Transform Your Conference Into an Activation Incubator
As a conference producer...
your goal is to create transformative experiences that resonate deeply with attendees and (hopefully) drive tangible outcomes. It’s the “hope” part that we help you realize.
Conferences are great at providing inspiration and motivation; but they’re weak at providing transformation and any tangible actionable outcome. Often focused on networking, augmented by keynote lectures or panels, conferences often reveal a set of “Worthy Problems”; big ideas with a clear articulation of the associated conditions requiring solutions - that conferences aren’t equipped or able to create.
We envision conferences as seeds of potential; frameworks to inspire and motivate participants around ideas, which are catalyzed for action during DesignSummits. We work with conference producers to transform the conventional conference model into an action-orientated creativity and solutions incubator.
Why DesignSummits
Every DesignSummit is an extraordinary journey where participants don’t just listen and discuss; they actively engage, shape, commit to, and co-create solutions that are actualized.
Each gathering is meticulously designed to transform visionary intentions into actionable realities, empowering participants to directly influence meaningful, measurable change in the world.
DesignSummits cultivate solutions to humanity’s "Worthy Problems", deep, pressing challenges that touch every facet of life. By ensuring comprehensive representation across diverse perspectives, we create holistic and sustainable paths forward.
Unique TMIC Advantage
Leverage the renowned
DesignShop® methodology
Created by Matt and Gail Taylor the DesignShop® method has been trusted for more than 40 years to creatively and strategically solve complex challenges at any scale, within 55% of Fortune companies, and global organizations.
Maximize Impact
Structure your events for maximum engagement, powerful discussions, and breakthrough solutions that can be acted on post event.
Expand Your Reach
Attract high-caliber participants, foster deep connections, and amplify your event’s influence and prestige.
Close the Abyss Between Talk & Action
Ensure participants not only leave motivated and inspired, but ready, willing and able to act.
Activating GroupGenius
Move from Ordinary to Extraordinary
Imagine an executive from your conference being paired to work alongside a world renowned scientist, an influential leader or a celebrity influencer who is deeply connected to the Worthy Problem. That’s serious brand power for your conference!
DesignSummits ignite dynamic, immersive, and profoundly interactive experiences. Unlike typical conferences and conventional summits, TMIC DesignSummits unlock and activate the “GroupGenius”, Matt Taylors’ term for the emergent collective wisdom, creativity, and genuine collaboration of DesignSummit participants, which emphasizes deep work through creative collaboration, shared meaning-making and collective action.
We turn normally passive participants into activated leaders for transformation. Post DesignSummit, these activated leaders continue to work together to facilitate transformation within their respective companies and organizations through TMIC’s DesignLab continuity program.
“We cannot solve our problems
with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
~ Albert Einstein
The DesignSummit Experience
Every DesignSummit is a carefully curated blend of creativity, precision facilitation, cutting-edge technology, and deep human connection.
Participants actively engage to co-create real-world actionable and implementable solutions constituted by each participant’s input and commitment that serves to catalyze possibility into actuality, in targeted themed areas.
It’s the difference between sharing ideas, and curating the by-design implementation of these ideas in the real world, with measurable effect.
This greatly expands your conference brand, revenue streams, and impact for stakeholders, while simultaneously creating community around your brand.
3 - 5 days
30-150 participants
Multi-stakeholders & domain experts (world leaders, entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, artists, philosophers and indigenous wisdom holders).
Post-DesignSummit actionable white-paper & strategic action plan documenting the work completed
Accountability metrics & continuity to produce real world results in real communities, affecting real people.
Possible “Worthy Problems”
Energy Transition
Technology
Economic Design
Conflict & War
Climate Change
Political Division
Mental Health
Indigenous
Regenerative development
Healthcare
Poverty & Inequality
Food Security
Does this sound familiar?
DesignSummits design, test, and rigorously evaluate new possibilities and future solutions previously unconsidered. Participants refine the widest set of possible solutions into practical, tangible models. The group reaches decisions, solutions, and models that meet or exceed the original summit objectives.
For this reason participants of each DesignSummit must reflect the broadest possible representation of key stakeholders around the chosen theme/problem. Since DesignSummits are where participants roll up their sleeves and work together to create actionable solutions, and to ensure the created solution is as whole and complete as possible, viewpoints from all relevant stakeholders need to be considered and integrated into the created solution to ensure comprehensiveness.
“Nothing works; no-thing works, you have to work it.”
~ Anurag Gupta, The Difference Engine
DesignLab: Continuity for Measurable Impact
The transformative energy of DesignSummits doesn’t end when the event concludes—it evolves through our DesignLab Continuity Model. Monthly virtual sessions maintain momentum, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring solutions generated at each summit translate into real-world impact.
DesignLab sessions also offer:
Consistent refinement and re-alignment to evolving global dynamics.
Engagement opportunities for new participants to connect with conference ideas year-round.
Experiential touchpoints, building lasting connections and continuously enriching your community’s experiences.
Use DesignLab to Engage
Non-Design Conference
For Participants
A separate DesignLab can also be used to virtually connect the wider non-DesignSummit conference community, keeping them engaged in conversation around themes covered at the conference, and provide them a mini-DesignSummit-based creative experience to participate in during each DesignLab.
For Non-Participants
For those who couldn’t participate in the conference or DesignSummit, DesignLab also provides an engaging experiential touch point with the conference brand; establishing continuity connecting new future attendees with ways to engage in conference branded activities year round.
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