DDW BUSINESS

Under the name of DDW Business, Dutch Design Week intends to initiate more activities this year besides Going Dutch. One of these is DDW Business House. Dutch Design Week has developed these activities to encourage and strengthen the relationship between participants and visitors. DDW Business is mainly focussed on the business visitor. The umbrella name ensures an exciting programme and a broad exhibition palette.

DDW Business House

Every morning between 10.00 am and 12.00 noon, lectures are held in the DDW Business House, located in the Klokgebouw. These lectures are followed by a ‘Meet & Match’ lunch from 12.00 noon until 02.00 pm. The lecture programme is partly organised by participants and sponsors of DDW and partly by DDW itself. After lunch, visitors may join the Guided Design Tours.

It is always possible to initiate an activity yourselves (closed or open) and to reserve a conference room through DDW, also outside the opening hours of the Klokgebouw. The rooms have private access, toilets and a reception area. DDW has a large room (max. 200 persons) and a small room (max. 40 persons) available for seminars, lectures, workshops and meetings.

Going Dutch expo

Under the title of Going Dutch, DDW once again presents leading design firms who have more than earned their spurs. The design firms show their latest and most successful design products, products that excel in functionality and attractiveness. Going Dutch is held in the Klokgebouw at Strijp-S.

DDW Business calendar

Below you will find a preliminary overview of the DDW Business programme during Dutch Design Week.

Friday, October 22

The ‘World Design Forum’ shall set the agenda for a new understanding of design.

Saturday, October 23

At the ’BNO Tallks Go Green’ event, designers and clients will be talking about their green strategies.

Monday, October 25

The ‘Food Inspiration Day’ will focus on the innovative food professional and is the first of its kind.
Get inspired at the workshop “Rethink”, an event with presentations and workshops about brands, sustainability and product design. Organisation: We Are Perspective, Pezy en DPI Value Centre.
ATC organizes a ‘Design Master Class’ with Doeke de Walle (Pininfarina). The ‘ATC Design Master Class’ is part of the ATC Design for Electric Driving project that has been established at the initiative of the Province of Noord-Brabant.
In a three hour interactive workshop IP attorneys-at-law will clarify - from different perspectives - in which ways intellectual property can be ‘designed for your design’.

Tuesday, October 26

Design Forum 2010, the EURegion conference, organised by Stichting Brabant Onderneemt, Businessclub Maas Rhein, the Dutch-German Businessclub Aachen-Maastricht and the German Zollverein.
The Province of North-Brabant organises ‘Work locations of the Future’.
The ‘Food Inspiration Day’ will focus on the innovative food professional and is the first of its kind.
DSM organizes the seminar ‘Eco+ The Green Dialogue - Materials, design and sustainability’.

Wednesday, October 27

International automotive designers will give their view on ‘Design for Electric Driving’ in the seminar ‘ATC Design Seminar: Design for Electric Driving’. Member of the Provincial Executive for Noord-Brabant Lily Jacobs will open the seminar, which is part of a larger initiative by the Province of Noord-Brabant aimed at bringing the creative and the automotive sectors together to create new opportunities and ideas for electric vehicles.
Ambassadors and Consuls Day hosted by the city of Eindhoven.
Syntens – in cooperation with the Province of Noord-Brabant – will be organising a lunch meeting for entrepreneurs from the province featured in the MKB Innovatie Top 100 [SME Innovation Top 100]. The entrepreneurs will receive a voucher from Member of the Provincial Executive Lily Jacobs which they can ’cash’ at one of the creative companies.
The International Centre for Sustainable Excellence (ICSE) organises together with her participants several inspiring lectures “Cradle to Cradle and Biomimicry Design”.
Awearness Fair Fashion, platform for presentation and promotion of Sustainable fashion, and Material Sense showcases a special fashion show ‘Sustainably Made in Arnhem’ and the workshop ‘Sustainable Materials for Fashion’.

Thursday, October 28

The City of Eindhoven, Syntens and WTC·E Zakensociëteit have joined forces for this exclusive ‘Top Business Event’ with John Körmeling and Christian Lachel (BRC Imagination).
During the Dutch Design Week on the 28th of October accredited Cradle to Cradle® design consultants will facilitate an afternoon in the ‘Concept Café’ at ICSE in Eindhoven.
BESO (Brabants Expertisecentrum voor Socialer Ondernemen) [Brabant Expertise Centre for More Social Business] will be organising a meeting on more social, smarter business for first-time entrepreneurs in cooperation with the Province of Noord-Brabant.
Printing office Lecturis organises a conference on graphic design with Joost Grootens.
In the lecture ‘Future Shopping Experience’ lamachine’s Christjan Vissers is giving his vision about the future of shopping.

Friday, October 29

BKKC organises two lectures about design and architecture. Speakers: Paul van den Berg (director Montis) and Jeroen van de Ven (architect of Tarra Architectuur and Stedenbouw).
In the introductory workshop ‘Get Inspired By Nature! An introduction in Biomimicry’ you will learn the principles of biomimicry and the biomimicry methodology.
The key pillars of the "Blending Design & Technology” program at the High Tech Campus are Design, Technology and Entrepreneurship. People from these areas gather around a number of thematic lectures, workshops and company visits with the objective to inspire, create and innovate.