DesignOps Summit

Name: DesignOps Summit 2018 · New York City
Start: 2018-11-07
End: 2018-11-08
Location: New York City, United States

The dedicated event for DesignOps and the operational side of design teams.

Design OperationsDesign LeadershipDesign Management

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Latest edition

September 2025

Location

Online

Cadence

Annual

Organiser

Rosenfeld Media

About DesignOps Summit

The DesignOps Summit, run by Rosenfeld Media, is a conference for DesignOps practitioners, the people who improve how design teams work, scale, and deliver. Topics include operations, workflow, tooling, team health, and the direction of the discipline.

The programme includes how AI affects design operations alongside craft and organisational sessions, serving a senior operations and leadership audience.

Editions

2025
10–11 Sep
Rosenfeld Media
30 speakers
2024
23–25 Sep
Rosenfeld Media
55 speakers
2023
2–4 Oct
US · Rosenfeld Media
45 speakers
2022
8–9 Sep
San Francisco
49 speakers
2021
29 Sep–1 Oct
Rosenfeld Media
55 speakers
2020
21–23 Oct
28 speakers
2019
23–24 Oct
New York City
25 speakers
2018
7–8 Nov
New York City
19 speakers
Speakers in 2018Speakers at DesignOps Summit 2018
7–8 NovNew York City
Jason Mesut
Coach, Strategist & Connector@Resonant Futures
Shaping Design, Designers and Teams
Alëna Iouguina
Designing Systems at Scale
Brennan Hartich
Communicating and Establishing DesignOps as a New Function
Cheryl Platz
Collaborative Creativity Through Improv
Chris Moses
Stretching the Definition of DesignOps with Product Development
Courtney Kaplan
Taking It to the Next Level: Career Paths in DesignOps
Dan Willis
Filling the Void
Doug Powell
Design at Scale
Hana Nagel
Turning Research Ripples Into Waves
Holly Cole
Understanding Experiences: When You Have to Do More Than Work
Jacqui Frey
Flow and Superfluidity for Design Orgs
Jason Specland
Collaborative Creativity Through Improv
Jennifer Kanyamibwa
Creating the Blueprint: Growing and Building Design Teams
Leisa Reichelt
Operating in Context
Maria Skaaden
Continuous Design: One Eye on the Horizon and the Other on the Next Wave
Mark Boulton
Ops Without Designers
Megan Blocker
A Selectively Scrappy Approach to ResearchOps
Miles Orkin
Creativity and Culture
Neema Mahdavi
Operationalizing DesignOps
2017
6–7 Nov
New York City
13 speakers

Speakers in 2018Speakers at DesignOps Summit 2018

7–8 NovNew York City

Jason Mesut
Coach, Strategist & Connector@Resonant Futures
Shaping Design, Designers and Teams
Alëna Iouguina
Designing Systems at Scale
Brennan Hartich
Communicating and Establishing DesignOps as a New Function
Cheryl Platz
Collaborative Creativity Through Improv
Chris Moses
Stretching the Definition of DesignOps with Product Development
Courtney Kaplan
Taking It to the Next Level: Career Paths in DesignOps

Dan Willis
Filling the Void
Doug Powell
Design at Scale
Hana Nagel
Turning Research Ripples Into Waves
Holly Cole
Understanding Experiences: When You Have to Do More Than Work
Jacqui Frey
Flow and Superfluidity for Design Orgs
Jason Specland
Collaborative Creativity Through Improv
Jennifer Kanyamibwa
Creating the Blueprint: Growing and Building Design Teams
Leisa Reichelt
Operating in Context
Maria Skaaden
Continuous Design: One Eye on the Horizon and the Other on the Next Wave
Mark Boulton
Ops Without Designers
Megan Blocker
A Selectively Scrappy Approach to ResearchOps
Miles Orkin
Creativity and Culture
Neema Mahdavi
Operationalizing DesignOps