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  • Shoko Tamura Speaker 2017
    Shoko Tamura
    Speculative Designer
    Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind.
    Tokyo, Japan
  • Speaker 2017
    Nelly Ben Hayoun
    Interaction Designer
    Known as the Willy Wonka of design and science, experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun is a director and creator of the impossible.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Thandiwe Msebenzi Speaker 2017
    Thandiwe Msebenzi
    Photographer
    South African photographer Thandiwe Msebenzi tackles social problems and culture in her images.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Bo-Won Keum Speaker 2017
    Bo-Won Keum
    Graphic Designer
    Bo-Won Keum is a storyteller and graphic design graduate from The Rhode Island School of Design.
    Rhode Island, USA
  • Rhys Jones Speaker 2017
    Rhys Jones
    Industrial Designer
    Rhys Jones strives to make excellent products that are sustainable and socially responsible.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2017
    Grace Jun
    Social Entrepreneur
    Grace Jun is designer and self-taught coder. Her work examines functional fashion for inclusion with the aim to anchor wearable tech to the human experience.
    New York, USA
  • Isis Shiffer Speaker 2017
    Isis Shiffer
    Product Designer
    Isis Shiffer is an industrial designer and founder of Spitfire Industry, a design consultancy in Brooklyn that focusses on sustainability and transportation.
    New York, USA
  • Pauline Saglio Speaker 2017
    Pauline Saglio
    Interaction Designer
    Pauline Saglio is an interaction designer and artist based in Switzerland whose interest lies in the combination of digital and tangible.
    Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Arjun Harrison-Mann, Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, UK Speaker 2017
    Arjun Harrison-Mann
    Communication Designer / Social Entrepreneur
    Arjun Harrison-Mann is a London-based designer, activist and advocate for dialogue. He is also the co-founder of Studio Hyte.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Isabel Mager Speaker 2017
    Isabel Mager
    Social Entrepreneur
    Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power.
    Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • Carina Bonse Speaker 2017
    Carina Bonse
    Art Director
    Carina "The Wizard" Bonse is an Art Direction and Design graduate from Red & Yellow, South Africa, who won Loerie Awards in her first, second and third years.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Ayse Birsel Speaker 2017
    Ayse Birsel
    Product Designer
    Co-founder and creative director of the award-winning design studio Birsel + Seck, Ayse Birsel is also a teacher and the author of "Design the Life You Love".
    New York, USA
  • Carien Momsen Pro-account
    Carien Momsen
    Interior Designer
    This designer enjoys exploring duality in her interior and furniture designs.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • GT2P Speaker 2017
    Great Things to People (gt2P)
    Architect
    Chilean architecture, art and design studio Great Things to People (gt2P) experiment with digital crafting to systematise local knowledge and cultural heritage.
    Chile
  • Stefan Diez Speaker 2017
    Stefan Diez
    Industrial Designer
    German designer Stefan Diez creates beautiful, simple furniture with a combination of craftsmanship and innovative industrial design.
    Germany
  • Tea Uglow Speaker 2017
    TL Uglow
    Creative Director
    TL Uglow ('Tea') is the creative director of Google's Creative Lab in Sydney and a tech celebrity.
    Sydney, Australia
  • 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
  • Ekene Ijeoma Speaker 2017
    Ekene Ijeoma
    Artist / Interaction Designer / Social Entrepreneur
    Brooklyn-based Ekene Ijeoma is a socially-focused interdisciplinary artist and designer who uses data to translate overlooked facts into informed feelings.
    New York, USA
  • Winy Maas Speaker 2017
    Winy Maas
    Architect
    Architect and urban designer Winy Maas is a co-founder of Rotterdam-based architecture studio MVRDV and The Why Factory.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Stuart Forrest. Image: Kane Croudace Speaker 2017
    Stuart Forrest
    Animator / Creative Director
    Triggerfish Animation studio CEO Stuart Forrest is the producer of Africa's two most successful film exports: "Adventures in Zambezia" and "Khumba".
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Marina Willer Speaker 2017
    Marina Willer
    Filmmaker / Graphic Designer
    Marina Willer is a Pentagram partner and creative director with a background in graphic design, branding and filmmaking.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Jabu Nadia Newman Speaker 2017
    Jabu Nadia Newman and The Foxy Five
    Artist / Filmmaker / Photographer
    Jabu Nadia Newman is a South African artist who works through the mediums of photography and film. She is also the creator of The Foxy Five webseries.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Yinka Ilori Speaker 2017
    Yinka Ilori
    Furniture Designer
    London-based Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori specialises in upcycled vintage furniture inspired by Nigerian parables and fabrics from Africa.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Lernert & Sander Speaker 2017
    Lernert & Sander
    Artist / Filmmaker
    Dutch artists and filmmakers Lernert & Sander are known for their installations and high-conceptual art films.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Shoko Tamura Speaker 2017
    Shoko Tamura
    Speculative Designer
    Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind.
    Tokyo, Japan
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