Session 5

Session Theme: Integrating Design across the Education spectrum

With the growing challenges of a new era and the constant need for creating new products and services, the universities ought to redesign their core functions while also creating capacities to reach emerging and underserved markets. Integrating Design across the Education spectrum will enable us to empower various stakeholder at different level to develop products and services following human-centred approach to be accepted by global markets. The session will seek views of the key Government officials, academicians and industry leaders on the subject. Speakers:

Session 6

Session Theme: Integrating Design across the School Education

The New Education Policy 2020 is very forward looking and will pave way for transformational reforms in school and higher education sector in India. New pedagogical and curricular structure of school education with board exams being designed for holistic development, bachelor’s degree for 4 years with exit options, vocational education will be real game-changers. By adding creative thinking, design thinking, logical decision making, and innovation; Indian education, perhaps, will be amongst the world’s best. We strongly believe that Design in India should be the pre-requisite of Make in India and we can achieve the same if we have a robust Education eco-system in place. The session will focus on integrating Design in School Education inline with National Education Policy. Speakers:

Session 7

Session Theme: Big Data and Al - Design for sustainable growth using Intelligent Information Technologies

Partner: Korean Institute of Design Promotion

The data revolution - which encompasses the open data movement, the rise of crowd sourcing, new ICTs for data collection, and the explosion in the availability of big data, together with the emergence of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things - is already transforming society. India's journey towards "Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India is technology-driven and will rely heavily on the transformative power of intelligent information technologies. The session will focus on the need of the sector, like appropriate policy measures and its application in designing products and services that are intelligent, yet compassionate towards achieving sustainable development goals of our times. Speakers:

Session 8

Session Theme: Design and Digital Transformation

Entering the 21st Century, technology has introduced a new form of creation to the global economic landscape. Digital tools and interactive immersive experience are driving companies to the next level of digital customer engagement and IT-enabled business processes, products, and services. In virtually every industry, digital technologies are bringing about unprecedented transformation and changing our work and lives in ways we have never anticipated. The session will highlight the critical role of Design in the field of technology, including futuristic project design, advance software and design thinking to help designers and users/organisations achieve a competitive advantage. Speakers:

Session 9

Session Theme: Design City Connect: Sustainable Urban Design & Master Planning - Setting the foundation for Green & Smart Cities

The ‘Green Cities’ concept seeks at promoting an eco-friendly city that balances social, economic, and environmental dimensions, as well as good urban governance as its foundation. Also, one of the main concerns which needs to be stressed upon is optimal and efficient use of natural resources like water, energy and land. Urban planners, urban designers, and architects need to work in close collaboration with local administration and communities to ensure that integrated planning and design thinking is undertaken to conceive a city based on sustainable planning principles. Speakers:

Session 10

Session Theme: Design City Connect: Technologies for Green & Smart Cities at Design Stage - Making Communication Faster & Safer

Cities have focused on smart city principles laid down by Government of India and included technology to make it a safe and secure city. Information & Communication Technology (ICT) plays an important role in cities in the context of planning, management, and the use of urban physical infrastructure, transport systems, power supply, sewerage, waste treatment and water supply & management. All the key stakeholders of city planning and technology deployment must be fully involved at the design stage so as to evolve a people-centred design, which has a fundamental impact on the quality of life and enhances the overall experience of the city. Speakers:

Session 11

Session Theme - Design for Clean and Sustainable Cooking services

Partner – GIZ - Modern Energy Cooking Services (MECS) Programme

A lack of access to clean energy and use of traditional cooking systems have severe negative effects on health, especially among women and children, and on the environment. Despite increasing attention toward this topic, few studies have explored the factors influencing consumers’ adoption of improved cooking stoves (ICS). The risks of solving the wrong problem can be dramatically reduced when donors, designers, and implementing agencies spend more time getting to understand the lives and aspirations of the people they want to help. This requires a deep appreciation for the richness and complexity of people’s values, needs, wants and lived experiences, as well as their historical, environmental and cultural contexts. The session will deliberate on bringing in users, donors, manufacturers and implementing agencies into the design process for developing sustainable and clean cooking solutions to indeed benefit the end-user. Speakers:

Session 12

Session Theme: Design Innovation for MSMEs and Start-ups

Partner - Taiwan Design Research Institute

Design plays a crucial role in innovation by improving functional and aesthetic aspects of a product, quality of services and enhancing user experiences. Design encompasses the entire spectrum of form, function, aesthetics, engineering, culture and lifestyle needs. It aims to improve quality of life, creates new value and markets. With a systematic and creative approach and keeping human needs at the core, design helps augment quality of usage and bring about responsible change. MSMEs and Start-ups need to focus on Design Innovation process to produce products for Indian and International markets. The session will focus on sharing best practices and experience from Indian and Taiwanese companies. Speakers:

Session 13

Session Theme: Economy & Ecology - Ensuring Equilibrium
Northern Himalayan Region comprises of Union Territories of Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir and States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The region in itself comprises of myriad human cultures, including several tribal communities. Over the years, uncontrolled demand-driven economic growth has led to haphazard urbanization, environmental degradation with increased risks and vulnerabilities, seriously compromising the unique values of the Himalayas. Economy and Ecology are both very fragile and has to be handled with utmost care and therefore there is an urgent need to strike a balance between both the Es as the duo is a critical and crucial driver for sustainable growth and development of the Region as a whole. Design and Innovation are two things that can play a pivotal role in creating the desired balance. The CII Northern Himalayan Design Summit intend to address policy requirements, sustainability issues and the need for facilitation and encouragement of entrepreneurship to develop creative and cultural industries of the region. Speakers:

Session 14

Session Theme: Design & Innovation for Sustainability
Northern Himalayan Region has its own set of opportunities and challenges. Unplanned urbanization coupled with inappropriate and non-harmonious industrialization has created unique challenges for sustainable development of the region. This creates an urgent need to revisit Infrastructure and Manufacturing strategies in this particular region and also for promoting Ecology Embedded Entrepreneurship. There are case studies available wherein states and countries have ensured sustainable socio-economic growth while remaining in the limits and preserving geological and ecological harmony of their respective regions. Design and Innovation can play a very crucial role in the Northern Himalayan Region for ensuring. enabling and eco-friendly infrastructure; green manufacturing practices; and entrepreneurial opportunities to the local youth. The session will be a platform for focused deliberations on the advancements and opportunities in the above three critical areas of sustainable growth and development of the Northern Himalayan Region. Speakers:

Session 15

Session Theme: Presentation by select companies from Design Excellence Awards applicants. Speaker :

Valedictory Session