DESIGNathon

Maggie Weber spent five years making content nobody watched. Now 2 million people follow her every move. Creator of "Being a Woman on the Internet" and the wildly popular Bad Design series, Maggie joins DESIGNathon to talk about what actually builds an audience: authentic storytelling, leading with generosity, and the slow work of showing up before anyone is paying attention.
If you've ever wanted to learn how to make content that actually connects, this one is for you.

Gust:
Maggie Weber

Hosts:
Anne Cantera
Mahnaz Hajesmaeili

Agentics Is Here: The Stack, The Skills, The Roles Nobody's Teaching Yet
Most of the AI conversation is running a cycle behind the actual work. While the industry debates whether agents are real, a small group of builders inside the Agentics Foundation are already shipping swarms, orchestration layers, context graphs, and execution environments that don't have names in any textbook or job description yet. These are the people whose demos I walk out of realizing nobody has a clue what's coming next.This month, we're sitting down with several of them to get into the stack they're actually building with, the skills it takes to work at this level, and the roles emerging on their own teams that don't have titles yet. If you're trying to figure out where you fit in the next wave of agentic AI, this is the conversation to listen to.
Speakers:
Dragan Spiridonov
Ofer Shaal
Scott McMillan

Hosts:
Anne Cantera
Mahnaz Hajesmaeili

DESIGNathon S2 Episode 2 - Who Checks the Model? A Deep Dive into AI Bias Audits
A hiring algorithm that screens out women. A healthcare model trained almost entirely on white male data. A content system that amplifies harm faster than anyone can catch it. These aren't hypotheticals — they shipped. And in most cases, the bias was there long before the product was. This episode gets into the unglamorous, necessary work of catching it first: what bias audits actually look like, where datasets quietly go wrong, and what it takes to interrupt harmful patterns before they reach real people. This is the episode for anyone who's ever asked "but who checks the model?"
Speakers:
Yaddy Arroyo
Christian Ortiz
Dr. Shaista Hussain
Hosts:
Anne Cantera
Mahnaz Hajesmaeili

DESIGNathon S2 Episode 1 - The Big Beautiful AI Ethics Episode
With nearly 50,000 jobs cut last year where companies pointed directly at AI as the reason, and a major platform's chatbot generating thousands of nonconsensual images per hour, the ethics conversation isn't theoretical anymore, it's personal. This is the one designers can't sit out.
Speakers:
Kee Jones
Elle Farrell-Kingsley
Jennifer Borchardt
Hosts:
Anne Cantera
Mahnaz Hajesmaeili

Robotics aren’t some distant future, they’re here, reshaping our world right now. Today, we’re diving into the rise of physical AI: machines that don’t just think, but act. So what new roles are they stepping into, and how will they change ours?
Speakers:
Harsha Srivatsa
Dr. Karthika Balan

Hosts:Anne Cantera
Mahnaz Hajesmaeili