Five Exclusive Studio Tours Announced for Attendees of Bloomberg Businessweek’s Third Annual Design Conference

NEW YORK — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 14, 2015 — Today Bloomberg Businessweek named the final lineup of speakers for Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015, its third annual design conference, to be held on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA. Added to the illustrious group previously announced is designer Selvaggia Armani, Ammunition’s Robert Brunner, Shinola’s Daniel Caudill, fashion designer Rachel Comey, Framestore’s Mike McGee, Elevate’s Jesse Pickard, Lippincott’s Gordon Rudow and Cyber illusionist Marco Tempest. Bloomberg Businessweek also announced that conference ticket holders will have exclusive access to five design studio tours and an opening night reception at the Autodesk Gallery on April 27.

At Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015 26 of the world’s most forward-thinking design professionals will take the stage to explore how design and technology are changing the way we live, work, and play. These innovators from the fields of architecture, industrial design, home design, robotics, operating system design, app development, graphic design, fashion, film special effects, Virtual Reality, and more will discuss how they are leading their companies to overcome some of society’s most challenging problems, and helping clients and consumers reimagine how we experience the world.

The all-star presenters at Bloomberg Businessweek Design 2015 will be:

SELVAGGIA ARMANI Designer of textiles, clothing, jewelry, leather, home accessories, and ceramics

AYAH BDEIR Founder and CEO, littleBits – leader of the open-source hardware movement @ayahbdeir

MICHAEL BIERUT Partner, Pentagram – legendary graphic designer @michaelbierut

TIM BROWN CEO and President, IDEO – globally recognized business adviser teaching the value of design thinking @tceb62

ROBERT BRUNNER Founding Partner, Ammunition – award-winning industrial designer @rdbrunner

DANIEL CAUDILL Creative Director, Shinola – leader in the creative arenas of apparel and accessory design; styling and brand consulting @Shinola

ALON COHEN & ADI TATARKO Co-Founders, Houzz –eminent home remodeling and design platform @houzz

RACHEL COMEY Founder, Rachel Comey – fashion designer of women’s and men’s collections @rachel_comey

STEVE COUSINS Founder and CEO, Savioke – building robotic technology to help people @Savioke

NICOLE DOSSO Director, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill – expert in the technical challenges of high-rise building design

SHAWN DOUGLAS Professor, UCSF – runs a lab inventing new methods to construct and manipulate biological molecules at the nanometer scale @smd4

MATIAS DUARTE VP for Design, Android – leads the Android design team @MatiasDuarte

BJARKE INGELS Founding Partner & Creative Director, BIG – designs buildings that are programmatically and technically innovative, as well as cost- and resource-conscious @BjarkeIngels

SUSAN KARE Partner, Susan Kare Design – designed fonts and icons for Apple, Microsoft and Facebook @SusanKare

CHIP KIDD Designer and Writer, Alfred A. Knopf – renowned book jacket designer @chipkidd

JAKE KNAPP Design Partner, Google Ventures – created Google Ventures’ design sprint process @jakek

ROGER MARTIN Director, Martin Prosperity Institute – influential global business thinker @RogerLMartin

MIKE McGEE Co-founder and Creative Director, Framestore – celebrated live-action director and VFX supervisor for some of the U.K.’s most well-known brands @Framestore

JESSE PICKARD CEO, Elevate Labs – Elevate app is a "personal brain trainer" named by Apple as the best free iPhone app of 2014  @jessepickard

GORDON RUDOW Senior Partner, Lippincott – expert on organizational communications and strategy implementation @lippincottbrand

EVAN SHARP Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Pinterest – leads all Pinterest design efforts @eshp