Speakers

Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. (born September 18, 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an educational psychologist and epistemologist specializing in the study of the impact of computer-based new media technology on the social and academic development of children. Her research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory, a hands-on approach to the use of technology as a tool in juvenile education and acculturation. read more…

This internationally known designer approaches design with an artist’s eye, an architect’s vision, and a philosopher’s intellect. His work is a compilation of who he is today and the diversified and exciting experiences he’s embraced along the way. For more than 25 years, Alexander Julian has soaked in the world with his signature use of eye-catching color. A five-time Coty award winner and nine times on the International Best Dressed List, Julian’s exclusive designs have graced the pages of International fashion magazines, year after year. In addition to clothing, Julian designs a full collection of home products including floor coverings and furniture, and is the first fashion designer to be recognized with the prestigious Pinnacle award from the American Society of Furniture Designers. read more…

Using the ultimate recyclable material – corrugated cardboard – as his primary medium, James Grashow will create an enormous Gulliver from “Gulliver’s Travels” during the Design, Art, and Technology Symposium (DATS) at High Point University.

With the help of 20-25 hand-selected college students, Grashow will unveil his creation “The Gulliver Project” during the opening reception of DATS on March 5th at HPU’s Sechrest Gallery at 6:30 p.m. read more…

David Burney is a partner and CEO of New Kind. New Kind helps organizations solve complex problems and build competitive brands through design, culture, and community. New Kind combines the problem-solving power of design and the collaborative power of open source to create climates for innovation.

David has nearly 30 years experience building and leading creative services organizations. Most recently, he served for 4 1/2 years as Vice President of Brand Communications and Design at Red Hat—one of the most disruptive technology brands in the world. David led the company’s overall brand communications strategy, including all creative communications functions. Prior to Red Hat, David was the owner of Burney Design, partner and Chief Creative Officer at Capstrat, and Chief Designer at the NC Museum of Art. read more…

A native of Charlotte, North Carolina with a civil engineering degree from NC State University, Keith B. Price, Jr. has created success in many roles across the public and private sectors of the real estate industry – land planning & design, engineering, local government, project management and construction.

Keith is known as a creative and strategic thinker who uses his vision and passion to conceptualize and deliver market-driven designs for industrial, residential, institutional and technology clients. For the past 9 years, Keith has worked with Samet Corporation, a Triad based real estate development and construction firm. At Samet, he is known as the “Minister of Culture” and serves as Leader of Samet’s Technology Group, a division of the company that provides design/build and general contracting services to the technology sector. He is also a writer, entrepreneur and business strategist whose interests include design, marketing & branding, teaching, and coaching. read more…

Ryan Pitz, President of New Call Solutions™, is an expert in sales training, internet marketing and tracking advertising ROI. As a budding entrepreneur in the Triad, Ryan brings a fresh perspective to marketing and will show you how you can use creativity and technology to produce phenomenal results for your organization. Ryan will share how to use creative marketing strategies and technology to attract more people to you and your organization. For more details about Pitz and New Call Solutions™ visit: www.newcallsolutions.com

Amy Lixl-Purcell
Associate Professor of Art
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Amy is an intermedia artist who has designed the digital design program at UNCG. Her work is a blend of media that includes the intersections of photography,graphics, video, sound, and installation.

Matthew Muñoz, Partner & Chief Design Officer, New Kind (http://www.newkind.com)

Matt completed his Master’s Degree in Graphic Design at North Carolina State University, where he focused on building understanding and providing platforms for democratic participation through the process of visualizing public policy issues. Since then, he’s worked with the organizers of the U.S. National Design Policy Initiative on researching the Federal Design Improvement Program of the 1970s, designing explanatory policy visualizations and publications, as well as helping to facilitate their Summit last November. He co-founded New Kind to help governments, businesses and non-profit institutions solve their complex problems and create competitive advantage through design, brand, culture and community.

Tony Caravano, Deputy Executive Director, University of North Carolina Tomorrow (http://www.nctomorrow.org)
Tony joined University of North Carolina General Administration in March 2007. Prior to that he served as the Director of Legislative Outreach for State Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight; sharing duties in communications and policy research focused around education and the environment. Caravano earned a B.A. in Criminology from North Carolina State University, where he served two terms as the Student Body President. He resides in Raleigh and currently serves on several boards and advisory councils for North Carolina State University.

Scott McClure, Senior Art Director, Ogilvy & Mather (http://www.ogilvy.com)
A graduate of the College of Design at North Carolina State University, Scott has worked in several niche industries such as sports marketing and medical communications, as well as for several mainstream agencies in the Triangle area. During his time on the AIGA Raleigh board as Programming Director, he helped orchestrate the re|THINK initiative, an environmental advocacy poster show. He’s also locally promoted AIGA’s Get Out the Vote Initiative, a nonpartisan voting advocacy campaign for the 2008 election. He now serves on the chapter’s advisory board and focuses on supporting future projects that harness creative thinking in service of large community issues.

Michelle Johnson is multimedia and continuous news editor at the Winston-Salem Journal. She has won a number of awards for her work in print, radio and multimedia and is a 2008 graduate of the Communication and Technology program at the UNC Chapel Hill school of journalism. Feel free to visit her LinkedIn Profile.

Carol Strohecker is Director of the Center for Design Innovation, an inter-institutional research center of the University of North Carolina. She is a graduate of the MIT Media Lab, with 20+ years’ experience in technology-based innovation. She earned Fellowships with Harvard University Graduate School of Design, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Artists Foundation of the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities. Carol has also served as a juror for the European Commission, US National Science Foundation, Harvard GSD, MIT Department of Architecture, Rhode Island School of Design, and ACM Interaction Design Awards.

Elaine Stover, Human Ecologist
Founder and Principal, greenschemes™

Ms. Stover is dedicated to promoting human-ecological relationships in order to create a sustainable culture. Her integrative work includes designing processes that combine the arenas of ecological intelligence, design aptitude and community participation or greenscheming.

Ms. Stover holds a B.S. from Purdue University and a M.S. in Human Ecology (magna cum laude) from Vrije Univrsiteit Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. She has also done post graduate study in Ecological Design at North Carolina State University.

Ms. Stover has lived and worked in four countries: Australia, India, Egypt and Belgium. Since 1992 she has worked in Greensboro and worked with allied professionals to facilitate integrated thinking and design processes or greenscheming. She is a certified trainer in the Technologies of Participation (ToP®) and a founding member of the International Association of Facilitators.

Hailing from Portsmouth, Virginia, John spent many years in the artistic settings of New York, NY, Washington, DC and Los Angeles, CA before making Lewisville, North Carolina his permanent home. John has over 20 years experience as an actor, posting regional theatre performances across the US. He has also been featured in numerous commercial campaigns and as a film actor has worked with Michael Keaton, Nick Nolte, Rae Dawn Chong, Pierce Brosnan, Robert Wagner, Christopher Walken, Cliff Robertson, Jacklyn Smith and the late Natalie Wood. He recently finished production on the feature films, Little Chicago and the SciFi thriller, Eyeborgs with Adrian Paul and Danny Trejo. John’s acting prowess took him to Los Angeles in the early 1990’s where he combined a wealth of business and advertising experience with his artistic roots and accepted the position of Executive Director of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers in Southern California. In this stead, John produced and directed Sober Prom, a touring, multi-media presentation performed yearly to high schools in California. Included in this presentation were PSA’s and shorts, written and produced by Mr. Rushton staring cast members from the then top-rated television show, Beverly Hills, 90210 and Connie Seleca and husband, John Tesh. John also worked with the late Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert and Leeza Gibbons on the nationally acclaimed television special, Siskel and Ebert Look at Substance Abuse in the Movies, which he Co-Produced as well as producing bi-lingual programming for community activist groups in Southern California. read more…