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Join the Cumulus Working Groups meetings at the Cumulus Monterrey 2024 conference!

Design Across Boarders: United in Creativity
Time: October 16-18, 2024, Monterrey, Mexico
On-site: Tec Monterrey and UDEM.
Online: Zoom (free for all interested representatives of Cumulus member institutions), see the links with the groups below.
https://cumulusmonterrey2024.udem.mx/
All times are local. (GMT-6) Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico

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Through an evolving process of knowledge development and sharing, CWGs create a year-round space for virtual and in-person focused sessions to regularly increase engagement and communication on a variety of relevant and timely interests.

Wednesday October 16, 2024
TEC venue

11:30 – 13:00 Business, Industry and Innovation CWG
Location: A4-119
Online Zoom link

A Way for Ethical Leadership

Chair: Cumulus Honorary President Christian Guellerin, Director L´Ecole de Design Atlantique in Nantes France – https://christianguellerin.lecolededesign.com/en/home/

The session initiates discussion and development how strong linkages with business and industry the universities or associations may have and how they do occur. We will hear presentations and lively discussion how BII as a mechanism in education and research in our disciplines becomes more impacting. Cumulus partner di-Integra Association of Mexican Design Schools is also present.

Speakers:
Intro: Christian Guellerin – A Way for Ethical Leadership
Irma Elizabeth Peñúñuri García/UDEM
Directora P. Académico Diseño Industrial e Ing. en Innovación Sustentable y Energía- consultora investigadora Universidad de Monterrey UDEM and Board of Di-Integra Association

Orlando Tamez/UDEM
A professor at the Industrial Design Program and is a Design Thinking Researcher at the AlEn group (manufacturers of well-known brands such as Pinol, Cloralex, Ensueño, among others), so he can talk about his experience in academics and also the industry.

Brenda García/TEC
Board of Di-Integra Association

Gloria Varinia Hernández González/TEC
Director of Design Program and representative at DI integra.

Nélida Astrid Escobedo Ruíz/TEC
Fellow in Social and Environmental Urbanism at the Center for the Future of Cities who will bring in her expertise in innovation and strategy, and how academic research is deployed in the design of the future of cities.

http://di-integra.org.mx/

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