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Paola Antonelli is a Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where she is also the founding Director of Research and Development . Antonelli has been described as "one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries in the world" by TIME magazine.

Elaine Lopez (b. 1984, Miami, FL) is an independent designer and educator. Her practice and research explore the intersection of culture, identity, equity, and Risograph printing within the field of design. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at Parsons School of Design in New York City.

Keller Easterling is an architect, writer and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. She is currently working on a book about land activism in the US after the Civil Rights Movement. Her most recent book Medium Design(Verso, 2021) considers not only the design of things but the design of the way things go together.

Ben Fry received his doctoral degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. After completing his dissertation in 2004, he spent time developing tools for visualization of genetic data as a postdoc with Eric Lander at the Eli & Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. During the 2006-2007 school year, Ben was the Nierenberg Chair of Design for the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. He is the author of Visualizing Data (O’Reilly, 2007) and the co-author, with Casey Reas, of Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press, 2007) and Getting Started with Processing (O’Reilly, 2010), which describe the project they co-founded in 2001.

Over 35 years, Tobias Frere-Jones has established himself as one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten and Retina.Tobias received a BFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1992. He joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art in 1996 and has lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

I’m a Professor of Engineering and the author of How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World ( US / UK ). I write, speak, collaborate, facilitate, and create widely at the intersection of technology and society, with an emphasis on systems, education, design, and materials.

Brendan Jarvis is an independent UX Researcher and the Managing Founder of The Space InBetween - New Zealand’s only specialist evaluative UX research practice and world-class human-centred research and innovation lab.

Partner at Pentagram since 2023.Growing up in Beirut before moving to London, Samar is fluent in three languages and two cultures. Spanning 20+ years across branding, digital storytelling, scenography and typography, her career has focused on balancing aesthetics, context and heritage with brand voice and purpose.

Jesse reed is partner at order , managing editor of standards manual , ceo of standards , and creator of chip slip

Dr. Andy Polaine is a design leadership coach, educator and writer with three decades of experience helping clients transform their organisations and themselves. He is co-author of Service Design: From Insight to Implementation.

John Bielenberg founded Project M in 2003. He has won more than 250 design awards in his career, and became an AIGA Fellow in 2008. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has acquired six of his design projects, and staged a solo exhibition of his work in 2000. In 2009, John was awarded the Washington University Skandalaris Award for Design Entrepreneurship in St. Louis. He went on to receive an honorary doctorate degree from Maryland Institute College of Art.

Tamara Adlin helps teams make great products. Former UX leader at Amazon. 20+ years consulting (specializing in messy startups). Co-author of the Persona Lifecycle books

Naomi Ann Clarke is a freelance illustrator and art facilitator working with art directors in editorial, publishing, brands and charities, influenced by our connection to nature, adventure, wellbeing and heritage.

Dan consults with companies and organizations worldwide on design and innovation. An early proponent of Inclusive Design he also lectures internationally on research and the future of design. He established ThinkActHuman with the goal of design for a better world.

Jakob Schneider is partner and creative director at KD1 design agency , co-founder of More than Metrics and Smaply , designer and editor of This is Service Design Doing and This is Service Design Thinking .

Susan Weinschenk has a Ph.D. in Psychology, and is the Chief Behavioral Scientist and CEO at The Team W, Inc, and former Professor at the University of Wisconsin. Susan consults with Fortune 1000 companies, start-ups, governments and non-profits, and is the author of several books, including 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People, 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People and How To Get People To Do Stuff.

Nadine’s work has been featured in the 5th edition of Megg’s History of Graphic Design and in 2012 she was selected by Fast Company as one of its 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2016 her work was showcased in the 4th edition of First Choice which highlights the work of the 250 top global designers.

Jake Barton is an American designer, and Founder of Local Projects, an experience design firm for museums, brands and public spaces based in New York, New York. He is on Fast Company Magazine’s list of top fifty designers and his TED Talk has over one million views.

Throughout my 30 years in the creative industry, I have worked for a corporation, a government department, four design studios, started two successful agencies, and taught and continue to teach design courses to the next generation of creatives.

I'm an executive UX and product design leader with more than 20 years of experience. I lead design transformations for high-growth companies. I love elevating the business impact of design, leveraging design as a strategic differentiator, and building design orgs to scale.