Program

8:00 - 9:00

Check-in & Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15

Sam Horner

Head of Design Strategy at Google Play Conference Host

Welcome to Design Matters Tokyo 23

9:15 - 9:45

Reginé Gilbert

James Weldon Johnson Professor NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Global Design: Prioritizing Inclusion, Accessibility, and Sustainability

9:45 - 10:15

Lysandre Follet

former Head of Generative Design Nike

(de)Generative creativity powered by AI

10:15 - 10:45

Marina Nakagawa

Motion designer, 3D artist

Searching the art style to not get lost in the age of Tech rush

10:45 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:15 Choose a Nerd Track

Talks

11:15 - 11:45

Ryo Sampei

Producer
Spectrum Tokyo / Design Matters Tokyo

Where's the Wasabi? Finding Design Potential in your Indigenous Roots

11:45 - 12:15

Stig Møller Hansen & Karsten Vestergaard

Designers / Programmers
DMJX

AI + You: Boss Fight or Tag Team?

Workshops

11:15 - 12:45

Jan Rod, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Jim Buell, Kenta Kondo, Shota Eda

Workshop facilitators
IDEO

Design Fiction: Future of Sushi Workshop with IDEO

IN-PERSON

11:15 - 12:15

Rachel Davis

Workshop experience designer & facilitator
Butter Community Hub | Rach Davis

Designing Joyful Brainstorming Experiences

ONLINE

12:15 - 13:45

Lunch Break

12:15 - 12:35 Networking Session

13:45 - 15:15 Choose a Nerd Track

Talks

13:45 - 14:15

Saki Asakawa

UX Reseacher
Woven by Toyota

What does accessibility really mean?

14:15 - 14:45

Alessio Grancini

Sr. AR Prototyper Engineer
Magic Leap

Everything Interface

14:45 - 15:15

June Taketani

CXO
Smartbank, inc.

Designing Household Budgets and Well-being

Workshops

13:45 - 15:15

Erika Ito & Sherry Wu

Product Designers
VMware Tanzu Labs & EDOCODE

Building Bridges, not Walls: Improving Team Wellbeing through Inclusive Communication

IN-PERSON

13:45 - 15:15

Michelle Chin & Jules Mahé

zeroheight
Design Advocates

Shifting and shaping - leveraging design skills for planet-centric impact

ONLINE

15:15 - 15:45

Coffee Break

15:45 - 16:15

Ramanath Bhat & Ippei Tambata

Director of R&D Design | Design Producer Sony

“Play” creates new value for well-being

16:15 - 16:45

Emmi Salonen

Creative Director & Founder Studio Emmi

From Burnout to Resilience: Building a Sustainable Creative Practice

16:45 - 17:15

Takeshi Yamada

Director of Community Engagement teamLab

Art by teamLab

17:15

See you tomorrow!

18:30

Afterparty

Time to get loose!

9:00 - 10:00

Check-in & Breakfast

10:00 - 10:30

Cal Thompson

VP of End to End Design Headspace

Designers are problem solvers and world builders, not feature iterators

10:30 - 11:00

Andrew Lee

Product designer Notion

Leveraging Mental Models in Product Design

11:00 -11:30

Jorge Furuya

Head of Car UX Design Volvo Cars

On Intelligence: Bias, Playfulness & Empathy

11:30 - 12:00

Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:30 Choose a Nerd Track

Talks

12:00 - 12:30

Aleksandra Bis

Co-founder
Dare IT

How to do good – one project at a time.

12:30 - 13:00

Iain Humm

Project Manager
iA

iA on AI

13:00 - 13:30

José Torre

Senior Staff Product Designer
Shopify

How to design your time?

Workshops

12:00 - 13:30

Lea Senderovitz & Rasmus Sanko

Chief Experience Officer | Chief Strategy Officer
Charlie Tango

Speculative Design as a method and a mindset to tackle systemic challenges.

IN-PERSON

12:00 - 13:30

Ivy Li & Lars Rosengren

Principal Coach | Senior Product Designer
ustwo Tokyo

A mindset for an emerging future

ONLINE

13:30 - 14:30

Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:00 Choose a Nerd Track

Talks

14:30 - 15:00

Aurelia Albrecht

Experience Design Lead
Independent

Saving the World One Pixel at a Time

15:00 - 15:30

Hideaki Matsui

Experience Program Lead & Manager
Google

Spatial Interaction

15:30 - 16:00

Asuka Uda

Conversational AI section Conversation design group manager
Rakuten Group, Inc.

Has the UX Process of Conversational AI Changed from Before, or not?

Workshops

14:30 - 16:00

Emmi Salonen & Le Thi Dieu Hoa

Creative Director & Founder | UX/UI designer
Studio Emmi | Rakuten

Creative Ecosystem: A Holistic Approach to Cultivating Creativity and Balance

IN-PERSON

14:30 - 16:00

June Mineyama-Smithson

Artist, Graphic Designer, Lecturer
MAMIMU

Flex Your Creative Muscles

ONLINE

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:00

Yuko Hayakawa

UI/UX Designer Nissan Motor co.,ltd.

Understanding regional differences

17:00 - 17:30

Yasuhisa Hasegawa

Design Strategist Independent

Beyond AI Hype: How We Can Foster Trust and Inclusivity in the Digital World

17:30 - 18:00

Tobias Ahlin

Principle Design Engineer GitHub

The Emergence of Creative AI

18:00

Goodbye