Speakers Confirmed for IFA's 9th Global Conference in Montreal

published May 10, 2008
Speakers Confirmed for IFAs 9th Global Conference in Montreal
The organisers have confirmed almost all key note speakers to IFA's 9th Global Conference on Ageing next September.

For instance the first plenary panel of the conference, on the morning of September 5, titled The New Paradigm - Ageing and Design, will bring together Dr. Chris Luebkeman and Ms Valerie Fletcher, in addition to Mr. Gordon Lishman, Director General of Age Concern in England.

Dr Luebkeman is director and leader of Arup's global Foresight & Innovation, a global design and business consulting firm.

Based in London, UK, he is currently working with some of the world's leading corporations to develop scenarios to better understand the opportunities that change is creating in the built environment.

Ms Fletcher is Executive Director of the Institute for Human Centered Design in Boston, Massachusetts (formerly Adaptive Environments).

The Institute's mission is to advance the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities.

Valerie is currently overseeing projects ranging from universal design, at the urban scale, in public transit, mixed use development, and residential and school design.