Getting Ready for iDesign

By Ian, on September 14th, 2007

If you’re in town on Tuesday (18/09/07), then do please book to come to iDesign. It’s a one-day conference about interactive design, organised by my colleagues at dynamo-london, in association with NMK (my outfit) and AIG. Tickets are nearly all gone, but there are probably still enough left for the readership of this blog. Hi mum!

Just a quick reminder of the line-up, with some short notes on the speakers, in case our luminaries aren’t luminous enough for you already:

time	session	speaker
09.15	Conference chair — Welcome to idesign	Simon Waterfall (Digital President of the D&AD — how cool a title is that?).
09.30	The LDA and Digital Creativity	Tom Campbell (LDA bigwig and former NMK dude)
09.45	Industry Remarks	David Kester (CEO of the Design Council)
10.00	Digital Society:	The Internet and Happiness Nick Baylis (Psychology Guru off the TV — good speaker & a clever guy to boot.) Joe Blogs’ Blog Bill Thompson (Web Trailblazer and all-round Brain about Internet things– you’ve seen his stuff on BBC tech news — these two have opposing views on the ‘net so I’m hoping for a big bust-up in the Q&A!)
11.05	Coffee and exhibition	Creatively Digital Produced in partnership with independent digital arts agency Cybersalon, Creatively Digital will showcase innovative, interactive work and emergent technology projects from contributors such as Channel 4, Cambridge university, Sennep, Troika, Someth;ng, Proboscis, Fijuu and Igloo.
11.30	Technology, the Universe and Everything:	Digital Marketing — Good and Evil Benn Achilleas (Internet marketeer — good or evil? — let’s see) Technology and Learning Gerry Griffin (Farsighted educationalist) My Mobile Life Helen Keegan (My personal mobile marketing guru — she should be yours, too.) The Games Universe Toby Barnes (Games dude extraordinaire)
13.00	Lunch and exhibition	Emergence In association with Future of Sound, during the conference lunchbreak, Martyn Ware will presents Emergence — a showcase of innovation in interactivity and digital media, with contributions from SHowstudio, Jason Bruges Studio, Newangle and Fabrica.
14.30	Design response:	What’s All the Fuss About? Clive Grinyer (Another genius on mobile stuff. Fun, too) Creative Process, Usability and Transparency Elliot Jay Stocks (A web design cult icon) Starsight Steve Flaherty (Interesting project that I need to learn more about) Art, Public Spaces and New Media Adam Gee (Channel 4 New Media commissioner)
16.00	Coffee and exhibition	Creatively Digital (More interactive design and lattes…)
16.30	The Great Design Week Creativity Showcase	Lynda Relph Knight, Malcolm Garrett, Gary Holt and more… The best of the best in digital media. (Following this, the day (officially) segues into the creative design awards — Y Design — or (unofficially) into the ArchDuke pub, if you haven’t booked for that, too.)