Welcome to the SoDA Salon, a series of local, IRL sessions from the SoDA community. A few times a year, we’ll meet up to wrestle with a singular question or challenge alongside our peers. We’ll share advice, trade perspective, and get smarter together. Sessions will be facilitated by leaders in our community, and we’ll rotate hosts, topics, and locations. Come as you are, ready to roll up your sleeves and dig in.

Breakfast is provided.

BUCK
AUGUST 10, 2026
9 - 11 AM

Hosted By

Welcome to the SoDA Salon, a series of local, IRL sessions from the SoDA community. A few times a year, we’ll meet up to wrestle with a singular question or challenge alongside our peers. We’ll share advice, trade perspective, and get smarter together. Sessions will be facilitated by leaders in our community, and we’ll rotate hosts, topics, and locations. Come as you are, ready to roll up your sleeves and dig in.

Topics TBD. Breakfast provided.

STUDIO GRAPHENE
JULY 2, 2026
9 - 11 AM

Hosted By

Welcome to the SoDA Salon, a new series of local, IRL sessions from the SoDA community. Every quarter, we’ll meet up to wrestle with a singular question or challenge alongside our peers. We’ll share advice, trade perspective, and get smarter together. Sessions will be facilitated by leaders in our community, and we’ll rotate hosts, topics, and locations. Come as you are, ready to roll up your sleeves and dig in.

Topics TBD.

HYPERQUAKE HQ
JULY 9, 2026
9 - 11 AM

Hosted By

Livestream & Happy Hour

Join the SoDA community for our annual gathering at SxSW in Austin. We’ll open with a live stream panel discussion with leaders from Adobe, Tool of North America, HUSH and Athletics followed by a happy hour that far exceeds its 60-minute eponymous promise. The session is opened to creative leaders, friends, colleagues, and collaborators from around the globe.

Big thanks to our partners at Adobe, Craft CMS and Framer for helping us make this happen.

March 10, 2025
4-5 PM : Livestream panel discussion
5-8 PM : Happy Hour and Snacks

Beyond the Prompt: How Agencies are Leveraging GenAI to Modernize Creative Workflows

The most innovative designers, creators and marketers are quickly moving beyond the hype and adopting new methods, workflows, and tools with GenAI as a major player in their creative ecosystems. In this panel discussion, we’ll chat with leaders from world-class digital, experience, and design studios about the state of Gen AI in their agencies, how they are navigating the transformation with their clients, recent AI-fueled projects, and the concrete and practical ways they are managing this change with their own teams.

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