2016 AGENDA

MONDAY, JUNE 20

WELCOME RECEPTION
6:00-8:00 pm — RISD Museum (Grand Gallery)

TUESDAY, JUNE 21

8:30-9:20 am — Coffee & Light Breakfast

9:20-9:30 am — Welcome (SPE & Robert Grace)

9:30-10:10 am — Collaboration & The Future of Product Development

• David Kusuma, VP — Product Development and R&D Worldwide, Tupperware Brands Corp.

10:10-11:30 am — PANEL: Bridging the Departmental Divide
Cross-functional empathy: Getting the interdisciplinary gears to mesh

MODERATOR:

• David Dombrowski, Director Industrial Design & Innovation, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare

PANELISTS:

• Sam DuPlessis, Design Lead, FirstBuild & GE Appliances
• Denise Greenwell, Brand Marketing Director, Consumer Packaging Division, Berry Plastics Corp.
• Albert McGovern, Director - Mechanical Engineering, Shure Inc.
• David Tucker, Plastics Sourcing Engineer, HP Inc.

11:30-11:55 am — Creative ROI: Measuring the Value of Design

• Carole Bilson, President, Design Management Institute

12:00 -1:15 pm — Lunch (upstairs, Moore Terrace)

1:15-2:30 pm — Additive Manufacturing: A Solution to Enable Sustainability and New Concepts

• Talal al-Safi: Scientist, SABIC
• Youness Hssaini: Sr. Application Development Engineer, SABIC
• Naji Kasem: Corporate Sustainability Dept.- Technology & Innovation, SABIC
• Carlos Pereira: Staff Scientist Automotive, SABIC

2:30-3:00 pm — Coffee Break

3:00-3:30 pm — Solar Impulse: Designing for the impossible to the improbable

• John Skabardonis, Marketing Communications & Social Media — Polycarbonates (NA), Covestro LLC

3:30-4:00 pm — Adding Advanced Composites to the Designer’s Toolbox

• Geoff Germon, CEO, Talon Technology Pty. Ltd. & Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra (Australia)

4:00-4:25 pm — Design, Material & Processing Collaborating for Successful Product Development

• Mark Minnichelli, Director -Technical Development, BASF Performance Materials

4:25-4:35 pm — Wrap-Up

4:40-5:40 pm — Optional walking tours of RISD Materials Resource Center

6:00 pm — Shuttles to Ximedica’s headquarters

6:30-8:30 pm — Networking party at Ximedica HQ (with food, drink & live music)

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22

8:30-9:20 am — Coffee & Light Breakfast

9:20-9:30 am — Welcome (SPE & Robert Grace)

9:30-10:40 am — PANEL: Visions in Plastic
How designers incorporate plastics into their work

MODERATOR:

• Aidan Petrie, Chief Innovation Officer & Co-founder, Ximedica

PANELISTS:

• Augusto Picozza, Director—Industrial Design, Jarden Consumer Solutions, a division of Newell Brands
• Justin Sirotin, Founder & Owner, Octo Product Development
• Eric Larson, Founder & Chief Engineer, Art of Mass Production

10:40- 11:00 am — Coffee Break

11:00-11:20 am — Integrated Product Design: Building Effective Interdisciplinary Teams

• Peter Bressler, Principal, PBressler LLC; Founder, Bresslergroup & Adjunct Associate Prof. Integrated Product Design, Univ. of Pennsylvania

11:20 am-12:00 pm — How the Internet of Things Will Shape Future Product Design

• Stephen Wilcox, Ph.D., Principal, Design Science
• Hugh Dubberly, Principal, Dubberly Design Office

12:00-1:25 pm — Lunch (upstairs, Moore Terrace)

1:25-1:50 pm — Informal Engineering: Useful Lessons from the Maker Movement

• Kipp Bradford, Research Scientist, MIT Media Lab & Founder, kippkitts LLC

1:50-2:10 pm — Plastic Product Design: Preparing the Next Generation to Get it Right

• Prof. Bob Malloy, Chair - Plastics Engineering Dept., Univ. of Mass. Lowell

2:15-3:20 pm — PANEL: The Next Generation
What talent & tools are needed to execute tomorrow’s product development?

MODERATOR:

• Robert Grace, President, RC Grace LLC

PANELISTS:

• Matthew Kressy, Director MIT Integrated Design & Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Prof. Bob Malloy, Chair - Plastics Engineering Dept., Univ. of Mass. Lowell
• Peter Bressler, Principal, PBressler LLC & Adjunct Associate Prof. Integrated Product Design, Univ. of Pennsylvania
• Geoff Germon, CEO, Talon Technology Pty. Ltd. & Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra (Australia)

3:20-3:40 pm — Coffee Break

3:45-4:45 pm — Documentary film

• Screening of the new documentary called “All Things Bakelite” about Leo Hendrik Baekeland, a Belgian-born American chemist who is considered the “father of modern plastics.”

4:45-5:00 pm — Q&A with the film makers

• Hugh Karraker, Executive Producer, ‘All Things Bakelite’
• John E. Maher, JEM Films, Director, ‘All Things Bakelite’  
• Prof. Bob Malloy, Chair - Plastics Engineering Dept., Univ. of Mass. - Lowell

 

5:00 pm — Wrap-Up & Adjourn