Upcoming Events
Every Thursday
3:00pm ET / 12:00pm PT
Knapsack Live Demo
Unite product, design, and engineering teams in one collaborative workspace. A flexible end-to-end design system platform paired with expert guidance, Knapsack enables enterprise teams to build better products in half the time.
Monthly
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Field Guides
Field Guides are virtual events designed specifically for the Knapsack user community. Each session explores real-life examples of how teams successfully use Knapsack features, create workflows, and define best practices. Led by our product and customer success teams, these interactive discussions encourage Knapsack users to ask questions, share insights, and learn from one another.
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August 28, 2025
Patterns | San Francisco, CA
An in-person half day summit with talks from design systems experts and hands-on workshops. A great opportunity to network with other leaders, share wins, and find solutions together in a shared safe space.
September 18, 2025
Patterns | Seattle, WA
An in-person half day summit with talks from design systems experts and hands-on workshops. A great opportunity to network with other leaders, share wins, and find solutions together in a shared safe space.
September 24, 2025
Prepare for Impact: A Conversation on AI Readiness
Generative AI is already changing how products get built, but most teams aren’t set up to take meaningful advantage of this shift. Join us for a panel discussion on what it actually takes to get enterprise-scale teams ready for AI-native product development. This conversation will help you identify where your team should focus its efforts to be AI ready.
October 8, 2025
How Knapsack’s MCP Server Operationalizes Design Systems for AI-Powered Digital Production
This live demo will showcase Knapsack's MCP server, one of the core pillars of the Intelligent Product Engine. See how our MCP server can operationalize your design system and prepare your organization for scalable, AI-native workflows.
October 9, 2025
Patterns | New York, NY
An in-person half day summit with talks from design systems experts and hands-on workshops. A great opportunity to network with other leaders, share wins, and find solutions together in a shared safe space.
November 6, 2025
Patterns | Austin, TX
An in-person half day summit with talks from design systems experts and hands-on workshops. A great opportunity to network with other leaders, share wins, and find solutions together in a shared safe space.
December 11, 2025
Patterns | Los Angeles, CA
An in-person half day summit with talks from design systems experts and hands-on workshops. A great opportunity to network with other leaders, share wins, and find solutions together in a shared safe space.
Catch up on what you've missed
May 28, 2025
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Panel | Democratizing Digital Production
If you build it, will they come? Creating documentation, and component libraries is only half the battle—getting them adopted across your organization is where the real value is found. Join us for a live panel with digital production leaders as they share how they’ve successfully scaled design systems beyond core teams to product, marketing, QA, and more. Learn practical strategies for driving adoption, securing buy-in, and building a more efficient, aligned digital organization.
April 30, 2025
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Empowering Anyone to Prototype with Production Components in Knapsack
Building a library of beautiful, reusable components is great—but if teams can’t easily work with them, what’s the point? Knapsack’s new prototyping and composition features make it quick and easy to build, test, and refine digital experiences using pre-approved, production-ready components. Combined with our new consumer user role, Knapsack lets organizations empower more people to use what your design system already has. In this webinar, we'll see how Knapsack is making prototyping easier, faster, and more impactful!
March 26, 2025
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Panel: Crafting Accessible Experiences with Design Systems
In this session, we'll hear from industry experts on the importance and impact of building a design system that bakes accessibility into the foundations of the design and code you build with. Join Cintia Romero, Homer Gaines, Josh Mabry, and Richard Banfield for practical and strategic insights to help guide and inspire you.
March 24, 2025
3:00pm ET / 12:00pm PT
Composition & Prototyping at Scale: How Teams Can Build Faster with Your Design System
Learn how to unlock the full potential of your design system by enabling more teams to prototype, iterate, and deliver high-quality products and experiences faster than ever. In this session, we’ll introduce Knapsack’s new Consumer user role, explain who it's for and showcase real-world use cases to demonstrate the business value it offers.
February 26, 2025
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Talking Tokens
Let's talk tokens! From naming to implementation to updating, tokens have a lot to offer us if managed and used correctly. Watch this recorded session for a spirited conversation with Donnie D'Amato, Jackie Lai, Miranda Bouck, and Christopher Bloom.
February 12, 2025
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
'24 Product Highlights & '25 Feature Roadmap
2024 was a big year for the Knapsack platform. We launched Figma integration, token imports, theming, prototyping, and many other feature and functionality improvements. In this webinar, Knapsack leaders Andrew Rohman and Evan lovely recap the most significant product launches from 2024 and share the vision we are working toward in 2025.
October 23, 2024
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Knapsack Q3 Platform Updates: New Features and What's Next
The Knapsack product engineering team deep dives into the key product updates and releases from Q3 2024. Get first-hand insight into how Knapsack makes it easier for development and design teams to get work done and drive efficiency. Plus, our engineers answer your questions about what's coming and how we're thinking about the future of digital production and Knapsack.
September 25, 2024
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Future-Proofing Design-to-Code Workflows
This panel discussion centers on strategies for minimizing design-to-code disparities, and how organizations can create a unified approach to streamline workflows, reduce rework, elevate product quality, and prepare your design system for the demands of tomorrow.
August 14, 2024
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
New Ways of Working: Unlocking the Promise of Design Systems for Digital Production
Digital production processes are, in many ways, still rooted in print production. To take full advantage of digital technology and design systems, digital product teams must create systemic workflows rooted in code. In this session, we look at the history of digital production and how new ways of working can help accelerate production and increase efficiency.
July 10, 2024
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
Design Systems for Data-Rich Experiences
Andrew Rohman, Knapsack’s EVP of Strategy, moderates a panel discussion on the unique challenges design system teams face when supporting data-rich product experiences and UIs.
May 22, 2024
1:00pm ET / 10:00am PT
How to Craft a Business Case for Design System Investment
Design systems have tremendous potential to drive innovation, competitive advantage, time and cost efficiencies, and generate revenue. Join Knapsack’s Richard Banfield for a practical discussion on how to measure and prove the value of a design system for your organization to get executive buy-in.
April 10
1PM ET / 10AM PT
Webinar: Systems of Systems and Theming in Design Systems with Brad Frost
Brad Frost and Chris Bloom discuss effective strategies for cohesive and scalable digital product operations.
March 20, 2024
1PM ET / 10AM PT
Advanced Integration with Figma in Knapsack
Learn how to leverage Figma’s powerful REST API with Knapsack
March 6, 2024
12PM ET / 9AM PT
Livestream: DS Field Guide with Morgane Peng, Societe Generale
The Design Systems Field Guide livestream is excited to welcome Morgane Peng
February 7, 2024
1PM ET / 10AM PT
Livestream: DS Field Guide with Jennie Yip, Atlassian
On the upcoming livestream of the Design Systems Field Guide we are welcoming Jennie Yip, the Principal Design Architect of the Atlassian Design System. With Jennie, we'll discuss systems thinking specifically addressing its application and challenges at the expansive scale of Atlassian.
January 31, 2024
1PM ET / 10AM PT
Webinar: Managing Change in your Design System with Nathan Curtis
Nathan Curtis and Andrew Rohman discuss workflows and change control at enterprise scale.
January 10, 2024
12PM ET / 9AM PT
DS Field Guide Livestream: Naming Things is Hard
Kevin Muldoon, Lead Design Technologist - Design Systems at Dow Jones, has some fun thoughts about how "naming things is hard" that relate to language, culture, and the way we all share ideas. Tune in!
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Our team has spent years building and scaling successful design systems for industry giants. Clients receive premium support with access to seasoned design system managers, designers, and engineers.
