Bria Alexander

" To succeed now, designers must be lifelong learners ready to rethink and re-understand constantly - Christopher. "

" If you want to invite a friend or colleague, the sponsor sessions are free and awesome to attend. "

" If you ever need help, you can reach us at help-customer-service for technical issues and customer support. "

" Please put your questions in the Slack thread associated with the talk, not just the general channel, or they’ll get lost. "

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

" Today’s theme is resilience expressed through inspiring personal and professional stories. "

" The pressure in design ops is often delivery-first mindset instead of quality and strategic impact - Dave Malu. "

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

" This is a conference where you can stand up and people will see you do that — which we haven’t had in the past. "

" We made a very intentional choice to build in five minute breaks after every talk based on feedback and experience. "

" There is no overlap between the main program sessions and sponsor sessions. "

" We are on our third and final day of Design Ops 2023. "

" A little color purple to start the day. Good morning. "

" Practical ops is about getting stuff done because it’s our job to scale the organizational ability to design and amplify the work of designers. "

" If any of those adjectives do not apply to how you’re feeling right now, we wanna know. "

" Please be sure to make sure you change your conference itinerary to your local time zone. "

" You can invite anyone in your family to attend the sponsor sessions for free even if they’re not registered. "

" The world really needs what researchers like you bring to the table. "

" We have session notes, sketch notes, resource lists, videos, and decks — no need to take notes yourself. "

" If you are a cohort participant and don’t see your private Slack channel, please let us know so we can guide you. "

" Sponsor sessions are free, not sales pitches, and do not overlap with the main program so anyone can attend. "

" Just because empathy isn’t always visible at the top doesn’t mean you can’t be the change. "

" Sponsor sessions are not sales pitches; they are content-rich and free to anyone who wants to attend. "

" The conference is your annual opportunity to get to know each other and to step back together and amplify the power of design. "

" Each of these speakers shares career defining experiences scaling design organizations large and small. "

" It's okay to try and mess up your OKRs in the first few quarters and learn from it. "

" We need to slow down decision-making processes so that ethics and systems thinking scale with project scope. "

" Our community would not be what it is without you. "

" We still don’t know if head of design ops will evolve toward a COO role or some other senior position. "

" Cohorts are one of the most highly rated parts of our conferences every single year, you get to meet somebody new from a different company. "

" If you ever feel unsafe or threatened in this virtual community, we want to make sure you’ve got the support you need. "

" If you ever feel unsupported or unsafe, please let us know. It is our priority to make sure you feel protected and supported. "

" All of this content would not have been possible without your support and your feedback. "

" Day one is all about ensuring craft on a massive scale, led by Uday Gahender. "