[Timings]
Event Schedule
08:00 AM
Registrations
09:00 AM
Opening Keynote
Welcome
Opening Session
09:15 AM
Performance
Bindu
India Lens: Design That Reaches Millions
09:30 AM
Keynote
Designing Branded Spaces for Fuller India
In this session, Damodar Mall will share insights into the Indian consumer, Brands & Spaces built on those insights and points of view about the consumers.
10:15 AM
Keynote
Making Change at Scale
Networking Break
11:15 AM
Networking
Networking Break
11:15 AM
Workshop
No Stitch, All Style
Design for India
12:15 PM
Talk
Humble Ingredients of Design-Led Intrapreneurship
This talk reflects on a creative intrapreneurial journey of building a design-led practice within a large Indian organization.
It explores leadership without titles, responsibility at scale, and an aspiration for Indian design to be recognized globally for its purpose, quality, and a vocabulary of its own. (None of that is jugaad.)
12:35 PM
Talk
अ से क्ष तक, Through the (Letterform) Looking Glass
In another moment, let us step through the glass, where scripts are designed, not improvised. Form follows function, letterforms belong to systems, and clarity is deliberate. A glimpse into what a lived, shifting, contemporary Indian experience looks like and a shared hope for a new visual landscape.
01:00 PM
Break
Lunch Break
Concurrent Sessions
02:00 PM
Ballroom 1 & 2
Forum
Branding That Communicates
02:00 PM
Ballroom 3
Forum
From Insight to Impact: The Power of UX Design
02:00 PM
Anigre
Film Screening
Stories in Motion: Animated Narratives
02:00 PM
Wenge
Forum
Founder’s Edge: Winning with Design
02:00 PM
Mahogany
Workshop
Material Minutes Mass - The 3M Challenge
In a screen-driven world of taps and scrolls, this workshop invites participants to pause and rediscover the joy of making with their hands. Inspired by how our ancestors created play from simple materials, it encourages tactile exploration, experimentation, and hands-on problem-solving. Through collaborative making, participants build creativity, teamwork, communication, and time management—learning through play.
02:00 PM
Oak
Workshop
Design Leadership Beyond Speed and Scale
Sean Carney and Simona Maschi invite design leaders into a practical, business-oriented discussion on how design leadership is evolving as AI reshapes speed, scale, and execution.
Rather than focusing on AI technology, the session examines what AI changes on the human side of design: how leaders frame problems, set direction, motivate teams, and define value when automation and optimisation become default. As AI increasingly takes over execution, design has the opportunity to move upstream. The leadership challenge shifts from how fast teams can deliver to how problems are framed, decisions are made, and value is shaped amid uncertainty and complexity.
Through short provocations and facilitated peer dialogue, participants will surface real organisational tensions—speed versus depth, efficiency versus meaning, optimisation versus long-term impact. The focus is not on tools or methods, but on leadership choices. The session is intentionally conversational and peer-driven. Participants will leave with clearer language and sharper questions to position design as a strategic leadership capability, using AI to free up human attention for sense-making, responsibility, team play, and passion.
04:00 PM
Break
Break
Advantage India
05:10 PM
Closing Keynote
Design for India, Inspire the World
05:50 PM
Closing Keynote
New Frontiers – Elevating Strategic Design & Innovation for a New World Order
06:20 PM
Break
Break
06:40 PM
Networking
Networking
07:30 PM
Break
Dinner
08:00 AM
Registrations
09:00 AM
Opening Keynote
Welcome
Opening Session
09:15 AM
Performance
Bindu
India Lens: Design That Reaches Millions
09:30 AM
Keynote
Designing Branded Spaces for Fuller India
In this session, Damodar Mall will share insights into the Indian consumer, Brands & Spaces built on those insights and points of view about the consumers.
10:15 AM
Keynote
Making Change at Scale
Networking Break
11:15 AM
Networking
Networking Break
11:15 AM
Workshop
No Stitch, All Style
Design for India
12:15 PM
Talk
Humble Ingredients of Design-Led Intrapreneurship
This talk reflects on a creative intrapreneurial journey of building a design-led practice within a large Indian organization.
It explores leadership without titles, responsibility at scale, and an aspiration for Indian design to be recognized globally for its purpose, quality, and a vocabulary of its own. (None of that is jugaad.)
12:35 PM
Talk
अ से क्ष तक, Through the (Letterform) Looking Glass
In another moment, let us step through the glass, where scripts are designed, not improvised. Form follows function, letterforms belong to systems, and clarity is deliberate. A glimpse into what a lived, shifting, contemporary Indian experience looks like and a shared hope for a new visual landscape.
01:00 PM
Break
Lunch Break
Concurrent Sessions
02:00 PM
Ballroom 1 & 2
Forum
Branding That Communicates
02:00 PM
Ballroom 3
Forum
From Insight to Impact: The Power of UX Design
02:00 PM
Anigre
Film Screening
Stories in Motion: Animated Narratives
02:00 PM
Wenge
Forum
Founder’s Edge: Winning with Design
02:00 PM
Mahogany
Workshop
Material Minutes Mass - The 3M Challenge
In a screen-driven world of taps and scrolls, this workshop invites participants to pause and rediscover the joy of making with their hands. Inspired by how our ancestors created play from simple materials, it encourages tactile exploration, experimentation, and hands-on problem-solving. Through collaborative making, participants build creativity, teamwork, communication, and time management—learning through play.
02:00 PM
Oak
Workshop
Design Leadership Beyond Speed and Scale
Sean Carney and Simona Maschi invite design leaders into a practical, business-oriented discussion on how design leadership is evolving as AI reshapes speed, scale, and execution.
Rather than focusing on AI technology, the session examines what AI changes on the human side of design: how leaders frame problems, set direction, motivate teams, and define value when automation and optimisation become default. As AI increasingly takes over execution, design has the opportunity to move upstream. The leadership challenge shifts from how fast teams can deliver to how problems are framed, decisions are made, and value is shaped amid uncertainty and complexity.
Through short provocations and facilitated peer dialogue, participants will surface real organisational tensions—speed versus depth, efficiency versus meaning, optimisation versus long-term impact. The focus is not on tools or methods, but on leadership choices. The session is intentionally conversational and peer-driven. Participants will leave with clearer language and sharper questions to position design as a strategic leadership capability, using AI to free up human attention for sense-making, responsibility, team play, and passion.
04:00 PM
Break
Break
Advantage India
05:10 PM
Closing Keynote
Design for India, Inspire the World
05:50 PM
Closing Keynote
New Frontiers – Elevating Strategic Design & Innovation for a New World Order
06:20 PM
Break
Break
06:40 PM
Networking
Networking
07:30 PM
Break
Dinner