Lessons from The Royal Academy of AI

A talk by Liz Danzico, VP Design at Microsoft AI

As a design leader, how do you create the space for your teams to learn and experiment, meaningfully, with AI? And how do you set the parameters for relevant exploration?

Liz Danzico, VP Design at Microsoft AI, shares the story of ‘The Royal Academy of AI’, one of Microsoft AI’s internal education programme. We’ll hear lessons learnt from the first year of the academy and what’s planned for its future.

Liz will offer practical approaches for delivering high-value educational training with your teams and models for embedding learning so it gets prioritised — with joy.

Liz Danzico

VP Design at Microsoft AI

Liz Danzico is a designer, educator, and writer whose work explores how technology and design shape human connection. As Vice President of Design at Microsoft AI, she leads teams creating new ways for people to search, learn, and discover with/for/alongside of AI. She is Founding Chair of the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual Arts, where she guided a generation of designers in shaping design’s role in business and society.

Previously, Liz served as Senior Vice President of Digital and Vice President of Design at NPR, bringing design practice to one of the world’s most trusted news organisations. She has collaborated with The New York Times, This American Life, Teach for All, and the TED Prize, and her ideas have appeared in The New Yorker, Wired, Fast Company, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. An advocate for design’s role in culture and society, she has been an inaugural member of Adobe’s Design Circle and a founding board member of Parsons’ Design + Journalism program, the Austin Center for Design, and AIGA NY. 

Through teaching, writing, and speaking, Liz continues to explore how creativity, responsibility, and technology come together to shape the future of design.

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