India watches Config. Hyderabad experiences it together.

On June 28, Friends of Figma Hyderabad brings 300 designers, product managers, engineers, and founders together for a day built around one question: what does design look like from here?

The day runs on four themes "Systems, Shifts, Stories, and Spaces" across 15 sessions designed using the DEXA framework: every moment engineered for Design Energy, Experience, and Audience.

Sessions include:

Then three community opening keynotes:

• The Designer's Inheritance — Harsh Vardhan on what design carries forward through every technology shift

• Design in the Age of Abundance — Mayank Sahu on what happens when tools stop being the constraint

• Hyderabad Is Not Just Watching, It's Acting — Prashant Pandey on what the design ecosystem is building next, and why this room is its evidence

Then the sessions that go deep:

• Beyond Craft: Becoming a Strategic Design Leader — The real path from IC to leadership

• The Synthetic Colleague — A live panel with a designer, PM, and founder on what AI actually changes in how teams work

• The Resume of 2030 — An interactive session with live scenarios on which design skills survive

• The Economics of a Design Career — A fireside with live data on money, positioning, and career leverage

• Designing Possible Futures — A 75-minute 4-sprint workshop where you make something

• Learning in the Age of Intelligence — How AI is reshaping careers, creativity, and human potential. A direct look at what learning itself looks like when intelligence is no longer scarce, grounded in real, lived examples rather than predictions.

• Leading the Creative Economy with Creative Products — Strategies for design at every level. How design creates value across organisational, educational, and entrepreneurial contexts, and how creative products become drivers of economic and social impact. Grounded in real case studies of design-led ventures, programmes, and initiatives.

Who this is for:

Product designers. UX practitioners. Design engineers. Product managers. Founders. Researchers. Students who are serious. Anyone who sits at the intersection of design, product, and technology, and who wants to spend a day with 300 others who feel the same.

This is a curated event. Applications are reviewed. We are looking for people who have thought about why they want to be in this room, not for résumé credentials.

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Free to attend. Applications reviewed. 300 seats.