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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

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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%.