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17-25 October 2026

Keynote lecture Sean Carney

Designing with purpose

Hosted by Dutch Design Foundation Ambassador

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

In his keynote for Dutch Design Week, Sean makes a call to arms: with the world facing some of the toughest healthcare challenges of our lifetime, designers can and must step up and design with purpose.
As the Chief Design Officer (CDO) of Philips, Sean deeply believes that radical empathy is the birthplace of design thinking. He’s responsible for the overarching creative and design thought leadership at Philips and leads a team of over 600 designers acr

About Dutch Design Foundation Ambassador

Sean is honoured to be one of the official Dutch Design Week 2020 ambassadors. He realizes that we need to bring the best and brightest minds together in multidisciplinary approach to redesign the future of healthcare. He believes we can harness the power of experience design in making healthcare more accessible and sustainable, with an emphasis on truly caring for people.