SEP
18–19Two days · 2026
Held at
Le Champ
Mile End,
Montreal
Design ⟶ Tech
Two days.
One field,
redrawn.
Solstice is where designers and engineers stop trading screenshots and start building together. Two days of talks, workshops, and one very loud closing party.
DESIGN ENGINEERINGMOTION SYSTEMSAI INTERFACESTYPE & TOOLINGLIVE WORKSHOPSCLOSING PARTY
DESIGN ENGINEERINGMOTION SYSTEMSAI INTERFACESTYPE & TOOLINGLIVE WORKSHOPSCLOSING PARTY
10:30
Nadia Aren
Principal Design Engineer, Figma
How a 9-person team shipped a motion language that 4 million people now use without ever noticing it.
Keynote · Stage A
13:15
Kwame Osei
Creative Director, Field Studio
Designing with code as the source of truth. Why the handoff is dead and what replaces it on a real team.
Talk · Stage B
16:45
Lena Roth
Head of Platform, Linear
Interfaces that feel fast before they are fast. A live teardown of perceived performance, frame by frame.
Workshop · Lab 2
Day shape
09:00 Doors & coffee
10:30 Opening keynote
12:00 Lunch on the field
13:15 Track sessions
18:30 Closing party
The full field · forty speakers
The rest of the forty.
New names drop every week until doors. Pass holders vote on the final two workshop slots.
Ivo Marchetti
Motion Lead, Vercel · Stage A
Saanvi Rao
Design Systems, Stripe · Stage B
Cole Whitfield
Staff Engineer, Linear · Lab 1
Mira Sundqvist
Type Designer, Grilli · Stage A
Felix Adeyemi
Creative Dev, Active Theory · Stage B
Hana Petrova
Prototyper, Figma · Lab 2
Diego Salvador
Head of Design, Raycast · Stage A
Yuki Tanaka
WebGL, Studio Output · Lab 1
Noor Haddad
Product Design, Arc · Stage B
Émile Fontaine
Design Engineer, Rive · Lab 2
Priya Nair
Brand & Motion, Mailchimp · Stage A
Tomas Berg
Frontend Architect, Vimeo · Stage B
Aisha Bello
Interaction, Instrument · Lab 1
Lukas Hoffmann
Generative, Onformative · Stage A
Remy Okonkwo
Design Tooling, Notion · Lab 2
+22 speakers still to be announced·Workshops cap at 30 seats each
The venue
Le Champ,
Mile End.
A former rail depot turned open field of color. Six stages under one steel roof, ten minutes from downtown, fully accessible.
Getting there
Rosemont metro, 6 min
Passes
Pick your two days.
Prices rise at each tier. Early Bird closes when the counter hits zero.
$190per one day
Day Pass
- All talks on a single day
- Access to two stages
- Lunch on the field
- Recordings after the event
Choose day pass →
$340both days
Early bird · 41 left
Full Festival
- Every stage, both days
- Hands-on workshop seats
- Closing party + after-hours
- Speaker dinner lottery entry
Get the full pass →
$1,290per team
Crew of Five
- Five full festival passes
- Reserved front block seating
- Private workshop booking
- Invoice billing available
Bring the team →