Design Means Business | Alex Osterwalder, October 8th

Want to create a revolutionary product or service? You'll need BOTH design and business.

Alex Osterwalder is one of the world’s gurus of business models innovation. His tools and methodologies help start-ups to create leading innovative companies and assist world leading organizations to re-invent themselves.

Saturday, October 8th
Mingling @ 5pm, Lecture @ 6pm, followed by Q&A and continued mingling
Hors d'oeuvres and beverage service is included, 21+ only.

Wharton San Francisco
101 Howard Street (at Spear)
San Francisco, CA 94105

Click here to learn more about Alex Osterwalder

About Design Means Business
As a mutual partnership between The Wharton School and IDSA-SF, "Design Means Business" aims to bring design to the forefront in business as a way to create more meaningful, innovative companies. Each lecture draws a vibrant mix of design and business leaders from throughout the Bay Area, with plenty of opportunity for cross-pollination.

REGISTER HERE
Registration is limited to 35 guests from the design community and 70 guests total. This event will sell out, pre-registration is required.

Design Means Business | MeeWha Lee, Oct. 6th

Want to create a revolutionary product or service? You'll need BOTH design and business.

MeeWha Lee centers innovation at the heart of her company. She focuses on the importance of the relationship between brand, packaging and product as the core connection for success as she leads the Design Innovation Function for one of the largest grocery brands in North America, Oscar Mayer (Kraft Foods).

Thursday, October 6th
Mingling @ 6pm, Lecture @ 7pm, followed by Q&A and continued mingling
Hors d'oeuvres and beverage service is included, 21+ only.

Wharton San Francisco
101 Howard Street (at Spear)
San Francisco, CA 94105

Click here to learn more about MeeWha Lee

About Design Means Business
As a mutual partnership between The Wharton School and IDSA-SF, "Design Means Business" aims to bring design to the forefront in business as a way to create more meaningful, innovative companies. Each lecture draws a vibrant mix of design and business leaders from throughout the Bay Area, with plenty of opportunity for cross-pollination.

REGISTER HERE
Registration is limited to 35 guests from the design community and 70 guests total. This event will sell out, pre-registration is required.

Design Means Business | Lecture by Jump Associates

Want to create a revolutionary product or service? You'll need BOTH design and business.

Udaya Patnaik and Ryan Baum of Jump Associates believe Great Ideas Aren't Enough . If we are going to solve the big ambiguous problems that face companies today, great ideas for products and services simply aren't enough. The ideas need to be financially viable to move the needle. This session will address some of the big questions surrounding the development of business concepts, as we dive into an important, but often overlooked part of successful innovation.

Wednesday, April 27th
Mingling @ 6pm, Lecture @ 7pm, followed by Q&A and continued mingling
Hors d'oeuvres and beverage service is included, 21+ only.

Wharton | San Francisco
101 Howard Street (at Spear)
San Francisco, CA 94105

Click here to learn more about Udaya Patnaik, Ryan Baum, & Jump Associates

About Design Means Business
As a mutual partnership between The Wharton School and IDSA-SF, "DESIGN means BUSINESS" aims to bring design to the forefront in business as a way to create more meaningful, innovative companies. Each lecture draws a vibrant mix of design and business leaders from throughout the Bay Area, with plenty of opportunity for cross-pollination.

REGISTER HERE | http://designmeansbusiness-jump.eventbrite.com/
Registration is limited to 70 guests. This event will sell out, and pre-registration is required.

DesignSight | Ideas to Market

DESIGNSIGHT is your opportunity to make connections, ask questions, and get inspired.

Can you believe it?!? This is the fifth installment of Designsight, and we think it will be our best yet. We are hosting at a new restaurant, with new experts, a new format, and new logo (did you notice?). Our hope is to incubate inspiring conversation, Q&A, and storytelling among passionate designers and entrepreneurs from our community. So come join us for dinner and meet the experts:

Catherine Bailey – the artisan.
Heath Ceramics, owner & creative director | One & Co, co-founder and former partner

Rob Forbes – the visionary.
Design Within Reach, founder | PUBLIC, founder and president

Yaacov Silberman – the start-up pro.
Rimon Law Group, business attorney specializing in start-up formation and financing

Myrna M. Schelling – the patent guru.
Carr & Ferrell, intellectual property attorney with a wide range of experience


REGISTER IN ADVANCE
Wednesday, March 16th @ 6:30pm (dinner served at 7:30pm)
$15 IDSA members, $25 non-members. Limited to 24 guests.
Dinner and drinks are included.

Orson Restaurant
508 4th Street (at Bryant)
San Francisco, CA 94107

Note: due to the nature of this event, seating is limited. Advanced registration is required.


Thanks to our Annual Sponsor: Kemeera (www.kemeera.com)

Our year-end “Bay Area’s Best” celebration is back, and bester than ever!
With the end of a decade near, we are doing something extra special. This event will recognize the many prestigious awards won throughout the last 10 years by our world-class community. Come eat, drink, and celebrate with us... meet up with long lost friends, and make new ones. Everyone from the most established designers in the area to the next generation of young designers will be in attendance... you do not want to miss it!

Tickets for the December 14th event are on sale now...
IDSA Members, login here:
Students and Professionals, register here:
*All tickets include food and drink. Age 21+ only. RSVP required.

When & Where.
Tuesday, December 14 at Mighty in Potrero Hill

Thanks to our studio sponsors
Ammunition Group, Astro, Frog Design, FuseProject, Hiemstra, IDEO, Lunar, Mike&Maaike, New Deal Design, One&Co, Smart Design, and Whipsaw.

Super special thanks to our wonderful sponsors

Kemeera | Bunkspeed | Eastman Innovation Lab | GoEngineer | Trumer Pils

DESIGN means BUSINESS | Nov. 18 2010 @ 6pm

Want to create a revolutionary product or service? You'll need BOTH design and business
David Aycan and Meghann Dryer from IDEO will be addressing a topic they call “venture design.” From the genesis of the user experience through the intricacies of what makes a business viable, they'll explore —through three case studies— how businesses from corporations to start-ups can use smart entrepreneurial approaches to learn and design their way to market.

About Daivd and Meghann
As a business designer at IDEO, David takes common tools such as financial modeling or marketing frameworks and uses them to inform design. Meghann is also a business designer at IDEO, where she likes to invent new businesses and devise clever ways to take things to market.

About DESIGN means BUSINESS
As a mutual partnership between the Wharton SF community and the IDSA-SF, "DESIGN means BUSINESS" aims to bring design to the forefront in business as a way to create more meaningful, innovative companies. Each lecture draws a vibrant mix of design and business leaders from throughout the Bay Area, with plenty of opportunity for cross-pollination.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE
NON-MEMBERS | http://tinyurl.com/IDSASF-DMB-IDEO
The event is FREE for IDSA members, just login to register.

NON-MEMBERS | https://design-means-business.ticketleap.net/ideo
$20 for non-members

Limited to 50 guests. This event will sell out, and pre-registration is required.
Hors d'oeuvres and beverage service is included, 21+ only.


WHEN
November 18, 2010
Mingling @ 6pm, Lecture @ 7pm, followed by Q&A and continued mingling

WHERE
Wharton | San Francisco
101 Howard Street (at Spear)
San Francisco, CA 94105

Thanks To Our Media Sponsor: Fast Company

DESIGN means BUSINESS | October 14th @ 5:30

Open new paths to innovation by changing the way you think.
Roger will share his perspectives on how leading companies use design thinking to push knowledge through stages in ways that produce breakthrough innovations and competitive advantage.

About Roger Martin
Roger Martin serves as a senior advisor to CEOs of some of the world’s leading companies. He has served as dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto since 1998. Martin's research interests lie in the areas of global competitiveness, integrative thinking, business design, and corporate citizenship. He is author of The Opposable Mind (2007), The Design of Business (2009) and many articles. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Martin one of the ten most influential business professors in the world. In 2009, he was ranked by Forbes’ and the Times of London’s as one of the top 50 management thinkers in the world.

About DESIGN means BUSINESS
As a mutual partnership between the Wharton SF community and the IDSA-SF, "DESIGN means BUSINESS" aims to bring design to the forefront in business as a way to create more meaningful, innovative companies. Each lecture draws a vibrant mix of design and business leaders from throughout the Bay Area, with plenty of opportunity for cross-pollination. Future speakers include David Aycan & Meghann Dryer of IDEO, scheduled for November 18th.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE
$15 for non-members (use "IDSA-SF" promo code). Register Here
FREE for official IDSA Members. Register here
Limited to 50 guests. This event will sell out, and pre-registration is required.
Hors d'oeuvres and beverage service is included, 21+ only.

WHEN
Thursday, October 14th
Mingling @ 5:30pm, Lecture @ 6pm, followed by Q&A and Book Signing

WHERE
Wharton | San Francisco
101 Howard Street (at Spear)
San Francisco, CA 94105