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Career Development Forum
Tuesday, November 3, 11:15-12:00
From your attitude to your portfolio to the places you’ve worked,
how do employers evaluate prospective employees and what
stands out when they are hiring creative talent? Join our panel
as they offer candid revelations on what to do, and not to do,
to grow your career all the way from junior graphic designer to
creative director.
Panelists will include speakers Dana Arnett, Monique Gamache and Daniel Schutzsmith, and Janet Kestin,
Chief Creative Officer
Ogilvy & Mather. Moderator
Marisa Mancebo of Aquent. |
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Accessibility Forum
Tuesday, November 3, 12:15-1:00
As baby boomers live longer, the percentage of Canadians with a disability will rise dramatically. And yet, the graphic design industry has not adopted accessibility, neither in practice nor as part of required study in design programs. In light of proposed standards for accessibility in information and communications, there is an urgent need for guidelines and tools to achieve accessibility in every graphic design project. Join RGD and a panel of experts, including Derek Featherstone, an expert in web accessibility consulting, as we explore this need.
Panelists will include Derek Featherstone, Further Ahead, Greg Neely, Forge Media & Design, Jenn & Ken Visocky O'Grady, cofounders of Enspace, George A. Leibbrandt, Keyser Mason Ball LLP and Deborah Gold, Director of Research, CNIB.
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Cross-cultural Design Forum
Tuesday, November 3,
2:30-3:15
Technology, mass media and a global economy have made
the world smaller, creating a need to better understand
the issues of cross-cultural communications. We’ll discuss
how we need to think beyond our national and cultural
borders to develop visual communication that speaks to
audiences with divergent outlooks, backgrounds, heritages
and belief systems.
Panelists include speakers V. Sunil, Sanky and Luke Williamson with moderator Diego Casco R.G.D. |
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In-house Forum
Wednesday, November 4, 11:15-12:00
Join fellow in-house designers for a discussion
of the challenges you face working in-house.
Some of the strategies we’ll discuss include:
how to ensure co-workers, outside the design
department, understand what designers do
and value it; how to identify a design champion
within your organization; how to complete
projects with inadequate resources; and how
to ensure that you are involved in the
decision to pass plum design jobs to outside
firms.
Panelists will include speakers Ben Blumenfeld, Gael Towey and David Labistour, Joyce
Woollcott and Michael MacVicar. This forum will
be moderated by Caroline Bruckner R.G.D.
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DesignThinking Forum
Wednesday, November 4, 12:15-1:00
Past speaker Rick Poynor said, “Design is now so mportant…
that designers can no longer be trusted with it, and to make it
absolutely clear that control has moved into someone else’s
hands, design needs to be given a fancy new name. Call it
design thinking.” Discuss the implications of the design thinking
movement for designers and strategies for empowering
designers within this movement.
Panelists include speakers Warren Berger, Robert Brunner and Marty Neumeier with moderator Lee Jacobson. |
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Firm Owner Forum
Wednesday, November 4, 2:30-3:15
Discuss the design and business issues facing owners of
creative service firms. We’ll discuss marketing techniques,
pricing strategies, client collaboration, employee management
and other best practices that can make your business
more successful, efficient and profitable.
Panelists include
speakers Stephen Doyle, Vanessa Eckstein R.G.D., Jean-Pierre
Lacroix R.G.D. and, for your legal questions, Ruben Goulart,
Managing Partner of Keyser Mason Ball LLP. This forum will
be moderated by Emily Cohen. |
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