Design Trinity
One of CII’s key design initiatives has been “CII NID Design Summit”, India’s premier and largest design event for last 13 years. The Summit has been bringing on one platform the best of the Indian and International design thinkers, design policy makers, designers, design educators and design users for sharing and learning from each other. Details about the earlier summits are available onwww.ciidesign.in.

The theme of the 14th CII NID Design Summit is “Design Trinity”. In today’s interconnected and complex world, it is the trinity of business, technology and design that is essential for companies and societies to achieve new products, new services and new businesses.

The 14th CII NID Design Summit is scheduled for 20-22 Nov 2014 at India Expo Centre, Greater NOIDA, Delhi NCR. The annual CII Design Excellence Awards would also be given at the Summit like previous years. It is planned to release the 3rd edition of India Design Reportand first–ever India Design Year Book (published by Penguin India) at the Summit.

The 14th CII NID Design Summit this year will be hosted as part of the flagship event Knowledgexpo 2014. The design community has been expressing the need to bring industry and Government stakeholders on the Design Platform. The Knowledgexpo 2014 is a response to this.

The Knowledgexpo 2014 will be converging initiatives in the areas of Technology, R&D, Higher Education, IPR, Design, Innovation & Entrepreneurship under one platform – a single mega global event during 18-22 November, 2014 at India Expo Centre, Greater Noida, Delhi NCR.  The 12,000 square meters Knowledgexpo 2014 spread across 5 days, will showcase the world’s best futuristic technologies in manufacturing technology, life sciences and biotechnology, renewable energy, sustainable urbanization, IT, robotics and animation and security technology and many more innovative products and services. The 5 concurrent global summits like the Technology summit, the IPR summit, Higher Education summit and Design summit will bring together some of the industry’s most knowledgeable, most influential and most thoughtful people to delve into many important topics, issues and trends.