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  • Speaker 2013
    Leanie van der Vyver
    Leanie van der Vyver's designs are bold and provocative. Her Scary Beautiful shoes went viral, with some four million views on Vimeo.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Robbie Brozin Speaker 2015
    Robbie Brozin
    Entrepreneur
    Robbie Brozin is a co-founder of chicken fast food chain Nando’s and ran the company for almost 25 years. Now he’s focussing on philanthropic projects.
    South Africa
  • Kiran Bir Sethi Speaker 2011
    Kiran Bir Sethi
    Education Activist
    Kiran Bir Sethi is the founder and director of The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India, and founder of Design for Change, and aProCh.
    Ahmedabad, India
  • Speaker 2013
    Jeanne van Heeswijk
    Interaction Designer / Artist
    Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist specialising in interaction design. She will be speaking at Design Indaba Conference 2013.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Yogita Agrawal Speaker 2016
    Yogita Agrawal
    Industrial Designer
    Industrial designer Yogita Agrawal focuses on solving problems in emerging global communities with innovative products and sustainable technologies.
    New York, USA
  • Athi-Patra Ruga Speaker 2014
    Athi-Patra Ruga
    Artist
    Athi-Patra Ruga is an artist who explores the border-zones between fashion, performance and contemporary art.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2012
    Dan Pearson
    Landscape Designer
    Landscape designer Dan Pearson is involved in "place making" and draws on an innate understanding of how plants relate to their surroundings in his work.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Carla Kreuser. Speaker 2015
    Carla Kreuser
    Graphic Designer / Illustrator
    Carla Kreuser is a creative director at The Jupiter Drawing Room in Cape Town.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Speaker 2011
    Daddy's World
    Entrepreneur
    The marketing visionaries behind Daddy’s World, Jody Aufrichtig and Nick Ferguson, work on bringing their wildest imaginings to life.
    South Africa
  • Christophe Guberan Couleur Speaker 2016
    Christophe Guberan
    Industrial Designer
    Industrial designer Christophe Guberan is fascinated by the intrinsic features of materials and how he can reimagine their properties and aesthetic.
    Boston, USA
  • Marcello Serpa. Speaker 2014
    Marcello Serpa
    Creative Director
    Brazilian-born Marcello Serpa is a partner and the creative director of AlmapBBDO.
    Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Larry Harvey. Speaker 2015
    Larry Harvey
    Art Director
    Larry Harvey is the founding board member and chief philosophic officer of Burning Man, an annual festival of arts in the Nevada desert.
    California, USA
  • Speaker 2009
    Craig Wessels
    Director
    Wicked Pixels was the first boutique studio in South Africa to specialise in the craft of animation, visual effects and motion graphic design founded by Wessels
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • David Carson Speaker 2004
    David Carson
    Art Director / Graphic Designer / Typographer
    David Carson is the most Googled graphic designer in history and has been named the art director of the era by Creative Review, London.
    USA
  • David Goldblatt. Speaker 2014
    David Goldblatt
    Photographer
    David Goldblatt is a South African photographer and the first South African to be given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Unlabelled strives to showcase authentic South African street fashion and style in a hip and edgy way by drawing inspiration from Joburg street culture. Pro-account
    Phendu Kuta
    Publisher / Writer
    Unlabelled magazine strives to showcase authentic South African street fashion and style in a hip, edgy way by drawing inspiration from 'Jozi' street culture.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2010
    Wooster Collective
    Curator
    The Wooster Collective are husband-and-wife team Marc and Sara Schiller.
    New York, USA
  • Asif Khan Speaker 2013
    Asif Khan
    Architect
    Asif Khan's work embraces the fields of architecture, industrial and furniture design, pushing the disciplines in interesting new directions.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Shin-ichi Takemura Speaker 2008
    Shin-ichi Takemura
    Author / Educator / Information Designer
    Professor Shin-ichi Takemura from Japan is a cultural anthropologist and media producer known for his innovative IT-driven social activities.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Assemble Speaker 2016
    Assemble
    Architect
    London-based studio Assemble merges art, architecture and design to create artful spaces.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker
    Sunny Dolat
    Art Director / Creative Director
    Fashion curator, cultural producer and creative director.
    Kenya
  • Blinky Bill Speaker 2017
    Blinky Bill
    Music Producer
    Nairobi-based "Blinky" Bill Sellanga is a singer-songwriter, beat maker, producer and one fourth of Kenyan art and music collective, Just a Band.
    Nairobi, Kenya
  • Speaker 2009
    Keith Helfet
    Automotive Designer
    Keith Helfet is recognised for his work on the XJ-220, XK-180 and the F-Type under Jaguar Cars.
    International
  • Speaker 2005
    Carlos Miele
    Fashion Designer
    International
  • Speaker 2013
    Leanie van der Vyver
    Leanie van der Vyver's designs are bold and provocative. Her Scary Beautiful shoes went viral, with some four million views on Vimeo.
    Cape Town, South Africa
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