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Organizers of the Design Initiatief’s annual Innovation Conference just confirm our participation in the event, in two roles – in the morning, as organizers of the master-class for students, and then in the afternoon as the speakers (and then of course as the participants in the working sessions). This will be already the second event of this kind for the Design Initiatief, this time specially tuned to the innovation in the post-crisis era. The conference is designed as a working one, departing from the usual ‘speakers talk, audience listens to’ format, and will include practical innovation sessions and workshop, with a winner and quite a hefty prize (last time it was 20,000 euro check, not bad).

But there will be the speakers too (apart of our team, that is); DI invited to talk Adjiedj Bakas, a prominent Dutch trend researcher and consultant. There will be also a special content thread through the entire event, about the future of food and eating, co-developed with the Philips Design’s design probes team. All it all, it promises to be a really interesting day.