The Pre-conference event was a day full of inspiration and learning for user experience designers, UX leaders, visual designers, user researchers, front end developers, program managers, startup founders and design students. Grab an opportunity to grow and network with UX Design industry experts. where the focus was to bring engaging industry leaders to present a combination of inspirational talks and personal experiences.

My Keynote "Semantic Design System: Re-defining Design System for DesOps" was about exploring a framework to build a semantic and portable design system for collaboration and automation by machines. Here I shared my experiements with Open and semantic design systems and how we can build ontological markups to maintain new design systems that can be shared across machines for automation. This was a future looking working PoC that helped me continue sharing the mindset of DesOps for the creative industry.

"Design System" plays a critical role in bringing a common language and consistency in experience across different products and brands of the organisation, along with fuelling a collaborative approach towards design, making it easier for different team members to contribute. With observation of design systems, we can notice, almost all of them are having different structure and approach to define these, and almost none of them can be directly used in automation of design as they are not semantic in nature. Therefore most of these current approaches to design systems are not future-proof for tomorrow's design operations (DesOps). Here I coin the "Semantic Design System", that address this issue, and focuses building a design system, that is equally human-readable and at the same time understood by the machine for the next generation of design operation with automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The talk also introduces, what Samir believes as "Nuclear Design", an modelling approach that helps to lay out a framework that is the foundation for building design systems with semantics.