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What pumps your heart.

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What pumps your heart. What gets you out of bed each morning? For some, it is doing what they love, the stuff that gets the heart racing, as days and decades pass by, where the reward is watching an idea come to life. This is a story of persistence and tough choices, and believing in something even if it goes against the grain. The urge to reinvent and challenge ourselves, propels us forward. In the long run, these become defining moments, ‘calling cards’ in their own right for what we’re capable of, given the chance. The 10th Anniversary Edition of Kyoorius Designyatra gives us a window to stories of outcomes, not outputs; not of success but sincerity; not of self-initiation but perseverance, belief and action, as speakers from around the world answer the question – What pumps your heart.

Moderators Kevin Finn

Creative Director, TheSumOf Kevin Finn is an internationally respected designer. He is founder of the independent design practice TheSumOf, which focuses on simple, clear, accessible and attractive communication. He is also founder, editor and publisher of Open Manifesto, an independent journal focusing on the intersection of design with social, cultural, political and economic issues.

Laura Jordan Bambach

Creative Partner, Mr. President For 20 years, Laura has brought her fresh and experimental approach to digital. Combining tech insights with passionate storytelling, she has won numerous awards for her commercial work and been recognised globally as an innovator and industry leader. Former president of D&AD, Laura is also co-founder of SheSays, a global volunteer network which works to get more women into the creative industries.

Speakers Digiyatra D1 Ashwini Asokan

Co-Founder and CEO, Mad Street Den Ashwini Asokan is bringing the power of Artificial Intelligence to every mobile user. Along with her husband Anand, she set up Mad Street Den in August 2013 with an initial capital of $50,000. How technology can be used by people is something that has always fascinated her.

Ben Jones

Chief Technology Officer, AKQA Obsessed with the future, Ben believes anything is possible, which has been key to helping establishing AKQA as the world leader in digital transformation.

Daan Lucas

Founder, Random Studio Daan Lucas (1974) is the founder of Random Studio. He always had an enormous drive to be part of an organisation that would evoke curiosity, surprise people and create a context that would hold invitation to let oneself go...So…After studying law he moved into the creative field.

Janardan Prasad

Co-Founder & COO, Autowale Janardan is an entrepreneur who loves improving traffic conditions for living and improving his tennis skills for recreation. His passion for tennis and traffic both started in his college days at IIT Kanpur. Autowale has been innovating by using existing infrastructure and resources to solve the big commute problem in Urban India, for which it has been featured by national and International media including The New York Times and Forbes.

John McHale

ECD & Global Lead – Experience Design Practice, SapientNitro With more than 19 years of industry experience, John is the Executive Creative Director guiding Experience Design principles and methodology across SapientNitro’s global teams. John’s work has garnered several awards over the years including Cannes Lions, W3, Mobius, Creativity Annual Platinum, MIXX, Communication Arts, ADDYs, ECHO, AdTech, and CASIE. He has also judged numerous award shows including the 2013 & 2014 Cannes Young Lions.

Lydia Winters

Brand Director, Mojang Lydia Winters leads the direction and usage of one of the most recognizable brands today, Minecraft. She works closely with many large projects using the Minecraft brand, including museums and charities. She is also involved in Mojang’s joint programme with UN Habitat, Block by Block, which takes her on travels visiting many of the sites of projects using Minecraft to affect change and redesign public space in developing areas around the world.

Mike Pelletier

Creative Technologist, Random Studio Mike Pelletier creates interactive and kinetic installations for brands such as Nike, Viktor and Rolf, Timex, Diesel and KLM. His passion is the blending of the realms of art and technology.

Mukesh Jha

CEO & Co-Founder, Autowale An engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur, after a few years working at large multinationals in telecom and banking, Mukesh wanted to work on problems within India to give people a better lifestyle by using technology. Therefore he chose Autowale, one of India’s first rickshaw app companies.

Nick Law

Global Chief Creative Officer, R/GA As Global Chief Creative Officer, Nick guides R/GA’s strategic and creative vision; a vision that is continuously evolving but stays true to R/GA’s legacy of combining world-class creativity and breakthrough technology.

Nishant Patni

Founder & CEO, CultureAlley Nishant is the Founder & CEO of CultureAlley. CultureAlley is behind India’s #1 English learning app - Hello English, which has over 4.5 Million users and was awarded as the most innovative App for India (2014) by IAMAI. CultureAlley is backed by Tiger Global. Nishant has previously worked with the Boston Consulting Group and a couple of i-tech startups in India and the valley. He is a grad from IIT Bombay and did his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Satya Raghavan

Head of Content Operations, YouTube India In the past, Satya has served as Head of Consumer Marketing at MSN India, Vice President of Marketing at STAR India, and Vice President at Helion Ventures Partners. He was a co-founder of Just Another Magazine (JAM) and also co-founded SkoolShop, a school supplies business. An MBA from Harvard Business School, Satya has over 16 years of work experience across Broadcast Media, FMCG, Internet, Venture Capital & Entrepreneurship.

Speakers Designyatra D2 Armin Vit

Co-founder, Underconsideration llc. Born and raised in Mexico City, it was in Chicago that Speak Up came to be. Armin has worked at Pentagram under Michael Bierut, and been featured at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum. Along with his wife, Bryony, he is the creator of Brand New, Quipsologies and The Design Encyclopedia, under the UnderConsideration umbrella.

Brendan McCormick Creative Director, FITCH

Brendan is a hands-on creative with a wealth of branding experience and adept at building compelling brand stories. As creative director at FITCH he enjoys the scope and variety of work that encompasses brand, environment and experiences.

Dave Trott Author

Dave was born in east London. He won a Rockefeller Scholarship to Pratt Institute in New York to study advertising. In addition to working at and founding a number of agencies, Dave has written 3 books on creativity and has trained hundreds of young creatives, many of these are now London’s top creative directors.

Jon Wilkins

Chairman, Karmarama Jon was one of the founders of Naked, the ground-breaking international communications agency. Jon pioneered the concept of media neutrality during his time at Naked, speaking regularly at the World Federation of Advertisers on integrated marketing. Jon has been developing the Karmarama integrated offer, increasing the capabilities of the agency in data and mobile and working with key clients to help them grow their business through strategy and creativity.

Karen Welman

Founding Partner & Chief Creative Officer, Pearlfisher Karen is an award-winning graphic designer and founding creative partner at Pearlfisher. Her entrepreneurial streak is a magnet for many of the challenger brands with which Pearlfisher works, attracting a diverse and innovative range of like-minded clients. Since becoming a mother of four, Karen’s career has evolved from designer to inventor. She was voted one of the Top 10 Global Female Inventors in an award ceremony in Singapore.

Malika Favre Illustrator

Malika Favre is a French artist based in London. Her bold, minimal style – often described as Pop Art meets OpArt – is a striking lesson in the use of positive/negative space and colour. Her work always springs from a strong narrative core and is intended to provoke the imagination – with a bit of humour, a touch of sexiness, and a re-imagination of the ordinary. The governing principle in all of Malika’s work is ‘less is more.’

Max Weisel Innovator

Max Weisel is a local creative coder in the bay area. His work focuses on the way humans interface and communicate with computers. He’s collaborated with many musicians including Björk and Lady Gaga. In addition, his work is part of the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Morihiro Harano

Creative Director/ Founder, Mori Inc. Morihiro Harano is a multi-talented creative director with stellar achievements not only in advertising but also in new business development, strategy, product design and media initiatives. Harano is a consistent award winner at home and abroad and has received to date a multitude of awards such as TED: Ads Worth Spreading, D&AD Yellow Pencil, Cannes Gold Lions, One Show Gold Pencils and the Grands Prix at Spikes Asia and AdFest.

Stuart Radford

Creative Director, the Partners Stuart leads one of our London design teams. He is currently leading branding programmes for luxury cruise company Silversea and the Advertising Association and working on projects for Investec Asset Management and Buro Happold amongst others. Stuart has judged the student and professional D&AD Awards several times and has been involved with educational activities for D&AD at Ravensbourne College and the Design Symposium North.

Speakers Designyatra D3 Amardeep Behl

Director, Design Habit Amardeep Behl has been passionately involved in finding expression and deeper meaning in working with space by merging various media like architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and audio-visual and digital multimedia, into a common language to create emotive, storytelling experiences. Finding and creating an Indian expression of design strongly rooted in its culture and traditions yet eminently applicable in these contemporary times is his work in progress.

Alexis Hope

Researcher and Designer, MIT Media Lab Alexis is a researcher and designer and a soon-to-be graduate from the Media Lab from the Center for Civic Media group. She is the driving force (and the lead designer) behind the FOLD project – a reading, authoring and publishing platform that allows for non-linear storytelling and contextualized narratives.

Daan Roosegaarde

Founder, Studio Roosegaarde Artist and innovator Daan Roosegaarde (1979) is internationally known for creating social designs that explore the relation between people, technology and space. His Studio Roosegaarde is a social design lab with his team of designers and engineers based in the Netherlands and Shanghai.

Jessica Walsh

Partner, Sagmeister & Walsh Jessica Walsh is a designer and art director working in New York City. She is a partner at the New York based design studio Sagmeister & Walsh. She teaches at the School of Visual Arts and speaks internationally about design and creativity. Her work has won awards from most design competitions and has been featured in numerous books and magazines.

Mark van der Heijden The Backpacker Intern

Mark van der Heijden (1986) originates from the south of Holland: a quaint country known for tulips, cheese, clogs, and coffee shops. In January 2014, Mark waved goodbye to his job(s), tossed his home into a backpack, and hit the world as ‘The Backpacker Intern’, helping out agencies, brands and charities in exchange for room and board. The journey has brought him to 25 countries on 6 continents where he has worked at 30 companies.

Neville Brody

Founder, Brody Associates Neville Brody is a London-born designer who studied design in Britain during the 1970s. In 1994 he formed Neville Brody Studio, now Research Studios, which has enjoyed much success and has since expanded to include offices in London, Paris, Berlin and Barcelona. He is a founding member of the London-based type foundry ontworks and has designed over 20 different typefaces during his career.

Sam Mohan

Co-Founder, Yolk Sam Mohan might be considered one of the most versatile photographers among his peers. He has the intrinsic ability to switch rather smoothly between different genres of photography be it fashion or documentary, people or product, landscapes or architecture, and yet maintain his own individual style through it all.

Tnop Wangsillapakun

Founder and Design Director, TNOP™ DESIGN Tnop Wangsillapakun is one of Thailand’s leading graphic designers and founder and design director at TNOP™ DESIGN, Bangkok, a design studio that focuses on creating a perfect balance between art and design.

Day schedule IAA Kyoorius Digiyatra

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10 September

11 September

Registrations Doors open Introduction & Welcome Nick Law Mike Pelletier & Daan Lucas Tea/Coffee Break Ben Jones LUNCH Satya Raghavan What can digital do? Ashwini Asokan Mukesh Jha & Janardan Prasad Nishant Patni 1600–1640 Tea/Coffee Break 1640–1720 Lydia Winters 1720–1800 John McHale 1800 End of speaker sessions 1800 onwards Side Sessions/Networking

Registrations Doors open Introduction & Welcome Jon Wilkins Morihiro Harano Tea/Coffee Break Dave Trott LUNCH Armin Vit One project that matters Kevin Finn Stuart Radford Karen Welman Brendan McCormick 1600–1640 Tea/Coffee Break 1640–1720 Malika Favre 1720–1800 Max Weisel 1800 End of speaker sessions 1800 onwards Side sessions/Networking

12 September

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Doors open Welcome Jessica Walsh Daan Roosegaarde Tea/Coffee Break Amardeep Behl LUNCH Tnop Wangsillapakun What pumps our heart Sam Mohan Mark van der Heijden Alexis Hope Tea/Coffee Break Neville Brody 10 Years of Design, 10 Years of Designyatra #kdy15 Ends Kyoorius Design Awards

*Schedule is subject to change

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