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SUMMARY:Dyson School of Design Engineering Commencement Lecture 2026
LOCATION:Imperial College: LT200\, City and Guilds Building
DESCRIPTION:For this year’s Commencement Lecture\, Dyson School of Desig
 n Engineering is excited to welcome John Maeda – one of the most influen
 tial voices at the intersection of design and technology – who will give
  a talk titled “Design and Engineering Are the Same Job Now”.\n \nPro
 gramme\n18.30 – Arrivals and registration\n19.00 – Welcome Address\n19
 .10 – Commencement Lecture\n19.55 – Q&A Session\n20.15 – Drinks Rece
 ption\n \nAbout the Talk\nDesign and Engineering Are the Same Job Now\nFo
 r most of the last century\, someone drew the thing and someone else made 
 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 c
 oming to an end.\nI’ve spent thirty years working on both sides of that 
 divide\, first writing about simplicity when designing software was still 
 a novelty\, then arguing that designers would need to learn how to speak m
 achine for a computational age.\nNow the machine speaks our language. It c
 an design almost anything we ask for\, and increasingly do the engineering
  required to make it real. That changes what is valuable about both discip
 lines.\nThere has never been a better time to be a design engineer\, and n
 ever a worse time to practice design or engineering as if they were still 
 separate jobs. This talk explores what happens when that boundary disappea
 rs\, and what the next generation of design engineering might become.\nSpe
 aker’s Biography\nJohn Maeda – American technologist. Product experien
 ce leader across consumer and enterprise. Early catalyst for generative ar
 t and computational design for commercial applications across Web2 and Web
 3. First recipient of White House’s National Design Award for algorithmi
 cally-generated visualizations informed by data + AI. Noted book author\, 
 online influencer\, and investor in diverse startups.\nFormerly chief tech
 nology officer of Everbridge\, Sonos board of directors\, Wieden+Kennedy b
 oard of directors\, Kleiner Perkins partner\, MIT Media Lab data visualiza
 tion lead\, Automattic head of design + inclusion\, Publicis Sapient execu
 tive vice president and chief experience officer\, and 16th president/ceo 
 of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).\nAuthor of five books including a
  gentle intro to AI/ML “How To Speak Machine” and the tech bestseller 
 of 2006 “Laws of Simplicity.” Writings\, interviews\, or talks include
  WSJ\, NYT\, TED\, BBC\, WEF\, COP\, CNN\, The Economist\, Forbes\, USA To
 day\, Fortune\, Fast Company\, Esquire. Honors include three honorary doct
 orate degrees\, TIME Best Twitter 140\, White House National Design Award\
 , Fast Company Masters of Innovation\, LinkedIn Top 10 US Influencer\, Esq
 uire 75 Most Influential of the 21st Century\, and Tribeca Film Festival D
 isruptor Award for launching the STEM to STEAM movement in the US.\nImport
 ant Information\nPlease note that due to capacity limitations\, some atten
 dees may be asked to watch the lecture from the overflow room. Seats in th
 e main venue will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis.
URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212436/dyson-school-of-des
 ign-engineering-commencement-lecture-2026/
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