Hundreds of innovation experts from around the world will meet in September in Potsdam to discuss with the pioneers of design thinking-scene advanced models and methods.
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Furthermore, innovative, team-oriented solutions for management, research and education will be developed. From 20 to 22 September permanent event called "d.confestival" will be a mix of conference and festival, thus ensuring an exceptionally creative and productive work environment. Online applications are now possible under.
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The new event format will bring for the first time managers, trainers and researchers together, the innovations and innovative teamwork focus. Prominent contributors will include SAP founder and HPI-founder Prof. Hasso Plattner and design thinking pioneer David Kelley. With this, for example, is a creative guide as Oliviero Toscani, the brains behind much discussed Benetton campaigns. Companies such as Metro, German and German bank Deutsche Telekom have also been promised participation. An interactive presentation and workshop formats, a global innovation challenge and an exhibition area provide an international atmosphere and numerous opportunities for networking.
Host is the world's first d.confestivals the HPI School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam. It is Europe's first innovation for school students and works along the lines of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Since 2007, the Potsdamer device to the one in Germany, additional academic training in design thinking.
The focus of the design Thin King's wishes and needs of users and customers are themselves This is the process differs fundamentally from conventional methods in science and innovation practice. Such requirements usually define ago from technical feasibility or economic marketability. Design thinking also leads multidisciplinary together the strengths of many problem-solving strategies, patterns of thinking and communication cultures.
"We look forward to the visit of creative thinkers and innovators from around the world and very different fields. Discuss will fight together and create something new and exciting things can be."
Prof. Christoph Meinel, director of the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam
"The networked world of the future will work for three days will be experienced. By d.confestival we launch a new interactive and collaborative event format with the rigor of a scientific conference and the gaiety of a festival in Potsdam."
Prof. Ulrich Weinberg, Head of the HPI School of Design Thinking
Short profile of Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering (HPI) in Potsdam (ABC) is Germany's university center of excellence for IT-Systems Engineering. As the only university institute in Germany to offer bachelor's and master's degree course "IT-Systems Engineering" - a very practical and scientific engineering degree in computer science, which is currently used by 460 students. The HPI School of Design Thinking, Europe's first innovation for school students, modeled on the Stanford d.school, offers 120 places for further studies. A total of ten HPI professors and over 50 other visiting professors, lecturers and teachers are working at the institute. It conducts excellent research - in its nine subject areas, but also in the HPI Research School for students with their research branches in Cape Town, Haifa, and Nanjing. Focus of the HPI teaching and research are the foundations and applications of large, highly complex and interconnected IT systems. Added to this is developing and exploring user-driven innovations for all aspects of life. The HPI is used in the CHE ranking ever in the vicinity.
Background to the HPI School of Design Thinking
Since 2007, the HPI School of Design Thinking at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam-Babelsberg (xyz) is a unique European postgraduate studies "design thinking". Modeled after its sister institution "HPI d.school" at the U.S. elite Stanford University in Silicon Valley (http://dschool.stanford.edu) gives the additional academic training, "Design Thinking" advanced students from all disciplines, the ability to small multidisciplinary teams particularly user-friendly products and services to develop all areas of life. Projects carried out in close collaboration with companies, public institutions and NGOs. Per semester, up to 120 students trained - 40 each into two basic classes and one advanced course. Meanwhile, applicants from 22 nations studying at the HPI School of Design Thinking. The training lasts for one semester or two - with two days of attendance per week in Potsdam. The successful completion will receive a certificate of the institute. The students have experienced professors and lecturers from different departments and disciplines to the side.
