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The future of AI-enabled tools & workflows
The edge of AI
How can we use AI to supercharge the creative process?
The Design Dividend presents
The future ofDesign Excellence
Designing for the agentic age
Closed-door conversations for creative leaders shaping what comes next.
Monthly|2 Hours|12 Curated Seats|Global
01 — Why now
A transformativewindow
The next five years will not resemble the last 30.
AI is compressing the time it takes to go from sketch to shelf, and human judgment surrounding creative output has never been more valuable.
Decisions being made right now around tools, talent, operating models and how design should be practised will decide the organisations that define the next decade.
02 — The programme
A platform built fordialogue
The Design Dividend's 'Future of Design Excellence' dialogue programme is a series of closed-door conversations exploring the impact of AI on the creative industries.
The programme comprises roundtables focused on industries that underpin the ways we all LIVE, MOVE, WORK and PLAY, centred around the questions where creative decisions hold the greatest commercial consequence.
Three keyquestions
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The future of AI-enabled experiences
Beyond the possible
How can we harness AI to create new forms of product and brand experience that shape the future?
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The future of creative delivery
Design Operations 2.0
How do we build the operating models to design and deliver creative work at global scale?
03 — The ecosystem
An ecosystemcurated formotion
The hard part isn't having ideas. It's finding the right people at the right moment to make something move.
Spanning adjacent disciplines, industries and geographies, we convene curated, invitation-only conversations structured around seven participant types, each selected for the distinct perspective they bring to the room.
Sector Tracks
The programme explores the industries that underpin how we live, move, work and play - focusing on the questions where creative decisions hold the greatest commercial consequence.
04 — The session
What happensin the room?
Twelve curated seats and specially prepared stimulus, designed to catalyse conversation that sparks collaborative creative partnership.
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Pre-Briefing & Questionnaire
Thinking & preparation
Attendees receive the thesis, a profile of the room and a short set of reflective questions in advance. The conversation starts with genuine thinking already in it.
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Session Opening with Room Thesis
And insights share
The thesis is introduced and pre-responses are synthesised and shared back anonymously, immediately revealing where the room agrees, diverges and where the most productive tensions already exist.
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Spotlight Presentation
Expert stimulus
Each session features one specialist expert with direct expertise fit for the room thesis, tasked to provide stimulus tailored specifically to participant responses to the pre-event questionnaire.
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Moderated Discussion
Supported by creative ideation
Three carefully chosen questions open the floor. The facilitator's role is to hold the tension, surfacing disagreement and ensuring the most important things get said, not just the most comfortable.
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Insights Synthesis
With next steps
The session closes with a live synthesis of where the conversation landed: agreements, unresolved tensions and unexpected questions. Attendees leave with a written summary and a clear view of what comes next.
05 — The room
Participatingvoices
Each session brings together twelve senior design and innovation leaders from the worlds of brand and business, consultancy, academia, venture capital and technology.
- Brands
- Creatives
- Technology
- Venture Capital
- Academia
The Programme
The Autumn/Winter
2026 programme
Weekly online / closed-door sessions spanning global cities including Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico City, Barcelona, and Dubai - culminating with the inaugural Design Dividend Future Design Forum to present the programme report.
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Insights summary
The
Quarterly
Sixteen sessions.
100+ design leaders.
One synthesis.
The DD Quarterly distils the collective intelligence of every Future of Design session into a single report, structured around the central questions that frame every room.
Released at the DD Future Design Forum at the end of every quarter, the report is distributed to senior leaders across every focus sector to underpin the following dialogue programme.
Is this theconversationyou need to be in?
Places are limited to twelve and every seat is curated.
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