Industry visionaries, engineers and designers will provide new perspectives that will inspire you to reinvent how you approach design. Get inspired by speakers who broke the bounds of the “possible” to do something that has never been done before.

Anousheh Ansari is Co-Founder, Chairwoman, & CEO of Prodea Systems. She is the first female private space explorer, spending eight days aboard the International Space Station. She is also the co-founder and chairman of Prodea Systems, a platform for the Internet of Things.

Jason Silva is host of National Geographic’s “Brain Games.” He is He is also the creator of Shots of Awe, a short film series that explores innovation, technology creativity, futurism and the metaphysics of the imagination.

For the Customer Mashup portion of the presentations, Paul Reed Smith and Jon Wasserman from PRS Guitars join Mark Tremonti, guitarist of Alter Bridge and Creed, to share the story of their collaboration for the design and development of the Mark Tremonti Signature guitar.

Also, sustainability expert and social visionary, Duane Elgin, talks to Jon Friedman, President and co-founder of Freight Farms, a company that provides physical and digital solutions for creating local produce ecosystems on a global scale. Together they will look ahead at the untapped potential for using 3-D printing for building a sustainable future at a local scale. This will be both practical and inspiring as they explore how to use these technologies to live more sustainably in emerging new communities and local living economies.

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