DESIGN SWARMS WORKSHOP WITH SURYA VANKA

Design Swarms with Surya Vanka

Learn and apply design thinking in just a day to brighten up the lives of seriously ill children. Partnering with Deutsche Bank Innovation Labs, we’re delighted to invite Surya Vanka to Berlin for a full-day workshop on the Design Swarms process, tools, techniques and framework that has become popular around the world. It is a method used by companies like Amazon, Autodesk, Microsoft, REI and T-Mobile to build products that are relevant and transform their business.

You will be given a real-world design problem faced by children who are living with serious or life-limiting illnesses and asked to come up with a disruptive solution. The challenge will be shared at the start of the workshop, and you will be asked to solve it as part of a team. We’ll provide everything you need as you are led through a fast-paced Design Swarms process envisioning and creating solutions that embrace social, physical and digital opportunities.

The workshop is being prepared in partnership with one of Deutsche Bank’s UK Charities of the Year 2018/2019, Rays of Sunshine, a UK based children’s charity that exists to transform the lives of seriously ill children and their families. The charity does this by granting their greatest wishes and providing support to the hospitals and hospices that care for them. Their work brings joy and hope, improves self-esteem and provides an opportunity to create precious memories. Their aim is to welcome every one of the 49,000 children in the UK living with a serious or life-limiting illness in to the Rays of Sunshine family, providing them with ongoing support and access to their resources when they need it.

Your solutions will form the basis for a Hackathon that Rays of Sunshine will run in cooperation with Deutsche Bank later this year. The ultimate aim is to create a tangible solution for the children and families whose lives you will transform and to raise awareness and funds for the charity, to enable them to continue their work.

Make a Difference. Build your Network. Reinvent yourself.

IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR YOU?

This workshop will be particularly useful for you if you are interested in learning to build better products in a lean way. Whether you're an Executive, UI/UX Designer, Product Owner/Manager, Marketer or Head of Innovation, or CTO/VP Engineering you will learn how to focus your team to quickly understand and solve the real problem your customers face using the Design Swarms method.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

• How quickly gain deep empathy for a customer who is different from you

• How to uncover real needs, wants and desires, stated and unstated

• How to use journey maps to frame needs and discover opportunities

• High-velocity ideation techniques to create breakthroughs

• How to embrace and leverage constraints to accelerate ideation

• Using team dynamics to make critical decisions fast

• Validating design ideas quickly with remote customers

• Pitching your ideas effectively and concisely

• How to create an effective MVX (Minimum Viable Experience)

• How to adopt the Design Swarms in your organization

• Get tips and insights from the creator of Design Swarms based on using this technique at large corporates, startups, and nonprofits

AGENDA

0800    Arrival and breakfast

0900    Kick-Off, Superpowers, Team Formations, Framing, Unpacking a Design Challenge, Definition, Validation, Prioritization, 7 Disruptive Ideation Techniques

1200    Break for lunch and networking across teams

1300    Idea Selection, Prioritization, Idea Exchange, Iteration, Optimization, BXT Validation, Narrative methods, Storyboards, Idea Pitch

1600    Presentations

1700    Networking and open bar

LOCATION

Deutsche Bank Innovation Labs

Hackesche Höfe (Hof 1, Aufgang 1“, 3rd floor)

Rosenthaler Str. 40-41

10178 Berlin

ABOUT SURYA VANKA

Surya Vanka is best known for his creation of Design Swarms, a light-weight, agile and adaptable lean design technique, for his work as a Director UX & Leader of the Center of Design Excellence at Microsoft and as a professor of design. He is founder of Authentic Design and has won several awards and industry recognitions. Surya is author of books on design, and his work has appeared in numerous publications and news programs, including TEDx, Form, I.D., Design Council, WIRED, Interactions & the BBC. He has consulted and taught design in more than 20 countries and at companies like Amazon, Autodesk, Microsoft, REI and T-Mobile. He is President of the Seattle Design Festival 2018 and Chair of Interaction Week 2019.

ABOUT RAYS OF SUNSHINE

Rays of Sunshine Children’s Charity exists to transform the lives of seriously ill children and their families. We do this by granting their greatest wishes and providing support to the hospitals and hospices that care for them.  Every day of the year we give brave young people, often going through painful and grueling treatment, the chance to put their illness on hold and experience moments of pure joy and magic.

Over 6,500 individual wishes have been granted since the charity was set up in 2003. Wishes can be as unique as the children themselves and whether a child wants to be a princess or a fireman for the day, go to Disneyland in Paris, visit Santa in Lapland, own an iPad, meet a favourite celebrity or even a ‘real life’ mermaid, Rays of Sunshine works hard to make that wish come true. Once a child has a wish granted with Rays of Sunshine, they become a part of the Rays of Sunshine family.

Rays of Sunshine also grants Hospital Ward Wishes and organises Hospital Activity Days which offer a distraction to hundreds of children during their time in hospital or a hospice. Events and outings are also held throughout the year for large groups of seriously ill children.

ABOUT DEUTSCHE BANK INNOVATION LABS

Deutsche Bank Innovation Labs connect technology startups with our internal teams, enabling them to adopt cutting-edge products and solutions to better serve our clients and employees. Located in London, Berlin, New York and Silicon Valley, they have three principal goals: to help the bank evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, to develop a culture of innovation and contribute to the bank's digital strategy. The Labs act as observatories for emerging technologies, connectors who understand the bank’s business needs, and offer a safe environment where ideas, technologies and concepts can be tested and iterated rapidly and efficiently.