To design is to influence the experience of individuals, the fabric of communities, the structure of organizations, and the dynamics of systems. At the sixth-annual HarvardxDesign conference, we will convene today’s leading thinkers and doers to explore design’s influence across these four scales.
Sponsored by J.W. Kaempfer, Jr. (MBA ‘71), Cognizant, Harpoon Brewery, and McKinsey
Team
Co-chairs
- Joanne Cheung, GSD
- Mubashara Khalid, HBS
- Darsh Maheshwari, HBS
- Eamon O'Connor, GSD/HKS
Conference Team
- Nicki Adler, GSD/SEAS
- Caroline Chao, GSD
- Jenny Fan, GSD/SEAS
- Jessica Kim, College
- Ryu Matsuzaki, HBS
- Ginny Miller, HBS
- Nicolas Ouejian, GSD
- Ben Sadkowski, GSD
- Carolyn Yi, GSD
- George Zhang, GSD
Branding and Design
Speakers
Opening Keynote (Friday)
Sairah Ashman & Cynthia Pratomo, Wolff Olins
Individuals
- Ida Benedetto, SYPartners
- Louis Marino, Cognizant
- Shannon O'Malley, BEworks
- Emily Segal, Nemesis Global
- Moderated by Christine Mungai, Africapedia and Nieman Foundation
Communities
- Louise Bernard, Obama Foundation
- Bryan C. Lee, Colloqate Design
- Stephanie Pereira, Imprint Projects
- Kathleen Talbot, Reformation
- Moderated by John Peterson, Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Organizations
- Celika Caldwell, AARP
- Melissa Dalrymple, McKinsey Design
- Josh Emig, WeWork
- Charles Gildehaus, BCG Digital Ventures
- Moderated by Heather Boesch, IDEO
Systems
- Ashleigh Axios, Automattic
- Zachary McCune, Wikimedia Foundation
- Allison Parrish, New York University
- Moderated by Emily Dreyfuss, Wired, Nieman Foundation, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Closing Keynote
Bret Victor, Dynamicland