This free session is divided into two parts:

Part 01: Design Entrepreneurship

This is a practical session that will provide you with an overview of how to take an idea to market. We will walk through lean innovation methods and best practice guidance to start preparing for your entreprenuership journey; from thinking about the team you need, to financial considerations and quickly gettting to proposition and custoner need validation.

Part 02: Design Intrapreneurship

In the second half of this talk will focus on how designers and design leaders internally can innovate and steer business outcomes. We will focus on practical examples and approaches from setting capability to establishing a design approach that will deliver on business value.

This session is facilitated by the co-founders of Design3 - Anish Joshi and Niharika Hariharan.

Both Anish and Niharika are designers by education and have worked in innovation and digital venture building globally, for some of the most interesting organisations. They are visiting lectures at Imperial Business School and speak on the topic of design and business at conferences globally.

Meet Niharika

Niharika is a design entrepreneur with knowledge and expertise in shaping, accelerating and delivering digital products and businesses from the ground up.Her background is based on a combination of her experience of launching Design3, a global ed-tech start-up (for web3, AI and sustainability), her role as an Associate Partner at McKinsey, and working in leading innovation labs and client companies across a range of sectors & countries including Nokia, bp and Barclays. She is also an advisory board member for the Business Design Studio at Imperial College Business School.

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Meet Anish

Anish's vision is to further business and the world by evolving the discipline and industry of Design, via two routes:

1. Design, Innovation & Digital at scale and for impact; through his strategic advisory role at Shell on the key challenges in energy.

2. Through future proofing the Design industry and designers themselves by launching Design3 - the only ed-tech platform, global network and think-tank all about Design x web3, AI & Sustainability.

Anish has worked both client-side and in consulting on a diverse range of projects and proposition builds, leading global teams and building propositions. Anish holds an MBA from Imperial College Business School.

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Grab your free ticket for this session on:

22nd September
1230 - 1300 GMT