David Bingham
Senior Design Manager
General Electric
David Bingham plays and works confidently in the worlds of interface, machines, electronics and the spaces among them. As senior design manager on GE’s UX team in San Ramon, CA, Bingham leads co-design and business development activities with external partners. He joined GE in 2006 with a master’s degree in industrial design and human computer interaction from Georgia Tech and a BFA in industrial design from the University of Illinois. He holds more than three dozen patents in product systems, smart homes and user interaction and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company Design.
Designing Industry
General Electric has been building machines that power the world for more than 120 years. As part of its nature, the company continuously shifts to take on huge emergent opportunities with the clear and present goal of bringing the internet era to big industry. In this context, design’s future lies in facilitating conversations between expert minds and crafting people’s experience with complex machines to solve global problems in energy, transportation, and manufacturing. David Bingham will help designers be successful at scale with key points around co-creation with industry experts, design’s contribution to business success and the human side of an industrial IOT platform.