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Jacqueline Antalik

Jacqueline Antalik Jacqueline Antalik is the Director of User Experience and Service Design at OXD, a Vancouver-based human-centred design and technology consulting firm. She and her team of designers apply user-centric and design-thinking approaches to help clients...

Dr. Angèle Beausoleil

Dr. Angèle Beausoleil Dr. Angèle Beausoleil is the professor of Business Design and Innovation, and academic director of the Business Design Initiative, at the Rotman School of Management. She completed her PhD in design-mediated innovation at the University of...

Doreen Arrowmaker

Doreen Arrowmaker Keynote: Looking Beyond the Surface To adopt a design attitude in Design Thinking is to embrace challenges with a sense of confidence, optimism, acceptance of ambiguity, and persistence. The solutions to these challenges may appear to be impossible...

Tania Anaissie

Tania Anaissie Keynote: (Re)designing Design for Today’s World: Aligning our design practice to our liberation values In design’s translation from the for-profit to social sectors it brought with it some harmful practices that no longer serve us. Come...

George Aye

George Aye Keynote: Understanding design’s relationship with power means rethinking what good design means Conventional design has principles for what good is, from luminaries like Dieter Rams, but when the design work serves non-profit organizations instead of...