Suites Seminar Room, T-1022
It sounds counterintuitive, but the designers doing the most creative work aren't the ones with the most freedom - they're the ones with the strongest systems. Mary Beth Chau, co-founder and CEO of Materio and host of the Designing Tomorrow podcast, moderates a conversation with Ali Faulkner, founder of AEF Interiors, and Jamie Gasparovic, founder of Studio Gaspo - two principals who have built the operational infrastructure that gives their creativity room to breathe. Together, they unpack how streamlining your project delivery, client communication, and back-end workflows doesn't constrain your design vision - it protects it. Walk away with a concrete framework for building a firm that runs as beautifully as the spaces you design.