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DMI International Summit: Empowered Innovation

 

November 30-December 2, 2005 Boston, USA

 

This schedule is tentative and subject to change. It was last updated on November 14th, 2005.


Wednesday, November 30, 2005
8:30 - 12:00  

Pre-Summit Workshop: A Hands-On Language for Innovation

Twenty-five attendees (selected by lottery from the first 100 to register for the summit) will be invited to attend this free workshop.

12:00 - 2:15   Summit Check-in
MassArt, 621 Huntington Avenue
2:30 - 2:45
  Summit Welcome

Earl Powell, President, DMI
Kay Sloan, President Massachusetts College of Art

2:45 - 3:15
  Presentation of Robert P. Gersin Design Excellence Award to Dieter Rams

Kay Sloan, President Massachusetts College of Art

Ingrid Caruso-Gersin

Dieter Rams, Design Director Emeritus, Braun GmbH

3:15 - 4:00
  The Impact of Innovation and Design on Brand Equity

Magdalena De Gasperi, Director Communications and Media/Public Relations, Braun GmbH

4:00 - 4:15
  Break
4:15 - 5:30
  Opening Discussion and Group Project
5:30 - 8:30
  Reception & Opening of Braun Exhibition
Thursday, December 1, 2005
9:00 - 9:45
  Collaboration Rules: Key Tenets from World Class Organizations

Bob Wolf, Boston Consulting Group

9:45 - 10:30
  A Place where Anything is Possible

Glen Walter, Principal, Managing Member ELEVEN, LLC

10:30 - 10:50
 

Break

10:50 - 12:20
  A Whole New Mind

Dan Pink, Author, A Whole New Mind

12:20 - 1:15
 

Lunch

1:15 - 2:45
  Insight, Confidence, and Commitment in Team Decision-Making

Robert Rasmussen, Principal, Robert Rasmussen and Associates

2:45 - 3:00
 

Break

3:00 - 3:45
  Innovation in the Language of Dynamic Media

Jan Kubasiewicz, Professor, Graduate Design Program Massachusetts College of Art

3:45 - 4:30
  Co-Design: Towards Open Source Branding

Richard Eisermann, Director of Design & Innovation Design Council

4:30 - 5:15
  Foresight, Innovation and Design

Tony Kim, Ph.D., Professor, Chair of Design Management Dept., IDAS, Hongik University

Friday, December 2, 2005
9:00 - 9:45
  Culture-Driven Innovation

Sohrab Vossoughi, President, ZIBA Design

9:45 - 11:00
  Innovation within an Organizational Context

David Campbell, Smith Richardson Senior Fellow Center for Creative Leadership

11:00 - 11:15
 

Break

11:15- 12:15
  Innovation within an Organizational Context (Continued)

David Campbell, Smith Richardson Senior Fellow Center for Creative Leadership

12:15 - 1:15
 

Lunch

1:15 - 2:00
  Open Studio: Designers Everywhere

John Maeda, Professor, MIT - The Media Lab

2:00 - 3:00
  Experimentation Matters: New Opportunities for Innovation

Stefan Thomke, Professor, Harvard Business Schoolo

3:00 - 3:15
 

Break

3:15 - 4:15
  Convincing the Boardroom to Embrace Creativity and Innovation

Chair: Thomas Lockwood, Global Brand and Design Director, Sun Microsystems

Panelists: Pamela Parisi, Director, The Gillette Company

Harvey Seifter, President of Seifter Associates, Founder and Director of Creativity Connection
Marjorie Platt, Professor, Accounting Group, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University

4:15-4:30
 

Summit Wrap-up