Join us in the First Design Thinking Conference in the Arab World
- Conference Objectives
- Topics
- Participants
- Discussing the future of applying design thinking in facing challenges within organizations.
- Discussing “the challenges of applying design thinking in the Arab World and globally.
- Exchanging the best knowledge and practices to enhance the expertise of innovators of solutions, services, and products.
- The methodology of Design Thinking emergence and development
- Design Thinking applications
- Design Thinking studies and research
- Design Thinking in the Arab world
- Workers in the field of solution, service, and product design
- Teachers and leaders of educational institutions
- Entrepreneurs and executive leaders in companies and organisations
- University students with technical and social specializations.
- Designers of Social solutions, products, and services.
Why this conference?
Design thinking is a thinking approach used to create solutions for complex user-centred issues that meet their demands. These solutions are:
- Desired: Meets a humane need for the beneficiaries.
- Applicable: Can be developed into products or functional operations.
- Sustainable: The business can afford to execute them.
We are supporting at the conference:
- Institution leaders in the Arab world who strive to apply design thinking approaches in their work systems and provide the complete infrastructure for that.
- Entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs: to help them design a user-centric value proposition and address their needs. This enhances the chances of project success.
- Solution, service, product designers and innovators: to reinforce their expertise in the field of solution and service-design by reviewing the best international practices in the application of design thinking.
Event Speakers
We invited experts from all over the world
Event Schedule
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Day 01
11 October
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Day 02
12 October
17:00 - 17:10 KSA
Ghiath Hawari
Opening and Welcoming
17:10 - 17:40 KSA
Prof. Meinel
Accelerating Digital Transformation with Design Thinking
17:45 - 18:15 KSA
Hanadi Traifeh
Mapping Design Thinking in the Arab World
18:15 - 18:35 KSA
Coffee Breack
18:35 - 19:05 KSA
Hoda Mostafa
Academic Integration of Design Thinking: Collaboration and Co-creation
19:10 - 19:40 KSA
Sami O. AlHussayen
Why we Innovate? Why Design Thinking?
19:40 - 20:10 KSA
James Rock
Design Thinking for Global Social Innovation
20:15 - 20:45 KSA
Kinda Almeamar
Design Teams; Skills, Attitudes and Mindsets
20:50 - 21:00 KSA
Ghiath Hawari
Conclusion and thanks
17:00 - 17:10 KSA
Kinda Almemaar
Opening and reminding
17:10 - 17:40 KSA
Steven Ney
Design Thinking and Complexity
17:45 - 18:15 KSA
Alexandra Karacsonyi
Leveraging Design Thinking to Bring Change to an Organization
18:15 - 18:35 KSA
Coffee Breack
18:35 - 19:05 KSA
Raj Thota
Good Design. Better Products
19:10 - 19:40 KSA
Rania Sawalhi
Design Thinking for Education
19:45 - 20:10 KSA
Basem Jaffal
Assumptions Trap
20:15 - 20:45 KSA
Ghiath Hawari
Design Thinking as a Competitive advantage
20:45 - 21:00 KSA
