Derek Lam Derek Lam is a leading designer of relaxed yet elevated American sportswear. His work is known for its calculated simplicity and thoughtful detailing that creates a sophisticated modern sensibility. A San Francisco native, Lam began his fashion career in 1990. He spent eight years as a designer at Michael Kors before launching his...

Ivan Poupyrev Ivan Poupyrev is an award-winning scientist, designer, and technical leader. Over the last twenty years, he has invented, developed, and brought to market breakthrough technologies and interaction concepts that allow for seamless blending of digital and physical interactivity in everyday objects and devices. Previously at Walt Disney Imagineering Research Division and Sony Computer...

IwamotoScott Architecture IwamotoScott Architecture is a San Francisco-based architecture and design firm founded by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott in 2000. Committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, the firm believes that each project can achieve a unique design synthesis. Conceptual themes of the work focus on strategies of adaptation and...

SCAPE Landscape Architecture SCAPE Landscape Architecture is a design-driven landscape architecture and urban design studio based in New York and New Orleans. Founded by MacArthur Fellow Kate Orff in 2005, SCAPE believes landscape architecture can enable positive change in communities through the creation of regenerative living infrastructure and public landscapes. The studio works to integrate...

Tinker Hatfield For nearly four decades, Tinker Hatfield has been designing some of Nike’s most popular athletic shoes. After studying architecture at the University of Oregon, where he was coached by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, Hatfield joined Nike in 1981 and currently serves as VP of Creative Concepts. Known for his inventive imagination, relentless drive...

Open Style Lab Established in 2014, Open Style Lab is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating functional wearable solutions for people of all abilities without compromising on style. Led by board members Grace Jun, Christina Mallon-Michalove, and Pinar Guvenc, the New York-based organization teams designers, engineers, and occupational therapists to conceive and build accessible wearables...

Keith Kirkland is the CEO and Cofounder of WearWorks, a haptic design company. The company’s first product, Wayband, is a wearable tactile navigation device that guides blind and visually impaired users to an end-destination, using only vibration. Keith is a mechanical engineer, accessories designer, and industrial designer with experience developing innovation based concepts and experiences....

Mike Milley is the Director of Creative Consulting at BMW Group Designworks in Los Angeles. He leads a cross-disciplinary team that brings the future to life at the intersection of Research, Strategy, and Foresight. Mike has been an enthusiastic catalyst for change for over 20 years. He was the Founding Director of Samsung’s Lifestyle Research...

Eleanor Morgan is SVP of Experience at Casper, where she is responsible for the design and development of Casper’s end-to-end customer experience across digital and retail touchpoints. She believes design and brand can make bedtime cool again, and leads teams to create customer experiences that make shopping for sleep and the routine around it joyful....

Elise Roy is a deaf, inclusive design strategist who helps companies analyze products, services, and programs from the vantage point of people with disabilities. She believes that the unique experiences of people with disabilities help us uncover hidden needs, wherein lie the most profound solutions for everyone. Elise draws on her 15+ years of working...

Davin Stowell is the founder and CEO of Smart Design, one of the world’s premier strategic design companies that helps people live better and work smarter. An expert in consumer product and experience innovation, Davin has steered design directions for a broad range of clients, including OXO, HP, and Corning. The OXO Good Grips line...

Todd Waterbury is Chief Creative Officer at Target, where he establishes the creative direction of Target’s marketing efforts, leading an internal team of art directors, designers, developers, writers, and producers, as well as its external agency and design partners, who, together, craft creative content for the Target brand. Todd has extensive experience in creating strategic,...

Katherine Darnstadt is the founder and principal architect of Latent Design, a progressive architecture, urbanism, and interiors firm leveraging civic innovation and social impact to design more equitable spaces and systems. Since founding her practice in 2010, Katherine and her firm have been published, exhibited, and featured widely, most notably at the International Venice Architecture...

Siggi Hilmarsson moved to the US from Iceland to attend Columbia Business School. Adjusting to the American diet, he found American yogurt excessively sweet, so he started making his own in his New York City apartment based on Icelandic traditions and using less sugar. A year later he started selling his yogurts at an outdoor...

Sam Kass is a food entrepreneur and former White House Chef and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition. He is the founder of TROVE and a partner in Acre Venture Partners. During his White House tenure, Sam took on several additional roles including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and Senior White...