Surviving NeoCon: Plan Your Success [SE1]

Presented by an industry expert, this program will divulge the tips and tricks of navigating one of the world’s largest tradeshows. Gain insight into the best methods of getting around the one million sq. ft. of showrooms, exhibits and seminar rooms. This program will help you plot your course, curtail unnecessary elevator delays and master the domain the right way – right from the start. This is a must-attend program for first-time attendees or those returning to NeoCon.

Space is Limited – Registration is required.

Speaker: Kay Sargent, IIDA, CID, LEED® AP Principal, IA INTERIOR ARCHITECTS, Washington, DC

Behind the Scenes of the Best of NeoCon [SE2]

Just hours after the winners are announced, a panel discussion will take place among select members of the BON jury. Representing interior designers, architects and facilities managers, jurors will reveal their “must see” products, detail unique aspects of this year’s competition and comment on the level of creativity in this year’s entries.

Moderator:  Eileen McMorrow, Director, the Best of NeoCon Awards and Editor, McMorrowReport.com.

The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage [SE3]

In this presentation, Roger Martin will explore the following questions: Why, if so many companies publicly set innovation as one of their most important goals, are we so poor at it? Why is breakthrough innovation so inconsistently achieved and hard to replicate? And how can we get better at bringing innovation into the heart of our organizations? In answering the questions, Roger will present a theory of how knowledge advances, connect that general theory to corporate innovation, and prescribe a solution to the innovation dilemma: design thinking.

This presentation will be followed by a book signing of Roger’s latest work, The Design of Business: Why Design Thinking is the Next Competitive Advantage.

Biography:

Roger Martin has served as dean of the Rotman School of Management since September 1, 1998. He holds the Premier's Chair in Competitiveness and Productivity and is Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship. Previously, he spent 13 years as a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he served as co-head of the firm for two years.

His research work is in Integrative Thinking, Business Design, Corporate Social Responsibility and Country Competitiveness. He writes extensively on design and is a regular columnist for the BusinessWeek.com Innovation and Design Channel. He is also a regular contributor to Washington Post's On Leadership blog and to the Financial Times' Judgment Call column. In 2009, he was named by The Times (of London) and Forbes.com one of the 50 top management thinkers in the world (#32). In 2007 he was named a Business Week 'B-School All-Star' for being one of the 10 most influential business professors in the world. Business Week also named him one of seven 'Innovation Gurus' in 2005, and in 2004, he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award.

A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in Economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. 

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Design Does Matter [SE4]

How leading thinkers are re-envisioning the workplace in these turbulent times.

   

Speakers: 
Carlos Martinez, Global Design Leader and Design Director, Gensler
Eileen Jones, Principal and National Discipline Leader, Perkins + Will
Kay Sargent, Principal, IA Interior Architects
Dean Matsumoto, Principal, Kasian

Teknion will host a Round Table panel of industry thought leaders from the US & Canada to help address the tough questions facing designers today, and importantly to help illuminate some strategies and tactics that can aid in the development of an effective solution. Some of the types of issues we will address are:

• As the workplace changes, how is the role of the designer changing?
• How does design support corporate culture or brand development & evolution?
• How are changing work styles in the office (e.g. more collaboration, more nomadic) impacting design?
• How do you use space to maximize the attraction & retention of workers?
• How are Generational & Demographic forces driving workplace design?

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Sustainable Transportation Design and its Application to Interior/Exterior Space Design [SE5]

Jason Hill, Founder and President of Eleven—an industrial design studio with a focus on environmentally conscious vehicle design--will discuss efficiency and sustainability and how they relate to fixed/architectural projects.  Hill has worked with Aptera, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche & Samsung Motors and teaches at ArtCenter College of Design.

This presentation will include case studies on the interior/exterior design of moving products and how these principles can be applied to fixed/architectural space and environments.   The principle of “sustainability through desirability” will be demonstrated through projects completed by Eleven, as well as others.
A primer on automotive design, and how process and results are determined will be discussed. Hill will examine and discuss the regional and global aspects of transportation design. Other mobility products and their role in striving towards sustainability will be reviewed. Highlights will include specific projects and processes, as well as future trends and materials forecasting.  Global market conditions and customer expectations, both real and perceived, will also be discussed.

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