Using Design Thinking to Employ Smart Systems to Decarbonize Our Future

Originally aired June 4, 2020

The first webinar in the LightWorks’ New Series, presented by LightWorks at Arizona State University, the Security and Sustainability Forum, and series partners IBM, Microsoft, and Siemens. Design thinking uses customer input and transdisciplinary collaboration to erase silos and re-imagine archaic processes, opening opportunities to build smart system tools for decarbonization of operations and supply chains. Design leaders explore how design thinking can transform the culture and operations of an organization to embrace AI, blockchain, and other smart tools — and how companies can use these approaches to transform their carbon footprint and impact on the planet.

Speakers

Adam Cutler

Distinguished Designer, IBM Design

Adam Cutler is a founding member of IBM Design and one of the first three Distinguished Designers at IBM. He was responsible for the design and build-out of the flagship IBM Design Studio in Austin, TX, and for the competency, culture, and practices of design at IBM — including Enterprise Design Thinking, the IBM Design Language, and IBM Design Research. His Distinguished Designer mission focuses on driving development of IBM’s point of view on the practice of AI Design, recently presenting a TED talk on creating meaningful human/machine relationships.

Susanne Jones

Executive Partner, IBM iX

Susanne Jones is a creative business and team leader with 20 years of experience in digital marketing, products, and services. At IBM iX, she works at a global, regional, and local level, galvanizing diverse teams to deliver impactful results and transformational customer experiences. She is skilled at driving strategic business transformation and creating the culture and capability to sustain it, and is a champion of positive change and the potential of advancing technology.

Cheryl Heller

Professor of Practice, Design Integration, Arizona State University

Cheryl Heller founded the first MFA program in Social Design at SVA. She is President of the Measured Lab, which she founded to investigate the contribution design makes to human health, and founder of the design lab CommonWise. A recipient of the AIGA Lifetime Medal and a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow, she is the author of The Intergalactic Design Guide: Harnessing the Universal Creative Energy of Social Design. She leads an initiative to reduce the flow of young people from foster care to homelessness and is an advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.