AWS Global Summits
Thirty-plus events a year, across every major market. The challenge with Global Summits isn’t any single show — it’s making all of them feel like the same brand showed up.
Project Role | Creative DirectorGlobal Footprint30+ events annually, every major market — the design system had to hold across production contexts that varied wildly in size, language, and local capability
Local RelevanceConsistent brand, 30+ cultural contexts — the system had to flex for language, market, and production reality without losing what made it recognizably AWS
EnablementBuilt enablement tools and templates that drove global adoption and let regional teams execute at a high level without starting from scratch
CoordinationManaged a distributed execution model across internal teams, partner agencies, and local vendors — where the brief had to be clear enough that the work didn't need me in the room
The concept started with the customer. Each attendee represented as a single pixel — not as a stylistic choice, but as a way to tell the story of what Summits actually are: people coming together. What begins as separate points becomes a gradient built by the community itself, not designed into place but revealed through participation.
From there, the work was about making that idea hold at scale. Visual language, event marketing, on-site assets, and the systems that let distributed teams execute consistently across events of wildly different sizes and contexts. Signage, wayfinding, spatial design, copy, and motion — all threaded through a single design system with enough flexibility to stay local while feeling unmistakably AWS. Templates and automation tools cut production friction significantly, letting teams move faster without sacrificing quality. The goal was a global event identity that scales without flattening.
Visual Expression
Lindsey Prestrud | Art Director
Tony Iorio | Motion Designer
Daniel Seong | Designer
Krystal Coyne | Creative Project Manager
Systems Design
Audrey Jones | Signage/Wayfinding Lead
Dan Castro | Strategy Lead
Emily Cowell | Spatial Lead
Kyle Fuson | Production Design Lead
Willa R. | Web Lead