Network Intelligence: The power of networking and collaborating, from design entrepreneurs who've made it

How important has networking been to designer Will Butler-Adams, CEO of Brompton Bicycles?

How has collaborating impacted the career trajectory of entrepreneur and KITE founder Asad Hamir? Or industrial designer Benjamin Hubert – founder of Nolii?

Find out at ‘Network Intelligence’ – the BORN Conversation, in association with the Evening Standard, which will take place on October 4.

Hosted by Evening Standard digital features director Amira Hashish, the panel – comprising Butler-Adams, Hamir and Hubert – will explore how networking and collaborations have helped steer these renowned innovators towards worldwide success.

Including an audience Q&A, and a networking session after the talk, ‘Network Intelligence’ forms part of a series of talks taking place that day, ahead of the BORN Global Awards that night.

What is BORN?

BORN.com is a leading network of creators. The world’s largest digital ‘trade fair’, it offers up-and-coming designers both a platform and an audience; a stage on which to present their ideas to the world.

BORN is a community of talented, passionate and creative individuals. Little wonder then, that eight years ago, BORN founder Jean-Christophe Chopin thought it high time BORN hosted a Global Awards – a competition to celebrate ‘creativity in design lifestyle combining functionality and desirability’.

Sponsored by Land Rover, each year the awards centre on a different theme, and this year, it’s ‘peerless design’: creations so inventive, so pioneering, so perfect, they are unrivalled.

To enter designs have to fit into one of seven categories – technology, sports, architecture, home interiors, food, mobility and fashion – and they have to exist in tangible form. Beyond that, not even the sky – or outer space – is the limit.

Regional awards were hosted earlier this year in participating countries – the UK, the US, Spain, France, Italy and ‘The Rest of the World’ – and regional winners chosen for each of the seven categories.

On October 4, they go head-to-head against one another to see who will be crowned the overall category winner at the BORN Global Awards Ceremony.

But with Deyan Sudjic of the Design Museum, Nicole Junkermann of NJF Capital, Michelle Ogundehin (design editor and TV presenter), Gerry McGovern of Land Rover, Annalise Fard of Harrods, and Chopin himself on the judging panel, it’s a formidable crowd to impress. A hotly contested competition it is absolutely set to be.

What the judges are looking for are designs that inspire, challenge and resonate. So what better place to announce the winners who have achieved this, than in a London landmark which is, itself, all those things.

“When considering where to host the BORN Awards for 2018, I wanted to find a location which embodied our ethos of community, design and creativity,” BORN Awards founder Chopin explains. “The Design Museum ticked all those boxes, and more, and will provide a fantastic stage for all those involved in the awards for 2018.”

It’s sure to be an awe-inspiring and exhilarating day. Make sure you’re part of it.

Claim your FREE ticket to ‘BORN Conversations, Network Intelligence’ at the Design Museum on October 4, 2018 by clicking here.