European Year of Creativity and Innovation (EYCI)
Third Flagship Conference: Beyond the Crisis - design for a sustainable future.

Guest speakers included:

Opening Session:
Odile Quintin, Director General DG EAC
Erik Spiekermann, Designer, Ambassador for Creativity and Innovation
Linnar Viik, Member of the Governing Board, EIT (European Institute of Innovation and Technology
Damini Kumar, Design Professor, NUI Maynooth

Design thinking for better living environments:
Cristina Larraz Istúriz, Architecture/Accessibility, CEAPAT
François Jégou, Director, Strategic design
Andrew Erskine, Senior Partner,Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy.

Design and culture as critical competitiveness factors:
Philippe Kern, Director, KEA Consultancy
Benedict Davies, Senior User Experience Designer & Elaine Montgomery, User experience manager, Google
Malte Behrmann, General Secretary, European Federation of Game Developers.

Design thinking for innovative organisaions, processes and services:
Diogo Vasconcelos, Distinguished Fellow, Cisco Systems International
Martin Curley, Global Director IT Innovation, Director Intel Labs Europe
Anne Stenros, Director of Design, Vicepresident, KONE
Kari Halinen, CEO Open, Helsinki.

Design thinking in education, training and research:
Maruja Gutierrez, DG EAC
Dominique Langevin, Director of Research, Université Paris Sud
Markku Markkula, Director, Aalto University, Finland.

Closing speech: Jordi Curell Gotor, Director DG EAC

This conference was organised by DG Education and Culture, European Commission.

The European Writers & Speakers Bureau had been commissioned by Team Work, the main contractor, to provide a general  moderator and 'rapporteur'.

The salient points of this Third Flagship Conference, 'Beyond the Crisis - Design for a Sustainable Future' were highlighted in these concluding remarks by the conference moderator (click below):