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  • Shubhankar Ray, global brand director of G-Star RAW Speaker 2015
    Shubhankar Ray
    Creative Director
    A thought leader in branding, Shubhankar Ray has pioneered a counter-intuitive approach to developing modern brands.
    London, United Kingdom
  • 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
  • Stanley Hainsworth. Speaker 2015
    Stanley Hainsworth
    Creative Director
    Stanley Hainsworth is the founder and chief creative officer of Tether, a creative, cross-discipline studio.
    Seattle, USA
  • Roy Choi Speaker 2015
    Roy Choi
    Chef
    As a creator of LA's celebrated gourmet food truck culture, this chef did more than sling marinated Korean barbecue tacos. He brought Los Angelenos together.
    Los Angeles, USA
  • Santiago Cirugeda Speaker 2015
    Santiago Cirugeda
    Architect
    Santiago Cirugeda is a subversive architect from Seville, Spain, whose work focusses on reclaiming urban spaces for public use.
    Seville, Spain
  • Ross Cairns and Tommaso Lanza of The Workers. Speaker 2015
    The Workers
    Design Studio / Digital Designer / Industrial Designer
    Meet The Workers, a digital product design studio established by Ross Cairns and Tommaso Lanza in 2010.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Dominic Wilcox Speaker 2015
    Dominic Wilcox
    Author / Interaction Designer / Product Designer
    British designer Dominic Wilcox works between the worlds of art, design, craft and technology, transforming the ordinary into something surprising.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana of Joe Public. Speaker 2015
    Joe Public
    Advertising Executive
    Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana are chief creative officer and executive creative director respectively of advertising agency Joe Public.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Rosita Missoni Speaker 2015
    Rosita Missoni
    Interior Designer / Multidisciplinary Designer / Textile Designer
    The Missoni matriarch, who "cannot stay away from colour", zigzagged her way from knitwear to a home collection to hotel interior design.
    Italy
  • Speaker 2015
    Emily Oberman
    Brand Specialist / Filmmaker / Multidisciplinary Designer
    Emily Oberman’s work in the entertainment and hospitality industries has demonstrated how design can be integral to the creation of brand identity.
    New York, USA
  • Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi of Studio Formafantasma. Speaker 2015
    Studio Formafantasma
    Design Studio / Product Designer
    Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin make up this Amsterdam-based product design studio.
    Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Casey Neistat Speaker 2015
    Casey Neistat
    Filmmaker
    Casey Neistat is a maverick American filmmaker whose wildly popular YouTube videos are redefining the industry.
    New York, USA
  • Yoni Bloch Speaker 2015
    Yoni Bloch
    Interaction Designer / Musician
    With the tech wizardry of Interlude, Israeli musician and co-founder Yoni Bloch has made music videos an interactive experience rather than merely a visual one.
    Israel
  • Simon Castets Speaker 2014
    Simon Castets
    Curator
    Simon Castets, director and curator of the Swiss Institute, New York, is also the co-founder of the research project 89plus, along with Hans Ulrich Obrist.
    New York, USA
  • Jody Brand Speaker 2014
    Jody Brand
    Photographer
    Jody Brand is a Cape Town-based photographer and art director.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Bogosi Sekhukhuni Speaker 2014
    Bogosi Sekhukhuni
    Writer / Performance Artist
    Bogosi Sekhukhuni is a Johannesburg-based writer and performance artist.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Juliana Rotich Speaker 2014
    Juliana Rotich
    Computer Scientist
    Juliana Rotich is co-founder and executive director of Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company that build tools for democratising information.
    Nairobi, Kenya
  • Vinay Venkatraman Speaker 2014
    Vinay Venkatraman
    Industrial Designer / Interaction Designer
    Industrial and interaction designer Vinay Venkatraman is the CEO of Leapcraft – a design-driven innovation consultancy based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Victoria Wigzell Speaker 2014
    Victoria Wigzell
    Artist
    Victoria Wigzell is a South African artist currently based in Switzerland.
    Switzerland
  • Kyla Philander Speaker 2014
    Kyla Philander
    Musician
    Kyla Philander is a Cape Town-based videographer and musician.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Henrik Vibskov Speaker 2014
    Henrik Vibskov
    Fashion Designer
    Henrik Vibskov is not just a fashion designer but also the creator of twisted and tantalising universes that accompany each of his collections.
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Nille Juul-Sørensen Speaker 2014
    Nille Juul-Sørensen
    Architect / Product Designer
    Architect and product designer Nille Juul-Sørensen is the CEO of the Danish Design Centre.
    Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Dan Wieden Speaker 2015
    Dan Wieden
    Advertising Executive
    Dan Wieden is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy and coined the Nike tagline "Just Do It".
    New York, USA
  • Haroon Gunn-Salie Speaker 2014
    Haroon Gunn-Salie
    Artist
    Cape Town-born artist Haroon Gunn-Salie translates community oral histories into artistic interventions and experiential installations.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Shubhankar Ray, global brand director of G-Star RAW Speaker 2015
    Shubhankar Ray
    Creative Director
    A thought leader in branding, Shubhankar Ray has pioneered a counter-intuitive approach to developing modern brands.
    London, United Kingdom
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