YEAR 6 – 2006 – NEW DELHI

Design with India

Key Areas of Focus

Design Equity in the Emerging Scenario

Future of Design

India – The Emerging Design Destination

Innovation through Collaboration

Speed, Scaling and Effectiveness of Design Services

Design with Cultural Sensitivity

Indian Design Scenario

Design Education

Design with India: Reflections and implications

Distinguished Speakers

Darlie O Koshy	Director, NID & Executive Board Member, ICSID
Ajay Dua	Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion
Uday Dandavate	Founder & Principal, Sonicrim Inc, US,
Kishore Biyani	Managing Director, Pantaloon Retail (I) Ltd
Peter Zec	President, ICSID
Y S Rajan	Principal Adviser, CII
Sudhir Sharma	Founder and Moderator, Design India, Founder Director Elephant Design
N.N.Prasad	Joint Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion,
Pradyumna Vyas	Principal Designer & Head, Integrated Design services (IDS), NID
Sonia Manchanda	Founder Director, Idiom Design Consulting Pvt. Ltd,
Satish Gokhale	Director, Design Directions Pvt. Ltd,
Poonam Bir Kasturi	Founding Faculty, Srishti School of Art & Design
Debera Johnson	Director, Pratt Design Incubator/ Sustainable/ Social Enterprise & Chair- IDSA, New York
Ignacio Germade	Chief of Design- Motorola, Europe

As a follow up to this event, a group of design and innovation thought leaders from around the world met at the Asia Society in New York on February 5th 2007, to reflect over the outcome of the conference in Delhi and to develop a consensus on the challenges of and opportunities for designing with India. The main organizers of this event were IDSA, Asia Society and CII.