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February 16 – Conference Kick-Off
Panel: Ask the Experts
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Design Thinkers Answer Your Most Pressing Questions
4:00 PM – 6:00 PMSupported by our graphic facilitator, we will kick off the conference by discussing challenges with real-world applications of design thinking, scaling up, and other nuances that emerge between theory and application.
February 17 – Conference Learning
8:30 AM
Conference Welcome, Keynote Speakers
Practicing Just Transformation: Building Equity Design Into Pedagogy
Dr. Pierce Otlhogile-Gordon is an innovation catalyst, researcher, facilitator, and evaluator, impassioned by the space between transformation and liberation. Dr. Otlhogile-Gordon serves as a shepherd for Equity Innovation to shape our collective future.
Trust in Design: Why Relationships Matter for Impact
Jaspal teaches courses bridging public health, engineering, and business at UC Berkeley, where he served as the Fung Fellowship’s faculty lead from 2016-2021 and created the first-ever human-centered design course in a school of public health.
9:55 AM
BREAK
Breathe, beverage, family, recharge
10:10 AM
Concurrent Sessions 1
ROOM 1
Dr. Angèle Beausoleil (55 minutes):
Teaching and Measuring Innovation Literacy Through Design
ROOM 2
Tabea Berg (55 minutes):
The Vulnerability of Design Thinking: Helping Novices Feel Safe and Free to Get “Out of the Box”
11:20 AM
LUNCH
Breathe, eat, reflect, fuel
11:50 AM
Concurrent Sessions 2
ROOM 1
Dr. Bidyanand Jha (20 minutes):
Unleashing the potential of design thinking and innovation for a sustainable ecosystem
Gordon Alexander (20 minutes):
A Technologist’s View of Design Thinking in the Real World
Dr. James Simak (20 minutes):
Design Thinking Competition: The Innovator’s Voice
ROOM 3
Katharine Ziff (20 minutes):
Teams, Tools, and Trust in Facilitating Design Thinking
Rhonda Webster (20 minutes):
Design Thinking Mindset
Lindsay Smith (20 minutes):
Level up your brainstorming with the 6 3 5 Method
1:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions 3
ROOM 2
Sameer Singh & Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse (20 minutes):
Exploring Wâhkôhtowin: Prototyping an Indigenous/historical boardgame for the market
Brooke Foti Gemmell (20 minutes):
A Visual Designer’s Mini-Guide to Virtual & Hybrid White-boarding
Glenda Tarnowski (20 minutes):
Challenges, Pitfalls, and Possibilities! Learning through Co-Creation: Shifting Healthcare Culture toward Partnership with Family Caregivers using a Design-Thinking Approach.
2:45 PM
BREAK
Breathe, beverage, family, recharge
3:00 PM
Keynote Speaker, Closing Reflections
Decoloniality in Design: From “Human” to “Humility-centered” frameworks
Maryam is currently a Senior Fellow at Social Innovation Canada supporting their Financialization of Housing Lab, a Senior Consultant at the Center for Social Innovation, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Foresight Canada, and pursuing a Doctoral degree in Sustainability Management at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Environment.
4:35 PM
Conference Close