Tackling tough problems at work is something everyone can relate to—from gaining a better understanding of your stakeholders to coming up with and selling innovative ideas. Design thinking is a creative and collaborative methodology to help your team solve those challenges.

In this 3-hour, fast-paced introduction to Design Thinking, we’ll collaboratively tackle a problem using the Design Thinking process. You’ll leave with a basic understanding of how to conduct user interviews, generate ideas with groups, sketch your solutions, and how to tell the world about your concept.

If you’ve never been out to one of our events before this is a great introduction to Design Thinking as well as to our teaching style. From beginning to end this will be highly interactive and one thing we can promise is that you will meet some really incredible people.

On January 23rd, join us for our first 2019 event “But First, Me”, when three amazing mental health and wellness coaches will take us on a journey to a more balanced, fulfilling life. Oh, and there will be a private shopping therapy provided by One Kings Lane because we know shopping always helps.

First we will open with a discussion around BURNOUT, how to recognize it and how to prevent it. Then we will split into groups and have smaller workshops with one of the speakers. 

PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING A TICKET: To register for this event select a workshop session ticket from the dropdown menu. You can only attend one session. If you cannot attend after you purchased a ticket please do let us know so we can fill your spot with someone on the wait list. If you are on the waitlist and tickets become available you will be placed in the workshop session that has availability. We cannot accomodate walk-ins for this event. Please arrive promptly.

WORKSHOP SESSIONS

Social Media Anxiety with therapist Rebecca Kronman: A discussion about how social media can play a role in creative burnout. We’ll share techniques on taking control of technology rather than letting it take control of you.

Food and Brain Performance with nutrition coach Erin Assenza:  Learn how food can impact your performance and creativity and which foods can best fuel your brain. Attendees will also receive an opportunity to connect one-on-one with Erin in a complimentary discovery session. 

Ayurvedic Self-Care with yoga psychotherapist Suzy Daren: Learn the basic principles to create and implement a daily routine to optimize your mental health, stoke creativity and promote a work/life balance.

SPEAKERS

Rebecca Kronman, LCSW, is a licensed therapist and workshop facilitator. At her private practice in Brooklyn, she works with creative professionals to cope with depression, anxiety and life transitions. She also helps clients prepare for and integrate after psychedelic experiences.

Erin Assenza is an Integrative & Functional Nutrition Health Coach.  She helps professional women who don’t like they way they look or feel in their body – they are dragging, spread too thin, and can’t fit into their jeans –  change their diet and daily routine – so they feel naturally energized, mentally sharp, and can kickass at work. Erin believes that food and wellness can dramatically change your life and your work performance.

Suzy Daren has spent the past two decades studying and integrating the Western and Eastern approaches to mental health, relationships and self-optimization. With 10+ years in private practice, she has formulated a highly effective approach to psychotherapy that considers the body, mind, heart and spirit.  

Conference Registration fee is Mandatory. Without conference fee we cannot entertain you at the conference day. WEASC offer 10% discount on registration fee for all participants, who willing to join International conference via EventBrite.

Research papers related to all areas of Engineering and Information Technology, Applied Sciences are invited for the international conference which is expected to be attended by the authors, researchers, executives, academics, consultants, professional independent scholars, practitioners, and PhD/graduate from various countries. People without papers can also participate in this conference.

ABOUT
Is your social media presence as beautiful and purposeful as your offline projects? If your social media strategy needs polish and focus, join creative business mentor and social media expert Charlene C Lam for this 3-hour workshop, tailored for interior designers.
There’s a lot of advice about social media out there, and not all of it will be relevant for you and your business. How do you know which platforms are right for your business?

Inman Connect is a week-long event bringing together more than 4,000 of real estate’s most successful and innovative professionals. CEOs of leading franchises and indie brokerages, top-producing agents and brokers, MLS and association leaders, tech entrepreneurs and marketing execs, all come together at Inman Connect to network, make deals, explore current trends, discover new technology and embrace the change that surrounds our industry.
This year’s theme: “Embrace. Focus. Execute.” The program

Get the inside scoop straight from the source! Editor in Chief, Cindy Allen, will take you behind the scenes of the 34th annual Interior Design Hall of Fame. Learn about this year’s inductees: Kengo Kuma, Marcel Wanders, Patrick Tighe, and IwamotoScott, as well as the making of the Hall of Fame documentaries and all that goes in to creating the Oscars of our industry.

Photo: The entrance to the 2018 Hall of Fame ceremony at the River Pavilion, Javits Center. Photography by TimeFrozen Photography.

ABOUT
This workshop is designed to prove the apparently simple concept that we all perform best when adopting a positive, conversational style. In other words, our personality comes over well and our listeners find the message easy to digest. Vital to this concept is analysis of normal conversation.
Participants will discover some amazing insights into their own strengths when talking and passing information to other people. Why do people sometimes listen intently?

P.S August 25th, Sept 8, Sept 29, Oct 27, Dec 20th Workshops were sold out! 

Keys features

1 – 1.5 hours of instructor-led training (online workshop)

Hands-on design challenge 

Project evaluation

Hands-out materials

Certificate(s):

Certificate of Attendance will be issued under Techversity Program (included in fee)

Upon completion of Design Challenge, a Certificate of Completion will be issued. (fee: $4.99)

What is this course about?

Design thinking can sprout organic growth and sustainable innovation. Given its capability for deep user immersion via uncovering unarticulated needs and perspectives while having the leeway to explore multiple ideas in an innovative setting where failing fast for a more robust success is not a taboo but encouraged. 

Benefits of Design Thinking?

Better Products

Decrease Costs

Happier Customers

Speed to Market

Visibility Across Enterprise

Increase Revenues

Module 1: Gathering Insights

Understand design thinking framework through case studies

Identifying users pain points

Learn how to gather data and contextualize them into a meaningful architecture

Module 2: Ideation 

Reframing and Ideation – Go wide and wild problem solving technique

Know how to foresee the needs based on user personas

Module 3: Implementation

Prototyping and testing – fail fast, keep moving technique

Know how to stitch the design to the insights gathered

Learn how to iterate swiftly

Learn how to manage frustration when failing fast process

Open-Discussion: Your current role and how design thinking benefits you

Who needs to attend?

Entrepreneurs: Solo Rider

Founder teams: CXOs

Designers: UX/UI Designers, Product Managers

Builders: Engineers/Devs

Freelancers: Self-employed one-business Boss

Consultants: Self-employed mentors/Coaches

User Interface designers who wish to expand their career towards Design Thinking Umbrella (focus on UX Design)

Limited Slots: 15

Logistics

You will receive an email from me few days prior the event with the zoom url + password and an attendee survey. You will also receive the recording of this webinar 1 week after the event.

Who Am I? 

Peer Reviewer at IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (JBHI)

Peer Reviewer at Journal for Medical Internet Research (JMIR)

Public Speaker: USA, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Morocco, Philippines (+30 talks)

Author of “Gamified Psychosphere”

HIT | Design Thinking Consultant at TECHVERSITY.

Youtuber at THINK OUT LOUD Channel (App Reviews, MasterClasses, Vlog)

Holder of Engineering Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering and Management with Specialization in Biomedical Engineering

Advanced Degree (MS.PhD) in Health Informatics

Self taught in Mobile Health App Development, Agile Deployment, Gamification, Data Science and Analytics, IoT controlled Systems, Operational Management, Business Administration (Focus on Early-Stage Startups), etc. (I can’t remember anymore, yup, this is what a nerd consists of…)

Co-founder of TechVerse Coworking Space, Rabat City, Morocco – the first tech-oriented coworking space in the kingdom.

Chief Software Architect of Sutures App – Gamified Gastro-intestinal e-Surgery Simulator (Check it out! )

Research Fellow at University of Missouri’s Center for Biomedical Informatics.

Chief Design Thinker / Information Architect at Sinclair School of Nursing – HEAR App

visit me: katusop.com

tweet me: @itskatusop

email: kat@medverselab.com

WELCOME ABOARD!

Εισήγηση για ομαδική έκθεση, θέμα «Σκοτεινοί Χρόνοι – Αντανακλάσεις»

Με τον όρο Σκοτεινοί Χρόνοι, εκτός από την στενή- ακριβή- έννοια που θα τους έδινε ένας ιστορικός (αναφερόμενος στους τους πρωτογεωμετρικούς και υπομηκυναϊκούς χρόνους), συνηθίζουμε να χαρακτηρίζουμε τις ιστορικές εκείνες περιόδους κατά τις οποίες η κοινωνίες δοκιμάζονται: Επικρατεί μια γενικότερη ασάφεια και ανασφάλειά, άνθρωποι αναγκάζονται σε υποχρεωτική μετανάστευση είτε κυνηγημένοι από τη σφοδρότητα της καταστροφής που φέρνει ένας πόλεμος, είτε εξ αιτίας του οικονομικού μαρασμού που επιβάλλεται στον τόπο τους, οι κοινωνικές δομές καταρρέουν, οι εργασιακές σχέσεις λεηλατούνται, οι λαοί διχάζονται από μίση θρησκευτικά, φυλετικά, πολιτικά.

Οι άνθρωποι παλεύουν μέσα στα σκοτάδια αναζητώντας χαραμάδες ελπίδας και ελευθερίας, ρωγμές προς ένα διαφορετικό, ένα υποσχόμενο αύριο.

Η πρόσφατη περίοδος που έθεσε την χώρα μας σε μεγάλα δεινά, η αναστάτωση που επικρατεί στην ευρύτερη περιοχή των Βαλκανίων, η άνοδος των ακραίων ιδεολογιών στην Ευρώπη και η επικράτηση τους σε αρκετές από τις χώρες της, αλλά και οι εμφύλιοι πόλεμοι, ο θρησκευτικός φανατισμός, ο λιμός –που ακόμα μαστίζει γωνιές ενός αποστραγγισμένου υπερκαταναλωτικού πλανήτη- και οι ακραίες κλιματικές αλλαγές, έχουν οδηγήσει σε ραγδαίες αλλαγές στον κοινωνικό, πολιτικό, οικονομικό αλλά και δημογραφικό ιστό του πλανήτη.

Οι αντανακλάσεις και οι συνειρμοί, είναι προφανείς.
Η προβολή αυτή, των σκοτεινών χρόνων στις μέρες μας, αποτελεί έναυσμα για εσωτερικές διεργασίες, καθώς και για την έκφρασή τους, διαφοροποιώντας τον χώρο και τον χρόνο που ζούμε. Όλοι και όλα είναι συνδεδεμένα. Άνθρωποι και γεγονότα αποτελούν μια μεγάλη αλυσίδα που συνδέει το σήμερα με το παρελθόν. Ο καθένας κουβαλάει το σωματικό του χώρο και τις προσωπικές και κοινωνικές εμπειρίες του και ορμώμενος από την ατομική του αντίληψη, τις ερμηνεύει και εκφράζεται.

Η τέχνη πάντοτε αντλούσε και αντλεί έναυσμα από την εποχή της για να την περιγράψει, να την αναλύσει, να εμβαθύνει στα αίτια, να απαλύνει την πληγή, να προτείνει λύσεις. Και σαν καθρέφτης αντανακλά και μεταφράζει των ανθρώπων τα δεινά
Καλλιτέχνες από διαφορετικούς χώρους και με διαφορετικό υπόβαθρο, καλούνται να δουλέψουν με αναφορά το πως μετουσιώνεται μέσα του η σκοτεινή αυτή εποχή και χρησιμοποιώντας ο καθένας τα δικά του εκφραστικά μέσα να μεταφράσει και να μετασχηματίσει σε εικαστικό έργο το προσωπικό αλλά και συλλογικό αυτό βίωμα, χωρίς κανένα περιορισμό.

Κι ας μη ξεχνάμε ότι, η ανθρωπότητα ποτέ δεν υποτάχτηκε ολοκληρωτικά στον ζόφο. Το βαθύτερο σκοτάδι πάντοτε έκρυβε την υπόσχεση μιας νέας αυγής. Ιστορικά, οι σκοτεινές αυτές περίοδοι ήταν πάντοτε προπομποί νέων, καλύτερων εποχών.

Μας το υπόσχεται αυτό με το μυστήριο χαμόγελό της μια κόρη Αρχαϊκή, μας καλεί σ’ αυτό το φωτεινότερο αύριο, με ένα αόρατο νεύμα της, μια αναγεννησιακή Αφροδίτη.

Εικαστικός-ζωγράφος
Αστερίου Δημήτρης

English Please :

Opening Letter for group exhibition, subject “Dark Times – Reflections”

By the term Dark Times, in addition to the narrow-precise meaning given to them by a historian (referring to the primigeometric and sub-American times), we tend to characterize those historical periods in which societies are tested: There is a general ambiguity and uncertainty, people are forced into forced immigration either being chased by the severity of the destruction brought about by a war or by the economic downturn imposed on their place, the social structures are collapsing, the labor relations are being looted, the peoples divided by hate religious, racial, political.

People struggle in the darkness looking for clues of hope and freedom, cracks towards a different, promising tomorrow.

The recent period that has put our country in great trouble, the upheaval in the wider Balkan region, the rise of extreme ideologies in Europe and its prevalence in several of its countries, as well as civil wars, religious fanaticism, famine – still plaguing the corners of a drained supercomputing planet – and extreme climate change have led to rapid changes in the social, political, economic but also the demographic web of the planet.

Reflections and associations are obvious.
This projection, of the dark times nowadays, is a trigger for internal processes as well as for their expression, differentiating the space and the time we live. Everyone and everything is connected. People and events are a great chain linking today with the past. Everyone carries his / her physical space and personal and social experiences and is guided by his / her individual perception, interprets and expresses them.

Art has always been inspired and inspired by its age to describe it, analyze it, deepen its causes, soothe the wound, and propose solutions. And as a mirror, it reflects and translates people to the misery. Artists from different backgrounds and with different backgrounds are invited to work with reference to how this dark age is transformed and using each one’s own expressive means to translate and transform into a visual work the personal and collective experience without any restriction.

And let’s not forget that humanity has never completely subsided to the dweller. The deepest darkness always hid the promise of a new dawn. Historically, these dark periods have always been forerunners of new, better times.

We promise this with the mysterious smile of an Archaic daughter, inviting us to this brighter tomorrow, with an invisible nod, a Renaissance Aphrodite.

Fine Artist
Asteriou Dimitris

This evening course teaches you how to up-cycle furniture, learning skills such as colour mixing, painting techniques and finishes. Discover how you can use natural ethical paints, finest earth pigments, accent colours and water-based waxes to add a whole new layer of creativity to repurposing and up-cycling.  Introducing you to colour trends and how to mix your own unique natural colours, you will cover basic painting techniques and use of paint, pigments and wax to create unique effects. Techniques include highlighting, stenciling, fabric coverings, distressing and aging.

Materials are provided, as well as a range of furniture items to try techniques on, although you are welcome to bring any small projects you would like to work on (stool, bedside table size).

The course is run by Michelle and Karla of Nina’s Chalkpot.

Please note that refunds and/or changes to ticket date are available up to 7 days before course start date.

This evening course teaches you how to up-cycle furniture, learning skills such as colour mixing, painting techniques and finishes. Discover how you can use natural ethical paints, finest earth pigments, accent colours and water-based waxes to add a whole new layer of creativity to repurposing and up-cycling.  Introducing you to colour trends and how to mix your own unique natural colours, you will cover basic painting techniques and use of paint, pigments and wax to create unique effects. Techn

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/furniture-upcycling-tickets-52811068327?aff=eand

Infacoma & Aquatherm Athens 2019
Let’s build the future

Οι εκθέσεις, Infacoma & Aquatherm Athens 2019, που σηματοδοτούν τις εξελίξεις στους τομείς της δόμησης και της ενέργειας αντίστοιχα, θα πραγματοποιηθούν από τις 8 έως και τις 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2019 στο MEC Παιανίας.

Οι Infacoma & Aquatherm Αthens, παραμένοντας πιστές στην ποιότητα που πρεσβεύουν η κάθε μία στον δικό της τομέα, υπόσχονται να αποκαλύψουν τα μυστικά της δόμησης, των κατασκευών, του αλουμινίου, του εξοπλισμού, της ενέργειας, της θέρμανσης, της ψύξης, του εξαερισμού αλλά και των τεχνολογιών νερού (HVAC). Θα παρουσιαστούν όλες οι νέες τάσεις στα σύγχρονα υλικά καθώς και οι καλύτερες λύσεις για τις επιχειρήσεις.

Με αναγνωρισιμότητα από το σύνολο των επιχειρήσεων των κλάδων που εκπροσωπούν οι δύο εκθέσεις, περισσότεροι από 260 εκθέτες αναμένεται να παρουσιάσουν τα προϊόντα και τις υπηρεσίες τους σε ένα κοινό που σίγουρα θα ξεπεράσει τους 24.000 επισκέπτες του 2018. Η Infacoma αποτελεί τη μοναδική εξειδικευμένη έκθεση του κλάδου πανελλαδικά με δυναμική τόσο σε Εθνικό όσο και σε Διεθνές επίπεδο, έχοντας υψηλό αριθμό προσέλκυσης στοχευμένων επισκεπτών.

Τις εκθέσεις Infacoma & Aquatherm Αthens 2019 θα πλαισιώσει ένα πλούσιο πρόγραμμα παράλληλων εκδηλώσεων με τη συμμετοχή Κλαδικών Φορέων, εξειδικευμένων επαγγελματιών αλλά και επιστημόνων εισηγητών. Ενημερωτικά σεμινάρια, ημερίδες, ομιλίες, παρουσιάσεις νέων τεχνολογιών αλλά και πολλαπλές συναφείς δράσεις θα κεντρίσουν το ενδιαφέρον του κοινού, ενώ κεντρικά θέματα συζήτησης θα είναι η πράσινη δόμηση και η εξοικονόμηση ενέργειας.

Ολοκληρώνοντας αξίζει να σημειωθεί πως κεντρικό πυλώνα του επιτυχημένου εκθεσιακού διδύμου, Infacoma & Aquatherm, θα αποτελέσουν οι τεχνολογικές καινοτομίες και τα νέα υλικά που εξελίσσονται με σεβασμό στο περιβάλλον και την αειφόρο ανάπτυξη.

Η ΔΕΘ HELEXPO σε συνδιοργάνωση με την εταιρεία Be-Best, έχοντας ήδη πραγματοποιήσει ορισμένες από τις σημαντικότερες και πιο επιτυχημένες εκθέσεις στην Ελλάδα, διαθέτουν την απαραίτητη εμπειρία και τεχνογνωσία που αποτελούν εγγύηση για την επιτυχία της διοργάνωσης. 

Μη χάσετε την ευκαιρία να γίνετε μέρος
αυτής της μοναδικής εκθεσιακής διοργάνωσης!

Few cities in the world can lay claim to as many iconic buildings as New York. After all, the Big Apple gave birth to the skyscraper and shaped the course of 20th-century architecture. On Inside Out Tours’ Highlights of Midtown Architectural Tour you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at some of these famous landmarks while learning the rich history of the communities in the Midtown area. On this three-hour walking tour, you’ll even get to explore the interiors of some of these historic buildings. Discover the hidden residential enclave Tudor City, the United Nations Headquarters, Ford Foundation Building, Daily News Building and more. This tour is offered in English and Spanish.