Schedule

Design Leadership 2019 will run from Wednesday 15 to Thursday 16 May. Wednesday will consist of the Leadership Forum and Thursday will be a full day of presentations. Tickets to the forum and presentation day are sold separately. The schedule for each day is as follows:

[SOLD OUT] Wednesday 15 May - Leadership Forum

Time Presentation/Activity
12pm Registration opens for Forum ticket holders only, with Lunch on arrival
1.30pm Leadership Forum commences
3 pm Afternoon Tea break (30min)
5 pm Leadership Forum concludes
  Post-forum drinks

Thursday 16 May - Presentations

Time Presentation/Activity
8.30am Conference Registration opens
  Introduction and Acknowledgement of Country
9 am From Designer to Leader: Introducing the 5i Design Leadership Model - Ian Muir
9.45am Purpose driven leadership for the new digital product organisation - Ben Melbourne
10.30am Morning Tea - sponsored by Aquent
11 am Claim Your Power by Pulling Your Head Out of the Pixels - Larry Cornett
11.45am Design System, the full story - Tim Schoch
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm Building relationships by having hard conversations and moving past conflict together - Elena Sanchez
1.40pm Six months of mistakes: Being a new manager - Vincent Feeney
1.50pm When elephants learn to dance - Brad Kasell
2 pm Setting the PACE - how to get ahead of the pack in corporate innovation - Matthew Bowen
2.45pm The Business Case for Design - Andy Howard
3.30pm Afternoon Tea - sponsored by Askable
3.50pm The design leadership gap - connecting the business of design with the design of business - Karina Smith and Alison Sharp
4.35pm Open panel discussion 
5 pm  Closing remarks