Let’s talk about Designing For Impact!

Service Design Global Conference is coming to Helsinki! Join us for SDGC24 in Helsinki on October 2nd to 4th, and immerse yourself in 2 days of presentations from 26 of the brightest voices in Service Design.

This years group of speakers will present insightful talks and in-depth panel discussions on such themes as organizational change, design leadership, systems thinking, and negotiation.

The conference talks will start on Thursday, 3 October with a keynote by Marie Van Driessche. Marie is a Deaf UX Researcher and Designer at Unc Inc. in Amsterdam. With over a decade of experience, she specializes in creating meaningful and inclusive digital experiences by focusing on UX design, research, and accessibility.

Friday, 4 October will be opened by keynote speaker Andy Polaine, a design leadership coach, educator, and writer who helps clients build and grow their own design and innovation capability, transform their organisations and themselves. He is co-author of the Rosenfeld Media book, Service Design: From Insight to Implementation, now a standard text for Service Design.

The conference will close with keynote speaker Coral Michelin. Coral is a strategic and ecosystemic designer, an independent and academic researcher with a focus on ecology, regeneration, systemic thinking, diversity (DE&I), futures, and decoloniality. She is the Science and Technology Product Manager at re.green, a company that restores tropical forests at scale in Brazil.

The keynote speakers and their talk topics align closely with the conference theme, approaching it from diverse angles of expertise as well as geographical and cultural backgrounds. Their talks promise to

  • demonstrate the transformative potential of service design
  • underscore the necessity of systemic thinking and collaborative doing to address environmental, social and organizational challenges
  • remind us about the value of including perspectives beyond the majority and beyond our immediate surroundings
  • highlight the type of strategic leadership needed for ”Designing for impact”

Get your ticket for Ornamo members, live at Paasitorni, or virtual event!