DESIGN MEETS ENGINEERING – USER-CENTERED INNOVATION

Norway’s first national gathering bridges the two worlds – design and engineering. It targets the global opportunities – new working methods to accelerate innovations for Norwegian engineering and service businesses.

Are you interested in innovation? Are you interested in how designers and engineers can innovate together? This is a meeting place for you with innovation initiatives or projects, including policy makers, business leaders, industry practitioners, design professionals and researches.

Event Goals
The topnotch user-centered innovation lead from the Stanford University, Prof. Larry Leifer, will be in this creative dialogue and share the frontier use of the design-inspired innovation method from Silicon Valley. Furthermore, there will be national forefront speakers illustrating of the Norway way of innovating and facilitators from both design and engineering worlds. The first fold of this one-day event is set as a learning arena from the well-selected speeches; on the second fold, this one-day dialogue interactively and collaboratively discusses the potential to revolutionize the existing ways to innovate much faster and better in your organizations.

Why this day?
Everybody is talking about the gearshift through innovation in the Norwegian society, and yet there is an expectation to resolve the biggest challenge by a “quick” turnaround. The global learning-collaborating-transforming arena therefore paves the strides when needed.
For years, we strive for innovating approaches to tackle the complexity through collaborative efforts of government agencies, industries and global research institutions (e.g. Stanford University, Stevens Institute of Technology, Aalto University, University of Twente, Chalmers University of Technology). Now we are moving the collaboration even further.

Program
The host is Norwegian Institute of Systems Engineering, University College of Southeast Norway. The first fold of this day is set as a learning arena from the well-selected speeches. On the second fold, this Dialogue Day interactively and collaboratively discusses the potential to revolutionize the existing ways to innovate much faster and better in your organizations. The event is in English.

The event has limited seats
Participation including lunch and coffee breaks NOK 350,-. This exclusive open-house event is in a quality-mingling place with limited seats.

For registration and more information, click here.

KEY SPEAKERS:

• Guru of user-centered innovation from Stanford University: Professor Larry Leifer

• Christian Eide Lodgaard, SVP Products & Brands,Scandinavian Business Seating

• Anna Kirah, Chief Experience Officer, Making Waves

• Hans Petter Hildre, dekan, Avdeling for maritim teknologi og operasjoner, NTNU

• Lillian Olsen, CEO, Halogen

• Thor Hukkelås, Innovation Leader, Kongsberg Maritime