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Front line experts who have ‘been there’ and ‘done it’ discuss how to use cross-functional collaboration and data-driven decision-making to ensure strategic DesignOps initiatives deliver measurable business impact.

Panellists will: 

• Share practical frameworks for bridging the gap between high-level vision and day-to-day operations. 
• Demonstrate how to leverage analytics and KPIs to validate success. 

The discussion will highlight how DesignOps can: 

Victoria Johnston shares the story behind the creation of a new design skills matrix for NatWest Group. A key initiative of the newly created Group Design Office, the shared framework would span diverse design teams across the bank – each with differing expectations, definitions of skill, and ways of working within a complex, fragmented organisation.

Severyn Harasevych, Chief Design Officer at Wantent, describes the transformational journey of converting developer-created technology into a fully realized AI product. How adopting a strategic approach ensures technological capabilities are used to create meaningful user experiences.

A detailed account of the process of translating raw technological potential into a purposeful product at the intersection of technology and design.

Including:

Accelerating Impact through Rapid Experimentation

How leveraging Rapid Experimentation within DesignOps unlocked the ability to accelerate business impact and created a culture of innovation. It reshaped team dynamics and enhanced the way team members perceived and articulated their own impact.

The key strategies used to go from ideas to impact.

Covering:

Step into the future of visual content marketing with agentic frameworks—an innovative approach powered by intelligent AI agents designed to revolutionize design operations from ideation to measurable and repeatable impact. By integrating advanced AI capabilities with strategic foresight, agentic frameworks optimize decision-making across the campaign lifecycle, setting a new benchmark for data-backed creative decision making.