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  • Kinya Tagawa Speaker
    Kinya Tagawa
    Design engineer
    Kinya Tagawa is Japanese award-winning design engineer.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Speaker 2005
    Anthon Beeke
    Graphic Designer
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Speaker
    Carolien Niebling
    Designer
    “Food is fascinating because it is an ever evolving substance where development will never stop.”
    Netherlands
  • Speaker 2018
    Nicolás Kisic Aguirre
    Sound artist
    Architect and sound artist.
    Lima, Peru
  • Lucille Tenazas. Speaker 2002
    Lucille Tenazas
    Graphic Designer
    Lucille Tenazas is the Associate Dean and Henry Wolf Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology (AMT) at Parsons School for Design.
    San Francisco, USA
  • Andile Speaker
    Andile Vellem
    Performance Artist
    Vellem began dancing at an early age inspired by his parents who were ballroom dancers.
    South Africa
  • Yugo Nakamura Speaker 2001
    Yugo Nakamura
    Web Designer
    Yugo Nakamura is considered one of Japan's leading web designers having studied engineering, architecture and landscape design.
    Japan
  • Speaker 2018
    Ensamble Studio
    Architect
    Balancing education, research and practice.
    Spain
  • Freestyle Love Supreme Speaker 2017
    Freestyle Love Supreme
    Musician
    Freestyle Love Supreme is an American hip-hop crew with a TV show in which five performers take the crowd on a non-stop, hip-hop improv ride with no script.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2018
    Iwo Borkowicz
    Architect
    Architect.
    Poland
  • Speaker 2018
    GetSmarter
    Entrepreneur
    Get to know the entrepreneurs and business partners behind popular learning platform, GetSmarter.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Alex Steffen Speaker 2007
    Alex Steffen
    Writer / Environmentalist
    “Alex Steffen, a designing optimist, lays out the blueprint for a successful century.” – The New York Times
    USA
  • Denis Santachiara Speaker 2006
    Denis Santachiara
    Product Designer
    Denis Santachiara is an anomalous designer and an outsider of the international outline of design, beginning his career marrying art and design.
    Milan, Italy
  • Jackie Burger Speaker 2005
    Jackie Burger
    Writer / Editor
    Jackie Burger is the editor of ELLE South Africa and an official curator for Design Indaba Expo.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Gary Harwood Speaker 2006
    Gary Harwood
    Director
    Gary Harwood is a director at the brand agency Harwood Kirsten Leigh McCoy (HKLM).
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Speaker 2013
    Wael Morcos
    Wael Morcos is a graphic designer with an interest in Arabic typography.
    New York, USA
  • Jane Raphaely Speaker
    Jane Raphaely
    Publisher
    Jane Raphaely is chairperson of Associated Media Publishing.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2007
    Ruudt Peters
    Jewellery Designer
    Ruudt Peters defines himself as a philosopher and an alchemist, his pieces of jewellery being extensions of a person.
    International
  • Tony Brook Speaker 2018
    Tony Brook
    Creative Director
    The creative director established the multi-disciplinary design studio Spin in 1992.
    United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2007
    David Watkins
    Jewellery Designer
    Trained as a sculptor and musician, Watkins took up jewellery design in the early 70s, and has sustained an international recognition for his work ever since.
    International
  • Speaker
    Natsai Audrey Chieza
    Biodesigner
    Founder and Director of Faber Futures, an award-winning multidisciplinary design agency operating at the intersection of nature, technology, and society.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Speaker 2018
    Es Devlin
    Set Designer
    Set designer.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Andries Odendaal Speaker 2004
    Andries Odendaal
    Developer / Interaction Designer
    Andries Odendaal is an independent Cape Town-based new media developer, best known for his work produced with Wireframe.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Roger L Martin Speaker 2007
    Roger L Martin
    Educator / Author
    Roger Martin is an education, design and business innovator, the dean of the Rotman School of Management and an author of several business books.
    Toronto, Canada
  • Kinya Tagawa Speaker
    Kinya Tagawa
    Design engineer
    Kinya Tagawa is Japanese award-winning design engineer.
    Tokyo, Japan
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