Design Thinking: the ‘aha’ moment

Come to Auckland a day early and kick-start your conference experience with a forehead slapping ‘aha’ moment! What keeps you awake at night? Is it a challenging problem you’re grappling with? A recurring issue you’re having difficulty resolving? Or a fantastic opportunity you want to take advantage of if you could just find the right way? ‘Design Thinking’ is a systematic process and mindset – with a human focus - that enables innovative problem solving. This fast paced and fun workshop aims to provide you with the ‘aha’ insight into why design thinking is the smart way to not only develop innovative solutions but to also create better services, policies, products, processes, communications and programs. Rather than telling participants about design thinking this introductory level workshop will have participants jump right in and experience it for themselves by doing a full cycle through the design process. We’ll also touch on some of the underlying principles, and introduce a couple of design thinking tools. The presenter Carol Harding is a design thinking practitioner, organisational innovator, creative thinker and problem solver. She is Deputy Director at the Australian Innovation Research Centre and has been Chair of the judging panel for the ATEM/Campus Review Excellence in Innovation Awards since its inception. Date: Sunday 11 September 2016 Time: 9.00 am - 12.30 pm Cost: $245 - TEMC Delegates $325 - non TEMC Delegates Register by selecting to attend during the conference registration. Click here to register