How do you create an atmosphere where innovative ideas can blossom? What should you teach a (design) team? What are the requirements to push the boundaries together? How do you deal with uncertainty while innovating? Together with the audience we will determine the conditions for the ideal innovative work environment.
Gert Franke is co-founder of CLEVER°FRANKE, a design agency specialized in visualizing data. The agency combines strategy, design and technology to present large amounts of data in innovative ways as powerful and relevant information. Google, Philips and AirFrance KLM among others belong to the clients of CLEVER°FRANKE.
Gert Hans is lecturer on Innovation at TU Delft and one of the partners of strategic design agency Fabrique. The agency designs strategies together with clients and translates them into service design, hardware/software combinations, apps and websites. Amongst their clients are Rijksmuseum, IKEA, GVB and Independer. Their motto: We Design Change.
Dr. Geke van Dijk is co-founder and Strategy Director of STBY in London and Amsterdam. STBY is specialised in design research for service innovation, and works for clients in industry and public sector. Geke is the initiator and former chair of the Service Design Network Netherlands, and co-founder of the Reach Network for Global Design Research. She has a background in ethnographic research, user-centered design, and services marketing & innovation. She regularly publishes and presents on Service Design and Design Research. She holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from the Open University in the UK, co-supervised by the Business School of the OU.
Anne Mieke Eggenkamp is partner at Caracta future directions, with a focus on creative intelligence, leadership and learning. Her passion is to apply creative thinking and action to explore possible futures and develop the learning potential of people and organizations - whether she’s acting in the role as creative strategist, educator or mentor. People value her for her conceptual thinking, her ability to make it happen and the unusual connections she creates between different people and seemingly unrelated fields of knowledge.
