For Creatives, Designers,
Marketers & Product Owners.
29.10.
Helsinki
Discover How AI is Transforming Marketing, Creative Work, and Digital Product Design
Grand One AI Day brings together top experts who have successfully integrated AI into real-world projects. This isn’t just theory — you’ll hear from practitioners sharing actionable insights and compelling case studies. Join us at Vanha.
Speakers
Keynote speaker
Brad Frost
Design Systems Consultant, Author of Atomic Design
Keynote speaker
Phillip Maggs
Senior Director of AI Product
Superside
Keynote speaker
Jouke Vuurmans
Chief Creative Officer
Monks
Tiago Pinho
Head of AI, Senior Art Director
NoA | Åkestam Holst
Matias Vaara
Founder
Vaara & Co
Anna Haverinen
Lead AI Designer
Gofore
Valtteri Taube
Co-Founder
OstraconAI
Joni Juup
Founder, CDO
Intentface
BUILD SESSION HOST
Julius Thimm
Product Evangelist
Lovable
Program
Morning Session for Designers & Product Owners
Explore how AI is revolutionizing digital product and service design with practical, immediately applicable insights.
Afternoon Sessions for Creatives & Marketers
See how AI is reshaping the marketing landscape and learn how to leverage AI to drive brand success.
Workshops
Two of our speakers are also hosting workshops. Find out more below and at Grand One Masterclass site.
Morning Session
Design teams are beginning to use tools like Claude Code for more than early exploration. This year, many have started shipping design work directly in code. How can you direct coding agents to produce high-quality design work? How does this change the designer’s role?
Matias presents a set of emerging principles for agentic design. He examines how designers can frame intent, give agents the right context and constraints, and build tight feedback loops. He also explores what design and product organizations need to change as agentic tools repshape how software is built.
GenAI can now simulate user responses and generate synthetic research data without a single participant. In regulated industries like banking and insurance, where real customer data can’t be used freely, this isn’t just convenient; it’s sometimes the only ethical option available.
Through cases from regulated industries Anna shows what simulated data delivers and what it quietly leaves out. The results are fast, plausible, but structurally shallow. AI interprets human behaviour the way a tourist interprets a foreign culture: it reads the visible signals confidently and misses the meaning underneath.
But tourists can become locals. It takes time, presence, and willingness to sit with what you don’t yet understand. As GenAI makes surface-level insight cheap and fluent, the real advantage in design moves to the interpretive work no model can do.
The question isn’t whether to use GenAI in research. It’s whether you’re willing to invest in understanding how your users actually make sense of their world, or whether you’ll just settle for the postcard version.
Increasingly your customer gets what they came for without touching your interface, and the same request no longer produces the same result twice. Drawing on production work across medical search, recruitment, professional services and B2B data, Joni looks at where design still has leverage: the context the system reasons from, the moments it should ask instead of guess, and the interfaces worth building even inside someone else’s.
Never before in human history has it been possible for anyone to simply ask for something to exist, and then it just…exists. The inputs can be anything, the outputs can be anything, and the whole process can be repeated, iterated, combined, translated, and chained together indefinitely. But when anything can be generated in seconds, the hard part isn’t making things, but rather answering a deceptively simple question: is it good? This talk explores the practical ways we can wield AI and design systems together to confidently answer the question of “Is it good?” with “yes!” We’ll dig into what this new era means for our digital world and human creativity writ large.
Afternoon Session
By October 2026 Superside will have shipped 20 000+ AI creative projects – probably more than anyone in the world. This keynote is the field report: the dos, the don’ts, the expensive mistakes, and the patterns that only show up at volume. Why AI without context creates more work, not less. Why the teams seeing real ROI built systems, not tool stacks.
Most “AI for creatives” talks show you a tool and a finished asset. This one shows you the wiring in between. Valtteri tears down a set of production workflows OstraconAI runs for its clients — using Claude Code as an orchestrator that generates on-brand assets programmatically, then routes and ships them automatically through n8n.
Tiago Pinho shares what he has learned from leading AI adoption at NoA | Åkestam Holst in Stockholm — voted Swedish Agency of the Year seven times, with 500+ industry awards to its name. He talks about AI’s impact on the company’s culture and creative process, and the way big ideas come to life.
Finally change! For too long, we’ve been stuck in outdated creative methods & output. But like with every new innovation, we face the same crossroad: See it as an existential threat, a “Black Mirror” scenario. Or see it as a “WhiteCanvas”—an unprecedented opportunity to redefine creativity, unlock deeper relevance, and forge authentic human connections.
Jouke Vuurmans shares his vision for harnessing AI in the ever-evolving landscape of design and creativity. With over two decades of experience navigating tech-driven evolutions, Jouke will rally to be aggressive, bold, and massively optimistic as we lead the charge into this exciting future, while remaining mindful of our human instinct to resist change.
In this session, you’ll get tangible, real examples and applications of how AI will improve our creativity, inspirational creative work made in partnership with AI tools, and tips, tricks & insights to truly change the way you work.
You are welcome for networking & drinks also if you just take part in the Morning session.
The full program for Second Stage at upstairs will be announced in September.
Morning Session
Join us upstairs where you can continue the discussions with first keynote speaker.
Join us upstairs where you can continue the discussions with Brad about his keynote.
Afternoon Session
Join us upstairs where you can continue the discussions with Brock about his keynote.
Join us for a relaxed, hands-on build session using Lovable. We’ll kick off with a short deep-dive on Lovable beyond the basics, and show tangible use cases of how Designers, Marketers, & Product Owners use Lovable today. You will then have lots of time to build on Lovable yourself, so bring your computer and a curious mind. Credits and hands-on support will be provided.
Lovable is the software creation platform that gives people the power to act on the problems closest to them. Describe in plain language what you want to create and Lovable designs, builds, and iterates with you. When you’re ready to launch, Lovable provides the backend infrastructure to safely run and govern the software you’ve built. From solopreneurs to small business owners to teams at companies like Adidas and Zendesk, people have built over 50 million projects on Lovable since its launch in November 2024. Lovable is the fastest way to turn ideas into software people love.
Join us upstairs where you can continue the discussions with Jouke about his keynote.
Participants learn how to use tools such as Claude Code and Codex as part of a practical design workflow. Matias introduces the core principles, demonstrates how an agent can support real design work, and guides participants through an exercise in which they apply the approach themselves.
The workshop focuses on turning a design brief into useful context, including product goals and an existing design system. Participants learn how to bring components, patterns, and guidelines into the agent’s context, then steer and review the work through iteration. They leave with first-hand experience and a repeatable way to start using agentic tools in their own work.
The workshop will be led by Matias Vaara who has trained over 1,200 designers on AI from companies like Reaktor, Futurice, and RELEX Solutions.
Workshop is held in Marski by Scandic hotel in Helsinki. Lunch with the teacher and other participants is included.
AI Day participants receive a 15% discount on the workshop ticket (cannot be combined with other discounts).
Read more about the workshop
AI is here whether we’re ready or not. It’s powerful—and that means it can make a huge mess when it collides with an organization’s standards, constraints, and realities.
Design systems help teams ship consistent, high-quality UI by providing shared language, reusable parts, and guardrails across design and engineering. In this workshop we’ll combine those forces: use AI with design systems to strengthen foundations, improve product work, and responsibly explore what’s next.
The workshop will be led by Brad Frost, one of the world’s leading experts on design systems and the author of Atomic Design.
Workshop is held in Hobo Hotel in Helsinki. Lunch with the teacher and other participants is included.
AI Day participants receive a 15% discount on the workshop ticket (cannot be combined with other discounts).
Read more about the workshop
Attend
Super Early Bird
Limited to 100 tickets
Private Sector
- Full-day
- 495 €
- Half-day
- 395 €
Public Sector / Freelancers
- Full-day
- 425 €
- Half-day
- 345 €
Early Bird
Available from 9.9.
Private Sector
- Full-day
- 545 €
- Half-day
- 445 €
Public Sector / Freelancers
- Full-day
- 475 €
- Half-day
- 395 €
Normal
Available from 1.10.
Private Sector
- Full-day
- 595 €
- Half-day
- 495 €
Public Sector / Freelancers
- Full-day
- 525 €
- Half-day
- 445 €
Venue
Event will be held at Vanha. Vanha is located at Mannerheimintie 3. It can be reached with tram, train and bus. Closest stops are Ylioppilastalo, Lasipalatsi, Helsinki Central Railway Station and Kamppi Centre. Closest car park is Aimo Park Stockmann.
What is Grand One?
Grand One is the biggest digital media and advertising awards in Finland. Grand One has been awarding the best digital work since 2002. Now we want to also share the knowledge from the industry leaders by organising events like Grand One AI Day.
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Jani Järvinen
Producer
+358 40 533 8877
jani@grandone.fi