Milano • Palermo
7-9 May 2026
Superstudio Village

Milano
7-9 May 2026
Superstudio Village

Milano
7-9 May 2026

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digital design days milano 2026

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Itay Schiff Figma Weave (Weavy)

Co-Founder

THE SPEAKER

Itay Schiff is the Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Weavy (now Figma Weave). With 25 years in post-production and VFX, he leads Weave's vision of Artistic Intelligence, scaling ideation and media creation.

Previously co-founder and co-CEO of Astria, AI-powered image generation platform. Earlier career: VP of Creative at both Gravity Creative Tech and Atrea. Spent approximately 25 years in post-production, working with visual effects and high-end video editing tools like Flame, Nuke and After-Effects. Also VFX artist, creative director, and ran motion graphics studio. Co-founded Weavy with Jonathan Gur-Zeev driven by vision that AI should be treated as raw material requiring craft rather than magic button. Experience taught importance of professional-grade control and craft of visual storytelling. Background in animation and creative direction shapes approach to AI as tool amplifying human creativity rather than replacement.

the company

Figma is the platform where teams turn ideas into the world's best digital products and experiences. Founded in 2012, Figma has evolved from a design tool to a connected, AI-powered platform that helps teams ideate, design, build, and ship. Products include Figma Design, Dev Mode, FigJam, Figma Slides, Figma Draw, Figma Buzz (Beta), Figma Sites (Beta), Figma Make, AI features, and MCP. Went public July 2025 on NYSE (ticker FIG), currently $24B valuation. Clients include Airbnb, Atlassian, Dropbox, Duolingo, GitHub, Microsoft, Netflix, The New York Times, Pentagram, Slack, Stripe, Zoom.

Figma Weave (previously Weavy) is AI-native creative platform acquired by Figma October 2025. Founded Tel Aviv 2024 by Lior Albeck (CEO), Jonathan Alumot (CTO), Jonathan Gur-Zeev (CPO), Itay Schiff (CCO). Node-based approach brings world's leading AI models with professional editing tools on single browser-based canvas for image, video, animation, motion design, and VFX. Users choose model for task (Seedance/Sora/Veo for video; Flux/Ideogram for realism; Nano-Banana/Seedream for precision) and compose outputs using generative AI and hands-on edits. Outputs can be branched, remixed, refined. Mission: "artistic intelligence"—combining human artistry with intelligent systems. Raised $4M seed (Entrée Capital, Designer Fund, Founder Collective, Fiverr founder Micha Kaufman). Acquired for over $200M after 11 months, 4 months after launching product.

the talk

Workflow building as the new literacy

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH