Speakers

Kevin Hawkins

Director, Head of Design & Research at Amenitiz

Kevin is a Liberian-American product design and research leader. With more than 17 years of experience in user experience, product design and data visualization, he leads multidisciplinary teams of designers, researchers, writers and localization specialists to deliver intuitive, accessible and engaging solutions. Before joining Amenitiz, Kevin was a Global UX Director at Glovo, Director of…

Kevin is a Liberian-American product design and research leader. With more than 17 years of experience in user experience, product design and data visualization, he leads multidisciplinary teams of designers,…

Lisa Congdon

Internationally-known Fine Artist, Illustrator & Writer

Lisa makes art for clients around the globe, including Target, Amazon, Method, Comme des Garcons, Madewell, REI and MoMA. Lisa is the author of 10 books and is host of the podcast The Lisa Congdon Sessions. Lisa is self-taught and didn’t achieve momentum in her career until she was nearly 40. Despite her untraditional path,…

Lisa makes art for clients around the globe, including Target, Amazon, Method, Comme des Garcons, Madewell, REI and MoMA. Lisa is the author of 10 books and is host of…

Nikos Kallas

Chief Executive Officer, MET

One of Nikos Kallas’ earliest memories is spending weekend afternoons at the MET office, where he made paper airplanes from 40-inch sheets of paper and watched printing presses work their magic. It was the perfect introduction for what would become a successful 20-year career with one of North America’s premier printers. As CEO, Nikos oversees…

One of Nikos Kallas’ earliest memories is spending weekend afternoons at the MET office, where he made paper airplanes from 40-inch sheets of paper and watched printing presses work their…

Nour Al-Amoudi

Senior Instructor, Digital Design at the Vancouver Film School

Nour is a visual communicator with a master’s degree in digital media from Centre for Digital Media and a BA in motion graphics from Dar Al Hekma University. She approaches learning environments as the place to make mistakes, and that includes meeting each student where they’re at. Nour practices the philosophy that learning is a…

Nour is a visual communicator with a master’s degree in digital media from Centre for Digital Media and a BA in motion graphics from Dar Al Hekma University. She approaches…

Paloma Rincón

Visual Artist

Born in Mexico and based in Madrid, Paloma is a visual artist working across multiple disciplines with a strong focus in concept development and art direction. Paloma shoots photographic stills and directs moving image projects in a quirky style marked by bold colors and graphic compositions. Paloma creates visual games using a playful language where…

Born in Mexico and based in Madrid, Paloma is a visual artist working across multiple disciplines with a strong focus in concept development and art direction. Paloma shoots photographic stills…

PUPILA

Design Studio, Costa Rica

Founded in Costa Rica in 2010, over its not-so-short existence, the studio has carried out branding, packaging and editorial projects for clients in over 24 countries. Although they enjoy developing design solutions for their clientele, it’s the independently generated projects that fill the team’s soul, from assembling the largest multidisciplinary creative festival in America (the…

Founded in Costa Rica in 2010, over its not-so-short existence, the studio has carried out branding, packaging and editorial projects for clients in over 24 countries. Although they enjoy developing…

Rich Tu

Partner & Executive Creative Director at Sunday Afternoon

Rich is a first generation Filipino-American and award-winning designer and artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to working at Sunday Afternoon, Rich held creative leadership roles at Jones Knowles Ritchie, MTV Entertainment Group and Nike Inc. He’s won the ADC Young Guns Award and recently received the prestigious Paul Manship Medallion. He hosts the Webby…

Rich is a first generation Filipino-American and award-winning designer and artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to working at Sunday Afternoon, Rich held creative leadership roles at Jones Knowles Ritchie,…

Tina Roth Eisenberg

Founder of Tattly, CreativeMornings & TeuxDeux

Tina is a Swiss-born, raised and trained graphic designer, gone NYC. Over the past 17 years, Tina has started numerous side projects that have organically turned into businesses: an intentionally small creative co-working community called Friends Work Here, the world’s largest creative face-to-face CreativeMornings, a simple to-do app called TeuxDeux and Tattly, a high-end temporary…

Tina is a Swiss-born, raised and trained graphic designer, gone NYC. Over the past 17 years, Tina has started numerous side projects that have organically turned into businesses: an intentionally…

Tomasz Opasiński

Creative Technologist at Adobe

As part of the Machine Intelligence and New Technologies team at Adobe, Tomasz explores concepts, systems and creative approaches not yet widely available to help shape the future of innovative tools and solutions for complex technologies using advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Previously, Tomasz worked on the creative side of entertainment advertising for…

As part of the Machine Intelligence and New Technologies team at Adobe, Tomasz explores concepts, systems and creative approaches not yet widely available to help shape the future of innovative…

Wil Arndt

Creative Director at OXD and ThoughtFarmer

Wil is the Creative Director at OXD and ThoughtFarmer where he drives product and business strategy while working with clients such as the Government of British Columbia, Pokémon and Honeywell. Over his 30-year career, Wil founded digital agency Mod7, garnered more than 150 industry accolades and has had his work featured at the Venice Biennale…

Wil is the Creative Director at OXD and ThoughtFarmer where he drives product and business strategy while working with clients such as the Government of British Columbia, Pokémon and Honeywell.…

Zipeng Zhu

Artist, Designer, Art Director & Illustrator

Zipeng is a Chinese-born artist, designer, art director, illustrator and animator based in New York City who wants to make every day a razzle-dazzle musical. His clients include Apple, Adidas, Adobe, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Twitter, Netflix, The New York Times, The New Yorker, CNN, MTV and Samsung. He was one of the Art Directors Club Young Guns…

Zipeng is a Chinese-born artist, designer, art director, illustrator and animator based in New York City who wants to make every day a razzle-dazzle musical. His clients include Apple, Adidas,…