Christopher Arnold
Christopher Arnold is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at Auburn University. As an industrial designer, his professional experience comes from the architecture, exhibit, and product design industries. As an educator, Professor Arnold lectures and teaches studio at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. His research reflects a holistic approach to the design process and covers rapid manufacturing, design for sustainability, application of learning theory in the design studio, and integration of design methods in K-12 education.

Barbara Ballard
Barbara Ballard is Founder and President of Little Springs Design, a user experience consulting firm serving the mobile industry. She has been working on mobile services, devices, web sites, and applications since 1998, helping Sprint launch sites such as MapQuest, AOL, and Yahoo!

John Barratt
As President and CEO of Teague, John Barratt is responsible for positioning the company for future success. Barratt has guided Teague in building and strengthening partnerships with some of the world's leading brands, resulting in wide recognition and a growing roster of international design awards. Barratt spent five years at Philips, holding leading positions in their Hong Kong, Eindhoven, and New York Studios. He credits this global experience and operational and strategic roles at Philips with the discovery of his true passion – building, leading and inspiring great teams to achieve extraordinary results.

John Barrett
During his twenty year career in the plastics industry, Mr. Barrett has held sales and engineering management positions with injection molding, low pressure structural foam molding and plastic material manufacturing businesses. He has authored a white paper on gas-assist injection molding, holds a patent on an electronic pump and has received several design awards for the plastic products he has helped develop. Currently, Mr. Barrett is the vice president of Sales at Fort Wayne Plastics, a manufacturer of low pressure structural foam and gas assist molded plastic products.   

Scott N. Barton
Mr. Barton has worked in the medical device industry since 1995. Previously he held positions at Richard-Allan Medical (Kalamazoo) and Ethicon Endo-Surgery Inc. (Cincinnati). He is currently a member of the IDSA and has served as Treasurer of the Southern Ohio Chapter. He has been associated with nine product releases, holds five patents, and has lectured on drawing techniques and professional practice. Barton received his BS in industrial design from The Ohio State University in 1983. His current project work includes surgical devices for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Betsy Bayha
As a filmmaker, Betsy Bayha has contributed to numerous documentaries, including Freedom Machines – the PBS exploration of assistive technology for individuals with disabilities. In 1994, after several years as a reporter and producer for PBS and NPR, Bayha took a hiatus from her broadcasting career to pursue her interest in disability issues. She helped the World Institute on Disability advocate for greater access to technology, and recently completed a documentary about Judith Scott, an artist with Down syndrome who achieved international renown for her abstract fiber sculptures.

Jacqui Belleau
Jacqui Belleau attended Syracuse University wherein she studied industrial design and Japanese. She started working for Worrell Inc., a Minneapolis-based industrial design consultancy, in 2004. A poignant trip to the Philippines in the spring of 2006 inspired Jacqui to focus on bringing considered design to those who need it most. “To know that you are instilling hope in others, well, you become very aware of its importance,” she says. “I am motivated to make this a part of the work that I do.” A Boston native, Jacqui has acclimated to the harsh Midwest winters by picking up a broomball stick and taking to the ice.

Steve Belletire
Steve Belletire is the Associate Professor of ID at Southern Illinois Univeristy atCarbondale. Steve also is the Chair of the education workgroup in the IDSA/EPA Partnership.

Philine Bracht
Throughout her career of more than 30 years, Philine Bracht has been actively involved with the design communities in Germany, Hong Kong, and the US as a design manager, consultant, educator and design public relations manager. As a result of living and working in these different places for extended periods of time, Philine now sees a necessity in bringing people and places closer together. Currently she is design professor at the School of Design Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her work focuses on advancing sustainable design and mediating between design education, practice and production.

Dave Bramston
Dave is the subject leader for Product Design at the University of Lincoln UK. Dave is currently developing surface texture scaffolds for applications in the water industry and has worked closely with forensic and biomedical science teams in the UK.

William Bullock
William Bullock leads the industrial design program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  Bill’s career spans three decades as an academician, administrator and practitioner.  He directed and advanced industrial design programs at The Georgia Institute of Technology and Auburn University. He currently directs the Product Interaction Research Laboratory, specializing in interdisciplinary product development research linking business, design and technology.  Bill is vice chair of the Design Foundation and Chair of the new SAGE section of IDSA, which promotes involvement of senior members. As IDSA National Education Committee Chair, he helped initiate the annual juried publication of design education papers that continues today.

Philippe Cailloux
Philippe Cailloux is a product designer who stands for the possibility of creation in our everyday life. With more than 15 years of experience, Caillouxchallenges what is, and contributes to new digital products and services for consumers. During his tenure as the head of product design at companies like Adobe Systems, Roxio/Sonic Solutions and more recently at FilmLoop, Cailloux has helped transform the way product designers are involved at a strategic level--being at the core of the product development conversation and being responsible for the impact it has on the users. He enjoys developing and leading cross discipline design teams as well as burning the midnight oil in Photoshop and PowerPoint. Cailloux holds a MA in Product Design from Ecole nationale supérieure de Création Industrielle/Les Ateliers, Paris, France.

Ju-Yuan Chen
Ju-Yuan Chen—Senior Lecture of Department of Visual Communication of Design, Jinwen University of Technology, Taiwan. Candidate of Doctor of Professional Design, Faculty of Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.

Jan Coker
Jan Coker is a design strategist, who created and developed the Advanced Design Methodology curriculum at the University of South Australia for an international student body. Her book discussing these approaches is scheduled for release in 2008.

Chris Conley
Chris Conley is founding director of Gravity Tank, an innovation consulting firm helping companies launch new products and services. As lead of the Graduate Product Design program at the Institute of Design (IT), Chris teaches students to lead initiatives aimed at innovation and delivering results to the bottom line. Chris holds a Master of Science of Design from ID and a mechanical engineering degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He contributes regularly to design conferences and competitions worldwide and served as the 2006 Chair of the IDEA BusinessWeek Awards.

Janet Cole
Janet Cole began her career in documentary film production and distribution in the mid-1980s, working with director Peter Adair on a series of films about the AIDS epidemic. Their award-winning film Absolutely Positive (1991) was featured at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals and on PBS’s POV series. Cole was Executive Producer of Freedom Machines, and consults frequently with independent producers and organizations. In 2000, Cole received a George Foster Peabody Award and Academy Award nominations for her work on Regret to Inform, a film about Vietnamese and American widows of the Vietnam War.

Jim Couch
Jim has over 25 years of design experience. He is recipient of numerous design awards and patents and his work has appeared in various publications. He currently is the Director - Design at Altair ProductDesign.

Richard Cox
Richard Cox is the originator of the Freedom Machines film concept and the current president of The Freedom Machines Project. A computer consultant who has produced traditional and computer animation shorts, Cox became involved with assistive technology over eighteen years ago when exploring how personal computers can be adapted to help children with disabilities. Cox continues to apply his interests in film, animation and computer graphics toward helping individuals adapt technology systems to their personal needs and to presenting the concept of universal design to younger audiences.

Roberto Cuervo
Roberto Cuervo is an urban designer for the Bogota City “Public Space Master Plan” and director of Industrial Design Career at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He teaches design workshops and design theory and has spoken at the University of Vigo, Rioja and Polytechnic of Valencia in Spain, Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala, Catholic University of Equador and Duoc-UC in Chile.

Brock Danner
Brock Danner is a founding partner of the New York service and environmental design practice Brew|SDC – where he’s actively tracking, mapping, and defining the common behavioral mechanisms of everyday people. As an award-winning architect, environment and broadcast designer, Danner is passionate about user-based design innovation. His credits include CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360° and the worldwide CNN International studios, as well as consumer experience strategies and retail design for Wal-Mart, Samsung, and WIRED Magazine. Brock has a Master’s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, and served as adjunct professor of Architectural Design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Gregg Davis
Gregg Davis has been driven not only by the visual side of design and innovation, but also by what he terms “the non-visual” aspects of product experience. He has worked to create processes that synergize the characteristics of a product's design, all of its sensory qualities, and dynamic interactions into a holistic experience. His design philosophy is informed by psychological studies on the brain and parallels to human interactions combined with aesthetic alignment.

Alvaro Diaz
Alvaro Diaz has over 10 years of experience as an industrial designer. He specializes in research and analysis for new products and performs usability testing. With a diverse background in product development and studies in ethnography and qualitative methodologies for culturally appropriate design, he consults for a wide variety of clients in Latin, North America and some European countries in industries such as pharmaceuticals, health care and consumer products.

Mark Dziersk                                                
Mark is VP of industrial Design at LAGA, an International Branding, Design and Innovation firm, where he's responsible for design and innovation management. Widely recognized as an expert in his field, Mark is quoted regularly in The Wall Street Journal and other national publications.  He has served as President of IDSA, Executive Editor of Innovation Magazine, and has received numerous awards for design excellence. Mark also holds over 100 US product design and engineering patents.

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Luigi Ferrara
Luigi Ferrara is the Director of the School of Design at George Brown College and the Institute without Boundaries, directing this innovative inter-disciplinary academic program as it moves into its second phase of evolution focusing on the World House Project after the completion of Massive Change. His previous accomplishments include his time with the Icsid where he served as an Executive Board Member from 1997-2003, and then as President in 2003-05, after which he assumed the role of an ICSID Senator. He was also the President and CEO of DXNet Inc., from 1999 to 2002.

Marty Gage
A partner in the Ohio-based lextant, Marty Gage has been pioneering participatory design techniques for two decades. Using multi-sensory toolkits along with state-of-the-art ethnography, he provides creative fuel for design firms, engineering firms, and corporate design teams. He combines techniques for user involvement with intimate understanding of creative teams and the design, allowing for simple, actionable design criteria and opportunities. Marty’s work crosses industrial and consumer product categories, ranging from weapons systems to baby diapers. He has won numerous design awards and is a frequent presenter and contributor to industry publications.

Brandon Gien
Brandon Gien is the Executive Director of the Australian International Design Awards (AIDA) and the General Manager of Design and Communications at Standards Australia, Australia’s national standards body. He studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, where he later graduated with an honors degree in Industrial Design. He is currently completing a PhD in Environmental Design at the University of Canberra in their School of Design and Architecture.

Ian Grout
Ian Grout, of Scotland & Sweden, researches creative methods for ethical design. He teaches Product Design at the Glasgow School of Art and initiated the international symposium 7x4x7, through the International Association of Universities & Colleges of Art, Design & Media and HDK Design School Göteborg.

Chris Hacker
Chris Hacker leads all creative processes for brand identity, packaging design and brand imagery at Johnson & Jonson, and has established the company’s Global Strategic Design Office in New York City. Hacker is passionate about sustainable design, and urges designers to use their influence in the business world to reduce the damaging environmental impact of products and materials. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Hacker served as Senior Vice President of Global Marketing and Design for Aveda™. He is a recognized expert in package goods design and a frequent national speaker on design, sustainability and the creative process.

Kerry Harmer
Kerry Harmer is an Instructor of Industrial Design at the University of Alberta. Harmer graduated with a Master of Industrial Design in 2006. Her research is framed within sustainable design, focusing on the challenges posed by premature obsolescence and design for durability. Harmer previously worked as a design consultant to the furniture industry in Montreal, Quebec and currently runs her own design studio, Kerry Harmer Design. Her furnishings and accessory designs have been exhibited across Canada.

Bill Hartman

Dan Hill
Dan Hill is President of Sensory Logic, Inc., a scientific consumer insights firm specializing in reading the human face to understand the individual’s conscious and unconscious experience with a company and its offerings. Hill previously held positions in business, state government and academia. He gained nationwide media coverage of consumer automobile issues through numerous appearances and interviews on television and radio. His award-winning writing has been published in The New York Times and noted with distinction in several editions of The Best American Essays.

Steven Skov Holt,
Mara Holt Skov
Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov work together to address macrotrends in art, design and culture. Steven, Distinguished Professor of Industrial Design at California College of the Arts, is the recipient of the 2003 IDSA Career Award in Education; he has previously been editor of ID magazine, co-founder of the Parsons Product Design program, and Design Visionary at frog design. Mara is an art historian and independent curator specializing in 20th century European and American art, architecture and design. Their first major project together was Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design – the book and exhibition. Their second book, due out in fall 2008, explores the blurring boundaries between the disciplines of art, design and craft.

Sabine Junginger
Sabine Junginger is a Lecturer in Product Design and Design Management at Lancaster University (UK). She has a PhD in Design and an MDes in Communication Planning and Information Design from Carnegie Mellon. Her work explores the role of design in the organization, specifically in the context of organizational change. She has written for peer-reviewed journals, including Design Issues and the Journal of Business Strategy. At Lancaster University, she is co-developing an MDes program with focus on design in managing and policy; a member of the imagination@lancaster creative research lab and engaged in MBA education at the School of Management.

Dr. Lorraine Justice
Dr. Lorraine Justice is currently the Swire Chair and Head of the School of Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has served in higher education for the past 20 years, in the areas of design research, industrial design and computer interface design. Prior to joining Hong Kong Poly, Professor Justice was director of the ID program at Georgia Tech. She was awarded an NEA grant on the integration of technology and design, a SIGGRAPH Educator’s Grant and a team Smithsonian Award in Education for the “Mission to Mars” exhibition developed in cooperation with the National Science Foundation and Apple Computer. She is an IDSA Fellow and has consulted on design with corporations such as Apple, CompuServe, Chemical Abstracts, CheckFree, Hedworth, Microsoft, NCR and Lutron. Dr. Justice coordinated the First China-USA Industrial Design Conference in Beijing, and the first Doctoral Education in Design Conference in Ohio. She also serves on the advisory board of Design Issues and The Design Journal.

Joel James Kashuba
Joel James Kashuba champions the idea that design is analogous to contemporary mythology. “Hope,” he says, “is one of the greatest stories any design can imbue to those who choose to interact with it.” This philosophy is embedded into the core of Joel’s work as an industrial designer as well as his presentations, which he often performs in the guise of one of his many quirky, eccentric characters.  Since closing the doors to Cartouche Design LLC to join P&G, Kashuba remains a lively and provocative voice for the role of the designer within the context of business.

David Kusuma 
David Kusuma is Vice President of Product Development Worldwide for plastic housewares giant Tupperware Brands. The New York native also holds four academic degrees – a bachelor of fine arts in industrial design from Carnegie-Mellon University, a bachelor of science in mechanical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh, a master's of science in management from Purdue University, and an international MBA from Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He is an IDSA Fellow and currently served as the Society’s International Section chair. He is a former executive board member of both Icsid and IDSA.

Dr. Darlie O. Koshy
Dr. Koshy began his career in top managerial positions for several corporations in India. As a founding faculty member of the National Institute of Fashion Technology he led the fashion management studies program from 1988 to 2000. During this period, Dr. Koshy wrote two landmark books on international marketing of textiles and fashion. He was appointed Director of the National Institute of Design in 2000, and joined the Executive Board of Icsid in 2001. He drafted the first National Design Policy on behalf of the Government of India. He was recently recognized by Education World as one of “50 leaders reshaping Indian education.”

Manoj Kothari
Manoj is a co-founder, director and principal strategist at Onio Design, a leading design company, based in Pune, India. He has lead hundreds of design assignments for Indian and international clients ranging from small start-ups to mega-multinationals. Manoj speaks often at innovation and design forums throughout the world and initiated the “Pune Design Festival” in collaboration with the chamber of commerce FICCI to promote Pune as a design hub of India. He is regularly quoted by Indian press and BusinessWeek on his views on design and innovation in India.

Unmesh Kulkarni
Unmesh Kulkarni holds a degree in industrial design from Industrial Design Centre at Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai. In his current role as Senior Design Account Manager, at Philips Design, he is responsible for design research, creative direction and design service development for different product divisions of Philips in India. He has led various local and global projects for various Philips’ businesses. He is also part of Philips Design’s global creative design management platform for sustainable design. Prior to Philips Design Unmesh had a consultancy business for eight years dealing with corporate and NGO clients.

JohnPaul Kusz
John Paul Kusz currently teaches Industrial Ecology and Sustainable Design at the Stuart School of Business and the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a founder and associate director of the Center for Sustainable Enterprise at ITT and President of JPKusz, Ltd, providing consulting and business development strategies to eliminate or reduce the environmental consequences of business and commerce. Kusz has authored over 40 articles and developed and patented products for recreation, health and safety, medical imaging and surgery and resource recovery systems.

Peter Lawrence
Peter Lawrence is chairman and founder of Corporate Design Foundation. He is also a management consultant and has taught about design at numerous business schools.  He established the Corporate Design Foundation in 1985 to improve the quality of life and effectiveness of organizations through design. The Foundation publishes @issue: The Journal of Business and Design. Prior to CDF he was director of the Design Management Institute. Peter received degrees in economics from Lafayette College and architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Chris Lefteri
Chris Lefteri is an internationally recognized authority on materials and their application in design. Chris’s eight books on design and material innovation can be found in most design studios around the world. He has delivered white papers and curated museum exhibitions across Europe, North America and Asia. He is a regular contributor to international design magazines and a senior lecturer at Central St. Martins College of Art in London. Chris is also a visiting professor at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in Singapore. He received his MA in Industrial Design from the Royal College of Art.

Scott Lehman
Scott Lehman is the Senior Director & Regional Director of Philips Design for North America.  Scott began his career with Philips eighteen years ago and has worked with Philips divisions across North America and in the Netherlands.  With strength and experience in marketing, engineering and design, Scott has continuously been exposed to the latest technologies and high profile projects at Philips.  In his current role Scott is responsible for Philips Design in North America, comprised of four design studios in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Seattle.  These studios work for all divisions of Philips from healthcare to consumer electronics and provide their world renowned design expertise to a growing list of other companies including GM, Nike, L’Oreal, Coke, The Gap and P&G.

Doreen Lorenzo
Doreen Lorenzo is President and Chief Operating Officer of frog design. She has been with the company for ten years, first as General Manager of the Digital Media group. She assumed the role of COO seven years ago and became President last year. During her tenure as COO, Ms. Lorenzo was instrumental in transitioning frog from a traditional design boutique to one of the world’s foremost strategic creative consulting firms, securing broad-based arrangements with GE, HP, Disney and many other Fortune 500 clients. She oversees ten studios in four countries and nearly 500 people. 

Bill Mak
Bill is an interaction design professional, an innovation entrepreneur, and chair of the IDSA Interaction Design Professional Interest Section. After enjoying 12 years of design & innovation at Microsoft, Bill continues to envision and create the future with IMI Studios, a dark and secretive global design collaborative.

David Malouf
David Malouf has been involved in digital interaction design for 13 years. Now with Motorola Enterprise Mobility, Malouf builds on his experience at Documentum, IntraLinks, BMG, Sony, Prudential, Merrill Lynch, American Express, Ameritech, and UPS to merge his understanding of software with new lessons from the world of electronic device design. A thinker and evangelist of user experience design and interaction design, Malouf publishes and lectures internationally on enhancing user experience. Malouf is Sr. Interaction Designer at Motorola Enterprise Mobility.

Fumikazu Masuda
Fumikazu Masuda, of Japan, is President of open house incorporated, a design consultancy. He is also Director of LLP EcoDesign Institute, Professor of Design at Tokyo Zokei University and organizer of The International Conference of Design for Sustainability 2006 in Tokyo.

Luis Arturo Méndez-Alba
Luis Arturo Méndez-Alba is an industrial designer and design consultant for IncUP and MCS, Mecatronics and Control Systems, and founder and head of the Innovation and Design Engineering program at Universidad Panamericana, México. He has been practicing for 25 years in image, graphic and product design, launching more than 400 products to the market. He has given lectures in México, Finland and the Far East. His main interests are culture and anthropology in relation to behavior and design.

Michael McCoy
Mike McCoy has received over 200 design awards and several prestigious design education awards. He is a principal at both McCoy & McCoy and Fahnstrom/McCoy Design Consultants, as well as co-director of Post-Professional Education at RMCAD in Denver. Mike co-chaired the Design Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art for 23 years. His strategies for interpreting technology and information through design form have been widely published and he lectures internationally on the subject. He has authored numerous publications on design and is co-author of Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse. He and his wife Katherine are directors of High Ground Design Workshops.

The Reverend Shane McCraig
The Reverend Shane McCraig has toured the world unlocking the mysteries of design, reframing what it means to “be a designer”, and saving young designers from essential business practices that can strip great design of its soul.

Patricia A. Moore
Patricia Moore is an internationally renowned gerontologist and designer, and a leading authority on consumer lifespan behaviors. For three years (1979-1982), Moore traveled throughout the United States and Canada disguised as an elderly woman, with her body altered to simulate the normal sensory changes associated with aging. ID magazine included Moore as one of the world's 40 most socially conscious designers. In 2000, a consortium of news editors and organizations listed Moore as one of the 100 most important women in America. ABC World News featured her as one of 50 Americans defining the new millennium.

Spencer Murrell
As a partner at Ohio-based lextant, Spencer translates design research into actionable design strategy. His career has spanned three decades of product development consulting roles. He spent 17 years at Fitch, Inc., where he headed the Product Development Practice, building interdisciplinary offerings encompassing industrial, mechanical and electrical design. At Fitch he lead the design team that created the zip, Ditto and Jaz product lines for lomega Corporation, earning the “Design of the Decade” award in 2000 from BusinessWeek. Spencer has earned dozens of US and foreign patents, and has been recognized by ID magazine, the Chicago Athenaeum, IDSA and BusinessWeek.

Ken Musgrave
Ken Musgrave, IDSA, has led the Industrial Design and Usability competencies at Dell Inc. in Austin, TX for the last seven years. Before Dell, Ken was the Director of Product Design at Becton Dickinson, a medical technology company, where he also served in various product development and corporate marketing leadership roles. Ken holds an MBA from the University of Utah, an MS in Design from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BS in industrial design from Auburn University.

Hari Nair
Hari Nair is a global designer with a footprint in the US and Asia. He currently operates out of New Delhi and Shanghai, heading the Asia Operations of the Global Consumer Design function at Whirlpool Corporation. Nair has won numerous design awards and is considered a pioneer in 3D modeling. His research interests range from the role of simulation to the integration of technology in education. As a UN Consultant, Nair helped establish a new design program at the Indian Institute of Technology and has been honored as a Fellow of the Society of Industrial Designers of India.

Bruce Nussbaum
Bruce Nussbaum is assistant managing editor at BusinessWeek, covering innovation and design. In 2005 I.D. magazine named him one of the most powerful people in design. He has received the Bronze Apple and Personal Recognition Awards from IDSA. Recent cover stories include “Get Creative!”, “The Best Product Design, 2005 Award Winners,” and “The Power of Design.” Other publications include The World After Oil: The Shifting Axis of Power and Wealth, and Good Intentions – an inside look at AIDS medical research. His essays have appeared in The Best Business Stories of the Year 2002 and The Best American Political Writing 2004.

Augusto Picozza
Augie Picozza’s design brief grew significantly in September 2004 when consumer goods maker Jarden Corp. purchased American Household Inc., parent of Sunbeam Products, for which Picozza had been the design director for the past decade. Picozza, still based in Boca Raton, Fla., now directs industrial design for Jarden Consumer Solutions. Prior to joining Sunbeam, the 31-year design veteran worked for 14 years designing and developing products for plastic housewares giant Tupperware, including the last four years as its director of design for the Asia-Pacific area, addressing key markets of Japan and Australia.

Glen Oross
Glenn Oross has worked with Motorola, Hewlett-Packard, Kyocera, Ocean Mined Sandals, Rip Curl, Dragon Optics. His greatest thrill is to see people using a product he designed and being totally stoked with it. Glenn believes that designers need to be less self-absorbed and more concerned with the needs of the people they serve and, if possible, try to do everything they can to improve the environment. He believes strongly that design can help society progress in positive ways.

Dev Patnaik
Dev Patnaik is principal and founder of Jump Associates, an innovation and design strategy firm based in San Mateo, California. Patnaik is a designer and strategic planner with experience in engineering, art, design, and business theory. He has worked with Fortune 500 firms and fledgling startups in the US, Asia, and Australia, helping them translate long-term strategic imperatives and customer insights into actionable mandates for design. Dev also teaches design research methods to undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford University, and speaks frequently at forums for product development, marketing and innovation.

Chuck Pelly
A 40-year veteran of the design industry, Chuck Pelly is founder and former President of Designworks/USA. Beginning with a staff of three, Chuck built the company into one of the world’s best industrial design offices and BMW’s US design studio. Pelly also co-founded The Design Academy Inc, a multidisciplinary consulting group dedicated to applying design and creative knowledge to corporations, educational institutions and other organizations. He has earned more than 40 US and foreign patents and over 50 awards of distinction. Chuck has taught and lectured broadly, served on many boards, has been president of IDSA, and has been an IDSA Fellow since 1994.

James J. Pirkl
James Pirkl is professor emeritus and retired chair of Syracuse University's department of design, as well as former Senior Research Fellow at Syracuse's All-University Gerontology Center. An authoritative consultant for the 50+ market, he is described by the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum as a "key figure in universal design." Pirkl has delivered lectures and workshops throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. His influential book Transgenerational Design: Products for an Aging Population received a Gold IDEA award. His Transgenerational House project exposed over 30 million aging readers to the benefits of responsive transgenerational design.

Steve Portigal
Steve Portigal is the founder of Portigal Consulting, a boutique firm that brings together user research, design and business strategy to help innovative companies discover and act on new insights about their customers. In addition to regularly speaking at design and marketing events, Portigal has taught Design Research at the California College of Art and is known for his blog, All This ChittahChattah. He is an avid photographer who has a Museum of Foreign Grocery Products in his home.

Mary Beth Privitera
Mary Beth Privitera holds dual appointments at the University of Cincinnati, as both assistant professor of biomedical engineering and instructor of industrial design. She co-developed the university’s Medical Device Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program, which partners students from the industrial design, biomedical engineering, and business fields with physicians to advance intellectual property for commercialization. Privitera is currently a principal of Y-NOT Design, a firm specializing in the medical device industry. She has been associated with more than 30 product releases, holds five patents, several provisional patents and has published and lectured on a variety of topics.

Darrel Rhea
As CEO of Cheskin, Darrel Rhea has spent 25 years helping top corporations understand customer needs and experiences to marry the best of design, strategy and market research into a solid business proposition. Rhea’s mission is to help companies create products, services and brands that serve both the consumer and the bottom line. Rhea is a frequent keynote speaker to senior executives at US and international organizations and conferences. In his book, Making Meaning: How Successful Businesses Deliver Meaningful Experiences, Rhea pushes the envelope of innovation in design, business strategy, marketing, and customer experience.

Laura Richardson
As Director of Design Research for M3, Laura Richardson specializes in innovative thinking, research methodologies and strategic solutions for a wide array of projects encompassing consumer, industrial and healthcare trends, applications and form factors. Her passion and field of study is emotion engineering as well as participatory design. Richardson previously worked with Trilogy’s Human Computer Interaction Group. Before that, she was with the Ease of Use Architecture and Design Group at IBM and was invited to Japan to learn Kansei Engineering from Mitsuo Nagamachi. She has presented at SXSW Interactive and contributed to frog’s bi-monthly newsletter, the frog Design Mind, as well as the gadget blog, Gizmodo.

Steve Russak
Steve Russak is VP, Global Innovation & Design at Kaz, a market leader of Healthcare and Home Comfort products for Honeywell, Vicks and Braun. Steve is a former Partner of Smart Design, has chaired the IDSA NY Chapter and currently chairs the Design Management Section. He has chaired the IDSA/BusinessWeek Catalyst Award, juried the CES Innovation Awards and ID Magazine’s Annual Design Review. He lectures frequently and has taught courses at Pratt Institute in New York City.  Steve earned his BFA in ID from RIT and his MBA from Fordham’s Graduate Business School.

Louise St. Pierre
Louise St. Pierre is the Associate Professor of ID at the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design in Vancouver, California. Also, the ‘01 IDSA Educator’s conference selected her Whole Product presentation as one of its best.

Akshay Sharma
Akshay Sharma, assistant professor in the Industrial Design Department at the Virginia Tech, Blacksburg,VA, teaches the Foundation Course in the School of Architecture & Design as well as a course in Design Visualization. He has also taught at Arizona State University. He is interested in combining conventional and digital media to represent design ideas. He is also very interested in user-centered design as a methodology and is presently working on projects related to that. He rides a Ducati.

Nathan Shedroff
Nathan Shedroff is chair of the ground-breaking MBA in Design Strategy at California College of the Arts. This program melds the unique principles that design can offer business strategy with a vision of the future as sustainable, meaningful, and truly innovative. A pioneer in experience design, interaction design, and information design, Shedroff works in several media and consults for companies to build better, more meaningful customer experiences. His latest book is Making Meaning and Experience Design 1. Shedroff was nominated for a Chrysler Innovation in Design Award in 1994 and 1999 and a National Design Award in 2001.

Shimon Shmueli
Shimon Shmueli is the founder of Touch360, a strategic product design and innovation firm, and an expert in in design for experience: the relations between people and products. Before founding Touch360, Shimon held leadership positions in marketing, division-level business/technology strategies, and new product development and design at IBM. He co-founded KeyNetica, a company that pioneered the use of the USB flash drive as a mobile platform. He taught graduate marketing classes at George Mason Univeristy, and has spoken at several design forums, including the Taiwan Design Center, Johns Hopkins University, and MIT Sloan School of Management.

RitaSue Siegel, IDSA
RitaSue Siegel is founder and president of RitaSue Siegel Resources, the premier design search firm focused on identifying innovative and creative talent, senior design leaders and Chief Creative Officers for organizations worldwide. RitaSue has undergraduate and graduate degrees in industrial design from Pratt Institute. She is a regular contributor to Communication Arts Magazine, speaks frequently at national and regional design conferences.

John Skabardonis
John Skabardonis is Fantasia® Color Technologies Manager for North America in the Polycarbonates Group of Bayer MaterialScience LLC in Pittsburgh, PA. John has been with Bayer for approximately 14 years where he has held increasingly responsible positions in plastics, coatings and colorants. He has a broad knowledge of sustainable design and designing for aesthetics and color. John holds a PhD in physical/organic chemistry from Case Western Reserve University.

Aaron Sklar
Aaron Sklar has been affiliated with various IDEO offices since 1997 (San Francisco, London and currently Palo Alto). Using human-centered design as the focal point, he has worked on a variety of projects that explore the relationship between people and the world we interact with — from cochlear implants to bank accounts, and even a rocket to the moon. Over the years, two areas of emphasis have emerged: sustainability and wellness.

Anne Stenros
Anne Stenros (Helsinki, Finland) graduated as an architect from University of Oulu, Finland and University of California, Berkeley. She has the doctorate in technology in the field of architectural theory from Helsinki University of Technology. Since 1995 to 2004 she acted as a managing director of Design Forum Finland. In 2005 she acted as Executive Director of Hong Kong Design Centre. Currently she is Design Director of KONE Corporation. She has lectured around the world and written articles on the theory and philosophy of architecture and design. Her latest book Design ®Evolution (2005) is about corporate design strategy.

Scott Stropkay
Scott is a Partner at the design research, strategy and development firm Essential in Boston. Building from his experience managing design groups at IDEO and Gillette, Scott develops and applies design thinking techniques to shape new product and service concepts for forward-thinking companies.

Brian Stonecipher
Brian Stonecipher of Continuum is a human factors engineer, applying his knowledge of human capabilities and limits to ensure that new products are effective, comfortable, and safe. Prior to joining Continuum, Stonecipher worked at Design Science in Philadelphia, specializing in hospital equipment and surgical tools. His ethnographic and applied task research allowed his clients to improve hospital beds for obese patients and to improve the effectiveness of laparoscopic surgical tools. He has also worked for 3M, Centurion International, and First Data Corporation in engineering and consulting positions.

Jane Fulton Suri
As a Managing Partner and co-Chief Creative Officer for IDEO, Jane Fulton Suri places special emphasis on the contribution of human insight, creative practice, and design thinking as they relate both to IDEO's work and to client organizations. Jane leads IDEO's global human factors design and research group, pioneering the company's human-centered approach and the use of empathic methods such as observation and experience prototyping. As one of IDEO's global leaders, Jane also plays a prominent role in teaching and adapting methods for use in innovation workshops with clients interested in bringing new approaches to their organizations.

Andy Switky 
Since joining Palo Alto, Calif.-based IDEO in 1998, Andy Switky has worked on and managed many types of programs, from traditional product development to rethinking teaching and learning in pharmaceutical manufacturing. He currently runs IDEO's Shanghai, China, office and is part of the consultancy's consumer experience design practice. Switky also runs IDEO's manufacturing group, which includes engineers and materials scientists who are charged with inspiring IDEO design with new ways of thinking about materials and processes. He holds numerous utility and design patents and a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.

Rob Tannen, PhD
As Director of Research at Bresslergroup, Rob Tannen optimizes the fit between people and technology. He has over a decade of expertise in applying human factors, design research, and usability for organizations including Microsoft, the New York Stock Exchange, Research in Motion, Siemens, and the U.S. Air Force. Tannen is an active speaker, with numerous presentations, publications and podcasts for IDSA, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and the Usability Professional’s Association. As vice-chair of IDSA's Human Factors professional interest section, he created and authors the section's web log, http://humanfactors.typepad.com/.

Christian Trifilio
Christian believes in focusing on the present rather than dwelling on the past. Defining himself as “a dad, a participant in society, a yogi, a designer and a teacher,” Christian is fascinated by the subtleties in life and the intricate ways in which they are woven. He is passionately devoted to the simple ideals of helping and respecting others, doing what is right, and living a creative and rich life.

Judit Várhelyi
Judit Várhelyi is director of the Hungarian Design Council and an Icsid boardmember. She has worked as an architect and consultant in Hungary and Japan and delivered presentations on design throughout Europe and India.

Mitzi Vernon
Currently Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, Mitzi Vernon has also taught design at California College of Arts, the University of Southern California, and Arizona State University. The project lead of National Science Foundation Grant Awards in 1999 and 2005 on design of non-traditional books and exhibits for teaching science and math to middle schoolers, she is also co-principal investigator a 2007 NSF grant examining the design studio as an educational model for designing software-intensive systems. Vernon holds three US Patents and recieved the 2007 Diversity Award from the College of Architecture & Urban Studies at Virginia Tech.

Craig Vetter
Craig Vetter’s designs have helped to shape the world of motorcycling. His Windjammer of the 70s helped create the touring motorcycle as a whole new kind of vehicle. By 1977, his company factories in Illinois and California employed over five hundred people -- second only to Harley-Davidson among US motorcycle manufacturers. His design for Triumph, the Hurricane of 1973, was selected for display in the Guggenheim Museum’s “Art of the Motorcycle.” Vetter holds over twenty US patents or trademarks. He has been keynote speaker at several IDSA Annual Conventions.

Geoff Wardle
Geoff Wardle is Director of Advanced Mobility Research at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and part of the core team planning and delivering Art Center’s “Designing Sustainable Mobility” series. Educated as a vehicle engineer and as an automotive designer at the Royal College of Art, Geoff has had extensive experience as a professional designer across four continents and remains a passionate car enthusiast. Geoff has grown increasingly concerned about the future of the industry and personal mobility in general. Amongst various consultancy activities, Geoff particularly enjoys his relationship with TVS Motors, a large Indian motorcycle manufacturer. 

Richard Watson
Richard is a Partner at the design research, strategy and development firm Essential in Boston. Building from his experience managing design groups at Fitch and GE Plastics, Richard develops design strategies to help companies see and leverage the value of design across a company’s total offer.

Doris Wells-Papanek
As a design consultant and learning coach, Doris Wells-Papanek applies brain-based research to design tailored learning tools for business and education. Wells-Papanek works with designers, companies, and design schools to integrate users' mindsets into sustainable product development. She also works with students, teachers, faculty, administrators, and parents to help learners organize their time, tasks, and thoughts. As a partner of Greenleaf & Papanek Publications, she is the co-author of five brain-based instructional books. With over 25 years of experience in design, software, and education, Doris has over 20 design and utility patents.

Philip White
Philip White is the Assistant Professor of ID, School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He also serves as Chair of the IDSA Ecodesign Section. He established the IDSA/EPA partnership.

Luke Williams
Luke Williams is Creative Director for frog design and heads the Industrial Design practice for the New York and Austin studios. Prior to that, he worked in frog’s Silicon Valley and San Francisco studios as a creative lead for projects spanning a wide variety of enterprises. He lectures regularly at universities such as Columbia Business School, California College of the Arts, Parsons School of Design, and NYU Stern School of Business. Williams’ opinions on innovation and design have been sought after in interviews with National Public Radio, Business 2.0 Magazine, ID Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal.

Eric Wilmot
Over the past decade Eric has practiced as a designer across a range of industries. Most recently, he has focused on the expanding role of design in social and organizational processes and sees design placed squarely at the center of the sustainability movement. Eric holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters from the Institute of Design, IIT. He is also a LEED accredited professional, currently advises the University of Chicago Innovation Round Table, and consults to creative agencies and corporate groups on a range of topics related to sustainability.

Tom Witt
Tom Witt’s research interests center on the application of scientific methodologies to a theoretical framework for design activity. Principle areas of concern include methods for enhancing communication network development among those affected by design solutions; generating variety; and evaluating design performance. Witt has a special interest in models for decision making in design and the relationship between dissident behavior and divergent thinking in group activities. Witt is firmly committed to the computer as an enhancement of the natural intelligence of the designer, involved in the development of computer programs to allow designers trace the path of their activity.

Jed Wood
Jed is an interaction designer and entrepreneur. He bridges the gap between design and programming through a deep respect and talent for both. Using tools like Adobe Flash, he creates rapid prototypes and functional applications that combine data sources with interactive interfaces. Most recently he worked on the Bose Media System, which will debut in the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. Jed holds a Master's degree from the Institute of Design, where he now serves as adjunct faculty member.

Cooper C. Woodring
Cooper C. Woodring, FIDSA, is a former President of IDSA who currently enjoys a career serving as an Expert Witness in litigation involving designs. Some past cases include Herman Miller’s Charles Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, Briggs & Stratton engines, Gucci wristwatches, Garmin GPS systems, and products as unusual as toilet paper and artificial fingernails. In one recent case where design infringement was found, the jury’s award was over $50 million. Cooper Co-Chairs the Design Protection Section of IDSA, has testified before the US Congress, and is represented in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Xiangyang Xin, PhD
Xiangyang Xin, PhD is Assistant Professor, Deputy Program Leader, Master of Design, School of Design, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Xin has a terminal degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where he also received a master degree in Interaction Design. With a diverse education and a professional background in mechanical engineering, architecture, design, art and product development, Xin specializes in cultural product innovation, design theory, interaction and communication design. Xin grew up in mainland China and connects closely with Chinese universities and industries.