The most important work in
AI, design, and technology
is happening in separate rooms.
Nivan brings those rooms together.
An Innovation conference focused on Tech + AI + UX + Design, built as one table where researchers, designers, technologists, and leaders shape the future in the same conversation instead of in parallel.
Nivan 2026
In a single day, Nivan brought together the people an industry usually keeps apart.
Voices from Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft, Fidelity, Geico, and the City of Chicago.
Our Mission
Most innovation rushes forward and lets the humans catch up. Nivan flips that. We move across time with intention, we think as a community before we build, and we keep people in charge of the technology rather than the reverse.
01
HINDSIGHT → INSIGHT → FORESIGHT
We look back to learn from what came before, pause to see the present clearly, and only then move forward. Innovation as a continuum, not a sprint.
02
A COMMUNITY OF INNOVATORS
Designers, researchers, technologists, and leaders who challenge each other and build together, in the room and long after it.
03
HUMAN JUDGMENT
As AI accelerates, the decisions that matter still belong to people. Nivan keeps accountability, discernment, and care in human hands, so the technology serves us rather than the other way around.
How Nivan is Different
Nivan is designed, not scheduled.
We curate for substance over spectacle, and four signature experiences make the day unlike a standard conference.
Creative Duel
Two perspectives, one provocation, in front of the room. A structured live exchange that pushes past the comfortable consensus and lets the disagreement do the teaching.
Innovation Portals
Curated entry points into the ideas shaping what comes next, designed for people to step through, react to, and carry into their own work.
Time Capsule
A record of what this room believed about the future, sealed at Nivan and opened down the line. More on this below.
Message to the Future
Every attendee leaves a note to the people who will be solving these problems next. The day does not end when the room empties.
Our Origin
Nivan started from a belief that innovation is not a moment, but a continuum. What began as a vision to connect thinkers and builders has grown into a gathering where ideas, disciplines, and perspectives come together to design the future intentionally.
What began as a passion project has evolved into something more. We’re proud of where we’ve been and even more excited for what’s ahead.
Together, Nivan reflects a space where reflection meets conversation, and where intentional thinking becomes forward momentum. Innovating Across Time, Together.
Leave a Message for the Future
Nivan is built on the idea that innovation moves across time, not within a single moment. The Time Capsule is how we make that literal. At every Nivan, the room records what it believes about where AI, design, and technology are heading. We seal those messages and open them at the next gathering, so the people in the room can meet their own predictions, questions, and hopes again.
You do not have to wait for the next event to take part. Add your Message to the Future now, and we will read it back when the capsule opens.
What do you believe will be true about AI, design, or technology by the time we open this capsule?
From the 2026 Capsule
"In two years we stop asking whether AI belongs in the design process and start asking who is accountable when it gets the human part wrong."
"The teams that win will be the ones who kept a researcher in the room when it would have been easier not to."
“We will look back and realize the hard part was never the technology. It was deciding what was worth building."
The Curator
Niketa Jhaveri
CuratorI built Nivan because I have spent my career watching brilliant people work on the same future from rooms that never quite meet. A researcher with the insight. A designer with the instinct. A technologist with the means. Rarely in the same conversation, and the work is poorer for it.
My own path was not a straight line into any of those rooms. I grew up in Mumbai, learned English at thirteen out of sheer determination, and taught myself design from a single Photoshop CD before I ever sat in a meeting where my opinion was wanted. That distance taught me what Nivan is built to close: the gap between the people who have something to say and the room where it finally gets heard.
As Curator, my work is to design that room. To choose the voices, shape the experience, and hold the standard, so that for one day, the future gets built in the same conversation rather than in separate ones.
Our Team
Divya Pariti
Brand & Creative
Erin Kovach
Brand & Creative
Juan Galavis
Brand & CreativeJordan Anderson
Operations & Experience
Daya Johnson
Visual Design
Jamie Therese Nillas
Visual DesignKamran Razi
Visual Design
Sri Lasya Samidala
Marketing & OutreachAlex Schulko
Content Facilitator
Pete Wendel
Engagement & Growth
Nivan is one day.
The conversation is year-round.
The conference is the moment. Nivan Circle is the continuum: the year-round membership where you stay close to what comes next, get first access to tickets and Nivan experiences, and help shape where Nivan goes. Be part of what's next, not just present for one day.