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CEO Summit Presentation

CEO Summit Presentation

Interview with Tim Brown

Tim shares his thoughts on Design Thinking and what the key challenges are for New Zealand companies.


Bio

Ranked independently among the 20 most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is the design consultancy that contributed to such standard-setting innovations as the first mouse for Apple, the Palm V, and Bank of America's 'Keep the Change' service.

Tim's ideas and experience are widely sought in industry, academia, and the non-profit community. He participates in the World Economic Forum at Davos and gave the plenary in 2006.

In addition, he advises senior executives of Fortune 500 companies and serves on the Board of Trustees for the California College of the Arts, the Mayo  Innovation Advisory Council, and the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a not-forprofit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the poor.

He has also led strategic client relationships with such companies as Sony,  Microsoft, Motorola, Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and Steelcase.

An industrial designer by training, Tim has a special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well being of people living in emerging economies.