DesignOps Summit

Name: DesignOps Summit 2020
Start: 2020-10-21
End: 2020-10-23

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
Speakers in 2020Speakers at DesignOps Summit 2020
21–23 Oct
Adrienne Allnutt
The Future of DesignOps
Alla Weinberg
How to Build and Scale Team Safety
Allison Sanders
Operating with Purpose
Ana Ferreira
Designing Distributed: Leading Doist's Fully Remote Design Team in Six Countries
Ariba Jahan
Team Resiliency Through a Pandemic
Benjamin Real
Showing the Value of DesignOps by Not Having a DesignOps Team
Dave Malouf
The Future of DesignOps
Dean Broadley
Not Black Enough to Be White
Dominique Ward
The Future of DesignOps
Farid Sabitov
Automatization for Large Enterprise Teams
Hilary Sunderland
AccessibilityOps for All
Jackie Ajoux
Leveling-Up: A Single-Player's Guide to the DesignOps Team-of-One
John Calhoun
Two Sides of the DesignOps Coin: Teams Ops and Product Ops
Jon Fukuda
The Future of DesignOps
Jonathon Colman
How to Maximize the Impact of Content Design
Karl Jeffries
The Science of Creativity for DesignOps
Kat Vellos
The Other L Word
Lisa Gironda
Chief of Staff—An Unexpected Journey
Maggie Dieringer
Creating Consistency Through Constant Change
Melissa Tsang
From Insights to Action: Driving Business Values Through DesignOps
Michelle Morrison
Practice What You Preach
Patrick Commarford
Design Staffing for Impact
Patrizia Bertini
DesignOps + Kpis = Measure Your Impact!
Rachel Posman
Two Sides of the DesignOps Coin: Teams Ops and Product Ops
Ruzanna Rozman
Getting in Flow with Your Team
Sheri Byrne-Haber
The Importance of Accessible Design Systems
Suzan Bednarz
AccessibilityOps for All
Vincent Brathwaite
Past, Present, and Future—Closing the Racial Divide in Design Teams
2019
23–24 Oct
New York City
25 speakers
2018
7–8 Nov
New York City
19 speakers
2017
6–7 Nov
New York City
13 speakers

Speakers in 2020Speakers at DesignOps Summit 2020

21–23 Oct

Adrienne Allnutt
The Future of DesignOps
Alla Weinberg
How to Build and Scale Team Safety
Allison Sanders
Operating with Purpose
Ana Ferreira
Designing Distributed: Leading Doist's Fully Remote Design Team in Six Countries
Ariba Jahan
Team Resiliency Through a Pandemic
Benjamin Real
Showing the Value of DesignOps by Not Having a DesignOps Team

Dave Malouf
The Future of DesignOps
Dean Broadley
Not Black Enough to Be White
Dominique Ward
The Future of DesignOps
Farid Sabitov
Automatization for Large Enterprise Teams
Hilary Sunderland
AccessibilityOps for All
Jackie Ajoux
Leveling-Up: A Single-Player's Guide to the DesignOps Team-of-One
John Calhoun
Two Sides of the DesignOps Coin: Teams Ops and Product Ops
Jon Fukuda
The Future of DesignOps
Jonathon Colman
How to Maximize the Impact of Content Design
Karl Jeffries
The Science of Creativity for DesignOps
Kat Vellos
The Other L Word
Lisa Gironda
Chief of Staff—An Unexpected Journey
Maggie Dieringer
Creating Consistency Through Constant Change
Melissa Tsang
From Insights to Action: Driving Business Values Through DesignOps
Michelle Morrison
Practice What You Preach
Patrick Commarford
Design Staffing for Impact
Patrizia Bertini
DesignOps + Kpis = Measure Your Impact!
Rachel Posman
Two Sides of the DesignOps Coin: Teams Ops and Product Ops
Ruzanna Rozman
Getting in Flow with Your Team
Sheri Byrne-Haber
The Importance of Accessible Design Systems
Suzan Bednarz
AccessibilityOps for All
Vincent Brathwaite
Past, Present, and Future—Closing the Racial Divide in Design Teams