So, this is happening
Your handy calendar of Ueno-related events
At Ueno, we like to talk almost as much as we like to listen. That’s why we regularly host all kinds of events. And because our people are pretty great they often get asked to speak at other people’s events. It’s all here, on this page.
Want someone from Ueno to speak at your event? Looking for a space to host your own world-improving event? Let’s talk.

Chatty Hour with Claudio Guglieri
Claudio is a Designer and Creative Director working on digital products based in San Francisco, California.

Chatty Hour with Felipe Rocha
Felipe is a Brazilian designer and art director who has worked with Spotify, Snapchat, The New York Times Magazine, Pepsico, Unilever, and Benetton.

Good Measure NYC
We’re hosting an event to design and build a brand & website for a nonprofit all in 72 hours with our friends Good Measure. Join us!
Past events

*Special* Chatty Hour with Olafur Arnalds
We’ll be chatting with Olafur Arnalds, Icelandic composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and all around nice guy. Note the special time: 1:00pm PT

Chatty Hour with Marta Caro
Marta is a Barcelona-born graphic designer and art director. Her work spans from interactive, branding and editorial, video editing, to art direction.

Designers + Geeks - Visions of the Future
Karli will discuss how to achieve your goals through a balance of presence and planning, and how we at Ueno make it happen!

Chatty Hour with Pablo Stanley
Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer based in San Francisco. He is the lead designer for the InVision Studio Platform.

Chatty Hour with Victoria Joh
Victoria Joh is a Korean-American illustrator and designer interested in exploring human connections through storytelling and world-building.

Chatty Hour with Tandem
Tandem NYC is the small-but-mighty design studio behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign brand and visual identity.

Dribbble Hang Time Los Angeles
Ueno’s CEO Halli will speak at the full-day inspiration fest for designers.

Awwwards Conference
Our Executive Creative Director David Navarro will share stories about Ueno at the Awwwards Digital Thinkers Conference in New York City.

Chatty Hour with Kosmoss
The team at Kosmoss specialize in capturing deep-space objects and delivering them to living rooms via metal Chromaluxe prints.

Chatty Hour with Reina Takahashi
Reina Takahashi creates art with hand-cut paper. Her work has appeared in magazines, on book covers, as window installations, and more.

KIKK Festival
Ueno’s Design Lead Marco Coppeto will speak about how designers can find their own voice, evolve, and lead the change we face every day.

Chatty Hour with Nicole Salmeri
Nicole Salmeri is a director, editor, and photographer who has worked with clients such as Mini Cooper, Instagram, & Amazon Games.

Chatty Hour with Björn Steinar
Björn Steinar is a product designer based in Reykjavík who strives to bring societal change through his design practice.

Chatty Hour with Jennifer Hom
Jennifer is is the Experience Design Manager of Product Illustration at Airbnb, where she is redesigning their illustration system from the ground up.

Chatty Hour with Thierry Blancpain
Thierry is a co-founder of Grilli Type and the principal at Informal Inquiry, a New York-based branding and interaction design studio.

Chatty Hour with Roman Muradov
Roman Muradov is an award-winning author and illustrator living in San Francisco.

Chatty Hour with Ashley Christiano & Barjinder Singh
Ashley Christiano, Senior Marketing Manager and Barjinder Singh, Product Manager at Reuters will chat about the brand new Reuters News app.

Chatty Hour with Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz
Nicholas is Director of Development at The Long Now Foundation, a nonprofit organization working on the next 10,000 years.

Chatty Hour with Robert Surrency
Robert Surrency is a product designer, photographer and mental health advocate based in San Francisco.

Chatty Hour with Iheanyi Ekechukwu
Iheanyi is a product engineer at DigitalOcean. He builds products and co-hosts the Two Black Nerds podcast.

Draft & Draw
Get your pencils ready! Ueno NYC will host Draft & Draw at our Soho office from 7-10pm.

Designers + Geeks: Agents of Design
Our very own Aaron Poe will speak alongside Lance Cassidy, Founder & CEO OF DX Labs Design and Kristin Skinner, Head of Design Management at Chase.

Chatty Hour with Kelli Anderson
Kelli is an artist/designer and tinkerer who is always experimenting with new means of making images and experiences.

Chatty Hour with Tina Roth
Tina Roth Eisenberg (also known as swissmiss) is the founder of CreativeMornings and creator of other things like Tattly, TeuxDeux and FRIENDS.

SF Design Week Studio Crawl
We’re opening our doors for SF Design Week’s Studio Crawl from 6-9pm.

Chatty Hour with Jared Erondu
Jared Erondu is the Head of Design at Lattice, where he’s helping shape the next generation of employee-first HR software.

Chatty Hour with Robyn Kanner
Robyn Kanner is co-creator of MyTransHealth, and has designed with companies like Etsy, Amazon, New Balance, and Staples.

Haraldur Thorleifsson at Awwwards SF
Halli, founder and CEO of Ueno, shares “Six stories from my life” at the design conference.

Chatty Hour with Heather Phillips
Come hang out at Ueno! We’ll be chatting with Heather Phillips, a design manager at Designer Fund.

Chatty Hour with Jeremiah Shaw
Jeremiah Shaw works at Google designing 3D games for kids - previously at Dropbox, Apple and Color Labs.

Chatty Hour with Signe Birck and Danny Setiawan
We’ll chat with Signe Birck, a food photographer for NYC’s top restaurants, and Danny Setiawan, a UX designer who also runs a body painting studio.

Chatty Hour with Loredana Crisan
Loredana Crisan is the head of design for Messenger, an app used by over 1.3 billion people around the world.

Chatty Hour with Meg Robichaud
Come hang out at Ueno! We’ll be chatting with Meg Robichaud, who leads the illustration team at Shopify.