Why Designers must lead the sustainability transformation

Stephan Clambaneva is the Managing Director of PARK. He is a sustainable design & circular innovation leader with global experience in business transformation, design innovation management, and holistic closed looped systems thinking for sustainable end-to-end product development. A creative polymath driving the triple bottom line by design and design driven innovation.

A thinker and a doer, prior to joining PARK, Stephan has 20 years of experience working in numerous global roles for tech giant IBM and global enterprise software leader Dassault Systemes leading product design and innovation project for clients around the world. 

Besides being a global design and utility patent holder, Stephan has an active keynote and public speaking schedule around the world at conferences most recently at22, Great Wave Athens Hub, the Sustainability Forum, Milan Salone, Paris Design Week, New York Fashion Week, Denver Design Week, SxSW, New York Design Week NYCxDesign Festival every year, DMI Design Leadership Conference 2018, 2024, IDC, and the Innovation Summit, and many others evangelizing on the strategic value of circular design principles, industrial design and innovation. He has published multiple papers on Creative Business Leadership, Augmented Reality, Mobility, Design Thinking

Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands and Germany, now operating from the UK and the US, PARK builds and scales design and innovation capabilities for organizations and people that want to create a better tomorrow. Since its foundation 25 years ago, PARK has established itself as a global thought leader in the fields of Design Management and Design Leadership, partnering with over 300 distinct clients across the globe including Mars, Airbus, GSK, DATEV, and Unilever. Through the PARK Academy (previously known as Grow), PARK has now educated more than 2500+ students worldwide, established internal design academies for clients including LEGO, GSK, Unilever, 3M, Accenture, Cisco, Honda, Sony, Hasbro, Kimberly-Clark, Newell Brands, Roche, Samsonite, Staples, Johnson & Johnson, Indeed Innovation,