The room where design meets business.
Dais is a curated gathering for businesses in India's architecture and design industry seeking growth — in operations, team, and revenue. Not design talks. Business conversations.
Built to last: Designing your firm so that it lasts decades
Built to last is a Dais conversation on what it really takes to build a design firm that lasts.
Register nowDais is a platform on which design businesses come to grow.
Operations. Team. Revenue.
No portfolio presentations or aesthetic debates. Dais is about the business side of design — scaling your team, improving profitability, fixing operations, and growing revenue. The stuff that keeps a practice alive.
Small rooms, real talk
30+ decision-makers — firm founders, studio principals, and design-adjacent businesses. Intimate enough for honest conversation, diverse enough to spark ideas.
For businesses seeking growth
If you're a decision-maker serious about growing your operations, team, or revenue, this room is for you.
What happened so far.
Built to Run: Systems Every Growing Studio Needs
Built for interior design firms. Dais #2 walked through the full lifecycle of a project from a business lens — how you get leads, how you nurture them, how you select and procure materials, and how you manage site execution all the way to handover.
Form Follows Finance
The first-ever Dais brought together architects, designers, and design-adjacent businesses for a candid conversation about the business of design — the stuff the industry rarely talks about openly.
Dais #3 is our next room.
Built to last: Designing your firm so that it lasts decades
Built to last is a Dais conversation on what it really takes to build a design firm that lasts.
Register nowHelp shape the architecture community.
The community gets stronger when practitioners, brands, and collaborators build it together. Join Dais as a speaker or as a sponsor.
Bring a voice the community should hear
We want architects, studio leaders, operators, and ecosystem builders who can push the conversation forward with practical experience, not polished conference theatre.
- Stories from building enduring practices
- Lessons on leadership, systems, and growth
- Real examples the architecture community can learn from
- A point of view worth debating in the room