Speakers

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma. Dylan studied computer science and mathematics at Brown University where he and his co-founder, Evan Wallace, first started experimenting with design tools built on (and for) the web. With funding from a Thiel fellowship, they began Figma. Prior to Figma, Dylan interned at O'Reilly Media, LinkedIn, and Flipboard.

Alex Mullans is a Product Lead at Figma, where he builds the platforms & infrastructure that power Figma’s AI and code experiences. He’s a longtime developer-tools person (GitHub, DoorDash, Pulumi, Microsoft) and is most at home on the messy boundary between product and infrastructure. These days, he spends his time thinking about agents, code, extensibility, and how new technology can help more people turn ideas into working software. He lives in Seattle.

Alexia is a designer advocate at Figma based out of Paris, France. Having worked across the spectrum of design for over 10 years, she is passionate about unlocking creative impact in organizations, building a more inclusive and diverse industry, and crafting magical “a-ha” moments along the way. When she’s not busy hanging out with fellow designers, you may find her traveling to tea fields or reviewing croissants.

Animesh is the co-founder of Gully Labs and leads the design, brand and supply chain functions

Arjun Singh is the Co-founder and CEO of Gully Labs, an Indian sneaker design house rooted in Indian craft and design. Since 2023, he has grown Gully Labs across D2C, retail and international markets, while collaborating with global and cultural brands. Previously, Arjun worked across investment banking, venture capital and startups, including at J.P. Morgan. He studied Electronics and Communication Engineering at NSIT, Delhi, and is focused on building globally relevant consumer brands from India.

Ashish Kashyap is a product designer and maker based in Bengaluru. He’s the founding designer at Indent, where he leads product, design, and brand for AI agents built for engineering teams. He’s also the creator of Pikaicons, a hand-drawn library of 5,000+ icons used by companies like Zoho, Juspay, and Fashion Nova. Ashish is most interested in craft, building from zero to one, and putting ideas into the world before they feel completely ready. He believes some of the best opportunities come simply from making things, sharing them, and letting people discover the work.

Daisuke Sakai, born in Japan in 1978, graduated from the University of Tokyo's Department of Mechanical and Information Engineering. He co-founded teamLab in 2001, an international art collective exploring the convergence of art, science, and technology. With exhibitions in 27+ countries, teamLab pioneers global art and advances technology in system development and digital content creation. He is committed to pushing boundaries and redefining the possibilities of interdisciplinary collaboration.

Devdatta Akhawe serves as our Chief Security Officer, leading Figma’s platform security, production engineering, internal tools, and growth and monetization technical efforts. Prior to joining Figma in 2020, he held engineering and security leadership positions at Dropbox and graduated with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dilip Punjabi leads Figma’s go-to-market efforts in India. An early member of Figma’s APAC team in Singapore, he moved back to India to establish the company’s India business and build its founding team. With 15 years of experience across technology and SaaS, Dilip has worked with organizations across industries to shape how they build, scale and transform their businesses. Prior to Figma, he held roles at LinkedIn and Mixpanel. Today, he is focused on growing Figma’s presence and community across India.

Harshil Mathur co-founded Razorpay in 2014 with Shashank Kumar after recognizing the challenges of online payments in India. An IIT Roorkee graduate and former Schlumberger engineer, Harshil left his job to simplify online payments and build financial infrastructure for businesses. Today, Razorpay powers digital payments for millions of businesses and has expanded into a full-stack fintech platform. Harshil has been recognized by Forbes Asia, Fortune 40 Under 40, EY Entrepreneur of the Year, and Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia.

Jake is Figma's first developer advocate, and spent the prior 12 years working as a software engineer on both sides of web applications. Jake loves to walk the line between design and code, bridge gaps in communication across product development, and bring as much fun and creativity to the work that they can manage to cram in along the way.

Kaushal Cavale is a Principal Engineer & Frontend Architect building scalable SaaS platforms, enterprise design systems, and AI-integrated user experiences. He helps product teams move faster by designing frontend platforms that balance velocity, accessibility, and long-term sustainability. At Freshworks, he works across products and teams on design systems, micro frontend architecture, and frontend observability. He’s particularly interested in AI-native product design, including conversational interfaces, agent-driven workflows, and RAG-based systems.

Ken Vreman is a Designer Advocate who has worked agency side, in-house, and ran his own company before realising the common thread was always chasing whatever was new in design.

That chase led him down a deep AI rabbit hole, and eventually to joining the Figma Weave crew, where he helps companies and designers figure out what AI can do for them.

Along the way he's made video tutorials and hosted a bunch of community events where designers could get their hands dirty together.

Loredana Crisan is the Chief Design Officer at Figma, where she leads design, UX writing, brand studio and research. Prior to joining Figma, she spent nine years at Meta, where she held product and design leadership roles across Messenger, Instagram and GenAI initiatives. Before Loredana’s career in product and design, she was a musician and sound engineer.

Manish is a developer advocate at Figma who builds bridges between code and creativity — and occasionally sets them on fire.
He spent over a decade at Reliance as a technical architect, building multi-brand, multi-platform design systems for products used by more than a billion people across India. Before that, he wore the UX designer hat long enough to develop strong opinions about both pixels and pull requests. He's one of the rare humans fluent in both design and engineering — equally comfortable debating token naming conventions and reviewing a component API.

Masaba Gupta, a design virtuoso and award-winning entrepreneur, actor, and the Queen of Prints, founded her label, House of Masaba, at 19. Over 16 years, she transformed traditional Indian motifs into a global fashion language defined by bold prints, playful storytelling, and a recognizable design vocabulary. With a global presence, Masaba continues to redefine modern Indian design as fearless, culturally grounded, and endlessly original.

Matt Walker is a Staff Researcher at Figma, where he leads strategic research on new product development, exploratory bets, and the long-range shifts shaping how teams build. Before Figma, Matt spent nearly two decades in research, strategy, and consulting, plus a few startups of his own, and he embraces the shifting of roles firsthand. Always learning, never bored.

Meghna Kumar leads Figma's business across Asia, based out of Singapore. She was one of the founding members of Figma APAC, helping build the region's presence from day one. Before Figma, Meghna spent a decade at LinkedIn across a range of sales roles. Originally from Chennai, she brings deep experience scaling teams and businesses across diverse, fast-growing markets. Outside of work, she keeps just as busy raising her two kids.

Meghna collaborates with enterprise teams in India to drive the adoption of Figma, fostering enhanced collaboration between product, design, and engineering teams. With a background in leading tech companies, she has worked closely with product builders to optimize workflows, boost efficiency, and accelerate time-to-market. Passionate about the intersection of design and innovation, she thrives on helping organizations not only craft exceptional user experiences but also reimagine their workflows to unlock new levels of efficiency and creativity.

Michel Ferreira is a Brazilian designer with almost three decades of experience building design systems and leading teams across five countries. He has worked with global companies including Shopify, Booking.com, and Atlassian, and now serves as a Designer Advocate at Figma in Sydney.

Nav Pawera is Head of the Design Practice at GovTech Singapore, where he works to deliver meaningful impact at scale, shaping how thoughtful design contributes to better public experiences and enabling government to build digital services that millions rely on daily.
Before GovTech, Nav spent two decades running design studios and leading in-house design teams across Asia. His recent work includes uplifting livelihoods for smallholder farmers across Indonesia and India and shaping the future of healthcare delivery in Singapore. He remains an active voice in Singapore’s design and product ecosystem.

Parinishtha leads the UX team at Microsoft responsible for designing Copilot's desktop applications for Windows and macOS. She's previously worked on AI-integrity systems across Meta's ecosystem: Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Her work sits at the intersection of thoughtful design, AI systems, shipping at scale and team leadership.

Dr. Pratyush Kumar is the CEO and Co-founder of Sarvam, and a leading voice in India’s AI ecosystem. He previously built AI4Bharat and OneFourth Labs, advancing open-source AI for Indian languages and contributing to the broader research community. Before Sarvam, he was a researcher at Microsoft Research and IBM, working on machine learning and natural language processing. He has authored 89+ research papers at leading conferences and journals. He holds degrees from IIT Bombay and ETH Zurich and is focused on building AI that reaches every corner of India.

Priyanka leads Product Design at Zomato, where over the past six years she has shaped experiences used by millions every day across its consumer, restaurant partner and delivery partner products. Trained as an architect, she brings a systems lens to design, building coherent and intuitive customer experiences at scale. Today, she’s exploring how AI can reshape the way her team works, giving designers more freedom to explore, move fluidly between canvas, agents and code, and raise the ceiling on what they can build for customers.

Rhish builds the systems, teams, and ways of working that help organisations turn strategy into execution. Over the past decade, he has worked across India and Germany at the intersection of business, design, technology, and AI. His unconventional path from law to advertising, DesignOps, and AI gives him a blend of structured thinking, design curiosity, and commercial perspective. He believes technology should amplify human creativity, not replace it.

Samantha Lee is an artist and technologist working across sculpture, installation, and interactive media. At Figma, she explores how creative ideas become working systems and helps designers bring code into their practice.

Saptarshi Prakash is Head of Design at Swiggy Ltd., where he leads design across the food business. Over eight years at Swiggy, he has helped scale products, teams and design systems used by millions. His work spans zero-to-one products, large consumer experiences, and the evolving role of AI in design. He is also the author of Inside a Unicorn, published by Penguin Random House India.

Sascha Trinkaus is a design technologist at heart who has been building for the web since the late 90s. He leads the Design & Content Studio at Freshworks, where designers now build production UI in the codebase instead of handing off design files. Originally he is from Cologne, and is now based in San Francisco.

Shahee Nannore Hiran is a Design Manager at Atlassian, where she leads and builds AI experiences for Jira Service Management. Her team ships AI features that help IT teams catch and resolve incidents faster. Over the past year, she has rebuilt her own practice around AI, using it for research synthesis, prototyping, and shaping product direction. Before Atlassian, she spent a decade in senior design roles at Flipkart and Microsoft. At Config, she shows what an AI-native design workflow looks like day to day, with the real artefacts behind it.

Soren Iverson is the founder and CEO of IVERSON, an independent creative agency behind work for Figma, Baseten, Yahoo, and more.

He’s also known for satirical product concepts that expose the absurdity hiding inside everyday technology. His work interweaves design, business, and internet culture.

Sriharsha Majety is the Group CEO and Managing Director of Swiggy Ltd, India’s pioneering on-demand convenience platform. Founded in 2014, Swiggy caters to millions of consumers monthly, aiming to elevate urban quality of life through unparalleled convenience. Sriharsha co-founded Swiggy after starting in investment banking and launching Bundl, a logistics startup. Under his leadership, Swiggy evolved into a multi-service platform offering food delivery, quick commerce (Instamart), and Dineout across India. An alumnus of BITS Pilani, Sriharsha holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Tarun Mehta graduated from IIT Madras with a degree in Engineering Design (2012) and co-founded Ather Energy with Swapnil Jain in 2013. As CEO, Tarun leads product, business, and growth with a vision of delivering the best experience to Ather’s customers. Driven by his interest in electric vehicles, he helped develop India’s first smart electric scooter and has worked to accelerate EV adoption through charging infrastructure and supplier ecosystems. He received the AIMA Young Entrepreneur Award (2023) and was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (2018) and Fortune 40 Under 40 for five years.

Viral Shah is Vice President and Head of Research at Figma, where he leads the company’s research organization and drives customer insights that inform product and business strategy. He has spent his career building and scaling strategic teams that help companies create products people love. Prior to Figma, Viral was an Executive leading Strategy at frog design.