Lekshmy Parameswaran is a designer who has been working in the area of health and care for almost two decades. In 2008, together with László Herczegh, she co-founded fuelfor, a specialist design consultancy working with a wide variety of international players within the health and care sector.
In 2017 they co-founded The Care Lab, a collaborative platform that uses human-centred design practices to rethink and redesign care models and solutions for our societies and care systems. Their vision of care is an equitable, proactive and compassionate experience that is widely accessible. It also forms an integral part of everyday life, from birth to death.
She holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from Cambridge University and a Master of Arts from the Royal College of Art in London.
Rama Gheerawo is an international figure within design, business and innovation and a serial innovator in the fields of technology, products, services and transport with over 100 projects to his name. He works with government, industry and the public sector with a client list that included Samsung, Toyota, P&G, Panasonic, Sony, the NHS and the UK and Hong Kong governments – training around 400 civil servants for the latter on creativity and leadership. He is co-leading a redesign of the London taxi, one of the most significant projects on the globe and has delivered ground-breaking work across a variety of sectors from artificial intelligence to aging and healthcare. Rama has published widely and run highly acclaimed innovation workshops across the globe. He is a Visiting Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of the Arts and was awarded Fellowships at the Royal College of Art and Royal Society for the Arts.
Philippe Kern is the Founder and Managing Director of KEA. Based in Brussels since 1999, KEA is Europe’s leading consultancy and research center on culture and creative industries. KEA has an office in Shenzhen (China) since 2012. Philippe has 30 years of experience in the world of culture, creative industries, public affairs and legal advice. He has led a range of research and strategy programs at European level, notably for the European Commission and the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and WIPO. Philippe was the former Director of Public and Legal Affairs of PolyGram (now Universal) and head of the IFPI Brussels office. He graduated in law from the universities of Strasbourg and Paris as well as the College of Europe in Bruges.
