SCHEDULE
Wednesday, March 2 Thursday, March 3
5:00–8:00 p.m. ET |
Registration Open
Beat the morning rush! Pick up your name badge and say hi to fellow attendees in the lobby of the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel.
8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. ET | Registration Open
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
ET | Optional AddOns (Pre-registration Required)
Registration Open
8:00—9:30 a.m. ET | Breakfast with the AIGA Board and Design Fair Open
8:30–9:15 a.m. ET | Breakouts
Choose from a presentation, a design dialogue, a workshop, or a panel. Fancy a break from sessions? Head to the Design Fair and catch up with a friend or meet with one of our vendors!
SCHEDULE
Friday, March 13
8:00–9:30 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Design Fair opens
8:30–9:15 a.m.
Breakout Sessions
9:30–11:0
9:30–11:00 a.m.
General Sessions
11:00–11:45 a.m.
Break
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
12:30–2:00 p.m.
Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00–2:45 p.m.
Breakout Sessions
3:00–4:00 p.m.
General Session
4:00–4:45 p.m.
Break
4:45–6:30 p.m.
6:30–7:30 p.m.
Happy Hour
Saturday, March 14
8:00–9:30 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00 a.m. Design Fair opens
8:30–9:15 a.m. Breakout Sessions
9:30–11:00 a.m. General Sessions
11:00–11:45 a.m. Break
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
12:30–2:00 p.m. Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00–2:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions
11:45 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Breakout Sessions
12:30–2:00 p.m. Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00–2:45 p.m. Breakout Sessions
3:00–4:00 p.m. General Session
4:00–4:45 p.m. Break
4:45–6:30 p.m. General Session
Debbie Millman is host of the award-winning podcast Design Matters, one of the world’s first and longest running podcasts; Chair of the first ever Masters in Branding Program at the School of Visual Arts, Editorial Director of PrintMag.com, and the author of seven books on design and branding. She has worked on the design and strategy of over 200 of the world’s largest brands. Her most recent book,
Champions Design is a branding and design agency. For more than a decade, Jennifer, Bobby, and team have crafted meaningful brand strategy and visual identity systems for some of the world’s best brands. At every point in her career, Jennifer has tackled big systems. She served as Design Director of Hillary for America in 2016, Design Director of New York City’s 2012 Olympic Bid.
Debbie Millman Conference Host
Jennifer Kinon Conference Co-Chair
“I believe our future is held by the relationship between design and data.”brands. At every point in her career, Jennifer has tackled big systems. She served as America in 2016, Design Director of New York City’s 2012 Olympic Bid, and worked in Pentagram’s New York City office with Michael Bierut. Jennifer earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts.
Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, Director of Education at the Cooper Hewitt
Ruki discussed her journey from teaching design to joining the Cooper Hewitt, the museum’s amazing collection of artifacts, and how integrating design education can help society meet the demand of the immense challenges we face today. The company had long been slow to build products, and under pressure from investors and users, executives landed on a diagnosis: reluctant to criticize one.
Kayo Roehm Design Director of Hillary
Bobby C. Martin Jr. co-founded Champions Design with Jennifer Kinon in 2010. His clients at Champions have included Amazon, Apple, Dartmouth College, Girl Scouts, MTV, the National Basketball Association, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. In 2020, he illustrated his first children’s book “Have I Ever Told You Black Lives Matter.” Martin has won numerous international awards from the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, D&AD, and the TDC, among others.
"What excites me most about the future of design... the early career designers who are getting their sea legs. They have so much energy and are connected to culture and community." Mr. Davis, 43, has played a key role in a behind-thescenes effort over the past two years to remake Twitter’s culture.
Bobby C. Martin, Jr. Conference Co-Chair
Dantley Davis Twitter
AGI, MISTD, FRSA is founder/director of graphic design studio LucienneRoberts+, committed to making accessible, engaging work with a socially aware agenda, and co-founder of design advocacy initiative GraphicDesign&, dedicated to creating intelligent and vivid books, events and exhibitions exploring
Best-known for creating one of the earliest non-fungible token artworks, 2017's Digital Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. His diverse body of work is performed in both physical and digital public spaces, and includes code-based works such as his 2021 Art Blocks project LeWitt Generator Generator
Lucienne Roberts Graphic Desinger
Mitchell F Chan Graphic Desinger
Is an independent Dominican-American designer and teacher based in Providence. He works in a hybrid design-teaching practice that focuses on collaborative design practices and not-for-profit and educational organizations. He has taught in the graduate MFA.
Ramon Tejada Associate Professor
Chapel Hill, until 2018, and is currently adjunct professor with the PhD Program in Design and Creation, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia, and with the PhD Program in Environmental Sciences, Universidad del Valle, Cali. He is an activist-researcher from Cali, Colombia.
Arturo Escobar Professor