About us
A meetup for exploring how work gets done across teams, roles, and organizations. We are a community of people who care about how our work gets done and are open to learning from others.
We bring together people from a wide range of industries and disciplines. Topics vary from session to session and may include things like facilitation, process design, collaboration, emerging technology, career pathways, or navigating complexity.
Rather than focusing on a single domain, we explore how different kinds of work get done in practice, what people are learning, and how approaches apply across fields and contexts.
Our meetups are pragmatic and experience-based. We host a mix of formats, including fireside chats, guest speakers, panel discussions, and interactive workshop-style sessions. Regardless of the topic or structure, we always make space for some open networking and community connection. Guests and attendees bring perspectives from a range of roles and levels across different types of organizations.
Our goal is to create a space where people can share how they approach challenges, make decisions, and find ways to make progress in ways that are thoughtful, grounded, and useful to others.
If you’re curious about the human side of work and how it plays out in different settings, we hope you'll join us.
Previously known as Design And.
Upcoming events
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Data Strategy Fireside Chat
·OnlineOnlineIn this session, we’ll explore how data strategy shows up in practice — not just as a plan or presentation, but in the day-to-day work of making decisions, aligning across perspectives, and moving work forward. We'll also touch on how teams are incorporating AI along the way.
Through a fireside chat with a Megan Brown, you’ll hear how this work unfolds in real environments and what it takes to make progress.Together, we’ll explore:
- How data governance relates to AI governance
- Translating priorities and strategy into day-to-day work
- Where teams tend to get stuck, and what helps them move forward
- How different perspectives come together when making decisions
- How tools like AI are being used in practice, where they help and where human judgment matters most
This session is grounded in real experience rather than frameworks or ideal-state models. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, reflect on what you’re hearing, and connect with others navigating similar challenges.
Agenda
- Welcoming and kickoff
- Fireside chat conversation with Megan Brown
- Attendee Q&A and discussion
- Networking and connection in breakout rooms
About Our Guest of Honor
Megan Brown, Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and who most recently served as Director of Starbucks Data Office, helps organizations use data to make better decisions and move work forward. Megan is known for building high-performing, inclusive teams and translating complex ideas into clear, useful narratives that connect across audiences.No matter your background, experience, or area of practice, whether you work directly with data or are part of decisions shaped by it, this session invites you to reflect on how work gets done and what it takes to make progress across teams in real-world conditions
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Please RSVP to this event as (virtual) space will be limited. If you can no longer make the event please update your RSVP status so that someone else can attend in your place.Thanks to our sponsor Navicet www.navicet.com
7 attendees
How AI can accelerate social impact
·OnlineOnlineData insights for housing, homelessness, and affordability
AI conversations often stay abstract — focused on possibilities, predictions, or future potential. In this session, we’ll explore what it looks like when AI is applied to a real-world challenge with meaningful human impact.
Join Peter Moon for a presentation and live demonstration exploring how data and AI were used to better understand housing distress, affordability, and homelessness trends through the creation of a Housing Distress Index.
Through examples, stories, and a walkthrough of the work itself, Peter will share both the process and practical realities behind building something actionable in a complex social landscape.Together, we’ll explore:
- What role humans should play
- What role AI should play
- How to move from an idea to something useful and actionable
- What outcomes become possible when data, technology, and community impact intersect
- Lessons and implications that emerged along the way
The session will include a live demonstration of the Housing Distress Index, along with reflections on what worked, what proved difficult, and what this kind of work may suggest for the future of AI-enabled social impact initiatives.
Additional themes we’ll explore include:
- How AI can support social impact work in practical ways
- Balancing human judgment with AI-enabled insights
- Translating complex housing and affordability data into usable signals
- The realities of building something meaningful in ambiguous conditions
- Lessons learned from applying AI outside of purely commercial contexts
This session is grounded in real experience rather than hype, ideal-state narratives, or technical theory. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, reflect on what you’re hearing, and connect with others interested in how technology, data, and human-centered problem solving come together in practice.
Agenda
- Welcome and kickoff
- Presentation and demonstration with Peter Moon
- Attendee Q&A and discussion
- Networking and connection in breakout rooms
About our guest of honor
Peter Moon is a Co-founder and Partner at Navicet and Co-founder of Lunous, a nonprofit organization focused on using data and technology to support community and social impact outcomes. His work spans strategy, systems thinking, organizational change, and practical applications of AI and data insights to help organizations better understand and navigate complex challenges.No matter your background or area of practice, whether you work directly with AI and data or are simply curious about how these tools are shaping real-world decision-making, this session invites you to reflect on what responsible, human-centered progress can look like in practice.
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Please RSVP to this event as (virtual) space will be limited. If you can no longer make the event please update your RSVP status so that someone else can attend in your place.Thanks to our sponsor Navicet www.navicet.com
2 attendees
Past events
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