Speaking

Talks, classes, and live demos.

I speak about AI-native design: what changes for designers, and how to build with agents instead of reading about them. Most sessions end in a live demo. If you want this at your conference or meetup, email me.

What is an "AI-Native" Designer?

The Good Circle · Singapore June 2026 ~100 designers

Three myths: AI will replace designers, Figma is dead, and taste belongs to humans only. Then the role I actually see emerging, the visionary who builds, with the role-compression data behind it and an AI-101 glossary designers can use the next morning. Closing line: English is now a programming language.

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Don't Start With an App: How I Built a 20-Agent Life OS on Claude Code

AI Tinkerers · Tokyo May 2026

A live walkthrough of my Life OS: 20+ markdown-defined agents, a six-phase orchestration (research, debate, a contentment gate, synthesis, dashboard), and a deterministic scoring engine for a real decision, where to live next. The lesson: the highest-leverage agent was not an optimizer, it was the contentment auditor.

Live demo from localhost, no slides.

Pixel agents demo

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Vibe Coders Tokyo & Singapore: demos and build nights

Vibe Coders · Tokyo + Singapore Monthly, ongoing 100+ attendees per session

The community I co-founded. I host and demo regularly: the Life OS, agent workflows, and whatever I shipped that month. The format is the point: attendees do not watch an expert, they watch each other, then build. There is a champion belt someone has to defend.

A full room of attendees at tables during a Vibe Coders Tokyo meetup — A regular session.

Contest winners on stage at a Vibe Coders Tokyo build night, audience clapping — Build contest night.

A championship belt awarded to the build contest winner — The champion belt.

Upcoming sessions

DDX Tokyo

DDX · Tokyo 2026

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Tokyo Design Forum

Tokyo Design Forum · Tokyo

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UX × Eng: how designers and engineers actually collaborate

Design Buddies · online readout 2021 800 signups; the session hit the 300-person Zoom cap

The external readout of a study I ran at Google: 277 engineers surveyed on how designer-engineer collaboration really works. Inside Google the findings were adopted into the workflows of 1,700+ people and helped drive an org-wide migration to Figma.

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Google talks & workshops

Google · global (remote + Tokyo) 2019 to now 8,000+ Googlers upskilled; flagship workshop peaked at 475 live

I teach a weekly UX Strategy class on agentic design and harness engineering. Its hands-on agent-skills workshop became the most-attended UX workshop of the year at Google: 475 live at peak, 7,700+ users of its materials. 10+ Google-wide talks and workshops overall.

Anime-styled deck cover: How I Leveled Up My AI Coding, from vibe coding to systems architecture — My deck art. The slides stay visual; the room stays safe.

Curriculum slide: use the right brain, switch models based on the task — Harness engineering in plain terms.

The full story

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Career talks & guest lectures

Universities, bootcamps, and design communities 2019 to now 900+ aspiring designers in one quarter alone

Getting into design and surviving your first years in it. NUS freshman dean's opening (850 students), General Assembly guest lectures, Tech@NYU, Design Buddies, IXDA, Nanyang Girls' High, GDSC U-Sydney, and a keynote plus live prompt-wars segment at the HUENIVERSE SIN Summit.

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