Edition 2027
Design’s influence extends far beyond products, interfaces, or business outcomes.
It shapes how people behave, how organisations think, how societies evolve, and how futures unfold. Every design choice, whether big or small, sets off ripples across systems we often don’t see and rarely measure. Yet the world’s understanding of design’s impact remains narrow.
We celebrate surface-level wins: higher engagement, faster growth, smoother usability, refined aesthetics. But beneath these visible gains lies a much deeper landscape of consequences: psychological, cultural, ecological, organisational, ethical, and systemic. Designers influence these every day, often without naming or fully recognising them.
The real question is
This edition would uncover …
What Participation as a Design Leader Looks Like
Heads of Design, Design Directors & VPs, Senior ICs from leading product and creative teams, Founders of design-led companies, and Experienced designers evolving into leadership roles
At the end of the edition year, Moonshot publishes the Moonshot Report / Book, a curated synthesis of the strongest learnings, patterns, and language that emerged across rooms. This becomes a durable public artefact that extends the life of the conversations beyond the event cycle.
Participating Design leaders gain Royalties. Sponsors and host partners are credited according to their level of engagement.
And counting…
Participation model
Selection in Moonshot Assembly is approval-based (to protect trust, signal, and intimacy)
Contributor
Join Moonshot Assembly as a participating design leader and contribute your perspective to the 2026 theme.
$249/edition
Participate in a curated mixer
Selected updates from the initiative
Eligible to be acknowledged as a contributor on participation in one Mixer.
Council Member
Take a deeper role in the year-long synthesis process and engage with material emerging across Moonshot Mixers.
Paid • Selected from participants
Participate in council synthesis sessions and selected draft-stage discussions.
Includes deeper access to curated material
Recognised as a Moonshot Council Member. Limited to 10 members per country.
Co-author
Selected Council members work closely with EPC on framing, synthesis, writing, or review of the final publication.
Selected council members
Meaningful editorial contribution
Includes deeper access to curated material
Credited as a Co-author in the final report/book.
All participating leaders are credited as contributors and share royalties from book/report sales (shared across credited leaders, subject to participation level)