Calling All Engineers!
Waterloo once again has an amazing opportunity for both A-Soc and B-Soc Engineers.
Design Our Tomorrow is an inspirational TED-style lecture series featuring a remarkable line up of speakers. DOT aims to inspire the new generation of thinkers and creators, and to bring together the soon to be great innovators of our time.
The lineup for the conference this year includes notables such as:
Eric Chivian
Nobel Peace Prize Winner for his work on stopping nuclear war
Karim Rashid
Product design legend, 3000+ products in production, 300+ awards, in 30 museums globally
Aubrey de Grey
World’s leading anti-aging scientist, believes we can live to 1000 years old
Edward Burtynsky
Photographer + TED Prize Winner, in 15 museums including MoMA and the Guggenheim
Ron Baecker
Interaction Design Pioneer – Creator of technologies for the elderly
Siobhan Quinn
The first product manager at Foursquare
Aza Raskin
Rethinking medicine as co-founder of Massive Health, former Creative Lead at Firefox, named 2011 Fast Company Master of Design
Greg Kolodziejzyk
Guinness Record Holder for distance travelled by human power
Raghava KK
Contemporary Artist, uses cartoonish shapes and colours to examine the body, society, and our world
Craig Shapiro
Co-founder and CEO of Collaborative Fund, Former President of GOOD
Gary Hustwit
Director of Helvetica, Objectified, and Urbanized, named one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business
David Keith
World leading expert on geo-engineering (i.e. heart transplant for the Earth), Time Magazine “Hero of the Planet”, climate adviser to Bill Gates
The DOT Team has gifted Waterloo with 50 free tickets! You can also request a free ticket directly through the DOT website.
For all A-Soc students interested in attending the conference email: harry.hall8@gmail.com
For all B-Soc students email: nan-h@live.ca
Include: Name, Student ID, Program, and Location
For more information or to reserve your ticket through the Design Our Tomorrow Website visit: http://designourtomorrow.com/
Design Our Tomorrow
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