IIDA NY’s Design Exchange NYC (aka DEX NYC)

I know that IIDA NY knows how to throw a party (see officeinsight, IIDA NY Color Invasion), and we all know the NYC chapter knows how to do educational events such as engaging with the future generation of designers in a fun and instructive way (see officeinsight, IIDA NY Design This! Challenge). But until I was invited to attend the DEX NYC roundtable event at the Viacom headquarters on Times Square, I had no idea how masterfully the New York City chapter of IIDA could pull off an evening both entertaining and inspiring. When asked to design a fundraising event for the chapter, co-chairs of the DEX NYC committee, Annie Lee of Environetics and Carol Symchik of Primason Symchik, conceived an evening of networking and inspiration through a speed-dating-like process of rapid fire conversational exchanges with creative people from all sorts of creative professions. Here’s how it worked. While most …