Below is a tentative timetable for the 2004 Shift Happens conference.  We are finalizing our list of speakers and events and will update this schedule as confirmations are received. 
Check back often to see the latest updates!

Please also see the speakers & events page for more details on the contents of the conference.

8:00 AM Accelerated/Innovation Training for Product Designers - This exciting (and free!) pre-conference event will take place the morning before the conference.  Please visit this site for more information and register here! Gerald "Solutionman" Haman - SolutionPeople
     
12:00 PM Conference start - Registration starts  
 

Browse vendor booths and displays

1:00 PM Opening Announcements  (Main Hall)  
 

Previews 

1:20 PM PROCESS SHIFT: Current and future changes in design Scott Ternovitz and Craig Stehle - Gravity Tank
 

 

Discussion 
2:10 PM SHIFT YOURSELF: Transitions from artifact to substance John Paul Kusz - Center for Sustainability
  Couch Interview
  10 min BREAK
3:00 PM SYNERGY SHIFT: Technology leads manufacturing leads technology Dan Perez, Jeff Kunkler - Radius PD
  Discussion 
3:40 PM AUTOMOTIVE SHIFT: Digitizing: The future from shoes to automobiles  Shad Hardy, Brad Gieske - The Underground World
  Digital Sketch-Off - Round I
4:40 PM 48 Hr SHIFT - Highlights of a weekend design challenge Scott Shim - Purdue University
 

 

Couch Discussion

Previews of Saturday presentations 

6:00 PM

RECEPTION: Design Within Reach (1574 North Kingsbury in North/Clybourn Shopping District)

8:30 PM

NIGHT SHIFT PARTY (with student presentations): Radius Product Development (1735 North Paulina in Bucktown)

Click the icon for a PDF map with directions for driving, cabs, or CTA to the Friday night receptions.
IDSA Chicago will be providing limo service for the two Friday-night receptions. For $5 (per ride, per person) you can roll like a superstar designer in our White Stretch Limos! The limos will pick you up from the W Hotel starting at 6:15 to take you to the DWR reception. For an additional $5 you can get a ride to the Radius party! (11 people per trip so make sure you get in line early) Pay as you ride, high-roller.

 

 

9:00 AM Welcome & Introduction (Main Hall)  
9:20 AM MOTO SHIFT Jim Caruso - Motorola
 

 Couch Interview

10:10 AM DUI SHIFT: Designers Using Influence Michael Seum - Whirlpool
 

Couch Interview

Michael Seum & Tania Aldous
Previews of Shift Work
  10 min BREAK, split into groups  

 

  Main Hall SHIFT WORK 1 SHIFT WORK 2
11:20 AM   SHIFT HAPPENS: 3D Thinking to discover new options +couch interview
James Feldman - James Feldman Associates
FIGHT CLUB
Paul Hatch - TEAMS Design
WIND SHIFT: Designing for wind power
Bill Becker - Aerotecture
12:20 PM

LUNCH - boxed lunch 

also DIGITAL SKETCH DEMO , Michael Sagen - Trek (Main Hall)

1:00 PM ANNOUNCEMENTS, competitions and PREVIEWS
1:50 PM DIGITAL SHIFT: Digital Rendering and animation.
Andy Flessas
INSPIRATION SHIFT: Sourcing new inspiration and ideas.

Zach Kaplan, Keith Schacht - Inventables
 
GREEN SHIFT: Okala Curriculum for green design.

Steve Belletire - SIUC/EPA/IDSA
 
  Digital Sketch Off - Round II
 

  5 min BREAK

3:00 PM

DESIGN SHIFT
Walter Herbst - Herbst Lazar Bell +COUCH INTERVIEW

BRAIN SHIFT: Thinkathon mass brainstorm session

Gerald Haman - Solution People

  

MATERIAL SHIFT: Shifting trends in TPEs design

Tom Castile - GLS

  
  REALITY SHIFT
Steve Rehkemper and Steve Melamed
Rehkemper Design - Tres Design
  COUCH DISCUSSION: IPD
  10 min BREAK 

Then, back in the main hall...

4:40 PM FUTURE SHIFT: Designing spacecraft Craig Williams - NASA Glenn Research Center
 

Couch Interview

5:50 PM ASIAN SHIFT: Asian cultural effects on designing in America Gordon Bruce
Couch Interview
6:20 PM COUCH DISCUSSION: Asian Shift  Jeff K, Gordon B, Walter H, James Choi, Paul H
  ANNOUNCEMENTS, RAFFLE
  CLOSE: RECAP ON HIGHLIGHTS
  60 min BREAK 
8:00 PM Awards Dinner  
10:00 PM

 

 

 

8:30 AM District Meeting - IDSA district leaders meeting SHIFT WORK ROOM I
9:30 AM PORTFOLIO REVIEW - Professionals advise students  Jennifer Astwood
11:40 AM Speakers Lunch -TBD