Canvs Open Studio: Designing and engineering real AI-first systems
About the event
We’re back with our third event in Mumbai, and our first Open Studio!
Join us at our Mumbai HQ for an afternoon of AI-first product demos with Zaid Mukaddam, Priyanka Kodikal and the Canvs team. We’ll explore design harnesses, decision models and AI for lifestyle products, with the creators walking through what they’ve built and the design and engineering behind it.
Designers, researchers, product people, founders, engineers and other curious tech folks are welcome to register.
What to expect
Demos by the people building them
Zaid Mukaddam | Founder, Scira.ai
Zaid will demo the decision model he built and walk us through his build process.
Priyanka Kodikal | Former CDO, Dream Sports; Former Head of Design, WhatsApp
Priyanka will share what she’s building at her current stealth sports and AI startup, where she leads Product and Design.
The Canvs studio team
Our team will demo the design harness we’re building to accelerate our product design work, taking you through the design and engineering behind it.
RSVP for a curated gathering and a closer look at the workflows and decisions behind the products.
Mixer
After the demos, stick around to meet fellow design and engineering folks, exchange notes on your craft and continue the conversations. As always, food is on us!
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Learn more about our guest speakers
Zaid Mukaddam | Founder, Scira AI
Zaid is a Mumbai-based founder building Scira, an open-source AI research assistant that searches the web, brings together findings and cites its sources. His work explores how agents can help people investigate complex questions and act on what they find. More about Zaid, Scira.
Priyanka Kodikal | Product and Design, Stealth AI Startup
Priyanka’s design career spans more than two decades, including roles at WhatsApp, Facebook and Evernote, and as Chief Design Officer at Dream Sports. She now leads Product and Design at a stealth sports and AI startup building a lifestyle product that helps players relive, share and better understand their games. More about Priyanka here.
About Canvs
Canvs is a product innovation, design and engineering studio, and long-term design partners to businesses including ICICI Bank and Aditya Birla Capital. We’re building AI products and agentic systems that put years of studio knowledge and craft to work—from research that connects discoveries across projects to design harnesses and working prototypes. This gives us more room to investigate, experiment and make better product decisions.