Pune Design Festival 2021: Full Schedule

6:00pm IST

Design Thinking & Manufacturing – Dynamatic Case Study - Dr. Udayant Malhoutra

Dynamatic Technologies Limited designs and builds highly engineered products for Automotive, Aeronautic, Hydraulic and Security applications. With futuristic design, engineering and manufacturing facilities in Europe and India, we are able to meet customers’ exacting requirements on 6 continents. We are geared towards providing innovative and creative solutions to our customers on a continuous basis.

Speakers

DR. UDAYANT MALHOUTRA

CEO & Managing Director - Dynamatic Technologies Limited

At 55, Udayant has successfully initiated, nurtured and scaled to industrial size, various technologies associated with all three sciences; physics, chemistry and biology.He is the CEO & Managing Director of Dynamatic Technologies Limited, a world-class design, engineering and manufacturing... Read More →

Monday February 22, 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm IST
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Keynote

7:00pm IST

Keynote Session: Where Does Design Go from Here, by Paul Priestman

Following a tumultuous year, the agenda for governments and businesses alike is to build back better. But what does that mean?

Paul Priestman, designer and Chairman of PriestmanGoode, one of the world’s leading innovative design companies, will share his vision for the future of design and the guiding principles that will allows us to rebuild a more sustainable and empathetic world.

Speakers

PAUL PRIESTMAN

Co-founder, PriestmanGoode

Paul Priestman is one of the world’s leading industrial designers and co-founder of PriestmanGoode, which was recognised in 2020 as one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies. He frequently speaks on the subject of creative future thinking and the value of innovation to business... Read More →

Monday February 22, 2021 7:00pm - 8:00pm IST
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Keynote

6:00pm IST

Design for Mobility, Shantanu Jog

Speakers

SHANTANU JOG

Creative Lead, Industrial Design - Ather Design

Shantanu Jog is currently Creative Lead, Industrial Design at Ather Energy, Bangalore, India. He was formerly part of the design team at TVS Motor Company.He holds a master’s degree in design from IDC, IIT Bombay. He has worked with prolific design teams on award-winning produc... Read More →

Tuesday February 23, 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm IST
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Keynote, Industrial Design Day

7:00pm IST

A Danish Design Perspective, Timothy Jacob Jensen

The time has always been now.
What is design and how dose it works.
My design journey.

Speakers

TIMOTHY JACOB JENSEN

Chief designer and professor

Timothy Jacob Jensen joined Bang & Olufsen’s team of chief designers at the age of 17. At 24, his first design was included in the design collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. At 28, he took over the responsibility of Jacob Jensen Design from his father. He became... Read More →

Tuesday February 23, 2021 7:00pm - 8:00pm IST
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Keynote, Industrial Design Day

5:00pm IST

Our New Responsibility, Kiran Khalap

The pandemic did not just push us indoors, it pushed us inwards. Whether we are born as gifted designers or we pursued our passion to become designers, what is the role we now assign to ourselves in this new world order, where everything is redefined, what is our new responsibility?

Speakers

KIRAN KHALAP

Brand Consultant, Chlorophyll

Kiran is the MD and co-founder of chlorophyll. He has been in the business since 1983 and juggles multiple jobs. His day job is brand consulting, his night job, writing fiction and non-fiction. His weekend job is rock-climbing.

Wednesday February 24, 2021 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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Keynote, Communication Design Day

6:00pm IST

Living Design, Kal Aaj Our Kal by Itu Chaudhuri and Lisa Rath

Itu and Lisa bring to this forum a fusion of advice and anecdotes. Drawing from their experience in studio and boardrooms, past and present. Like a deep dive into intense UX / UI: not just the web, what does it mean for print (no, it is not dead) or an object?. What's with designing for news, all the fuss over branding, and life on the shelf? 30000 ft views and microscopic zoom-ins. Seat belts fastened, please.

Speakers

ITU CHAUDHURI

Founder - ICD

Itu took a bachelor’s in architecture in 1984, but retired it to pursue his interest in letterform and graphic design. In 1996 he founded ICD, helping businesses through design and strategy. Outside the studio, Itu writes and speaks on design and its interface with society, business... Read More →

LISA RATH

Visual Communication Practitioner and Principal - ICD

Lisa is a principal at ICD and a visual communication practitioner of over 20 years. She directs and designs web experiences for brand storytelling, news, apps, enterprise products for India’s best known brands: Dr Reddy’s, Malayala Manorama, Rajasthan Patrika, and news dailies... Read More →

Wednesday February 24, 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm IST
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Keynote, Communication Design Day

7:00pm IST

THE WORLD NEEDS DESIGN MORE THAN EVER, Mauro Porcini

Speakers

MAURO PORCINI

SVP & Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo

Mauro Porcini joined PepsiCo in 2012 as its first ever Chief Design Officer. In this newly created position, Mauro is infusing design thinking into PepsiCo’s culture and is leading a new approach to innovation by design that impacts the company’s product platforms and brands... Read More →

Wednesday February 24, 2021 7:00pm - 8:00pm IST
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Keynote, Communication Design Day

5:00pm IST

Designing an Innovation Culture by Deepa Bachu

Every organisation desires to innovate, yet only a handful are successful. The undisputed basis of the innovation culture is strategic clarity. Can leadership & design positively influence the organisation's innovation culture? To be more customer obsessed and create a culture that makes it a priority to 'fall in love with the problem' and be maniacally obsessed with solving it to create delightful customer experiences?

Speakers

DEEPA BACHU

Co-Founder and CEO - Pensaar

Deepa Bachu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Pensaar, a Design Strategy and Innovation Consulting firm that uses collaborative and human centered approach of design thinking to create experiences that will be awesome, by design.She is a design and product leader who spent the last 25... Read More →

Thursday February 25, 2021 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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Keynote, UX Design Day

6:00pm IST

Design Intrapreneurship: A road less traveled in the Indian Digital Ecosystem

Making the transition to a design-driven, user experience-focused organization is a daunting challenge and needs more than a designer’s mindset to make this happen. One would need intrapreneurial leadership to get the desired attention from business stakeholders.
In conversation with Satyajit Mittal, Nitin will talk about the challenges & opportunities to make design a core function at digital organizations like Naukri, Yatra, Quikr & IndiGo

Speakers

NITIN SETHI

Vice President, Digital - IndiGo

Nitin brings with him a rich experience in product design and digital customer experience, which he has acquired over the last 19 years across leading internet and digital platform companies in India.He is currently leading the Digital Transformation for IndiGo and has previously... Read More →

Thursday February 25, 2021 6:00pm - 7:00pm IST
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Keynote, UX Design Day

7:00pm IST

How to get a 130,000 people strong organization to embrace a culture of design? - Sandeep Datar

Oracle is going through a design transformation where a large portion of the company has embraced the culture of design as never seen before. Engineers, product managers and the top executives truly believe that design thinking will have a huge impact, not just on the product experience but also the brand and the business of the organization. Sandeep in his keynote talk about how a relatively small design team was able to bring around this culture change in a large organization of over 130,000 employees.

Thursday February 25, 2021 7:00pm - 8:00pm IST
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Keynote, UX Design Day

5:00pm IST

Art and folk art in animation, by Mikhail Aldashin

Using my films as an example I will show and explain how art - painting, illustrations, lubok (popular Russian print), sculpture, embroidery - affects animation.

Speakers

MIKHAIL ALDASHIN

Film director, Scriptwriter, Art designer, Painter

Born in 1958 Mikhail Aldashin is a film director, scriptwriter, art designer, painter.He studied at All-Union State Cinema-Art Institute as an art designer of feature films, Moscow USSR (1987) andHigh Courses of scriptwriting and directing in the class of Jury Norshtein (1989).His... Read More →

Friday February 26, 2021 5:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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Keynote, Film & Animation Day

5:00pm IST

The tyranny of ‘Now’ and the power of ‘Next’ by Low Cheaw Hwei

What is the role of design in a world currently overwhelmed and preoccupied with global scale problems. Is there room for design to involve and contribute?

Saturday February 27, 2021 5:00pm - 5:45pm IST
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Keynote, Culture Day

5:45pm IST

I am a Design Activist! by Kelley Cheng

Most designers are familiar with producing design as a service, but this can get draining or meaningless after many years of practice. However, it feels different if you are designing with a sense of purpose, and there is a bigger reason behind what you do. Designers who suffer from creative burnout can perhaps rethink their role as a designer and how they can allow their design to serve more than what it is, and to bring meaning and passion back into doing what they love. Kelley Cheng, a veteran designer in Singapore, shares her journey as a designer and her parallel role as a design activist.

Speakers

KELLEY CHENG

Founder and Creative Director - The Press Room

Kelley Cheng is a modern day polymath who has immersed herself in the roles of editor, writer, curator, spatial designer, graphic designer, video director, interactive designer, and educator. Trained as an architect, she is the founder and creative director of design studio The Press... Read More →

Saturday February 27, 2021 5:45pm - 6:30pm IST
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Keynote, Culture Day

6:30pm IST

The Business of saving the world! by Thomas Dal

Our world is exhausted, plastic particles are everywhere, biodiversity is disappearing, we are facing a real planetary problem.
Saving the world has always been in everybody's mind.
But when it comes to really making it happen most of the time business and sustainability are very often walking in the opposite direction.
What if, finally, being good to our world was the next industrial revolution and the new business opportunity ?

Speakers

THOMAS DAL

Director and Dean – Strate School of Design, India

Thomas holds 25 successful years of experience made of 10 successful years in the transportation industry, 4 years of in the education field starting DSK Rubika in 2008, and 6 years in the strategic and design management of Sport product design or Decathlon, Thomas started Strate... Read More →

Saturday February 27, 2021 6:30pm - 7:15pm IST
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Keynote

7:15pm IST

Socially Conscious Design: an African perspective, by Mugendi K. M'rithaa

Afrika is a vast and rich continent that is steadily gaining
global interest for its creativity, ingenuity and humanity. Its
creative confidence, coupled with unique innovative and
sustainable socially conscious solutions are helping to define
an emerging design ethos that promises to help leapfrog the
continent into the 21st century

Speakers

MUGENDI K. M’RITHAA

Industrial designer

Mugendi K. M’rithaa is a transdisciplinary Industrial designer. He studied in Kenya, the USA, India and South Africa and is passionate about socially conscious design. He is associated with a number of international networks (including the World Design Organization and ADI) that... Read More →

Saturday February 27, 2021 7:15pm - 8:00pm IST
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Keynote, Culture Day