* Commemorative Speech Kouhei Sugiura / graphic designer [Japan] * Keynote Address, Panel Discussion, Summary Panel Discussion Richard Saul Wurman / information architect [USA] * Panel Discussion Katherine McCoy / graphic designer [USA] Keiko Hirano / designer [Japan] Kenya Hara / graphic designer [Japan] Andreas Schneider / designer [Germany, residing in Japan] * Summary Panel Discussion Toshiharu Itoh / art historian, information scientist [Japan] Syutaro Mukai / science of design, professor emeritus at Musashino Art University [Japan] * Special Speech Eiko Ishioka / multidisciplinary designer [Japan, residing in USA] Dr. Robert Moog [USA] * IT VISUALOGUE Masaki Fujihata / media artist [Japan] Naoto Fukasawa / product designer [Japan] * Parallel Sessions "Clarity" John Maeda / Associate professor at MIT Media Laboratory [USA] Armand Mevis / graphic designer [Netherlands] Gerd Baumann / graphic designer [Germany] Shin Matsunaga / graphic designer [Japan] Masahiko Sato / professor at Keio University [Japan] Takuya Onuki / art director [Japan] Bill Buxton / pioneer in Human Computer Interaction [Canada] Steve Kaneko / Microsoft [USA] Takehiko Katsuo / editor-in-chief of Nikkei Design [Japan] Anirudha Joshi / Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay [India] Katsunori Aoki / art director [Japan] Kashiwa Sato / creative director, art director [Japan] Dr. Robert Moog [USA] Ichiro Higashiizumi / designer, art director [Japan] Taku Satoh / graphic designer [Japan] Tom Vincent / internet director [UK] Toshiharu Itoh / art historian, information scientist [Japan] Osamu Sakura / Associate Professor at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo [Japan] * Parallel Sessions "Creativity" Stefan Sagmeister / graphic designer [USA] Makoto Saito / art director [Japan] Noriyuki Tanaka / artist, art director [Japan] Yuko Hasegawa / chief curator at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa [Japan] Neville Brody / graphic designer [UK] Shin Mizukoshi / associate professor at Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo [Japan] Mariko Sakai / senior researcher at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation [Japan] Kari-Hans Kommonen / Media Lab, University of Art and Design Helsinki [Finland] Hiroshi Okutomi / World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Hiroyuki Ito / Design Division, Japan Patent Office [Japan] Cecile Barrio / the Office of Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM) Massimo Pitis / graphic designer, consultant [Italy] Kazumasa Nagai / graphic designer [Japan] Tadanori Yokoo / artist, graphic designer [Japan] Masuteru Aoba / graphic designer [Japan] Christopher Mount / curator [USA] Kazuyo Sejima / architect [Japan] Kengo Kuma / architect [Japan] * Parallel Sessions "Joy / Humor" Seigow Matsuoka / director, Editorial Engineering Laboratory [Japan] Koen Yanagiya / rakugo storyteller [Japan] Shigeo Fukuda / graphic designer [Japan] Seymour Chwast / graphic designer [USA] Omar Vulpinari / head of visual communication design at Fabrica [Italy] Naohiro Ukawa / video director, graphic designer [Japan] Seiko Ito / writer, creator [Japan] Gento Matsumoto / graphic designer, art director [Japan] Nagi Noda / art director [Japan] Tatsuhiko Akashi / president at Medicom Toy Corporation [Japan] * Parallel Sessions "Sustainability" Karen Blincoe / designer, sustainability specialist [Denmark] Amrik Kalsi / United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Niclas Svenningsen / United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Jonathan Barnbrook / graphic designer [UK] Shigeo Goto / editor, creative director [Japan] * Parallel Sessions "Education" Mitsuo Katsui / graphic designer [Japan] Kirti Trivedi / professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay [India] Ahn Sang-Soo / typographer [South Korea] Karen Blincoe / designer, sustainability specialist [Denmark] Thomas Ockerse / Rhode Island School of Design [USA] Cho Hae-joang / sociologist [South Korea] Kim Nam-i / student of design studio, Haja Center [South Korea] * Parallel Sessions "Identity" R.K. Joshi / typographer, calligrapher [India] Esther Liu / graphic designer [Hong Kong] Katsumi Asaba / graphic designer, art director [Japan] Tatsuo Nishida / linguist, professor emeritus at Kyoto University [Japan] Lee Se-Young / graphic designer [South Korea] Apex Lin / graphic designer [Taiwan] Freeman Lau / graphic designer [Hong Kong] Praseuth Banchongphakdy / graphic designer [Laos] Irvan A. Noe'man / graphic designer [Indonesia] Theresa Yong / graphic designer [Singapore] Siam Attariya / graphic designer [Thailand] Pham Huyen Kieu / graphic designer [Vietnam] Kang Tai-Keung / graphic designer [Hong Kong] William Harald-Wong / graphic designer [Malaysia] Sudhir Sharma / graphic desginer [India] Motoo Nakanishi / design consultant [Japan] Hang Jian / professor at Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University [China] Guo Cheng Hui / graphic desginer [China] Zhang Xiao Ping / design consultant [China] Shao Longtu / graphic designer [China] Wang Chao Ying / chief representative of PAOS China area [China] * Icograda "Design for the World" Robert L. Peters Kenji Ekuan Speakers confirmed as of October 3.