Schedule

Design Currency 2010 offers designers, business leaders and policymakers the opportunity to experience current design thinking. Reshape your understanding of the value of design. Design has the power to influence our core values, our identity, our expectations and our world view. Design brings clarity and enhances meaning.

We will connect, interact and strengthen our common knowledge base.

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FRIDAY 23 April
9:00 - 1:00	GDC Scholarship judging	@ Capilano University
SATURDAY 24 April
9:00 - 5:00	GDC Annual Meeting	@ Coast Harbour Hotel
SUNDAY 25 April
9:00 - 5:00	GDC Annual Meeting
7:30 - 10:30	Dinner with a Side of Design 1 Theme: Culture limited seating, purchase ticket in advance	@ The Irish Heather
MONDAY 26 April
9:00 - 5:00	Icograda Executive Board Meeting
7:30 - 10:30	Dinner with a Side of Design 2 Theme: Sustainability limited seating, purchase ticket in advance	@ The Irish Heather
TUESDAY 27 April
9:00 - 12:00	Icograda Executive Board Meeting	@ Vancouver Convention Centre (Canada Place)
1:30 - 5:30	Icograda Regional Meeting
5:30 - 7:00	PRE-REGISTRATION
7:00 - 8:30	Keynote: Defining the Value of Design Helen Walters (United States), Don Ryun Chang (Korea), Cameron Sinclair (United States) presented by: Vancouver Economic Development Commission
8:30 - 10:30	Welcome Reception
WEDNESDAY 28 April
8:00 - 8:45	BREAKFAST Why sitting still is not an option Mark Sackett (United States)	@ Vancouver Convention Centre (Canada Place)
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome Remarks
9:30 - 10:30	SUSTAINABLE CITIES Panel Discussion Cameron Sinclair (United States), Peter Busby (Canada), Bruce Haden (Canada) (moderated by Robert L. Peters)
10:30 - 10:45	COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30	Presentation Peter Busby (Canada)
11:30 - 12:15	VALUE FOR THE BRAND Listen, Creating value for the brand Oscar Pena (The Netherlands)
12:15 - 1:30	LUNCH
1:30 - 2:15	Defining Design’s Value Discussion Group
2:15 - 3:00	PASSION FOR THE BRAND Passion for the Brand 1 Martin Miruka (Kenya)
3:00 - 3:15	COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 4:00	If it works in India... Ashwini Deshpande (India)
4:00 - 4:45	Why We Brand, Why We Buy Debbie Millman (United States)
4:45 - 5:30	Changing Design Brian Collins and Leland Maschmeyer (United States)
5:30 - 5:45	Day 1 Wrap Up Dave Mason - MC
6:00 - 9:00	Australian Party Hosted by AGDA	@ W2 Storyeum
7:30 - 10:30	Dinner with a Side of Design 3 Theme: Economics limited seating, purchase ticket in advance	@ The Irish Heather
THURSDAY 29 April
8:00 - 8:45	Rise & Shine: Breakfast with Adobe™ Colin Smith	@ Vancouver Convention Centre (Canada Place)
9:00 - 9:45	VALUE FOR THE BRAND Design's Value to Business Heather Fraser (Canada), Ronald Kapaz (Brazil) Presented by The Globe and Mail
9:45 - 10:30	The Cultural Value of Art in Design Marian Bantjes (Canada)
10:30 - 10:45	COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30	You can't value design without designing values Ian Grais (Canada)
11:30 - 12:15	Delight in user interfaces Frank Chimero (United States)
12:15 - 1:30	LUNCH
1:30 - 2:15	Value for the Brand 3 Ali Gardiner & Ben Hulse (Canada)
2:15 - 3:00	Panel: Global Design Procurement Blair Enns (Canada), John Gleason (United States), Debbie Millman (United States), Ali Gardiner (Canada)
3:00 - 3:15	COFFEE BREAK
3:15 - 4:00	Panel: Sustainable Practice Nathan Shedroff (United States), Valerie Elliot (Canada), David Berman (Canada)
4:00 - 4:45	Design and Indigenous Culture David Lancashire (Australia) - streamed from Melbourne/Debra Sparrow (Canada)
4:45 - 5:30	Design's Higher Calling Dr. Tony Golsby Smith
5:30 - 5:45	Day 2 Wrap Up: Closing Remarks Russell Kennedy, Icograda President
7:00 - midnite	Graphex 2010 Awards Reflecting the Best of Canadian Design limited seating, purchase ticket in advance	@ Canvas Lounge
FRIDAY 30 April
10:00 - noon	Workshop: UX Design for the web Steven Fisher, Palantir.net	@ VFS Web Café
1:00 - 5:00	Education Roundtable: Establishing a National Profile for Graphic Design Education in Canada	@ Emily Carr University of Art + Design