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Creative Duel 2026
November 3 • Seattle
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Creative Duel Seattle 2026

Two sides.
No safe answers.

If AI can act on our behalf, who are we really designing for?

Two sides defend opposing answers under pressure from each other and from the room. Then leaders making these calls inside real organizations translate the debate into what you ship on Monday. We poll the room before and after, and tell you what moved.

November 3, 2026 Blink Studio, Seattle Duel followed by Leadership Panel Drinks Included Limited Seats
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NIVAN FLAGSHIP CONFERENCE

We’re back.
And we’re thinking bigger.

CHICAGO · MAY, 2027

Date + Venue To Be Announced

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TIME IS ALWAYS MOVING

The future doesn't
stay the future.

WHAT WAS Past
WHAT IS Present
WHAT'S NEXT Future
YOU ARE HERE

What is happening now was once the future. Soon, it becomes the past.

Odds Don’t Dictate Your Future.
Niketa Jhaveri Says Judgment, Curiosity, And Context Do

Featured in Forbes.

IN THE SPOTLIGHT

NIKETA JHAVERI

FOUNDER & CURATOR, NIVAN

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The Nivan Experience

One day.
Three eras.

Nivan moves across time to give emerging ideas the context they deserve. We learn from what came before, challenge what is happening now, and imagine what should come next.

01 · PAST

Reflect.

Revisit the decisions, breakthroughs, and overlooked lessons that shaped the ideas we now call new.

02 · PRESENT

Question.

Put competing perspectives in the same room and examine the tensions shaping technology, design, research, and work today.

03 · FUTURE

Reimagine.

Turn reflection and debate into better questions, new possibilities, and more intentional ways of shaping what comes next.

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SIGNATURE NIVAN EXPERIENCES

Different ways to
look again.

Nivan creates experiences that challenge how we see an idea now and give us reasons to return to it later.

SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE 01

Creative Duel

Practitioners defend opposing perspectives on questions with no easy answers, challenging assumptions and opening up new ways of thinking.

PERSPECTIVE A PERSPECTIVE B
?
TWO SIDES · ONE QUESTION
SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE 02

Time Capsule

Capture what you believe today. Encounter it again later and ask what changed, endured, or surprised you.

CAPTURE Today
REVISIT Later
YOUR PERSPECTIVE LOOK BACK ←
SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE 03

Message to the Future

Write something from this moment and send it forward to a version of yourself who hasn't arrived yet.

SEND Now
RECEIVE Future
YOUR MESSAGE MOVES FORWARD

Upcoming Events

What's Next.

Join us as Nivan travels across cities and conversations, bringing together thoughtful practitioners to reflect, question, and reimagine the future.

November 3, 2026

Nivan x Blink Seattle

Blink Studio, Seattle, Washington

An intimate gathering exploring the ideas, technologies, and conversations shaping what's next through meaningful dialogue and community.

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May 2027

Nivan Chicago 2027

Chicago, Illinois

Our flagship annual conference returns with new speakers, new experiences, and a renewed exploration of how the past informs the future of innovation.

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Creative Duel | Nivan 2026
Human Judgement vs. AI Assistance

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Why I started Nivan

A personal note on curiosity, two decades spent in research and design, and why I eventually built a place where innovation is examined across time rather than only at the front edge of it. Nivan did not start as a business idea. It started as a way of thinking I could not switch off.

Why I Started Nivan: Looking at Innovation Through the Lens of Time by Niketa Jhaveri

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