Semi Permanent Aotearoa 2022

Workshop ∙ 2 hours

Idea Champion

Develop your unique design DNA, elevate your inner champion of bold ideas, explore your memories and trusted intuition with acclaimed industrial designer Danny Coster.

Workshop ∙ 2 hours

Investing for Designers

Think you’re not the investing type? Think again. Learn about the basics of investing and how good design is making the share market accessible for everyone, including you.

Workshop ∙ 2 hours

Lean UX: Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls

Join Silverstripe creative director James Ford to dive into best lean UX practice, fast prototyping, making the right kind of assumptions, and validating with user testing.

Talk ∙ 45 minutes

Ethan Eismann — Slack

Translating workplaces into work spaces with Slack’s SVP of Design.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Karen Walker

On building a global profile whilst remaining true to home.

Talk ∙ 45 minutes

Hector Ouilhet — Google

How can we make tech + art + design = happiness?

Panel ∙ 2 hours

Future State: Brand Utopia — presented by Deloitte Digital

From changing corporate practices and consumption habits, to having an empathetic voice on the issues that matter, we’ll offer a blueprint for the future of brand engagement and how creativity can provide solutions. Panellists TBA.

Panel ∙ 3 hours

Future State 02: TBA

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Todd Yellin — Netflix

Netflix’s Vice President of Product on creating easy, compelling ways for audiences to find something great to watch.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Ben Crotty — Sharesies

On how to financially empower a new generation through technology and creativity.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Tony Bradbourne — Special Group

On the value in searching for left-of-centre perspectives that can then be applied to the many.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Dantley Davis — Nike

We're joined on the main stage by Nike's Global Vice President of Digital Design, Dantley Davis, where he'll share insights into his senior leadership career spanning more than 20 years.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Johnson Witehira — IDIA and Waahi Wairua

Get to know Māori artist, designer and academic Johnson Witehira and his incredible work that fuses traditional culture with contemporary practice.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Liz Ham

The Sydney-based photographer and author on notions of punk and portraiture, fashion and feminism.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Danny Coster

The acclaimed product designer and former design leader for Apple and GoPro shares insights into his creative process.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Jess Johnson

The New Zealand-born, New York-based artist will discuss the concept of world-building in her animation, music, fashion, VR and textile art.

Talk ∙ 45 minutes

Ben Dalgleish & Ian Valentine — Human Person

Human Person co-founders Ben Dalgleish and Ian Valentine will discuss how they bring human ideas to life through creative direction, and lighting and production design, for clients including Kanye West, Benee, Nine Inch Nails and more.

Talk ∙ 45 minutes

Yah-Leng Yu & Arthur Chin — Foreign Policy Design Group

The most acclaimed brand and design bureau in Southeast Asia will join the stage with unique insights into their independent creative practice.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Tony Holzner — Art Processors

Inventing intuitive visitor experiences that inspire curiosity by inventing new realities of human experience.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Steve Dunstan — Huffer

A homegrown brand built through community.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Kris Sowersby — Klim Type Foundry

Talking type design with one of the world’s most masterful creators.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Mikaela Jade — Indigital

Connecting cultural knowledge and digital skills with Cabrogal Woman, Mikaela Jade, of Australia’s first Indigenous edu-tech company.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Briar Grace-Smith, Patricia Grace & Miriama Grace-Smith

Three generations of creative talent come together to discuss the ways in which their practices and processes converge and diverge.

Talk ∙ 30 minutes

Rik Campbell — Resn

Learn how brands can stand out through digital development, design and immersive experiences.

Talk ∙ 40 minutes

Wade Jeffree & Leta Sobierajski — Wade and Leta

Combining purposeful eclecticism and performative design to create satisfying and emotional visuals.