Fireside Chat with Figma’s Alex Mullans (Product Lead, AI Platforms)

​Join for a lunch and learn fireside chat in conversation with Alex Mullans (Product Lead, AI Platforms @ Figma) and Aaron Veale (Founder of Planet Food).

​Agenda

​11:45 AM: Doors Open
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM: Fireside Chat
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM: Q&A

Sponsors:
1) We’ll have coffee (by Ocean 6 / Alicia)
2) Snacks / drinks (by Steve, Bill & Ryan)
3) Lunch covered by Jobber. (Lynsey & team)

​Speakers:

• ​Alex Mullans (Product Lead, AI Platforms @ Figma)

• ​Aaron Veale (Founder / CEO, Planet Food)

​​About:

​Alex Mullans leads Figma’s AI Platforms team — the group behind Figma Make and the new Code in Figma framework unveiled at Config 2025. He wrote the original pitch deck for what became Figma Make and has been instrumental in defining how builders design and ship products in this next era.

​Joining him is Aaron Veale — serial entrepreneur and Founder & CEO of Planet Food, a startup reimagining Earth’s Super-Intelligent Food System and an early adopter of Figma Make, featured in an upcoming Figma Shortcut article this November.

​Fireside Topic:

​The New Playbook for Builders: The startup world is shifting under our feet. The frameworks that shaped the last decade — Lean Startup, Design Sprints, YC’s founder playbook — were built for a different era. But today, AI, agents, and new infrastructure are rewriting the rules in real time.This fireside isn’t about revisiting the past. It’s about co-creating the future.

​We’re bringing together the people building the tools, designing the systems, and rewriting the workflows — so we can collectively define the next generation of playbooks.

​If you’re a founder, designer, engineer, or a product team who wants to shape what comes next — not just follow what’s come before — this conversation is for you.

​Hosted by:
William Johnson
Aaron Veale