mcbw design summit 2026

A day full of design and inspiration

Save the Date - Design Summit 2026

Mark your calendar! On May 4, 2026, the Design Summit will be one of the absolute highlights of munich creative business week. Look forward to an event where designers, makers and thought leaders from all over the world come together to shed light on the annual motto Playground of Possibilities from new perspectives.

Get your ticket now: https: //www.mcbw.de/design-summit-2026

The all-day conference brings together internationally renowned speakers who will shed light on current trends, visionary impulses and interdisciplinary design perspectives around the annual motto in talks and panel discussions. Following the day's program, we invite you to the mcbw get-together to round off the evening together.

With keynotes from:

• Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design critic and author of design books, most recently Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, weekly design column New York Times
• Roberto Verganti, holds Josefsson Family Chair for Art and Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics, Visiting Lecture Harvard Business School, co-founder Ladin' Lab
• Marije Vogelzang, visinoary designer, speaker and author, pioneer of food design
• Friedrich von Borries, Professor of Design Theory at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts
• Emmi Salonen, designer and educator, author of The Creative Wellbeing Handbook, developer of the Creative Ecosystem Model
• Hideaki Ogawa, Artistic Director of Ars Electronica Futurelab, the research and development department of Ars Electronica, Director of the Sapporo International Art Festival 2024 and Creative Director of Civic Creative Base Tokyo
• Filiipo Pagliani, partner and co-founder of Park Associati
• Jessie Storey, Director Product Development Studios and Design, EMEA, Steelcase