DEX Connex
Four years ago when asked to design a fundraising event for the New York chapter of IIDA that could be run in conjunction with NYC X Design, Annie Lee of Environetics conceived of 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 outside the usual IIDA member professions. The initial concept was 10 tables sponsored primarily by industry IIDA members who could invite up to 10 guests per table. Ms. Lee then recruited 10 sets of speakers (sets – because some speakers are teams of two). The presentation part of the program was designed to last one hour in three 20-minute bursts, so each table would interact with three speakers, and interaction was part of the design from the get-go. “I wanted to put interesting people of creative accomplishment outside our field with people from …
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