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"AI provides the 'best practice' foundation, but functionality alone doesn't make an experience great. While AI can deliver a good, working product, designers are the ones who transform that utility into delight."
Nev Flynn is a Design & Engineering Lead at ElevenLabs, where he leads teams across brand, product design, and design engineering. An Irish designer and engineer, he focuses on building cohesive, high-quality experiences that bridge design and technology, helping shape how AI products are experienced and understood.
Patricia Fragoso
Senior Director, Experience Services
Patricia Fragoso is a technology and experience leader with over 15 years of experience helping large organisations transform how they work and serve their customers. She’s currently a Senior Director at Salesforce, where she leads experience design, conversation design and change teams across EMEA and works closely with clients across a range of industries. Previously, Patricia held senior roles at Google and the BBC, building and reshaping large UX and product organisations. She’s a regular speaker on design, leadership, and change, and is known for her practical, people-first approach to driving meaningful transformation.
Simon shares how working with generative AI and agentic systems in retail is reshaping product craft, decision-making, and the designer’s role in shaping the future.
Join us for a conversation with Katie Meyer, Lead Designer at Scotiabank, as she shares how designers can drive meaningful impact inside large organizations, even when access to new AI tools is limited.
Join us for a conversation with Theo Richardson, Staff Product Designer, AI at Dropbox, as he explores how agentic coding tools are redefining what product design can be and why we’re all builders now.
Join us for an evening with Gabe Lekorenos, Senior Client Partner at Strava, as he explores how brands can create partnerships that customers genuinely care about.
Join us for a forward-looking conversation with product leaders exploring how enterprise financial platforms are evolving to deliver fintech-level speed, intelligence, and trust at global scale.
6:00 PM
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8:00 PM EDT
136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY
$45
Discussion Topics:
Beyond Real-Time: Intelligent, Automated Payments
Integrating AI Where Work Already Happens
Modernizing Financial Infrastructure Through Tokenization
Join us for an evening with Andrii Olefirenko, Senior Software Engineer at Meta, as he explores what it truly takes to move AI from prototype to production.
Alec pulls back the curtain on how AI tools are used day-to-day to streamline production and unlock new creative capacity, without compromising quality.
PerfectTed’s growth didn’t happen by accident. From day one, the team embraced a brand-first mentality, an earn-first mindset, and community-led storytelling to build momentum without relying solely on paid channels.
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