Past Keynote Presenters
Joseph F. Coughlin, Ph.D., Director, Agelab, MIT |
Peter Dixon, Senior Partner, Lippincott Mercer |
Bill Dresselhaus, President, Dresselhaus Design Group, Inc. |
Steve D'Aguanno, Group Executive, Innovationworks Hasbro |
James Dyson, Founder, British Industrial Designer |
Sam Farber, Founder OXO International |
William J. Flynn, Business Director, Blades and Razors, Gillette |
Rob Forbes, Founder, Design Within Reach |
George Gendron, Editor-in-Chief, Inc. Magazine |
John Heskett, Professor of Design, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology |
Kit Hinrichs, Partner, Pentagram |
Gavin Ivester, Senior VP and General Manager International Footwear, PUMA |
Ron Johnson, Senior Vice President of Retail, Apple Computers |
George Kordaris, Vice President, Architecture and Design, Herman Miller, Inc. |
Peter Lawrence, Founder and Chairman Corporate Design Foundation |
Ned Levine, President, Firebrand, LLC |
Robert Matza, Senior Design Director, Landor Associates |
Karen Neuburger, Chief Lifestyle Officer , KN Karen Neuburger Karen Nichols, Managing Principal, Michael Graves and Associates |
Virginia Postrel, Author and New York Times Columnist, The Leigh Bureau |
Jeffrey Rayport, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Jeneanne Rae , Co-founder, Peer Insight, LLC |
Richard Saul Wurman, Chairman and Creative Director, TED Conferences, Inc. |
Martha Stewart, Chairman and CEO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.
DJ Stout , Partner, Pentagram |
Jeff Swystun, Global Director, Interbrand |
Lloyd Ward, CEO, Maytag Corporation |
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Workshop & Roundtable Presenters |
Michael Akkaoui, President and CEO, Tanury Industries |
Michael K. Allio, Allio Associates, LLC |
Robert J. Allio, Allio Associates, LLC |
Joe Assad, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Kenney Manufacturing Company |
Rob Babson, Interquest |
Joanne Bagley, President, Kenyon Industries |
John Behringer, Executive Vice President, Dansk International Designs |
Nick Clements, Chairman, Octagon Group, Ltd. |
Renee Cohen, TechCenter Manager, Lightolier |
Charlie Conn, Director of Branding, Proteus |
Marty Connelly, Founder Spinergy, Inc. |
Andy Cutler, Cutler Communications, LLC |
Steve DaSilva, Division Manager, Swim-Ex Systems |
Russ Davis, Manager, Technical Services, TACO, Inc. |
Dr. Thomas Davison, CEO, Endius, Inc. |
Dennis Delomba, President, Delomba Designs |
William Dessel, President, Cowan Plastics, LLC |
Peter Diepenbrock, Designer |
Steven Dolan, Interquest |
Jason Donahue, Director of Business Development, Axon Sleep Research Labs |
Sherri Donghia, Design Director, Donghia Furniture / Textiles, Inc. |
Chuck Donnell, Co-owner, Kay Dee Designs, Inc. |
Gregg Draudt, Design Lead, Ideo |
Jim Engle, President, Little Kids, Inc. |
Robert L. Fay, VP Lending Officer, Washington Trust Co. |
John Ferrell, Founding Partner, Carr & Ferrell, LLP |
Thomas Fourt, VP Marketingy, AAi. FosterGrant |
Rick Genga, Director of Research and Development, TACO, Inc. |
James Gervais, Executive Vice President, Crafford-LaserStar Technologies |
Eric Goetz, Founder and President, Eric Goetz Custom Sailboats |
Rick Granoff, President, Eastern Display Group |
Betsy Goodrich, Co-founder and Vice President of Design, Manta Product Development |
Kira Greene, Design Lead, Duffyshanleyinteractive Division of Duffy & Shanley, Inc. |
Michael Hadjinian, CEO, TPI Composites, Inc. |
Rose Hannah, Owner, Iggillicci |
Ann Harakawa, Principal, Two Twelve Associates |
Jason Harry, Founder and CEO, Afferent Corporation Jonathan Hayes , Xbox360 Design Director |
Tom Hazzard, Owner, Ttools, LLC Mark Hellendrung, CEO, Narragansett Brewing Co. |
Peter Hewitt, Founder, Tea Forte Ann Hudner , Director, External Relations, Rhode Island School of Design |
Raymond Iannetta, CEO, American Biophysics Natalia Ilyin , Designer and Critic, Natalia Ilyin Company |
Peter Johnstone, President and Co-founder, Escape Sailboat Company |
William Kapos, CEO, Afferent Corporation, Excellent Coffee Company Stuart Karten , Principal, Stuart Karten Design |
Martin Keen, Founder/Designer, Keen Footwear |
Rick Koconis, Ignite Communications |
Edgar Laguinia, Industrial Designer |
Michael Lamar, Partner, Altamira Lighting |
Steve Lane, President, ITEM New Product Development |
Tracy Leigh, Owner, Ttools, LLC |
Johanna Lockhart, President, Product Development and Merchandizing, The Paragon |
Paul Mahoney, Manta Product Development, Inc. |
Heather Mapstone, Nixon Peabody, LLP Steve McDonald , General Counsel, RI School of Design |
Steven Monti, Leep Design, LLC |
Debra Morais, Owner, Communication Works |
Cristina Offenberg, Partner, Cari and Offenberg |
Mark Pearson, General Manager, Pearson Yachts, A Division of TPI Composites, Inc. |
Robin Perkins, Selbert Perkins Design |
Karin Pespisa, trendPR |
Eric Picard, Director of Rich Media Services and Founder, Bluestreak.com |
Rick Rakauskas, Co-owner, Kay Dee Designs, Inc. |
Cliff Selbert, Selbert Perkins Design |
Eric Shashoua, CEO, Axon Sleep Research Labs |
George Shuster, President, Cranston Print Works |
David Sokol, Managing Editor, ID Magazine |
Eric Sommers, Attorney, Vetter & White |
Douglas Stevenson, Executive Vice President and Co-founder, Investec Strategies Helen Stringer , Design Director, Procter & Gamble |
Rick Sustsello, Vice President Marketing, Uvex Safety, Inc. |
Susan S. Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine |
Linda Tischler, Senior Writer, Fast Company |
Robert Wedekind, Director of Design, Lightolier |
Sondra Wellmerling, Senior Vice President, Marketing and New Product Development, AT Cross |
Martina Windels, Owner, Martina Windels Ltd. and Martina & Company |
Noel Zeller, Founder and Chairman, Zelco Industries, Inc. |
Chris Zirps, Vice President Development, Product Genesis |