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ScheduleBoston, MADesign, Complexity, and Change

DMI Design/Management Annual 34

October 18-20, 2009

Cambridge Marriott

Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

 

 

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. It was last updated on 2 October 2009.
 

Sunday, October 18, 2009

11:00 - 1:00

Conference Check-in
  1:00 - 1:15   Welcome! Introduction & Set Goals
 

1:15 - 2:15

  Design to Survive

Joe Ferry, Head of Design, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd.

 

2:15 - 3:15

  Rules of Thumb

Alan Webber, Author, Rules of Thumb; Founder, Fast Company

 

3:15 - 3:45

  Coffee Break
 

3:45 - 4:15

  Live Futures

Selena Griffith, Lecturer, University of New South Wales

 

4:15 - 6:00

  Live Futures Challenge: Breakout Discussions

Selena Griffith, Lecturer, University of New South Wales

 

6:30 - 8:00

  Networking Reception
 

8:00

  Group Dinners or Free Time
       
Monday, October 19, 2009
  9:00 - 9:45   Creative Leadership

John Maeda, President, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

 

9:45 - 10:30

  Wired to Care

Dev Patnaik, Founder & Principal, Jump Associates

 

10:30 - 11:00

  Coffee Break
 

11:00 - 12:00

  Achieving a Considered Design Philosophy

Lorrie Vogel, General Manager, Considered Design, Nike

 

12:00 - 1:30

  Luncheon
 

1:30 - 2:15

  Sex & Sensibility

Agnete Enga, Senior Industrial Designer, Cofounder Femme Den, Smart Design

 

2:15 - 3:00

  Redesigning the Food System for Public Health and Sustainability

Michael Conard, Assistant Director, Urban Design Lab at the Earth Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, GSAPP, Columbia University

 

3:00 - 3:30

  Coffee Break
 

3:30 - 4:30

  Conversations & Reactions

Kenneth Kaplan, Associate Director, Collaborative Initiatives at MIT
Dev Patnaik, Founder & Principal, Jump Associates

Robyn Waters, Founder & President, RW Trend LLC
Tom Lockwood, President, DMI

  4:30 - 5:30   Rethinking the Innovation Hypothesis and Value Creation: Facilitating Design Experiments

Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School Center for Digital Business, and Department of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Imperial College Business School

 

5:30 - 6:00

  Coding as a Design Practice

Ben Fry, Processing
Casey Reas, UCLA

 

6:30-8:00

  Networking Reception
 

8:00

  Group Dinners or Free Time
       
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
 

9:00 - 9:45

  Moving Design from Impression to Expression

Stephen Randall, Founder and Chief Executive, LocaModa Inc.

 

9:45 - 10:30

  Redesigning America’s Future: A framework of design policy for managing the U.S.’s post-industrial context

Dr. Dori Tunstall, Associate Professor of Design Anthropology, Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching, Swinburne University (Australia)

 

10:30 - 11:00

  Coffee Break
 

11:00 - 12:00

  Renewed Journey for Growth: Innovation in a Reset World

Beth Comstock, Chief Marketing Officer, SVP, GE

 

12:00 - 1:30

  Luncheon
 

1:30 - 2:15

  Learning from the US Military Health System

Dr. Thomas Kurmel, Colonel (Ret.), US Army, former Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs

 

2:15 - 3:15

  Once Upon the 21st Century

Watts Wacker, CEO, Futurist, FirstMatter LLC

 

3:15 - 3:30

  Conclusion: Next Steps