PAST EVENTS
2008
February 27: Stanford Class on Extreme Affordability
February 28, Tattered Cover, Denver, Book Launch Event
February 29: Private Home Lecture
March 3: CSU Ft Collins, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
March 5: CU Boulder, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
March 7: Denver Eclectics Lecture Series
March 21: NCIIA Conference, Dallas, TX
March 23 - 24: Cornell University, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
March 25 - 26: RPI, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
March 27: Pratt Institute Green Week Keynote, NY
March 28: Pace University, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
April 1: University of Massachusetts, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
April 1: Mount Holyoke College, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
April 2: 2008 Hampshire College, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
April 3: Brown University, Out of Poverty Lecture Series
April 5: Harvard Business School & Harvard Kennedy School of Government: International Development Conference
April 7: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Classroom Visits
April 8: MIT/Harvard Medical School Event
April 9: Stanford Class on Extreme Affordability
April 11-12: Stanford Association for International Development “Water and Our World" Keynote
April 14: Books Inc. Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA
April 15: Belkin Corporation Lecture
April 18 - 19: MIT's Millennium Conference
April 22: Philadelphia Ethical Society Earth Day Event
May 1 – May 4: Fetzer Conference, Kalamazoo, MI
May 14, 2008: CalTech Lecture Series, CA
May 22 - 23: IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference, Chicago, IL
May 25 – June 1: “Il Monito del Giardino” Award Events, Florence, Italy
June 2 - 3: Sustainable Brands Conference, Monterrey, CA
June 5: Stanford Design Exposition
June 9: University of Western Ontario Convocation Speaker
June 11: CIGA Food For Thought Lecture Series
June 17: Ontario College of Art and Design Lecture Series
June 25: American Society for Engineering Education Conference
July 1 – 9: Judge for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup in Paris, France
July 10: Merritt Memorial Methodist Church Lecture Series
July 14 -16: Kickoff Keynote for MIT's IDDS Summit
July 17: National Wellness Conference, HOPE Award Ceremony
July 28 - 30: Scaling Technology Solutions for Rural Communities, Mexico City
August 1: Summer Design Institute, Design for the other 90% at the Walker Art Museum, MN
August 4: MIT's IDDS Summit
September 8-9 : MIT's IDDS Summit
September 11-12 : CUSP Conference
September 16 : City Club of Denver
September 25 : Community Action Partnership Conference on Poverty
October 4 : University of Western Ontario Homecoming
October 13-16 : Social Markets Conference, San Francisco, CA
October 19-23: Pop!Tech Conference, Lincolnville, ME
October 24 : "Bottom Up Approaches to Alleviating Poverty", Baylor University
November 7 : "The Providence Athenaeum" Providence, RI
November 7-9 : "A Better World By Design Conference", Brown University
November 12-13 : "Social Entrepreneurship in the Developing World", Santa Clara University
December 29 : "Global Gathering of Architecture and Design Students ", University of Colorado-Denver
2009
February 5 : Brigham Young University Lecture
February 25 : Stanford University Lecture
March 9-10 : MIT Lecture
April 1 : CU Boulder Lecture
April 7 : Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Atlanta, GA
April 8 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
April 24 : Global Social Venture Competition Keynote , Berkeley, CA
April 27 : Xavier University Lecture , Cincinnati, OH
May 20 : University of Manitoba , Winnipeg, Canada
Upcoming Events
To invite Paul Polak to speak at your event concerning issues of poverty alleviation, design and engineering, please send your request with schedule information to event@paulpolak.com
JULY 2009
July 10 , 2009
Visions Symposium at the Beyond Media Festival | more info »
Location: Florence, Italy
Description: Dr. Polak speaks on his vision for a global city .
July 11-19 , 2009
International Development Design Summit (IDDS) | more info »
Location: Kusami, Ghana
Description: Dr. Polak speaks about design for the other 90%.
