Dignified Futures Conference

Dignified Futures Conference We believe in the power of design to drive much needed change in health.

We have the power to positively affect human lives through design technology in the healthcare space. This conference will bring together the best and the brightest to explore the toughest challenges, present new solutions, collaborate, connect, and be inspired to go and create the results we need to see.

Did you have Dignified Futures Conference FOMO? We have your cure right here. 💊We heard from people who attended the con...
04/15/2026

Did you have Dignified Futures Conference FOMO? We have your cure right here. 💊

We heard from people who attended the conference that they wish they were able to attend ALL the workshops and we heard from people who didn’t attend the conference that they wish they were there!

So, we created a Virtual Workshop Week to enable people to attend the workshops they weren’t able to. We are so grateful to our workshop leaders for doing this ENCORE series!

🌎 Monday 5/11: Navigating Tension and Creating New Possibilities with Polarity Thinking
🫶 Tuesday 5/12: Grief Doesn't Clock Out
🪄 Wednesday 5/13: Influence: Using Your Powers for Good
🔮 Thursday 5/14: Future of US Healthcare 2050
⛰️ Friday 5/15: Reciprocity by Design: Reconnecting People, Place & Purpose

The series will be hosted on Zoom each day from 12:00-2:00 Eastern.

Workshops are complimentary for all those who were on the attendee list of the 2026 Dignified Futures Conference, using the discount code IWASTHERE.

Get ready to roll up your sleeves and listen, feel, communicate, envision and immerse in new ways! Don’t miss out again and register today!

🏅 The Olympics may be over… but we’re still handing out gold medals.This one goes to Takeda, our Gold Sponsor at Dignifi...
02/26/2026

🏅 The Olympics may be over… but we’re still handing out gold medals.

This one goes to Takeda, our Gold Sponsor at Dignified Futures 2026. 🥇

No ski jumps required. Just bold leadership, real commitment, and a shared belief that the future of health should be built with dignity at the center.

Thank you for bringing true gold-medal energy to this work. We’re proud to have you on the team as we build what’s next.

02/16/2026

Dignified Futures, served fresh. 🌱

Rebecka Sexton is flipping the script on healthcare and asking:
What if food wasn’t an afterthought… but actual infrastructure? 🍓🏥

Think:
🥦 Reimbursable food programs
🤝 Cross-sector collabs
📊 Tech + learning systems
❤️ Outcomes rooted in dignity

📍 Chicago Institute of Design
📅 March 18–19, 2026
🔗 Get your tickets at https://lnkd.in/git3n2p8

This Valentine’s Day, we’re breaking up with 😐 design and falling hard for 🥹💖✨ design.Introducing the Love & Joy Ignite ...
02/12/2026

This Valentine’s Day, we’re breaking up with 😐 design
and falling hard for 🥹💖✨ design.

Introducing the Love & Joy Ignite Talks with Himanshu Bharadwaj, MDes, MFA and Matthew McCurdy— where love is strategic, joy is mandatory, and designing from deficit is dumped via text.

Expect:
💌 Health equity through bodegas
🫶 Care-first systems that actually care
🧠 Big-brain ideas with soft, beating hearts
😭 Light crying. Deep connection. New besties.

💘 VALENTINE’S GIFT:
Use code LOVE for $200 off
⏰ Valid through Sunday at midnight PT (don’t ghost this)

📍 Chicago Institute of Design
📅 March 18–19, 2026

02/10/2026

We’re so so excited to welcome Rachel Kantrowitz with her talk
🔥 Epistemic Dignity: Designing for Collective Liberation 🔥

This isn’t design as extraction or trend-chasing “innovation.”

It’s design that names erasure, rejects colonial shortcuts, and honors where ideas actually come from.

02/05/2026

🚨 SPOILER: It’s not a motivation problem. It’s a design problem. 🚨

Meet Steph Habif, EdD, MS 👋

Behavioral scientist. Design leader. Human-first tech truth-teller.
From advancing automated insulin delivery at Tandem Diabetes Care to advising teams building the next generation of adaptive health tech, Steph lives at the intersection of behavior change, AI, and real human life.

🎤 In her talk, “Avoid a One-Hit Wonder: Design for Intermittent Use,” Steph flips the script on engagement:
What if people don’t “drop off” because they failed…
What if our systems failed to honor how humans actually behave?
Health isn’t continuous. Motivation isn’t linear. Life is seasonal.

Watch her video 👇 and get ready to rethink everything you thought you knew about engagement.

Food is doing…a LOT. 🌱😮Medicine. Systems. Equity. Care.Our next Ignite Talks go from farm to Rx to community impact—spot...
02/05/2026

Food is doing…a LOT. 🌱😮

Medicine. Systems. Equity. Care.

Our next Ignite Talks go from farm to Rx to community impact—spotlighting the people and ideas reshaping how food nourishes bodies and systems.

These Ignite Talks are fiery, and full of ideas you’ll be thinking about long after your lunch break. 👀🔥

📍 March 18–19, 2026 | Chicago Institute of Design
👉 designfordignity.com

01/27/2026

🩺 Trust in healthcare is fragile.
🚧 Access is shrinking.
🤔 So… what do we design now?

🎥 Meet Laura Santoso, MD—internal medicine physician, design leader, and systems thinker at Cityblock Health.

In “Bridging the Divide: Designing for Access and Trust in a Turbulent Healthcare Landscape,” Laura takes on the big questions:
⚡ How do we expand access when resources are tight?
💻 Can tech and virtual care connect—without isolating?
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Can community-based care scale in a broken system?

This talk is about designing healthcare that works with people, not around them.
You don’t want to miss this one. 💥

🔥 LIBERATION ISN’T A TREND. IT’S A RESPONSIBILITY. 🔥At Dignified Futures 2026, our Ignite Talk theme, Liberation, brings...
01/21/2026

🔥 LIBERATION ISN’T A TREND. IT’S A RESPONSIBILITY. 🔥

At Dignified Futures 2026, our Ignite Talk theme, Liberation, brings together voices who are actively reshaping what design can and must do.

⚡ Kel Smith on how digital outcasts are already building more humane tech
⚡ Jessica Meharry on queering empathy and redesigning care + power
⚡ David Rojas-Leon on health, migration, and designing for collective care
⚡ Rachel Kantrowitz, PhD on epistemic dignity and designing futures where all knowledge counts.

This is design that confronts exclusion.
Design that amplifies marginalized voices.
Design as an ongoing commitment to dignity, care, and collective liberation.

📍 March 18–19, 2026
If you’re ready to design futures where everyone belongs — this is your room.

🔗 Register: dignifiedfutures.com

ICYMI: We have extended our call for speaker presentations deadline to Sunday, December 6th at midnight ET! Join us as a...
12/01/2020

ICYMI: We have extended our call for speaker presentations deadline to Sunday, December 6th at midnight ET! Join us as a speaker in April and help accelerate much needed transformation in our health system. Learn more and apply: https://bit.ly/3lr0i0w

Have you registered for IDSA’s virtual Medical Design Deep Dive (Nov. 12-13)? Tickets are going fast—learn more and secu...
11/09/2020

Have you registered for IDSA’s virtual Medical Design Deep Dive (Nov. 12-13)? Tickets are going fast—learn more and secure your spot today at IDSA.org/MDDD2020.

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