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Events Event Speaker Sian Finnis

Sian Finnis is a senior creative operations and production leader with over 15 years’ experience working in high-volume, performance-driven creative environments.

Currently Senior Director of the in-house agency at King, she has spent the past nine years operating at the intersection of creativity, technology, and scale, delivering marketing content for some of the most widely played games in the world. Her work sits at the sharp end of performance marketing, where speed, volume, and creative effectiveness are non-negotiable.

Events Design Operations London 2026 Drinks and Networking

Events Design Operations London 2026 Today’s Takeaways

A shared conversation with the audience, led by Patrizia Bertini.

Events Design Operations London 2026 Becoming Essential to Organisational Growth

Evolve - Or Disappear

Context:

Operational roles such as Design Ops, Product Ops, and Research Ops are facing more pressure than ever. Expectations are rising, boundaries are blurring, and “enabling” work is still too often treated as optional - or unnecessary - when priorities shift.

The challenge:

Events Design Operations London 2026 DesignOps as the Human Constant

Our Only Adaptive Survival Skill in an Ever-Changing World

As AI transforms workflows and business priorities shift overnight, DesignOps possesses one resilient adaptive skill: we centre humans.

Context:

While executives navigate markets and machines optimise processes, DesignOps holds a unique privilege and responsibility - to care about people.

Events Design Operations London 2026 Afternoon Break and Networking

Events Design Operations London 2026 Measuring Performance Independent of The Result

The questions:

How we can measure the success of DesignOps work when we work on initiatives where we’re not always in control of the outcome?
When and why is this necessary?

The challenge:

Results may not always align with expectations, yet that doesn’t necessarily reflect the quality or effectiveness of the work undertaken.

Discussing:

Events Design Operations London 2026 Designing the Work After the Design: The New Discipline of Operations Design

DesignOps has long focused on enabling design teams, but the most complex, strategic work happens after a product or service is designed. Davide introduces Operations Design, a discipline that connects ProductOps, Operations Strategy, DesignOps, and Service Design into an integrated system for how work truly gets done end-to-end.

Events Design Operations London 2026 DesignOps as a Catalyst for Organisational Adaptability

In organisations that move fast, DesignOps helps teams stay grounded, aligned, and ready to adapt. Smart positioning and intentional communication can shift design from a delivery function to a true strategic partner.

At Banco de Crédito del Peru (BCP), this means creating visibility spaces where stakeholders and designers think, plan, and co-create together. The result? Stakeholders aren’t just hearing about the value of design, they’re advocating for it.