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Featured Speaker
Change by Design at GE Healthcare
François Lenfant, Manager, Global Product Design, Developed Markets, GE Healthcare
GE is changing and reinventing itself to help solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. Healthcare is evolving, unveiling emerging needs and breakthrough technologies. By focusing on people first, Design is becoming a key driver of change at GE Healthcare. François will share what makes design thinking a strategic tool for transforming GE products, experiences, and business.
Biography: François Lenfant
François attended the École Supérieure de Design Industriel in Paris and graduated with a Master of Design degree in 1986. He joined the J.C. Decaux Company as street furniture designer. He then moved to the Ungaro Company in Paris, where he served one year as a freelance fashion product designer until he decided to pursue his career in technology.
François joined General Electric in 1990 and had assignments in Healthcare located in Buc, France. He worked in the X-Ray Engineering Division as project manager, was then named senior project manager in 1997. During this time he also received a degree in Ergonomics and Human Ecology in Paris La Sorbonne University. François was promoted to studio manager in 2001, and was appointed Global Design manager for EMEA in 2004. He developed design, ergonomics, and research activities in this region until 2009, when he was named to his present position of Manager, Global Product Design, Developed Markets.
Biography: GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides medical technologies and services. Its expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical technologies is helping clinicians reimagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, and treat disease. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company. Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries.
Reporting to Global Technology functions, Global Design creates innovative solutions adding value in Global Product Design and User Experience. The 30+ members of the global team operate from USA, China, France, Japan, and India.
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