The venue will be in a wonderful historic yet high-tech conference facility, One Wimpole Street, in the heart of London’s vibrant West End, convenient to shopping, major points of interest, museums, theater and London’s major tube lines

About the Europe 14 Conference

DMI’s 14th annual European conference will build upon the success of our recent well-attended and well-received events in Milan and Paris. As a hub of business and design in Europe, London hosts an impressive array of corporate design centers and design consultancies, a thriving creative services industry, a great design education system, and admirable government support for design. Trendy yet business-like, forward thinking yet built on history, the London design scene is always interesting and always leading edge.

Design is now recognized as an enabler of business transformation, because design leads change, which is critically needed to save and solve our future. It is a solution that addresses problems, and problems behind problems. Design connects businesses to their customers, and customers to new products, services and experiences. Design is a process tool, an innovation tool, a tool to build experiences, and a transformation tool. Transformation is as much a way of thinking as it is a result.

This conference will explore the connections and transformation capabilities of design management in three important areas:

•     Social and public sectors
•     New products and services
•     Business innovation

The world is changing, business is changing, the role of design is changing, and so too design managers need to change. The “new new” will not be simply a revert to the old pre-recession ways. As design leaders, we are now at a crossroads. Embrace the changing and expanding opportunities for design to lead the way, or observe on the sidelines. Increasingly, design managers are being invited to the boardroom and are asking themselves, “Can I rise to the occasion?”