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  <event>
    <city>Sarasota</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-29</end-on>
    <full-description>Organized by Ringling School of Art &amp; Design, the Design Summit is in its 3rd year. The 2008 Summit further embraces design thinking and will explore the phenomena happening at the intersection of Design + Technology - visual, social and mobile.

Participants will experience first-hand how creative collaborations using design and technology transform and revolutionize our lives.

Who should attend - thought leaders, creative industries' participants, design thinkers, marketing specialists, enlightened educators

The speaker line up is exceptional, the format atypical and engaging.  An A list of presenters inlcudes:
Michael Alexin - Target Corporation
Hussain Ali-Khan - Tishman Speyer
Timo Arnall - elasticspace
Walter Bender - One Laptop per Child
Chris Bernard - Microsoft
Duane Bray - IDEO
Brent C. J. Britton - Squire Sanders &amp; Dempsey LLP
Matt Cottam - Tellart
Tom Crawford - VizThink
Bruce Damer - Digitalspace
Dave Gray - XPlane
Josh Hallett - Voce Communications/Hyku
Jody Haneke - Haneke Design
Matt Jones - Dopplr.com
Franco Lodato - Pininfarina Extra
Jennifer Magnolfi - Herman Miller
Dave Meeker - Roundarch
Dan Miller - Neighborhood America
Brandon Oldenburg - Reel FX Entertainment
George Pierson - Creative Mindflow
Ed Schipul - Schipul
Ryan Stewart - Adobe
Susan Sznesay - Metropolis Magazine
Larry R. Thompson - Ringling College of Art and Design
Charles Warren - Google
Tom Wujec - Autodesk

</full-description>
    <id type="integer">511</id>
    <region>FL</region>
    <short-description>This year's Design Summit will explore the phenomena happening at the intersection of Design + Technology - visual, social and mobile.
Explore creative collaborations driving transformation.

</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-26</start-on>
    <title>Sarasota International Design Summit 2008</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://sarasotadesignsummit.blogspot.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/511</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/511/Summit_Logo_GreyBox.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>design innovation summit, design thinking conference, mobile social event, mobile tech design</tag-string>
  </event>
</events>
