Join Denver's top innovators for a full-day workshop on mastering design sprints, led by the guy who wrote the book (literally): Jake Knapp.

In this jam-packed workshop, you’ll learn and master the tools, techniques, and framework used by teams at Google Ventures, Slack, Uber, and more, to facilitate breakthrough ideas, solve challenges, and validate solutions. Gain practical know-how for answering complex business challenges, and explore topics ranging from behavior science to market strategy with one of design’s leading innovators.

You’ll learn how to:

• Confidently lead a team through a sprint

• How to define and prioritize challenges, and choose best starting point

• Identify crucial business and product questions

• How to create product/service concepts to test against these challenges

• How to decide what concepts to test under extreme time pressure

• Make smart decisions without lengthy discussion

• Conduct 1:1 customer interviews to test hypotheses

• Integrate sprint methods into your product development calendar—and your normal workday

• How to produce a huge quantity of solutions to various challenges

• And lots more!

What can participants use these techniques for?

• Digital Product Design

• Defining and Designing new products

• Creation and Testing of Business Model Concepts

• Solving big internal problems (culture, process etc)

• Service Design

• Solving Logistical Problems

• Branding Projects

• Physical Product Design

• App Design

Who is this for?

There are limited seats available. Here's who should attend:

• Startup founders

• Executives and Innovators at large companies

• Team leaders and managers

• Product managers

• Marketers

• Designers

• Engineers

Should you come as an individual, or should you come as a team?

Individuals and company groups are encouraged to attend! Individuals will be able to work on a team with people from different companies. Companies sending more than 5 people have the option to reserve their own table to discuss a real-world challenge.

Who is Jake Knapp?

Jake Knapp the New York Times bestselling author of Sprint. He spent ten years at Google and Google Ventures, where he created the Design Sprint process and ran it over 150 times with companies like Nest, Slack, 23andMe, and Flatiron Health. Today, teams around the world—from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500s to schools and governments—are using Design Sprints to solve big problems and test new ideas.

Previously, Jake helped build products like Gmail, Google Hangouts, and Microsoft Encarta, and nowadays, he's writing new books and hanging around IDEO as a Visiting Fellow. Jake is currently among the world’s tallest designers.

Student? We set aside a limited number of tickets for students at a discounted rate. Email mfacchinello@cliquestudios.com for more information.