Denise is a design leader who believes that all design has social impact. Denise works with clients who are interested in innovating beyond quarterly profit cycles, towards long-term goals that are sustainable, beneficial and successful. Denise’s wide-ranging design and strategic experience includes social systems and services, environment and experience design, consumer and B2B products, capacity building and curriculum development, and organizational transformation to human-centered design culture. She has worked with clients in healthcare, education, financial inclusion, labor force development, mobile, entertainment, and retail with clients like Disney, Kaiser Permanente, Westfield Labs, AT&T, Campbell’s, Intel, College Board, SC Johnson, Cisco, P&G and others. For the past five years, Denise has focused on a practice in social impact with strong emphasis on the #TechforGood space.

Amina is an industrial designer who has worked with Chrysler, frog design, and is currently Lead Industrial Designer at fuseproject in San Francisco. She has worked with notable brands such as Nike Foundation, Brooks, SC Johnson, and Landscape Forms, and lead the design for the award winning Aether Things’ Cone. Amina is the author of BREAKING IN®: Product Design, and has been published in numerous publications such as Auto&Design, Car Styling Magazine, Surface Magazine, and Fast Company. The designer has held esteemed positions such as Product Design Jury President at Cannes Lions and has received numerous international design awards. Amina studied at the College of Creative Studies (BFA) and California College of Arts (MBA).

Katie's expertise includes interaction and industrial design, business strategy and user research. She currently works as the Director of Experience Design at Airbnb,and leads the development of Airbnb’s digital product and service platforms like tablet, watch, and TV. Her team received a Crunchie for Best Design in 2015 and a Webby for Best Travel site and app in 2014. Katie has worked with startups as a Partner and Creative Director for Greenstart Venture Design, and lead multidisciplinary design programs as a Creative Director at Frog Design. She studied Industrial Design at Art Center College of Design, and taught Interaction and Industrial Design at California College of Art’s graduate design program.

An industrial designer by background and a business strategist by trade, Greg Aper currently serves as the Director of Business Development for the award-winning product design consultancy Whipsaw. Greg's role at Whipsaw includes working with some of the most technologically advanced companies in the world to create products that can significantly impact quality of life. His most current work is focused on developing empathetic business models and methodologies that bring together multidisciplinary teams from around the world so that they can provide humanity with meaningful solutions. He has 17+ years of experience designing products and consulting for internationally recognized companies such as Bosch, Netgear, Dell, Philips, Cisco, Samsung, Panasonic, Google, and Intel. Greg has soft places in his heart for 80's metal music, snickerdoodle cookies, and his Vizsla, Nixon.

Mike & Maaike is a progressive industrial design studio led by Mike Simonian and Maaike Evers. Formed as a design laboratory, the San Francisco studio works on self initiated and client projects that are approached with the same level of experimentation. Maaike is Dutch, Mike, Californian. Their distinct backgrounds and unique approach to design have resulted in a diverse body of work marked by strong conceptual narratives. Some of their projects include the ATNMBL driverless car project from 2009, the Juxtaposed Shelf series and the Windowseat Lounge chair with Haworth launched in 2013. In 2011 Mike & Maaike were acquired by Google, where they focused on building industrial design culture and helped scientists, researchers and engineers build new experiences in categories ranging from Internet of Things, Mobile devices and wearables, Health Monitoring devices, Autonomous things, Alternative Power projects and VR. Recently, Mike & Maaike gained independence from Google to re-form their San Francisco studio once again. Mike & Maaike were included in the top seven up and coming product designers in Metropolis magazine and named in Fast Company's list of Most Creative People in Business in 2012 and 2014.