SOLD OUT: Gen AI for Designers: Vibe-Coding Prototypes

* This is an in-person event

You already know AI is changing design. A series of bold old apps and new ones are dramatically cutting down time, costs, and people, needed to make prototypes and full-scale digital products. It’s moving quickly, and new capabilities are seemingly being added every week. The good news is that you don’t need a coding background to use the latest tools to turbocharge your design practice.

Join us for an expert session led by Amitabh Saxena who will explain the core principles of Generative AI, and where it is impacting different areas of a business model and within the design value-chain. We'll also explore the recent trend of “vibe coding”: what it is, why it matters, review leading tools (Bolt, Lovable, v0, Replit, Cursor), and discuss when to use each one. Using some mock examples, we’ll do a live, interactive vibe-coding demo of a high-fidelity prototype, and then break into small groups so you can try it out on your own.

This mini-workshop, which is part of a longer training course, aims to provide both theoretical underpinnings of Gen AI and vibe-coding as well as hands-on experience using AI to quickly build rapid prototypes. Importantly, it aims to demystify key terms and empower designers – regardless of their coding experience – to use these tools with confidence. Participants are encouraged to bring their laptop.

Agenda:
6:30 - Networking
7:00 – Gen AI principles + Impact on Design Value-Chain
7:15 – Vibe-Coding: Cutting Through the Noise
7:30 – Live Demo and Q&A
8:00 – Small Group Hands-On Exercise: Building Your Prototype
8:30 – Share-Out and Wrap-Up

Meet our workshop presenter
Amitabh Saxena has 20+ years hands-on experience in fintech and product innovation in over 25 countries in the US, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. As Founder and Managing Director of Digital Disruptions, a global innovation consultancy, he has led engagements with public sector clients (e.g., International Monetary Fund, United Nations, GSMA) and private sector ones (e.g., Vodafone M-Pesa, Mastercard, Amazon, Ecobank, VC-backed start-ups) alike since 2014. He has also provided training on innovation methodologies to clients such as the IFC and DAI, led capacity-building workshops on Gen AI to fintech start-ups, and has written thought-leadership reports for clients such as the World Economic Forum and USAID.

Before founding Digital Disruptions, he worked in innovation units for several organizations. He was previously Vice-President for Mastercard’s Emerging Products team, and previously started and led the Alternative Channels practice area for Accion International, consulting to its global network of financial institutions, based out of the firm’s Bogotá, Colombia and Washington, DC offices. Amitabh also worked for the GSMA’s Mobile Money team in London and for Jamii Bora Bank in Nairobi, Kenya. He started his career as a Product Manager in the Product Innovation Center at Capital One.

Based on Washington, DC, Amitabh is fluent in English, French, and Spanish, and holds an MBA from INSEAD (France/Singapore) and a Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering from McGill University from his native Montreal, Canada. He previously served as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business, where he taught an MBA course on New Product Development for 5 years, and taught Design Thinking and Lean Start-Up classes at the university’s Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.