DesignUp 💙 Issue #103 > DesignUpForACause: Day 1-3 + looking ahead

Excited to share with you a bunch of updates for #DesignUpForACause - “LIVE AID without Bono and Queen” as Kay Khoo said.

But with a host of stellar speakers and attendees dialing in from their corners of the world! To share their thoughts, listen to the stories and create inspiration, engagement, and energy over chats, Q&A, social media responses, feedback, and more.

If you missed attending

⏰ Donations for passes are open again, so get yours now

🎟️ Donations are at a reduced level for the last 3 days of the conference

🔔 And here’s where you can check out the detailed schedule for the last 3 days

Can we breach the Rs. 5Million or Rs. 50 Lakh barrier?

A question on our minds! And we just did - thanks to a host of wonderful individual donors who came together to push us up from the 49L mark - friends and speakers Daniel Burka and Julie Zhuo, with Dave Gillis committed to a super generous number - along with other individual givers, orgs (and our partner Adobe) - you and they - helped us push it to 63.81 Lakhs or 6.38 Million.

You can still make your generosity work

We would want to push the donations to 70Lakhs (or 7M) and every little counts. If your org bought passes for you - you can add more to it.

The first three days

We had a diversity of speakers and topics - from Emmy Award-winning motion graphics creator Karin Fong (whose work you see every time you switch on Netflix) to authors, makers, and doers like Andy Budd and Yuko Shimizu - niche specialists like Gurman and Preeti - Data Journalist and Behavioral Scientist.

Here are some lovely social media posts from the attendees:

Chandra on Day 3 + he has more threads on other talks

Do you know what is the psychological distance? Okay, maybe you know, but I wasn't aware of it. I learnt it in a session in DesignUp Conference by Preeti...

Looking forward to Week 2

We have Pablo Stanley, Don Norman, Adeola Enigbokan, Khoi Vinh, Anindito, Devi Lockwood, and Handsome Frank.

And we have added new speakers. We discuss, dive into -

  • Can tech save the world?

  • A journey inside - mental wellbeing and mindfulness

  • Design Ops for a remote world

  • Career choices, roadmaps, and growth

  • Crisis communication

  • And deep diving into A Design Response

💉 Stay safe, healthy, and inspired…