The people crossing the water this year
Designers, engineers, researchers and illustrators from eleven cities. Tap a speaker to read more about them and their session.

Istanbul
↗
Defne Arıkan
Type Director
·
Kerning Hall

Lagos
↗
Jonah Okafor
Head of Design Systems
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Parcelwave

Oslo
↗
Mira Lindqvist
Creative Technologist
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Studio Fjell

Tokyo
↗
Kenji Morioka
Motion Lead
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Lantern & Co

Milan
↗
Sofia Bellandi
Founder
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Ufficio Rosso

Accra
↗
Theo Asante
Research Director
·
Plainsight Lab

Izmir
↗
Leyla Demirci
Product Designer
·
Kumsal

Bengaluru
↗
Ravi Sundaram
CTO
·
Gridline Audio

Lisbon
↗
Ana Cruz Pereira
Illustrator & Author
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Independent
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