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Design Thinking 2016

Creating a Human-Centric Environment to Activate Creative Design and Cultivate Employees Invested in Developing Loyal Consumer-Product Relationships

26-29 Feb 2016
Marines Memorial Club & Hotel - San Francisco, CA, United States of America

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Why You Should Attend

Design Thinking 2016

Institutionalizing a design thinking process can pose a challenge to many organizations looking to instill an enterprise-wide culture of innovation.  Many companies are looking at ways to integrate the process from ideation to rapid prototyping to ensure a constant innovation pipeline filled with disruptive products and services. This requires a disruptive mentality – which can be challenging for employees at first, as most people are afraid of failure.

This conference will address the next evolution in the institutionalization of design thinking practices to align insights and experience to incorporate empathy for the user into the overall design of the product.  Participants will examine how they can streamline the ideation process to keep focus and a constant churn of new product and services ideas in the innovation pipeline to uncover that next disruptive product.

Key Topics

  • Harness a culture of innovation within the company through the catalyst of a workplace culture that encourages playful creativity
  • Overcome initial resistance from the C-Suite through qualitative evidence and competitive success stories
  • Realize the power of empathy based research through grassroots activity and engaging the consumer as a person
  • Involve consumers and clients early in the product development stage to maximize co-creation potential
  • Encourage internal design thinking that accounts for the technological and agility requirements of your business
  • Previous Attendees Include

    Under Armour, Ebay, Inc., AIG, GE Aviation, Bayer Healthcare, Viacom, Dell Inc., Tyco, IKEA, Beam, Southwest Airlines, Darden Restaurants Inc., Chobani, Fannie Mae, Maritz, Siemens Energy, Heineken USA, Interface Americas, Illumina, Ameren, Huntsman, Cosntellation Brands, American Express, The Hertz Company, TIBCO Software, Oracle, and many more!


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    Practical Insights From

    Eric Shuler
    Vice President, Product Development
    Crayola

    Richard Eisermann
    VP Integrated Experience Design & Development
    Lowe's Companies, Inc.

    Michael Perman
    Dean of Innovation
    Gap, Inc.

    Peter Borowski
    Head of Design
    Kraft Foods (Former)

    Lee Ann Hutter
    Director of Product and User Experience Design
    LinkedIn

    David Dombrowski
    Director, Industrial Design & Innovation
    Pfizer Consumer Health Care

    Doug Dietz
    Innovation Architect
    GE Healthcare

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    Event Contact

    For all enquiries regarding speaking, sponsoring and attending this conference contact:

    Tyler Kelch


    455 N. Cityfront Plaza Dr.
    9th Floor
    Chicago, IL 60611

    Telephone:
    312-894-6310
    Fax: 312-894-6304
    Email: Tylerke@marcusevansch.com