Trailblazing Presentations

• Find Your Personal Style with Meg Lewis

• Make It: 400+ Slides on making it with Zipeng Zhu

• Re-Imagining Better Tomorrows with Brian Collins

• Perfecting Your Portfolio with Matthew Clark RGD, Sarah Di Domenico, Linda Nakanishi and Laura Stein RGD.

• Perfecting your Job Search Tools (Post COVID-19) with Eleni Alpous, Chris Govias, Berkeley Poole and Robyn Cambruzzi.

• What Employers Will Be Looking For (Post COVID-19) with Julie Barge RGD, Vanessa Eckstein RGD, Geoff Lee and Nick Richards.

• So You Wanna Design A Better World? with JD Beltran, Andrew Gibbs, Michelle Hopgood RGD and Jay Wall RGD. Moderated by Victor Szeto RGD

• Real Life 101: The Missing Design Course with Jeff Close, Hans Thiessen RGD, Paul Twa Prov. RGD and Sara Wong Prov. RGD. Moderated by Alison Garnett RGD

• Show Me the Money with Charmaine Cheng Prov. RGD, Tanya Duffy, Jordan Jackson Prov. RGD and Dzung Tran RGD. Moderated by Julian Brown RGD

Trajectory Presentations

• What Brand Designers Know with Mooren Bofill RGD, Wade Convay, Robin Honey RGD and Wilson Wong.

• What Digital Designers Know with Jay Grandin, William Liani, Lin Oosterhoff Prov. RGD and Ellen Tham.

• What Solo Designers Know with David Nuff RGD, Marta Ryczko, Cai Sepulis RGD and Carson Ting.

40 Minutes Presentations

• Designing for Hip Hop Culture with Cey Adams
• Reimagining Better Tomorrows with Brian Collins
• UX Meets MBA: A designer goes to business school with McLean Donnelly
• Nation Building by Design with Greg Durrell
• Identity in motion with Liza Enebeis & Merijn van Velsen
• Design: The Last Line of Defense with Ben Fry
• Hey: Thinking About Design with Verònica Fuerte
• Lessons from the Battlefield: The Life of a Changemaker with Maria Giudice
• A Place as a Brand with Dr. Natasha Grand
• In Conversation with the DesignThinkers of the Year - Anthony Green and Noura Sakkijha
• North American designer VS European designer with Yurko Gutsulyak RGD
• Lessons Learned from an (un)traditional think tank: A 10-year reflection of Design as an Exploration of Research, Ideas and Communication with Michelle Hopgood RGD
• How to Build a Serious Career with Silly Work with Lauren Hom
• You Want to be Creative Director. Now What? with Blake Howard
• Brand Naming for Designers with Blake Howard
• Design Management: An Alternative View with Natasha Jen
• Supporting Design: Using Research to Inspire Designers with Meena Kothandaraman
• Things Are What You Make of Them: Life Advice for Creatives with Adam J. Kurtz
• We Love Magazines with Jeremy Leslie
• We Are a Counterforce with Prof. Rebeca Méndez
• The Artful Designer: Creating for Commerce and Culture with David Nuff RGD
• Simple Works with Susanna Nygren Barrett
• Above the Noise with Jayson Oertel
• A New Typography with Jason Pamental
• It’s a Big World After All with Laura Piché RGD
• How technology is reshaping design & rewiring designers with Lorna Ross
• Brand is Product is Marketing is Operations with Josh Silverman
• Clear Space: Legacy Graphic Standards Manuals and Design Today with Hamish Smyth & Jesse Reed
• How to run a healthy design team with Eric Snowden
• What's Next with Jenn & Ken Visocky O’Grady
• Rallying Together with Jay Wall RGD
• 600 1:1s with Cap Watkins
• Project management is dead, long live process design with Collin Whitehead

10 Minute Presentations

• ​But What If They All Hate It? with Nicola Hamilton RGD
• Designing uncertainty. with Vanessa Eckstein RGD
• Leading a Creative Career with Confidence with Alana Ruoso RGD
• Can’t Read, Can’t Write, Here’s My Book with Michael and Kaila Jacques

• Explorations in Design Education with Glen Hougan, Rebeca Méndez & Nancy Wynn
• Explorations in Design Education with Isabel Meirelles & Karin von Ompteda

• Equity in Information & Experience Design by Jessica Bellamy
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Main Titles *but were afraid to ask by Karin Fong
• How much does design matter? by Cheryl Heller
• Design Thinking: A 50-year Perspective by Kit Hinrichs
• Type Tasting by Sarah Hyndman
• Engaging in Disability as a Creative Practice by Liz Jackson
• Creative is not a noun by Austin Kleon
• What happens when every designer at a big company puts down their swords and works as one? by Jenny Lam & Hillel Cooperman
• In Regards to Beauty by Leland Maschmeyer
• Let’s Destroy Silicon Valley by Mike Monteiro
• How to run a healthy design team by Eric Snowden
• A New Conversation on Brand Design: Connected Brands + the Power of Language by Jennifer Vano & Augustus Cook
• Au Bon Pain by James Victore
• Design x Culture x Context by Yah-Leng Yu

40 Minute In Conversation

• In Conversation with our DesignThinker of the Year - Jamie Cormack, Founder of Herschel Supply

Lightning Talks

• How can digital designers participate in the sustainability dialogue? by Supratim Chakraborty
• The Power of Your Story by Stevie Nguyen
• Privilege by Design by Dr. Milena Radzikowska
• Do Good by Kim Ridgewell
• Doo-Doo: How to Change a Crazy World with Design by Hans Thiessen RGD
• 10 Tips to Empower and Engage Organizations in Co-creation by Jane Vita

• Art + Strategy: Using Design to Bend Rules, Turn Heads and Not Break Your Brand with Josh McInerney RGD
• Coffee, Cubicles and Creativity: Focusing Creativity in a Corporate Environment with Robert Smith RGD
• Walking the Line: Balancing in In-House Design with Erin Craig RGD
• Government: A New Frontier for Design with Chris Govias
• Service Departments are for Autos and Appliances: Moving from Service to Strategic with Deborah Peterson
• Turning Difficult In-House Clients into Your Cheerleaders with Stella Guan
• Designing for Impact: Measuring the Impact of Service Design with Katie Monteith

• Panel: Burning Portfolio Questions
• Panel: Getting Hired
• Panel: Running a Solo Business
• Panel: Things I Wish I Knew
• Panel: Transitions
• Presentation: 'Misconceptions About The Industry' presented by Julian Brown RGD 
• Presentation: 'Negotiating an Awesome Salary' presented by John Furneaux RGD
• Presentation: 'Creating an Effective Digital Portfolio' presented by Vince Galante RGD
• Presentation: 'How to Sell Design to Non-Designers' presented by Bob Hambly RGD
• Presentation: 'Learning from Criticism' presented by Mikey Richardson RGD
• Presentation: 'Resume Writing' presented by Theresa Casarin, Creative Niche
• Presentation: 'Time Management' presented by Randal Boutilier RGD
• Presentation: 'Project Management' presented by Michelle Hotchin
• Presentation: 'Presenting Your Ideas' presented by Paddy Harrington RGD

• Aaron Draplin: Tall Tales from a Large Man
• Andrew Zolty: Building Physical-Digital Products
• Andrew Deitchman: A Well-Designed Idea
• Andy Epstein: Drinking the Creative Kool-Aid (Tapping Into In-House Teams for Strategic Innovation)
• Charles Adler: Stories from the Vast Fields of Creative Independence
• Dave Holston: The Empathetic Designer (Why your next great design idea won't come from you)
• Ellen Lupton: This is Your Brain on Typography
• Erik Spiekermann: Keeping the A**hole Factor Down
• Henry Hobson: Creative Journey: Designing for Film to Directing Film
• Javier Mariscal: Colours 
• Jessica Walsh: Creative Play
• Joseph Duffy: The Design Process Made Simple
• Karen McGrane: Content in A Zombie Apocalypse
• Marty Neumeier: Metaskills - Five Talents for the Robotic Age
• Philippe Apeloig: Typorama Story (Slides Only, No Audio) 
• Richard Turley: Let's Talk About Me
• Todd Waterbury: Belief to Behaviour

• Panel: The Future of Work
• Panel: Mistakes I Have Made in My Design Career
• Panel: Workplace How-Tos
• Panel: What Comes After School?
• Panel: Starting Your Own Business
• Panel: How Creative People Arrive At Ideas

• Alex Trochut: More is More
• Austin McGhie: Brand is a Four Letter Word
• Bruce Nussbaum: Creativity = Strategy 
• Chris Chapman: Purpose, Passion & Penguins
• Cyrus Highsmith: Similar But Different 
• Darhil Crooks: Print in the Digital Age
• David Berman RGD: How To Make The Entire Planet Your Client
• Dmitri Siegel: Dirtbag Design
• Elizabeth Pastor: The Other Design Thinking
• Emily Cohen: Best Practice Strategies Any Design Firm Should Know
• Jenn & Ken Visocky O'Grady: What's Your Design Worth
• John Kieselhorst: Made. On A Mission. 
• Karin Fong: Heroes - Super, Design, Real and Imaginary
• Matteo Bologna: Branding from a Type Nerd Point of View
• Morag Myerscough: Belonging
Nicholas Felton: Feltron Reporting
• Pierre Bernard: The Matchmaker
• riCardo Crespo: Why Are You?
• Robert Fabricant: Mission-Driven Innovation
• Shawn Petersen: Passion + Tinkering = Innovation
• So(cial) Good Design Awards Case Studies

• Panel: Advancing Your Career
• Panel: Beyond Design
• Panel: Creativity and Inspiration
• Panel: Getting a Job
• Panel: Industry Trends
• Technology, Trends and the Fountain of Youth (Adam Antoszek-Rallo RGD) / Get the Job You Want and Keep It (Brent Long RGD) 
• Getting Noticed (Christine Lu) / Pricing and Negotiating (Stussy Tschudin RGD) 
• Typography Trends (Dominic Ayre) / Welcome to Reality (Barry Quinn RGD)
• Fun-Employed (Julian Brown RGD) / Interdisciplinary Design (Antonio Lennert Prov RGD and Symon Oliver)
• Why Are You? (riCardo Crespo)
• Resume Writing (Theresa Perrotta) / Networking (Lesli Scott)
• Panel: Becoming a Design Entrepreneur 

• Andy Pratt: Digital Branding
• Chris Hacker: Making a Difference Through Design
• Christopher Simmons: How to Build a Park (*and other stories)
• David Butler: Embracing Complexity
• Gabor Schreier: Clarity and Courage
• Glenn John Arnowitz: Going It Alone
• Glenn John Arnowitz: Selling Your In-House Creative Department
• Harry Pearce: Ideas That Have Found Me
• Jason Tselentis: Electronic Media Essentials Then and Now
• Julia Hoffmann: Non-profit + In-house + Low Budget = Creativity
• Justin Ferrell: 5+5=x or x+x=10
• Kris Sowersby: The Typographic Magpie
• Lisa Strausfeld: Data, News and Design
• Mike Kruzeniski: Think to Make
• Nadine Chahine: Engaging with the Middle East
• Oscar Tillman & Nicole Muniz: The Value of Digital Production
• Randy Hunt: Data. Intuition.
• Sean Adams: How I Got From There to Here (The 3 Fs)
• Sophie Thomas: The Great Recovery
• Stefan Sagmeister: Design and Happiness
• Tom Eslinger: Right Here, Right Now - Design and Mobile Experiences

• Resume Writing for Creative Professionals (Adele Wootten) / How to Prepare a Design Portfolio, and You! (Dominic Ayre)
• Trends in Branding (Barry Quinn RGD)
• Panel: Becoming a Design Entrepreneur
• Outside the Box: A Look at the Future of Retail Packaging Design (Robert Smith RGD)
• Panel: Effective Interviews and Internships
• Panel: Getting a Job
• The World is Going Mobile (Jeremy Linskill RGD) / The Art of Presenting and Negotiating (Marawan El-Asfahani RGD)
• Succeeding in a Career in Motion Design (Julian Brown RGD) / Trends in Advertising (Dave Tupper)
• Design and the Importance of Blah Blah Blah (Matteo Bologna)
• Project Management in the Creative Industry (Dave Younger)
• The First 120 Months of KarlssonWilker Inc. (Hjalti Karlsson)

• Stanley Hainsworth: We Are the Stories We Tell
• David MacKay: Measuring the business value of design
• William Poundstone: Priceless: How to Set a Value on a Creative Professional's Time
• Aaris Sherin: Better Design With Colour
• Aaris Sherin: Design Reset
• Jason Bruges: Art Design Architecture Thinking
• Jessica Hische: Drop Caps and LOL Cats
• Rob Giampietro: The Uses of Metaphor
• George Lois: Has "Design Thinking" become an Oxymoron?
• Christian Schwartz: Obsessions in Type Design
• Eric Ryan: The Method method
• Robert Wong: Crap I Think About At Google
• Richard Morrison: 2001 – 2011: A Digital Odyssey
• Steve Edge: Lateralism
• Ivan Chermayeff, Tom Geismar and Sagi Haviv: Designed to Endure
• Eddie Opara: Draw your own conclusions
• Craig Mod: Designing for the Future Book
• David C. Baker: Position Your Firm/Practice to Make Yourself Indispensable
• Allan Haley: Cheap Type Tricks
• Rei Inamoto: Designing a Culture of Innovation
• Deborah Adler: Designing Change
• Chip Kidd: You Can Turn the Page But You Can't Turn it Off
• Brian Collins and Leland Maschmeyer: Good Design for Good

• More Than Words: How Writers and Designers Can Learn to Play Well Together (Doug Dolan)
• Online Portfolios (Ben Weeks)
• The Hidden Power of Networks (Paddy Harrington RGD)

• Alina Wheeler: Brand You
• Alina Wheeler: In Process We Trust
• Allan Haley: Bach, Fonts and Rock & Roll
• Andrew Blauvelt: Museum as Design Platform
• Angus Hyland: In the Dimension of the Present Moment
• Armin Vit: How to Build an Unconventional Design Career
• Chris Chapman: The Un-Guide to Creativity, Innovation and Brainstorming
• Darrel Rhea: Insights to Innovation
• David Turner: Iconic Design
• Dmitri Siegel: You Can't Design Your Way Out Of This
• Emily Oberman & Bonnie Siegler: 17x17x17
• Helen Walters: Design and Business - The Bottom Line
• Jeni Herberger: Creating a Profit Centre
• Jenn & Ken Visocky O'Grady: What the H-E-Double Hockey Sticks Does That Mean? 
• Khoi Vinh: Digital Killed the Art Director Star
• Roger Martin: Creating Value Through Design Thinking
• Scott Dadich: WIRED's Digital Rebirth
• Scott Thomas: Designing Obama 
• Tony Davidson: One D or Two?