Organised by London Design Festival
DIGITAL FUTURES - WEDNESDAY 18 SEPTEMBER - ATTEND ALL THREE TALKS FOR £30+VAT
SMART FUTURES: AI AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
Sackler Centre for Arts Education
Hochhaser Auditorium
2pm-2.50pm
Examining how AI and machine learning will impact on how we interact with in the public realm and our private spaces, and how designers can use digital technology to help solve some of the problems we face as citizens.
CHAIR: Alexandra Deschamp-Sonsino, Author, Smarter Homes
Ross Atkin, Designer and Author, Clever City Manifesto
Suhair Khan, UK Project Lead, Google Arts and Culture
Ben Terret CEO, Public Digital
DIGITAL RESONANCE
Sackler Centre for Arts Education
Hochhaser Auditorium
3.20pm-4.10pm
How is digital design innovation shaping the way we design, live, connect and work?
Tristram Carfrae, Chairman, Arup, Master of the Faculty, Royal Designers for Industry
Harriet Gridley, UK Lead, No Isolation
Elaine Ng Yan Ling, Designer
Jintong Zhu, Head of OPPO London Design Centre
Designing at Scale: How Facebook Messenger Designs for Billions
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre for Arts Education, Victoria and Albert Museum
4.40pm - 5.30pm
Designers may have heard the phrase designing at scale, but what does the concept actually mean? Is it running larger projects with more designers involved or designing for a growing user base? Raphael Grignani, Director of Product Design at Facebook, sheds light on what it means to design at scale for an app with more than 1.3B users around the world - the decisions that need to be made, the challenges faced to stay organized, as well as the solutions to best tackle these challenges.
Raphael Grignani, Head of Product Design, Facebook Messenger
Chair: Natalie Kane, Digital Curator, V&A
NEXT GENERATION DESIGN
Supported by International Quarter London
LOCATION: WORKABLE, 1 WESTFIELD AVENUE, STRATFORD, E20 1HZ 6.30PM–9.30PM
As a design practice, agency or brand how do you spot and nurture new design talent?
As an emerging designer how do you get noticed and get ahead in the creative industries?
Fabio Novembre will speak from his own experience in a keynote talk, followed by a panel discussion with industry experts including Linda Roberts, Director of Business & Innovation, London College of Fashion; Hannah Robinson, Programme Manager for Architecture Design and Fashion at the British Council and Julian Vogel, CEO Modus BPCM.
Keynote speaker: Fabio Novembre, Director and Designer, Fabio Novembre Studio and Scientific Director, Domus Academy
An offsite talk in Stratford, the future location of V&A East. Arrive early to enjoy drinks and canapes at the top floor of 1 Westfield Avenue, with some of the best views of the London skyline from Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park to the Shard. Drinks and networking will continue after the talk and panel.
Doors open at 6.30pm, talk from 7pm and drinks from 8pm.
Organised by Global Design Forum
Global Design Forum is the London Design Festival’s curated thought leadership programme, celebrating design and the minds shaping its future. Taking place throughout the Festival at the V&A and supported by OPPO as Headline Partner, the Forum features a unique mix of talks, debates, tours and workshops that together reflect the most innovative thinking in the world of design today.
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