She speaks about
designing what’s next.

Scientists believe the first person to live to 150 may already have been born. AI is both an enabler and an enhancer of this longer life. In this thought-provoking, interactive keynote, Ayse reveals longevity and AI as a powerful new innovation partnership, drawing on her research with Americans 50+ and three decades of helping leaders and organizations imagine what’s next. What future will you + AI create for this emerging long life? What’s next is far more expansive than we predict.

AI is a mirror — a reflective tool that reveals what leaders can’t see about themselves: blind spots, stakeholder perceptions, misaligned values. One executive wrote their first design brief and realized they had asked for a career, not a life. This talk equips leaders to use AI to prototype different futures and to sharpen their emotional intelligence, communication, and culture-building.

The human mind is a prediction machine. It builds tomorrow out of yesterday. Design is the work of moving from the Real to the Ideal — from what we know to what we can imagine. In thirty years of designing what doesn’t exist yet for Amazon, Herman Miller, and Toyota, Ayse uncovered something designers do instinctively but rarely name: to reach an original idea, you have to approach it sideways.

A masterclass in bringing design thinking to your own working life.

• Bring clarity to your purpose at work
• Reframe work to align with your values
• Remove self-made obstacles
• Identify opportunities to do more of what you love
• Rally collaborators around your vision

For teams at the end or beginning of a new initiative who need a shared imagined future.

• Define a shared purpose
• Build ownership across the team
• Create a safe space for learning and teaching
• Break silos

The original workshop, now experienced by thousands of people around the world.

• Break your preconceptions
• Reconnect with your values
• Visualize your future
• Prototype and live the life you love