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09:00 AM | Doors Open + Coffee + Participatory Space

09:45 AM

Welcome to Day 1

Arne van Oosterom
& Werner Puchert

10:00 AM

Three Books, Two Decades, Too Many Sticky Notes

Marc Stickdorn

10:45 AM

Evidence of care

Rachael Dietkus

11:30 AM | Coffee Break

12:00 PM | Breakout Talks & Sessions

The Islands of Automation

Alessia Rullo

Design Unmapped: the city designers built, and keep rebuilding

Veron Lai

From big trends to sense-making, from the future to the dynamic present

Lis Roselló

Design as connector: Moving beyond Journeys

Manjari Sahu

What shapes us? A Warm Data Lab to explore the forces reshaping work today

Claudia Pellicori, Stelio Verzera
& Letizia Piangerelli

Participatory Space

12:35 PM

Service Design for an Agentic World: Designing Services When AI Becomes a Team Member

German Leon

Why User-Centricity Fails 
(And What It Takes to Make It Stick)

Roman Schoeneboom

Systems Perspectives on Service Design

Simon Gough

Beyond Services: Designing the Conditions for System Transformation

Ada Maymó

01:10 PM

The firctionless Trap: a Case for Good Frictions in the Age of AI

Ignasi Giró

No one is coming to make you a Design Leader

Paul Menant

Stay with the trouble

Markel Cormenzana Uriarte & Adrià Garcia i Mateu

Title to be confirmed

Jeroen Spolstra

1:45 PM | Lunch Break

03:00 PM | Breakout Workshops & Panels

In-House Leadership

Panel

Service Economies

Simon Gough

The Human Layer: Mapping the Missing Dimensions in AI Evaluation

Sonia Villanueva de Azcona

Care Cartography: Mapping Where Care Lives

Rachael Dietkus

Think with your hands before you prompt: How visual sensemaking de-risks service design interventions in the age of AI

Giovanni Ruello

New Frontiers Of Service Design

Mabel Lazzarin & Héctor Fernando Lazalde Arreola

03:50 PM

Future Service Design Skills

Panel

04:40 PM

Generational Handover

Panel

05:30 PM

Somebody Always Pays: What it really costs when a service is too hard to use

Gerry Scullion

6:15 PM | Reflection

6:30 PM | Drinks

Day 2 | Friday, October 16

09:00 AM | Doors Open + Coffee + Participatory Space

09:45 AM

Welcome to Day 2

Arne van Oosterom
& Werner Puchert

10:00 AM

Title to be defined

Neil Theise

10:45 AM

Bad services: how to fix services that don’t work

Lou Downe

12:00 PM | Breakout Talks & Sessions

Why Your Next Job Title Won’t Exist Yet

Fouad Jallouli

What is Service Design designing?

Himanshu Rohilla

Regenerative organizing, permanent transition, and why do you work?

Stelio Verzera

From Practitioner to Subject: What Happens When You Design for Yourself

Kelli Willbert

Title to be defined

Nav Qirti & Arne van Oosterom

Title to be confirmed

Rashid Owoyele

12:55 PM

Un-mapping the Journey: When the Map Becomes a Living Organism

Bruno Monteiro

Title to be defined

Rosa Fernández Cerdán

Service Design without Service Designers

Sarah Auslander

Why sustainability may be the greatest design opportunity of our generation

Olga Sganzerla

1:45 PM | Lunch Break

03:00 PM | Breakout Workshops & Panels

Blindspots of Service Design

Panel

Title to be defined

Bassam Jabry, Claudia Alvarez & Fredi Vallina Garcia

Human-Led & AI-Augmented: Reimagining Design for a World Shaped by AI

Carlota Cubelos, Gema Cánovas
&
Patricia Salcedo

Hopeful visions of the future: what could designers do in 2036?

Kasia Kaminska & Iana Prakheeva

Care Cartography: Mapping Where Care Lives

Jane Vita, M. Carla Sarrechia & Eerike Minkkinen

The I-Shaped Service Designer: Power Skills for Influence, Authority and Strategic Impact

Charles Bennett & Hassan Mohammad

03:50 PM

What comes next for service design

Panel

05:30 PM

A Waypoint: Do I still belong here?

Adam Lawrence

6:15 PM | Reflection

TBD | Closing party

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