2025 Design Education Summit Lunch and Learns

Happening Every Day During the Summit - Join Us! 

As UCDA expands and enhances our design educator membership and community, we are working to provide substantive thought leadership, resources, networking, community, professional development, and support of best practices and excellence in design practice and design education while providing opportunities for design educators to be involved in shaping and contributing to these efforts. 

Let Us Order Lunch for You and Join Your Fellow Attendees

This is an opportunity to get the latest information, discuss topics with peers, and make your contribution to the initiatives and activities of UCDA. We will have presenters and discussion group facilitators each day. There will be time to relax, share in conversation, socialize, or just hang out. We look forward to having you join us!  

Deadline to Register for all Lunch and Learns: Friday, April 25

• Location: UNC Charlotte: Rowe Arts Building, Room 290, 9119 University Rd
• Lunch Menu: Assorted sandwich buffet including a vegetarian option, salad, chips, fruit, cookies, and drinks. 
• Cost: $20 per daily lunch. Lunches will include sandwich buffet, salad, chips, fruit, cookies, drinks. There will be a vegetarian option sandwhich.  
• Daily Lunch Tickets will be supplied at the registration table to those attendees who registered and ordered lunch. Attendees who do not order lunch are welcome to join us for the program, but will have to arrange to bring their own lunch. 

Note: These are add-on events for attendees of the 2025 Design Education Summit only. Register for the 2025 Design Education Summit first, then sign up for the lunch and learn sessions. 

TUESDAY Lunch and Learn Information

Date: Tuesday,  May 20, 2025
Time: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Topic: UCDA Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Join us for lunch as we provide a brief presentation followed by small group discussions on UCDA’s AI Strategic Initiative. This initiative aims to support design educators and design professionals by building thought leadership, resources, networking/community, professional development, and best practices guidelines for ethical and professional usage of AI in the design field.