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We are pleased to announce five new juries that have been confirmed for the competition. Distributed around the world (Sydney, New York, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Ahmedabad) the five teams listed below will be judging the following categories: packaging, service design, DIY/hack/mod, design for social impact and speculative objects/concepts. Stay tuned for further team announcements as they come to hand.

Visit our Entry section for full details.

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PACKAGING

Judging location: New York, USA

Mark Christou (Jury Captain)
Creative Director of Pearlfisher

Team Members:

Josh Handy
Vice President of Industrial Design at Method Products

Marianne Klimchuk
Chairperson of the Packaging Design Department at FIT

Melanie Wiesenthal
Director of Creative 3D at Victoria's Secret

Joe Marianek
Associate Partner at Pentagram

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SERVICE DESIGN

Judging location: Sydney, Australia

Fran Samalionis (Jury Captain)
Innovation Coach for BT Financial Group

Team Members:

Ian McDonald
Founder of Amnesia

Craig Davis
Chief Creative Officer and Chairman of Publicis MOJO

Damian Kernahan
Founding Partner, Proto Partners

Oliver Weidlich
Director of Design & Innovation at Mobile Experience

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DIY / HACK / MOD

Judging location: San Francisco, USA

Eric Wilhelm (Jury Co-Captain)
CEO of Instructables and Co-founding Partner of Squid Labs

Christy Canida (Jury Co-Captain)
Community & Marketing Director of Instructables

Team Members:

Jeffrey McGrew
Principal, Because We Can, Design-Build Studio

Simone Davalos
Co-Producer of Combots and Robogames

Natalie Zee Drieu
Editor-In-Chief, Craftzine.com

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DESIGN FOR SOCIAL IMPACT

Judging location: Ahmedabad, India

Ashoke Chatterjee (Jury Captain)
Development volunteer and Former Director of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

Team Members:

H. Kumar Vyas
Chairman, Education Council at Maharashtra Institute of Technology Institute of Design

Suchitra Sheth
Associate Professor, Arts & Humanities at CEPT University

Anil Gupta
Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation and founder of the global Honey Bee Network

Vikram Parmar
Associate Professor and Joint Director at Ahmedabad University

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SPECULATIVE OBJECTS / CONCEPTS

Judging location: Palo Alto, USA

Branko Lukic (Jury Captain)
Designer, Author, Founder of NONOBJECT Design & Innovation Studio

Team Members:

Banny Banerjee
Associate Professor at d.school, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University

James Auger
Tutor at Department of Design Interactions, Royal College of Art and Partner of Auger-Loizeau

Dominika Nell Applova
Head of User Experience at Cisco and Co-founder & COO at Blue Green Pacific Inc.

Steve Takayama
Founding Member and Partner at NONOBJECT

Nebojsa Rogic
Digital artist