AI, design, and tech are happening in separate rooms.
Nivan brings them 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.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

The Curator

Niketa Jhaveri

Curator

I 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.

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Our Team

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Divya Pariti

Brand & Creative
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Erin Kovach

Brand & Creative
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Juan Galavis

Brand & Creative

Jordan Anderson

Operations & Experience
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Daya Johnson

Visual Design
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Jamie Therese Nillas

Visual Design

Kamran Razi

Visual Design
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Sri Lasya Samidala

Marketing & Outreach

Alex Schulko

Content Facilitator
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Pete Wendel

Engagement & Growth

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."

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.

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