Innovation Day: Powering design with Technology Business of Design Week 2005

Plenary Session:

	Finding out how to expand your business and improve your designs with technology
	Learning new ways to harness innovation to generate revenues
Technology continues to advance at a rapid pace, how can companies take advantage of the power of design and combine it with innovative technologies to improve their product offerings resulting in more sales and high brand awareness? During the morning Plenary Session you will hear from Toyota and other speakers who are leading consumer revolutions in their markets. They will teach you how to incorporate innovation into your designs with a proven method for success. Speakers will also reveal how everything from consumer electronics to textiles, clothing and household lighting will be transformed by using technology.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan, Hybrid Car
Learn from Toyota how to take revolutionary technologies and turn them into successfully innovative products that can change the perception of an entire market. Explore how technology can drive awareness of greater issues, like environmental protection, while still producing a highly profitable and in-demand product.

Mr. George Mueller, Chairman & CEO, Color Kinetics Inc., USA
The way our world is being illuminated, both internally and externally, is changing. The innovative lighting designs brought about by LED and photonic technologies are transforming the lighting industry. Mr. Mueller, as CEO of a leading manufacturer of these lighting systems, will show us how bright and profitable the future will be with low-cost, high efficiency, multi-colored illumination using the power of photonics.