Profit by Design: A Conference About Creative Business
Unlock the power of design for your business with this intimate gathering
of design and business innovators. Learn and share: - How top companies
drive product innovation - Best practices in developing an integrated
product/service system - How to build an effective product or service
innovation team - Leadership methods that catalyze creative thinking -
Case studies of successful product and service innovation - How to apply
design thinking to a wide range of business and strategy challenges
Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 08, 2012 -- This event is a unique
opportunity for business leaders to engage with top designers, market
leading companies, and investors who know how to profit by design.
Creative Led Innovation is now a key driver for business success: by
convening design and business leaders in a series of interactive
workshops and stimulating presentations, Profit by Design will help
participants connect with the business models, thinking and leaders that
will drive innovation in your company. Join some of the best designers,
business minds and investment gurus and discover how to profit by design.
Day 1, Friday, Feb 24, is a full day conference that includes a track for
ground breaking start-ups who will deliver the stories behind their
creative led innovation. Additionally the most established innovation
icons in the nation, such as Bombardier Recreational Products, Lululemon
Athletica, and Research in Motion Blackberry will go behind-the-scene to
demonstrate the magic of their international competitiveness. Panels will
articulate the interplay that brings together strategy, engineering,
scientific research, investment, and market intelligence
Day 2, Saturday, Feb 25, focuses on in-depth investigations of
principles, strategies and how-to methods with small scale workshops. A
luncheon address is scheduled with Canada's national business guru, W.
Brett Wilson. One of the more specialized workshop opportunities will be
a by-application round table workshop with Industry Canada, all major
Canadian design associations and many business and industry sector
associations to discuss a National Design Policy and attendant strategies
of governance and incentives around creative innovation. Contact
organizers for more information.
In conjunction with the conference, a national industrial design
recognition exhibition, featuring the work of 2011 graduates from
Canada's schools of design, will be exhibited in the Concourse Gallery of
Emily Carr University of Art + Design, with an opening reception,
Thursday, February 23, from 5:00 & 7:00 pm.
Who Should Attend:
Profit By Design is targeted to the innovation, business and investment
community: Principals, CEO's, Product Managers, Marketers, VCs, Angels,
Professionals, Educators - any person or team that is involved in Product
Development, Product Management, Research and Development, Dynamic and
Digital Communications, Interaction Design, Experience Design, Service or
Product Design, or Financing Risk. Interested in the creation or
commercialization of new products and services this event is the most
potent concentration of innovation talent you will find this year.
About the Organizers:
Profit By Design is presented by the Association of Canadian Industrial
Designers [ACID]and co-sponsored by Emily Carr University of Art +
Design, Industry Canada and major professional design associations in
Canada. Originally established in 1948, ACID is the not-for-profit
national organization of professional Canadian industrial designers with
mandate to promote the advancement of industrial design in Canada. Emily
Carr University of Art and Design is British Columbia's senior
institution for art and design founded in 1925.
About Association of Canadian Industrial Designers:
Originally established in 1948, ACID is the not-for-profit national
organization of professional Canadian industrial designers with mandate
to promote the advancement of industrial design in Canada.
Contact :
Christopher Brien Wheeler
Association of Canadian Industrial Designers
Attention: Profit by Design
P.O. Box 33943
Vancouver, BC
Canada, V6J 4L7
1 604 783 9137
info@profitbydesign.ca
http://www.profitbydesign.ca