Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking and innovation to businesspeople and designers around the world. His talks “Serious Play” and “Change by Design” appear on TED.com.

An industrial designer by training, Brown has earned numerous design awards and has exhibited work at galleries and museums across the globe. He takes special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well-being of people living in emerging economies.

Brown advises senior executives and boards of global Fortune 100 companies. He is a member of the board of trustees of IDEO.org and serves on the Mayo Clinic Innovation Advisory Council and the Advisory Council of Acumen, a non-profit global venture. In addition he chairs the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Creative Economy and writes for the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change by Design, was released in September 2009.

Brown contributes as one of LinkedIn’s top 150 Influencers and serves as instructor for IDEO U’s Leading for Creativity course.

Speaker:

Tim Brown

CEO & President, IDEO, US

Moderators:

Aric Chen

Lead Curator for Design and Architecture, M+, HK

Guy Parsonage

Partner, PwC's Experience Centre, HK