Four people
open + close the room.
Guilherme Rosa
Guilherme runs the Latent Interaction Group at MIT. His 2025 paper on conversational manifolds reframed how a generation of interface designers think about input. He'll open the conference with a working theory of where the cursor goes next — and a live demo nobody outside Cambridge has seen.
Yara Okonkwo
Yara leads design at Anthropic. Her closing keynote is the one we've been waiting for since Edition 02 — a direct, unhedged argument about what designers building on top of foundation models actually owe the systems and the people using them. Expect a strong opinion. Expect to disagree with at least part of it.
Asha Vellur
Asha shapes how Midjourney's six hundred million users think about visual prompting. She'll walk us through eighteen months of internal research on how non-designers learn to compose with generative tools — and what designers can take back from watching them.
Maya Iyengar
Maya is the reason Linear feels the way it does. Her closing-of-day-one talk is a love letter to the cursor — what it means for design when the input device finally outlives the form factor — and a quiet warning about what designers lose when we stop sweating the things our predecessors took for granted.
