute to exceptional financial performance.
NewDealDesign is a Full-Stack? Strategic Technology Design Agency building brilliant Systems, Products, and Experiences. Over the last 20+ years, our team has been shaping the digital and the physical into winning systems of business, brand, technology and delight.
Combining wisdom, craft, and lively dialog into tangibles we are able to define, design, develop, and deliver products and experiences challenging convention.
Nonfiction is a design firm and we turn science fiction into reality for a better future.
We take great risks in design and follow through to ensure execution and wonder. We are industrial designers, architects, engineers, and futurists. We partner with pioneers and thought leaders to push provocative ideas and create meaningful experiences the world has never seen. The bigger and more complex the system, the better. Our process explores behaviors, challenges assumptions, and delivers products and experiences that connect with people. Our diverse and insanely creative team members make working with us feel like anything but work.
NarrativeXR elevates storytelling by connecting artists from traditional media with tools and best practices for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.
At Oracle, we believe that people at work deserve software as polished, sophisticated, and state-of-the-art as any experience on the planet. To that end, Oracle has tripled its investment in Design – hiring new leadership, design, and user research to create a modern design system that works for enterprise customers and developers everywhere.
One Hat One Hand is an interdisciplinary design and fabrication studio specializing in Our staff is an inspired group of artists, craftspeople, designers, and project managers working together as One Hat One Hand. We collaborate with our clients every step of the way. We take pride in the talents and creative skills of our team and we work hard to produce engaging installations through thoughtful design, hands-on fabrication, and technology integration. We’re known for our hybrid approach to crafted experiences. Our design studio is supported by our full-service custom fabrication shop.
PACT is a branding studio putting partnership and creativity to work for a more equitable and exciting future.
Paving a new era of compensation rooted in transparency and fairness.
We are on a mission to build the world’s best compensation tools and easily accessible market data so companies can plan, communicate, and benchmark in real-time.
Lifestyle PR agency helping luxury brands create awareness by telling their story in the right voice, to the right audience, through the right medium. We do this through Public Relations, Strategic Partnerships, Social Media Strategy and Curated Experiences. Our proposed panels will include our clients, a wonderful design leaders representing the Bay Area.
propelland is a global strategy, design, & engineering firm helping companies transform and grow. We bring to life products, services, and experiences that add value in people’s lives.
ROY is a hospitality brand that thrives at the intersection of design, brand, and interiors. Together, we’re focused on creating transcendent experiences across the world through the lens of hospitality.
SF Black Wallstreet was founded in June 2020 by a group of seven Black San Francisco natives in response to the devastating impact of COVID-19 and anti-Black racism on Black business, cultural space, and stakeholdership. We are a network of community servants, professionals, and cultural influencers who are committed to Black sovereignty.
SF Black Wallstreet is deeply committed to preserving African American culture and building economic power within the Black community. We strive to create spaces where Black people are welcomed and embraced.
San Francisco Speculative Futures is a group for those interested in Speculative Design, Critical Design,Design Fiction, Discursive Design, Strategic Foresight and Futurism, Science Fiction and any vision or approach which involves using design as a vehicle to speculate about potential futures and the strategies we employ.
Stories Make Us provides communities with storytelling workshops, community events, online classes and more. Tiny Publishings – a part of Stories Make U s- preserves and archives the stories. It also turns stories submitted by communities into tangible, small size books that are available in Tiny Publishings public library.
Tangible Teleportation Co. is a Stanford-founded, venture-backed company bringing physical touch to video calls to create a magical experience of connection for distance-separated couples & families. Their “Teleportation Call” lets distance-separated couples & families share hugs, spatially interact, and feel the warmth of a far-away loved one’s presence.
Timothy Oulton is a British heritage brand with a modern viewpoint. Timothy Oulton helps discerning people make homes that are truly authentic, distinctively unique, and infused with a daring sense of energy. A creative array of furniture and accessories blend tradition with innovation, hand crafted in our own workshops using rare, beautiful materials.
With a passion for creating inspiring spaces to give people a great experience, hosting is at the very heart of everything we do.
We’re the award-winning firm behind clients from Fortune 500s to startups determined to get an edge with experience innovation.
Our firm’s work has created significant new revenue streams for global firms like Nokia and has propelled disruptors like Tekion into hyper growth and highly-profitable valuations.
Clients choose UXReactor when they need to rise above the fray of competing on features and UI. Instead, they win on user insight first and deliver differentiated experiences customers will pay more to have.
Women in Leadership and Design (WILD) is an initiative of AIGA San Francisco. Our mission is to amplify women and non-binary designers’ collective power and visibility. We mobilize and energize impact in design leadership by focusing our work on connecting, elevating, sharing, and educating designers in our community. Often, we do this through events like group meals, speaker series, workshops, meetups, and more. We exist to redesign leadership, together.
Youth Art Exchange’s (YAX) mission is to spark a shared creative practice between professional artists and public high school students, furthering youth as thinkers, leaders, and artists in San Francisco. We are committed to serving public high school students, with a focus on low-income students and students of color, through free, accessible, and high quality arts education and leadership development programming. We create opportunities for students to gain professional arts, leadership, and career-readiness skills through real-world community art projects. We serve 450 youth and over 7000 audience members per year through free arts programming, stipended internships, and public events.
Zendesk delivers cloud-based support solutions designed to help companies build more productive and engaging relationships with their customers. With more than 69,000 paid customer accounts, Zendesk’s products are used by organizations in 150 countries to provide internal and external support in more than 40 languages.
Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco.