Agenda | Config 2023

THIS YEAR'S AGENDA

Join us for talks, takes and training from the brightest minds and makers in product design and development. This year we have something for everyone on your product team.

Main Stage

AI and the future of Design

Noah Levin –VP of Design,FigmaJordan Singer –Founder & CEO,DiagramAndrew Pouliot –ML Engineer,DiagramVincent van der Meulen –Design Engineer,DiagramOvetta Patrice Sampson –Director of UX Machine Learning,GoogleScott Belsky –Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products,AdobeBrooke Hopper –Principal Designer for Emerging Design, AI/ML,AdobeKanjun Qiu –CEO/Co-founder,Generally IntelligentReid Hoffman –Partner,Greylock

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Break

Main Stage

Deep Dive Training: unlock design system scalability with variables

Luis Ouriach –Designer Advocate,FigmaJacob Miller –Product Manager, Design Systems,Figma

By Figma

Design systems

Deep Dives

Hall E

Your next component

Dan Mall –Founder,Design System University

Design systems

Design

Room 201

Embracing art to enhance your product

Megan Barker –Illustrator,DuolingoRobert Managad –Senior Product Designer,DuolingoAnna Gusman –Product Designer,Duolingo

Design

Design systems

Collaboration

Room 207

The Shape of Future Builders: From Design to Deploy

Guillermo Rauch –CEO,Vercel & Next.js Creator

Design

Development

Room 203

Everything everywhere all at once: designing for edge case

Yung-Ching Chiu –Senior Product Designer,Grammarly

Design

Room 205

Word to the words - a content and product design love story

Candi Williams –Director of Content Design,Bumble

Design

Collaboration

Break

Main Stage

Deep Dive Training: advanced prototyping with less complexity with variables

Miggi –Designer Advocate, Education,FigmaRicky Rajani –Software Engineer,FigmaGarrett Miller –Product Manager, Prototyping,Figma

By Figma

Deep Dives

Design

Hall E

The future of responsive design

Una Kravets –Developer Relations Engineer,GoogleAdam Argyle –CSS Developer Relations Engineer,Google

Design

Development

Room 201

We Drew 30,000 icons in Figma and so can you

Noah Jacobus –Senior Designer,Font AwesomeJory Raphael –Principal Designer,Font Awesome

Design

Room 207

Creating multi-channel multi-theme connected libraries in Figma

Jack Minogue –Lead Product Designer,Ford Motor CompanyAndreamorgan Mattheeussen –Design System Lead,Ford Motor CompanyRyan Larish –Lead Product Designer,Ford Motor Company

Design systems

Design

Double feature

Room 203

Emerging thoughts on AI assisted design

Jane Davis –Principal Researcher,Great QuestionKathryn Gonzalez –Head of Design Infrastructure, 1st Designer and UI Engineer,On sabbatical, previously at DoorDash

Design systems

Room 205

FigJamming your rituals—adding fun and structure to your planning practices

Andrew Hogan –Insights,FigmaKaitie Chambers –FigJam Advocate,Figma

Culture

By Figma

Break

Main Stage

Designer and developer workflows unlocked using Dev Mode

Jake Albaugh –Developer Advocate,FigmaAvantika Gomes –Group Product Manager,FigmaLauren Andres –Designer Advocate,FigmaJenny Lea –Software Engineer,Figma

Development

By Figma

Deep Dives

Hall E

Fonts are software now, and that's awesome

Tobias Kunisch –Design Lead, Google Fonts,Google

Design

Double feature

Room 201

From themework to teamwork at Atlassian

Jade Jiang –Product Designer,AtlassianMaria Christley –Head of Design, UI Platform,AtlassianLewis Healey –Senior Product Designer, Design Systems,Atlassian

Design

Development

Room 207

Designing with AI: building the flagship GPT-4 language product

Edwin Bodge –Principal Product Manager,DuolingoMegan Bednarczyk –Design Lead, Duolingo Max,Duolingo

Room 203

Software as archaeology: digging up the past to build for the future

Shirley Miao –Software Engineer,Figma

Development

By Figma

Room 205

Rituals of modern product teams

Yuhki Yamashita –Chief Product Officer,FigmaShishir Mehrotra –Co-founder & CEO,Coda

Leadership

Design

Culture

Break

Main Stage

Customize your team's workflows with Plugins for Dev Mode

Sawyer Hood –Software Engineer,Figma

Deep Dives

Plugins

Hall E

Figmatch!

Jen Yee –Director of Product Design,Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Rogie King –Designer Advocate,Figma

Design

By Figma

Double feature

Room 201

Designing next-gen user interfaces

Nataliya Kosmyna, Ph.D –Research Scientist ,MIT Media LabMichelle Cortese –Design Lead,Meta

Design

Development

Room 207

Messy, complicated, useful: building Slack’s brand guidelines

Lisa Plachy –Senior Copywriter,SlackGabriela Saravia Lopez –Senior Designer,Slack

Design

Collaboration

Room 203

How to create pixel-perfect UIs with Storybook & Figma

Varun Vachhar –DX Engineer,Chromatic

Development

Room 205

Why do we build what we build?

Sho Kuwamoto –VP of Product,Figma

Culture

By Figma