Design

The Centaurs AI Summit, World Economic Forum 2025

December 2024

1. Motif
2. Slides
3. Branding
4. Graphics

Ollivier Oullier, PHD (founder/CEO of Inclusive Brains) is a neuroscientist, AI entrepreneur and investor. He was hosting a multi-speaker summit through his organization, The Centaurs, on day 1 of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Their new podcast, The Centaurs AI Podcast, launched during the summit.

I provided the pitch deck & event schedules. These materials were sent to attendees prior to the event and were used during the summit.

I was contracted to provide:

• Initial concepts
• Branding
• Decks/presentation slides
• Scheduling posters/flyers
• Lay the groundwork & systems for asset creation
• Render high-quality graphics for display (shown on CNBC coverage)

This project can be seen as an extension of my work with Stromback Venues.

For this project, the clients wanted a hyper-modern, forward-thinking aesthetic. Luxury = refinement.

Simplicity & bold contrast were heavily employed to offer stark and captivating visuals for viewers, with a sense of futuristic mystique.

I continued my goal from past deck commissions: tell visual stories while maximizing readability.

Completed materials were sent to a team in Portugal for further asset creation; ranging from videos, social content, & a website.

Project length:

2 weeks

Materials produced:

• 1 deck; Figma
• 1 deck; Google Slides
• 9 slides; Figma
• 9 slides; Google Slides
• 17 high-quality display graphics; Figma

Tools used:

• Figma
• Google Slides
• Google Drive (Team Collaboration)

Motif

We’ve all been there: you design a strong motif with simple-enough patterns, send off guidelines & mockups to your client’s team, and they return with… well, something else entirely.

This project was incredibly fast-paced, involved multiple stakeholders’ input, was under a tight deadline–and the client’s team was based in Portugal while I was based in Los Angeles.

I wanted to create a motif that could truly be easily adapted to different contexts, ensuring cohesion under these extreme constraints.

An adventurous, bold look was chosen to capture the new frontiers provided by emerging AI technologies.

Focus was placed on capturing a striking elegance, rather than an over-the-top presence.

A black base, with periwinkle accents & deep-violet undertones evoked a sense of adventure & mystery.

This motif was carried through the deck and all other assets produced for this project.

Slides

I produced the main event deck & scheduling given to attendees.

• Custom deck slides were designed in Figma.
• Slide content was produced based on an outline document (bullet-points) provided by the clients.
• Upon approval, the Figma designs were then fully recreated in Google Slides for presentation & sharing.
• Scheduling was produced based on a similar outline document provided by clients.
• Slides were prepared in Figma and sent to the team in Portugal for further asset creation.

Branding

• Branding elements, including a logo icon & wordmark, were produced for the event & podcast.
• Drawing on the clients’ existing assets and concept of the Centaur, introduced by Chess legend Gary Kasparov–revolving around the synergy of human and artificial intelligence.
• Full concept boards were produced in Figma.
• Logo concepts were mocked in Figma.
• Iterations and final renders were produced in Figma.

Graphics

• High-quality display graphics were produced for the event.
• Display backgrounds, name cards, and title cards were produced.
• Style matched the event aesthetic I created for the deck & branding.
• Concepts & final renders were produced in Figma.
• Graphics were handed off for additional asset creation to a team in Portugal.

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