Keynote Speakers

Gintautas Mažeikis

PhD in Phylosophy, Professor and Head of Department of Philosophy and social critique at Vytautas Magnus University

Anna Meroni

Architect, PhD in Design. Associate Professor of Design at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design, Milan, Italy.

Ilpo Koskinen

PhD, Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Massimo Bianchini

Designer, PhD in design. Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design, Milan, Italy.

Alessandro Philip Maiano

Managing Partner, Wilbe Ventures, London, UK.

Andrea Tosi

Dean of International Partnership and Innovation at IED - Istituto Europeo di Design. Milan, Italy.

Francesco Trabucco

Professor of Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design

Aušra Lisauskienė

Graphic Designer, Professor, and Head of the Graphic Design Department at Vilnius Art Academy. Vilnius, Lithuania

Agnis Stibe

PhD, Professor of Transformational Sociotech Design at ESLSCA Business School Paris. Paris, France

Teemu Leinonen

PhD, Associate Professor of New Media Design and Learning at the Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland.

Ingi Guðjónsson

Product designer at IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona, a centre of production, research and education. Barcelona, Spain.

General Chairs

Rūta Valušytė

Associate Professor of Design at Kaunas University of Technology; Head of Design centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design. Kaunas, Lithuania.

Alessandro Biamonti

PhD in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication, Associate Professor of Design in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano. Milan, Italy

Cabirio Cautela

PhD in Business Management, Associate Professor of innovation and design management at Politecnico di Milano, Design department. Milan, Italy.

Scientific Committee

Andrea Rurale

SDA Professor of Marketing, at Universita’ Bocconi, Marketing department, Milan (Italy)

Lucia Rampino

Associate Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Design department, Milan (Italy)

Monika Petraitė

Professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Department of strategic management, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Von Zedtwitz Maximilian Joachim

Professor at Kaunas University of Technology and other universities in Europe and China, Managing Director of GLORAD research network.

 

Track Chairs

Design & Social Development

Brigita Janiunaitė

Professor in Education Sciences, Head of the Department of Educational Studies  at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Eglė Butkevičienė

Vice Dean for Research at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Juratė Tutlytė

Associate Professor at Faculty of Arts, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Marius Dirgėla

Head of Communication department, teacher and PhD student (design) at Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius (Lithuania)

 

Design & Technological Development

Tomas Krilavičius

Professor at Vytautas Magnus University; Head of Applied Informatics dept. and director of Multimedia and Internet technology bachelor studies programme, in Informatics faculty, Vytautas Magnus university, Kaunas, (Lithuania) and CTO in Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Virginija Daukantienė

Professor at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Visvaldas Varžinskas

Associate Professor at Institute of Environmental Engineering (APINI), Kaunas University of Technology; Director at Center for Packaging Innovation and Research (PITC), Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Vytautas Ostaševičius

Professor at Kaunas University of Technology; Director at Institute of Mechatronics, Kaunas (Lithuania)

 

Design & Business Development

Imantė Markevičiūtė

LUISS Business School, Rome (Italy) and Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Joshua O. Fayomi

Lecturer at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, Kaunas (Lithuania); Visiting Researcher at ESADE Business & Law School, Barcelona (Spain)

Rita Jucevičienė

Associate Professor in Managementat at Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, Kaunas (Lithuania)

 

Conference Secretary

Kęstutis Lekeckas

Lecturer at Kaunas University of Technology, Design centre, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Design, Kaunas (Lithuania)

 

Acknowledgments

Asta Pundzienė

Vice-rector for research, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Andrius Vilkauskas

Dean of KTU Mechanical Engineering and Design Faculty, Kaunas (Lithuania)

Lorenzo Piazzi

DesignLibrary Network, Milan (Italy)

Julija Reklaitė

Cultural Attache in Italy, Rome (Italy)

 

Support Team

Inga Audzeviciutė – Liutkienė, Ieva Ratytė, Gidonė Armoškaitė

 

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