Bria Alexander

" You have to keep AI at arm’s length so you can critique it and not blindly trust it - Christopher. "

" Sponsor sessions are optional but incredibly high content and not sales pitches. "

" You should absolutely participate in Slack—if you're missing that, you're missing a key part of our conference. "

" If you want to make this conference better for you, just let us know in Slack — we want you to have a positive experience. "

" What if we had AI teammates who were on every call and could help moderate, recap, and track time? That future is likely. "

" Co-creating operating models with our teams helps us remain resilient even when things get a little hairy and squirrely. "

" Design ops is still defining its service offering and must articulate value both internally and to business partners - Zi. "

" Everyone's sitting on the aisle, your right, my left — you gotta scoot over like two seats. "

" If you want your question asked, please put it in the Slack channel, because I cannot keep up with the rapid things happening live. "

" The themes this year include transforming century-old industries, startup to enterprise, the outsider’s perspective, and partnering to transform. "

" Use your phone camera to scan the QR code on screen and access the digital swag bag. "

" Please put your dropdown or your personal agenda in your local time zone so there’s no ambiguity. "

" David Nicholson is the reason why you don’t have to write very fast. "

" This conference is the opportunity I saw to design an experience that felt personal to our community. "

" This is a design ops summit. You’re with your people, we get you and we all want you to do well. "

" If you feel uncomfortable or unsafe engaging in this community, we want to know about it. "

" David Nicholson is our in-house scribe who produces wonderful sketch notes throughout the conference. "

" Researchers have really taken it on the chin during this latest economic downturn. "

" Louisa Scholar saves us a lot of work by curating the Civic Design library and digital benefits hub. "

" Even though we are virtual, we are still community and must treat each other with kindness and respect. "

" You will come away from this conference with so many artifacts from these talks you won’t miss anything. "

" Make a business case for yourself by bragging about your capabilities and making them applicable. "

" The final panel will be grounded in your input from this summit — we want to hear from you in the FigJam link. "

" The theme is clarity. But really I’m gonna say the theme is you — the 613 people from all over the planet. "

" Scaling design organizations is the theme because in trying times, we need each other's support. "

" Junior engineers often resent having to create OKRs that feel disconnected from their day-to-day work. "

" Working on a different word than empower: People already have power, we have to respect it. "

" The most highly rated part of the conference every year are the facilitators making the cohorts sing. "

" If you have more ops people than designers, you risk chaos and underappreciation of what ops actually delivers. "

" Kay Abba is a business and project analyst, UX designer, and project manager who brings multifaceted expertise to our note-taking. "

" Sponsor sessions are not sales pitches; they offer content similar in quality to the main program. "

" Please read our site’s code of conduct — it ensures we all treat each other with kindness and respect. "

" Yesterday was a lot of fun, but today is going to be even more fun. "

" The official conference time zone is Pacific Standard Time, but you can change it to your own time zone at designatskill.com. "