Design Leaders Conference 2025

Creative Courage is at the heart of every design and business success story. It is an instinct and mindset that has guided the achievements of this year's international line-up of thought provoking speakers and panellists. Join us at the Design Leaders Conference 2025 and learn how bravery and persistence has informed their success and rediscover how you can harness these same qualities in your own creative work and leadership.

This year's conference brings together senior designers, creative directors, and design leaders at every level. Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired, talk shop, share challenges and spend valuable time with your peers. Take your seat for just one day on the 30th of January at the big screen in the Light House Cinema, help us uncover the real stories that drive significant projects and learn how creative courage is essential for design leadership and for all our futures.

The 2025 Conference takes place on Thursday January 30th 2025, at the Light House Cinema in Smithfield, Dublin.

Previous speakers include international thought leaders and practitioners such as Blair Enns of Win Without Pitching; Brand master Marty Neumeier; Ade Chong of Studio Chong; Tom Greever, author of 'Articulating Design Decisions'; world-renowned graphic designer Rejane Dal Bello; Richard Shotton, author of 'The Choice Factory'; Kimi Gilbert of The Future Factory; Pum Lefebure of Washington DC-based Design Army; Thierry Brunfaut, Partner and Executive Creative Director of Base Design; Chiara Aliotta, Founder and Art Director of Until Sunday; Peter Czapp, Co-Founder of The Wow Company and Beautiful Business; Noel Joyce, Lecturer at NYU and Mentor and Consultant in Design Innovation and Debrah Smith and Richard Village of Smith +Village.

And leading Irish creative minds such as Jane McDaid of ThinkHouse; Noel Joyce Mentor and Consultant in Design Innovation; Cormac O’Conaire, Chief Design Officer at PA Consulting (formerly Design Partners); Jess Majekodunmi of Accenture; Darell Kavanagh of Image Now and David McRedmond CEO of An Post.

Tickets

Tickets are now on sale! Individual and Group Tickets available.

Member rates are available to current members of IDI, IAPI, ICAD, 100 Archive. Membership will be verified and you may be contacted by the applicable membership team if your membership has lapsed.

Book tickets here or email [email protected] to pay by bank transfer.

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If you purchase a ticket and subsequently cannot attend the Design Leaders Conference, we will be happy to offer a 75% refund on tickets up until 5pm on Thursday 23rd January. No refund will be given on tickets after 5pm on 23rd January. | Tickets are transferable, by giving notice to [email protected], up to 1pm on Wednesday 29th January*.

*Please note, name badges will go to print several days before the Conference. Tickets which are transferred after name badges go to print will not have names printed on the badges. Instead, names will be handwritten onto blank badges.To avoid wastage we ask you to endeavour to make any transfers by Jan 23rd so that we can change the name before printing.

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