A leading figure in the design community and widely recognized for his focus on innovation, Mauro is PepsiCo’s first ever Chief Design Officer – where he is responsible for leading innovation by design across the company’s food and beverage portfolio. Prior to PepsiCo, Mauro served as Chief Design Officer at 3M. Mauro recently authored his first book “The Age of Excellence: Innovation and creativity to build a better world”

One of the most prolific and awarded designers of his generation. Born in Egypt and raised in Canada, Karim Rashid is now based in NY. His designs include luxury goods, furniture, lighting, surface design, packaging, and more. Time magazine has described him as the “most famous industrial designer in all the Americas”

Birsel+Seck, is an award-winning human-centered design and innovation studio, that emphasizes empathy, simplicity, and sustainability in the home, retail, automotive and office categories. Ayse is also the author of “Design the Life You Love”, about applying design thinking to our most important project, our life. Bibi is the co-founder of Quatorze Zero Huit, a concept store in Dakar, Senegal.

Richard has had a wide-ranging design career working between Milan, London and the United States with Sottsass Associati, IDEO, Whirlpool, Philips and his own studio Prospect, among others. His award-winning, human-centered work blends hardware, software and service design to deliver end-to-end experiences that enable organizations to win hearts and minds and people to make meaning of their world.