Creativity & Design speakers

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Don Norman is Director of the recently established Design Lab at the University of California, San Diego where he is also professor emeritus of both psychology and cognitive science and a member of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Former designer & engineer for Apple, and author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process...

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Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life and author of Reimagining Design: Unlocking Strategic Innovation

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Author of Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It


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• Harvard professor on how to boost creative productivity

• Chief Strategy Officer and EVP, Design & Emerging Products, at Adobe

• Bestselling author of two books & writer of leading technology industry newsletter, Implications

Founder & Chief Creative Officer of dreams • design + life

• Author of Reimagining Design 

• Award-winning contemporary art advisor, author & curator

• Author of How Creativity Rules the World

• Professor & author on the power of storytelling


Author of the book Productive Failure (Sept 2024)

• Director of the Singapore-ETH Center, and Professor for Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich, Switzerland

• Founding Chair of the ETH Zurich – EPFL Joint Doctoral Program in the Learning Sciences

• Adjunct Professor Stanford University (Design Institute), Co-Director Stanford Executive Education

• Co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters

• Founder Launchpad Accelerator Stanford University

• COO Patagonia, CEO Timbuk2, and founder Atlas Snowshoe Co.

• Head of Product Engineering at Humane

• Former designer & engineer for Apple  

• Author of the bestseller Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

• The expert on transformation and the tech-driven workplace

• Author of Disrupted, Lab Rats and STFU

• Writer on Silicon Valley. 

• Founder of the Moving Up Media Lab & Host of the PBS podcast, Attribution

• Author of the best-seller, Three Little Engines

• Expert on social mobility and the American Dream

• Author of Creative Change: Why We Resist It . . . How We Can Embrace It


• A leader in the application of human-centered design

• Author of several books including, The Design of Everyday Things

Guggenheim Fellow

• Founding Co-director of Northwestern University's Institute on Complex Systems

• Author of the books, On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck and This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive

• Author of Zig Zag & other books on the power of collaboration & greater creativity 

• Award-winning New York Times editor

• Adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts

• His work is in the permanent collection at MoMA

• Director of Executive Education at the Stanford d.school 

• Co-Author of Ideaflow who's reimagining design thinking 


• Target’s former VP of Trend Design 

• Author of several books including, The Hummer and the Mini

• Consumer needs expert