Designing a Sustainable Future | Nick de Leon, Joë Sangar & Soma Biro | GIFLondon 2025

Nick de Leon explores how design can become a powerful lever for building a more sustainable future, presenting a values-driven approach to innovation alongside emerging ventures from the Terra Carta Design Lab. Through real-world examples, the session demonstrates how designers, scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs can turn major environmental challenges into tangible solutions and viable businesses. From technologies that reduce fuel consumption in shipping to paper-based RFID tags, Nick shows why sustainability requires more than ambitious ideas — it demands purpose, collaboration, experimentation and a practical route to impact. Key Topics Explored: Values-Driven Innovation: Combining mission, design, purpose and values to guide meaningful innovation. Sustainable Design: Turning environmental challenges into tangible briefs, prototypes and new ventures. Human-First Technology: Harnessing technology to support human and planetary needs rather than allowing technology to dictate the solution. Emerging Solutions: Exploring innovations including more sustainable RFID tags and technologies designed to reduce shipping fuel consumption. From Idea to Impact: Bringing together design, science, engineering and entrepreneurship to turn promising concepts into viable businesses. Global Innovation Forum is one of the most respected global events on innovation, creativity, design and entrepreneurship. It gathers a limited number of professionals from some of the leading companies worldwide and provides a well-balanced mixture of presentations, discussions, workshops and interactive activities. The event is the perfect platform for pure knowledge sharing and establishing new important contacts with like-minded professionals. Full event info on http://www.giflondon.com