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  • Speaker 2009
    Lynda Relph-Knight
    Writer / Editor
    Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of the UK’s Design Week since 1989.
    London, United Kingdom
  • 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
  • David Kester Speaker 2011
    David Kester
    Design Director
    David Kester is the chief executive of the Design Council in the UK. He leads programmes and policies for industry, education and the public sector.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Jo Noero Speaker 2007
    Jo Noero
    Architect
    Jo Noero is principal at Noero Architects and a tenured professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • John Maeda Speaker 2013
    John Maeda
    Educator / Computer Scientist / Artist
    John Maeda is president of the Rhode Island School of Design.
    USA
  • Keith Rose Speaker 2009
    Keith Rose
    Director
    Keith Rose is one of only a select few to be inducted into the Clio TV Hall of Fame, for his BMW Mouse commercial.
    South Africa
  • Speaker 2008
    Anya van der Merwe Miszewski
    Architect
    Anya van der Merwe Miszewski is a director of Van Der Merwe Miszewski Architects Pty Ltd and a professor at the University of Cape Town School of Architecture.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Nicholas Hlobo at Design Indaba 2013 Speaker 2013
    Nicholas Hlobo
    Artist
    Nicholas Hlobo is a South African artist, fast gaining an international reputation for his experimental use of materials.
    Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Deborah Szebeko Speaker 2011
    Deborah Szebeko
    Social Entrepreneur
    Deborah Szebeko is the founder of thinkpublic. She combines design and social entrepreneurship to seek solutions to many social challenges.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Ian Murchison Speaker 2014
    Ian Murchison
    Industrial Designer
    Ian Murchison is an industrial designer and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba Conference 2014.
    Ottawa, Canada
  • 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 2008
    Mike Schalit
    Creative Director
    Mike Schalit began his career by failing as a rock musician. In 1982 he tried again at TBWA Hunt Lascaris and emerged as John Hunt's deputy in 1991.
    Cape Town, South Africa
  • Gary Hustwit Speaker 2010
    Gary Hustwit
    Filmmaker
    Gary Hustwit is an independent filmmaker, famed for this design trilogy Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized.
    New York, USA
  • OMM design workshop Speaker 2006
    OMM Design Workshop
    Architect
    Together, Andrew Makin and Janina Masojada lead OMM Design Workshop, an architecture practice based in Durban, South Africa
    Durban, South Africa
  • Speaker 2013
    Matthew Carter
    Typographer
    Matthew Carter is a type designer with some 50 years' experience, having designed some of the world's most recognised fonts.
    Massachusetts, USA
  • Speaker 2017
    Luis von Ahn
    Technology Designer
    Tech entrepreneur and crowdsourcing pioneer Luis von Ahn is best known for creating CAPTCHAs and the language-learning platform Duolingo.
    Pennsylvania, USA
  • 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
  • Clive van Heerden Speaker 2012
    Clive van Heerden
    Inventor
    Clive van Heerden is interested in research initiatives that identify long-term systemic shifts, and anticipate changes in future lifestyles.
    London, United Kingdom
  • Hailed as one of the world’s greatest chefs, Elena Arzak manages to combine traditional cooking with modernity. Speaker 2016
    Elena Arzak
    Chef
    Hailed as one of the world’s greatest chefs, Elena Arzak succeeds in ingeniously combining traditional cooking with contemporary food design.
    Spain
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Speaker 2008
    Gert Dumbar
    Graphic Designer
    After completing his at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague and the Royal College of Art in London, Gert Dumbar opened the now prolific Studio Dumbar.
    International
  • Speaker 2006
    Ji Lee
    Creative Director
    Ji Lee is a Communication Designer at Facebook, and former designer and creative director at the Google Creative Lab.
    New York, USA
  • Speaker 2009
    Lynda Relph-Knight
    Writer / Editor
    Lynda Relph-Knight has been editor of the UK’s Design Week since 1989.
    London, United Kingdom
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