Bend Design is a two-day creative event convening artists, designers and creative thinkers from a diverse range of practices and professions for talks, shows, workshops, screenings, and problem-solving sessions. For more information on speakers, workshops, schedule and tickets, visit here.
We’re returning to the Tower Theatre on Thursday, October 26 with six speakers followed by a full day of hands-on workshops on Friday, October 27. Our programming strives to provide accessible programming at the intersection of design, growth and purpose, and here are a few speaker and workshop highlights your company might be interested in:
Speaker: Chuck McBride; CCO & Founder of Cutwater
Talk: Creativity Means Business
Now, more than ever, creativity is in demand. It’s become a required skill set to power businesses. It is integral to innovation, design and culture. The most successful companies will be the ones that successfully use their creativity as a distinctive asset. Chuck McBride, Founder and CCO of Cutwater and leader of iconic brands such as Nike, Adidas, Levi’s, Ray Ban, will talk about the importance of creativity and how our work no longer just benefits from creativity but requires it.
Speaker: Pedro Ruíz
Talk: Generative Artificial Intelligence Revolution: How Diffusion Models and Pre-Trained Transformers are Shaping the Future of Creative Expression
Gain a deeper understanding of the AI technology you’re hearing all about. In this talk with Pedro Ruiz, a Human-Centered Designer and Deep Learning Engineer specializing in Generative Artificial Intelligence, will share the underlying technologies behind Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and GPT-4 so you can better leverage them to augment your work.
Bend Design has created a code specifically for the Cascade A&E audience for $25 off the Thursday Keynote Speakers at the Tower Theatre.
scalehouse.org/benddesign
Use code: CascadeAE_BD2023