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Explore Australia’s top design events with industry-leading experts throughout the year

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Design events 2025

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Conference

Accessibility and Inclusion

Can you imagine a future where products are accessible to everyone, no matter your background? Join the journey to make meaningful change in accessible design.

$395 to $495

22 May 2025

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Conference

Design Research

Put research back to the centre of your practice. Hear fresh perspectives from the biggest names in design research on adapting for today’s unique business challenges.

$395 to $495

26 Jun 2025

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Roundtable

Design Leadership

Discover the future of design leadership with Australia’s top design leaders and visionaries. Together we’ll celebrate and advance the craft of design leadership.

$395 to $495

20 Mar 2025

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We're here to celebrate, support, and grow design in Australia

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Leadership roundtables

Our highly successful roundtables format returns in 2025, where we’ll discuss three pressing topics across design leadership, network, and celebrate design together.

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Business School

Finally. A business school for design leaders and senior practitioners that bridges the increasing gap between design and business acumen. Facilitated, focused, and highly impactful.

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Design Conferences

From our large format DO festivals like DO22, DO23, and DO24, to our smaller more intimate formats like Design Research or Accessibility and Inclusion.

Community support

We sponsor and support other design events in the community, like our great friends at UX Camp Melbourne.

DO24

High Fidelity

June 20, 2024

Our third festival, and biggest yet, will bring together over 2,000 attendees for the week-long festival and explore the very best of our craft from strategic design to product and experience design. Pragmatic, inspiring, different.

Learn more about DO24

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DO23

Rediscover Creativity

May 11, 2023

Our second design festival brought together more than 1,600 people to explore creativity across several open houses, meetups, the conference day and workshops.

Learn more about DO23

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DO22

Reconnecting Design

June 2, 2022

Our first design festival reconnected over 1,200 participants to discuss design leadership, scale, impact, and the role design can play in creating better outcomes for all.

Learn more about DO22