The Future Festival, Toronto

Toronto, Canada

This touring festival of innovation spans the globe both in location and in the speakers who step up to discuss how they shook up their companies and industry. As a touring festival, there are sixteen events still on the calendar as of this writing, most notably the three-day world summit in Toronto, September 15-17, but the one-day and two-day events [...]

Unleashing Innovation 2020, Amsterdam

The Unleashing Innovation conference is really all about cross-industry pollination. Designed specifically to bring an enormous range of experts from as broad an industrial base as possible into the same room for two days, the “unconference” sessions, networking lunches, and workshops give participants the ability to draw from global approaches. Speakers draw from entertainment, academia, transportation, and other industries that [...]

Harvest Summit, Sonoma County, CA

Finally, to inject a little nature into the creative process, consider attending the Harvest Summit. Focused on the intersection of technology, agriculture, and nature, the summit puts some of the most intense creative thinkers in the center of one of the most beautiful places in the world to look at how our built world and our natural world intersect, and [...]

From Problems to Problem Statement Workshop: UC San Diego

UCSD Design Lab 9500 Gilman Drive Atkinson Hall MC0436, La Jolla, CA, United States

“From Problems to Problem Statements: Understanding how to identify the real problem to solve.”  The critical part of solving a problem today is knowing that you’re working on the right problem. This workshop is designed to help participants learn how problems are transformed into actionable and measurable problem statements. A leader identifies an objective. A manager provides scope. A director [...]

Design Thinking Workshop: UC San Diego – Alumni Board Retreat

UCSD Design Lab 9500 Gilman Drive Atkinson Hall MC0436, La Jolla, CA, United States

During this fast-paced workshop, participants will be introduced to the process of Design Thinking, and the steps of empathy, define, ideate, prototype, test, and share. The goal of this workshop is to quickly show how to apply this proven process to a problem or project. Each participant will leave with a prototype they created as a demonstration of their success.

From Problems to Problem Statement Workshop: UC San Diego

UCSD Design Lab 9500 Gilman Drive Atkinson Hall MC0436, La Jolla, CA, United States

“From Problems to Problem Statements: Understanding how to identify the real problem to solve.”  The critical part of solving a problem today is knowing that you’re working on the right problem. This workshop is designed to help participants learn how problems are transformed into actionable and measurable problem statements. A leader identifies an objective. A manager provides scope. A director [...]

Design Thinking Workshop: UC San Diego – Advancement Operations and Campaign

UCSD Design Lab 9500 Gilman Drive Atkinson Hall MC0436, La Jolla, CA, United States

During this fast-paced workshop, participants will be introduced to the process of Design Thinking, and the steps of empathy, define, ideate, prototype, test, and share. The goal of this workshop is to quickly show how to apply this proven process to a problem or project. Each participant will leave with a prototype they created as a demonstration of their success. [...]