Design Sprint Silicon Valley

Our intuition tells us that improved customer experiences will certainly be good for business. But how do we know for sure? Design for Business Value has eluded us for decades. In this hands-on and interactive workshop learn and practice how to envision, measure, and articulate design's impact and take your business to the next level. This session will be hands-on and interactive. It will be ideal to have internet access and on a laptop during this meetup, though pen and paper will work as well. ## Speaker #Dave Huber is a design thinking facilitator and educator inside IBM's Cloud, Data, and AI portfolio, helping designers improve their craft and deliver business outcomes. --- ## Remote Behavior Considering this is an *ONLINE MEETUP*, please be mindful of the following: #Privacy We will not share your information with the group, other groups, or companies for marketing. Please do not market or sell to any attendees of this meetup afterward. If you would like to continue talking with someone after the meetup is over, you are welcome to do so with their permission; assuming they share their contact info with you. #Participation We will flow from a conversation to listening to individual and teamwork at times. Please give everyone who wants to participate in an opportunity. #Attitude This is a safe place to share and learn. Be good to each other and be open to all ideas and opinions. --- ## Design Sprint NYC | SV | SF #Mission Our Design Sprint Community is focused on bringing together design thinkers to share techniques that expand your design practice, help create better products, and devise creative solutions to help shape our world. #Our Audience Our community is a mix of intellectually curious people who have roles in transformation, innovation, product, operations, and technology. #Want to help? Design Sprint is a volunteer organization. If you or anyone you know would like to speak at this or future meetups, please reach out on our Meetup Group or Design Sprint Slack Channel. https://join.slack.com/t/design-sprint-sfbay/shared_invite/zt-6an2qz4j-xXYz80QIZ2Zt0s4Hecu7lA

There is a pandemic of male, pale and stale in tech and that lack of diverse experiences and perspectives is holding back humanity – now is the time to accelerate change. In this panel, we will discuss the importance, and share examples, of the opportunity cost associated with a lack of diversity in tech. Too often diversity is presented as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) or a weak HR construct without hard evidence on the actual monetary and business value associated with diversity. We will share examples of the value gained when embracing, understanding, and investing in diversity. Diversity is not a nice to have – if you want to enable true innovation at a global scale you MUST understand, embrace, and invest in diversity. ## PANEL # Ann O’Dea, Founder of Silicon Republic and Future Human and global champion of diversity in STEM, https://www.siliconrepublic.com/author/aodea #Danielle McPhatter, Creative Technologist at Experiments in Art and Technology, Nokia Bell Labs, https://www.stevens.edu/news/new-sounds #Karen Wong, Deputy Director of the New Museum, https://www.newinc.org/ ## MODERATOR #Domhnaill Hernon, Head of Experiments in Arts and Technology, Nokia Bell Labs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE13T5hFcV8 --- ## Remote Behavior Considering this is an *ONLINE MEETUP*, please be mindful of the following: #Privacy We will not share your information with the group, other groups, or companies for marketing. Please do not market or sell to any attendees of this meetup afterward. If you would like to continue talking with someone after the meetup is over, you are welcome to do so with their permission; assuming they share their contact info with you. #Participation We will flow from a conversation to listening to individual and teamwork at times. Please give everyone who wants to participate in an opportunity. #Attitude This is a safe place to share and learn. Be good to each other and be open to all ideas and opinions. --- ## Design Sprint NYC | SV | SF #Mission Our Design Sprint Community is focused on bringing together design thinkers to share techniques that expand your design practice, help create better products, and devise creative solutions to help shape our world. #Our Audience Our community is a mix of intellectually curious people who have roles in transformation, innovation, product, operations, and technology. #Want to help? Design Sprint is a volunteer organization. If you or anyone you know would like to speak at this or future meetups, please reach out on our Meetup Group or Design Sprint Slack Channel. https://join.slack.com/t/design-sprint-sfbay/shared_invite/zt-6an2qz4j-xXYz80QIZ2Zt0s4Hecu7lA