A one-day learning event centred around you and us, with practical tools and fresh perspectives from the top thinkers and doers in the field around how we can be better together.
AEST 12pm—8pm
CET 2am—10am
CST 7pm—3am
PST 5pm-1am
Not in Asia-Pacific? See list of times internationally.
This festival is for you and us; from the online to physical space; the best teams, the greatest impact and the most joy is found when we work together.
This Festival’s line up is all about:
Explore the concept of Safe Space, how you can create it and the underlying human behaviours that play a role in its success or failure.
Explore how to work with individuals and communities that have experienced impacts from a breadth of trauma, responding with compassion and dignity.
Explore how we can work better together to manage innovation projects across agile teams and organizational silos.
Explore alternatives to the classic positioning of designers as ‘experts’ with responsibility to shape other people’s lives.
Explore how to work together smarter and more joyfully with the skills and mindsets of Applied Improvisation.
Meet others, share experiences and problem solving with a community of new and experienced designers.
Our internationally recognised trainers have over 400 years of combined experience leading Design and Innovation projects, sharing conference stages, and writing the books the industry turns to for advice.
These are our confirmed trainers, expect more to come.
Your city not listed? See full list.
Berlin, Germany - 02:00 - 10:00 CET
Dublin, Ireland - 01:00 - 10:00 GMT
Sydney, Australia - 12:00 - 20:00 AEDT
Melbourne, Australia - 12:00 - 20:00 AEDT
Brisbane, Australia - 11:00 - 19:00 AEST
Auckland, New Zealand - 14:00 - 22:00 NZDT
Mexico - 19:00 - 03:00 CST
Shanghai, China - 19:00 - 03:00 CST
Tokyo, Japan - 10:00 - 18:00 JST
San Francisco - 17:00 - 01:00 PST
Walk away with practical strategies for working together across disciplines with compassion and dignity.
The aim: To introduce a world of new possibilities for getting the most out of working with others in a way that brings everyone together-- Leading to a better future for yourself, your team and the world.
How working online changes the way we collaborate.
Learn a set of online facilitation and engagement tools you can practice over the course of the Doing Design Festival and beyond! You will use what you learn in this session during the Online Networking sessions later in the day.
How to start designing the employee experience
Learn what employee experience is, why is it important and which are the best tools to start designing it.
How to plan and facilitate research online
Bring your questions about remote research to this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
How to strategically test service concepts and business ideas when you are not in the same room
Bring your questions about building and testing prototypes online to this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
How to notice more, let go and use everything* to become a better designer.
Bring your questions about an improvisational mindset and growth to this Ask Me Anything (AMA) session.
Return from lunch 15-minutes early for a breath of improv and humour that is even more delicious and energising than your standard conference coffee and cake.
How to meet and greet online.
You will use tools from the morning session on Online Facilitation to explore first hand how to take your collaboration skills to the next level while forming new relationships in a remote environment.
How to use journey maps as a dashboard for customer and employee experience.
Nearly every project across an organisation impacts Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Experience (EX). Learn how to get an overview of projects across distributed teams and departments to positively 'move the dial' for CX and EX.
How to identify and prioritise what is most important.
What truly matters to people? Where these top tasks can be improved and made more efficient? Learn about a tried and tested information design framework that has been developed with over twenty years of rigorous research into some of the most complex organizations in the world.
You will use tools from the morning session on Online Facilitation to explore first hand how to take your collaboration skills to the next level while forming new relationships in a remote environment.
Please note that local taxes may be applied.
Full access to the Doing Design Festival including recordings and Private Network access
Full access to the Doing Design Festival including recordings and Private Network access
90-day access to recorded videos from the Doing Design Festival released on 18 February 2021
If you and are looking to purchase > 10 tickets you can apply for a discount code for your organisation by contacting us.
Financial hardship or Developing country discounts
If you are facing financial hardship or joining from a developing country, please contact us at with a short introduction. We have a number of tickets available at a discounted rate available set aside.
