Events:
Day 1: December 12th, 2007
4:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Raising The Bar: New Perspectives on Design
With leadership comes responsibility to excel in practice and to build a body of knowledge and to measure and demonstrate the value of design. In this session, Design thinkers from around the world will share stories of how designers are making an impact on public and private sectors, high tech and low tech, Macro and micro levels around the world and in India.
During this session veterans of design practices from around the world will discuss what it takes to deliver world class Design Services and to play a strategic role within different types of organizations and projects.
Keynote Address:
GK VanPatter
Co-Founder, NextD Research Institute
Panel Discussion
Moderator:
Ashish Gupta, Business Outlook
Panel Members:
Ravi Sawhney, President & CEO, RKS Design & Sudhir Sharma, Elephant Design
Nitin Pai, Jt. General Manager, Marketing, Tata Elxsi Ltd.
Joachim Jake Layes,
Marketing Manager, APAC Autodesk Inc.
Geoff McCormick, Alloy Total Product Design
Surya Vanka, Microsoft Corporation
Sonya Manchanda, Idiom Design
Program Details: Plenary Session 3
