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SUMMARY:Dyson School of Design Engineering Commencement Lecture 2026
DESCRIPTION:For this year’s Commencement Lecture\, Dyson School of Design
  Engineering is excited to welcome John Maeda – one of the most influent
 ial voices at the intersection of design and technology – who will give 
 a talk titled “Design and Engineering Are the Same Job Now”.\n \nProg
 ramme\n18.30 – Arrivals and registration\n19.00 – Welcome Address\n19.
 10 – Commencement Lecture\n19.55 – Panel discussion\n20.15 – Drinks 
 Reception\n \nAbout the Talk\nDesign and Engineering Are the Same Job Now
 \nFor most of the last century\, someone drew the thing and someone else m
 ade it work. That division of labor produced much of the world around us. 
 But the era of the creative genius up front and the engineers in the back 
 is coming to an end.\nI’ve spent thirty years working on both sides of t
 hat divide\, first writing about simplicity when designing software was st
 ill a novelty\, then arguing that designers would need to learn how to spe
 ak machine for a computational age.\nNow the machine speaks our language. 
 It can design almost anything we ask for\, and increasingly do the enginee
 ring required to make it real. That changes what is valuable about both di
 sciplines.\nThere has never been a better time to be a design engineer\, a
 nd never a worse time to practice design or engineering as if they were st
 ill separate jobs. This talk explores what happens when that boundary disa
 ppears\, and what the next generation of design engineering might become.\
 nSpeaker’s Biography\nJohn Maeda – American technologist. Product expe
 rience leader across consumer and enterprise. Early catalyst for generativ
 e art and computational design for commercial applications across Web2 and
  Web3. First recipient of White House’s National Design Award for algori
 thmically-generated visualizations informed by data + AI. Noted book autho
 r\, online influencer\, and investor in diverse startups.\nFormerly chief 
 technology officer of Everbridge\, Sonos board of directors\, Wieden+Kenne
 dy board of directors\, Kleiner Perkins partner\, MIT Media Lab data visua
 lization lead\, Automattic head of design + inclusion\, Publicis Sapient e
 xecutive vice president and chief experience officer\, and 16th president/
 ceo of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).\nAuthor of five books includi
 ng a gentle intro to AI/ML “How To Speak Machine” and the tech bestsel
 ler of 2006 “Laws of Simplicity.” Writings\, interviews\, or talks inc
 lude WSJ\, NYT\, TED\, BBC\, WEF\, COP\, CNN\, The Economist\, Forbes\, US
 A Today\, Fortune\, Fast Company\, Esquire. Honors include three honorary 
 doctorate degrees\, TIME Best Twitter 140\, White House National Design Aw
 ard\, Fast Company Masters of Innovation\, LinkedIn Top 10 US Influencer\,
  Esquire 75 Most Influential of the 21st Century\, and Tribeca Film Festiv
 al Disruptor Award for launching the STEM to STEAM movement in the US.\nIm
 portant Information\nPlease note that due to capacity limitations\, some a
 ttendees may be asked to watch the lecture from the overflow room. Seats i
 n the main venue will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212436/dyson-school-of-design-enginee
 ring-commencement-lecture-2026/
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LOCATION:LT200\, City and Guilds Building\, South Kensington Campus\, Imper
 ial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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