Design Webinar (June 2021)
This programme will equip entrepreneurs and enterprises with the skills and knowledge to innovate faster and more effectively, to create products and services fit for market in the healthy ageing sector.
Healthy Ageing by Design growth programme Launch webinar: Design your way to growth Monday 21 June 1pm-2.30pm
Healthy Ageing by Design growth programme Launch webinar: Design your way to growth
This webinar was the launch event for the Community’s brand new Healthy Ageing by Design growth programme, delivered in partnership with design industry leaders Creative Venue.
This programme will equip innovators, entrepreneurs, social enterprises and research institutes with the skills and knowledge to innovate faster and more effectively, to create products and services fit for market in the healthy ageing sector. This unmissable programme of workshops will give participants the opportunity to learn – directly from industry experts – how to design your product or service to exploit the fast-growing healthy ageing market.
The Design your way to growth webinar, which took place on Monday 21 June was the first of three sessions taking place between June and August 2021. You can watch a recording of the webinar below.
This webinar highlighted the commercial value of design through real life practical examples.
Speakers included:
- John Mathers and Julian Grice, co-founders of Healthy Ageing by Design and the Innovate UK funded Design Age Accelerator
- Ben Griffin, Innovation - Design lead Innovate UK
- Adi Kasliwal Co-founder Personal Alarm Watch
- Eric Kihlstrom, Chair, CENTAUR ROBOTICS LIMITED
- Damon Bonser, CEO British Design Fund and Director Trade Horizons Limited
This event was a stand-alone webinar to gain excellent insights into design for the healthy ageing sector. However, two further workshops will run in August around ‘Design your proposition to fit your market’ and ‘Design your pitch to win’, details of which will be shared shortly.
If you have any queries, please contact the Community of Practice team: cop@ageing-better.org.uk
