With great excitement, IDC 2022 returned to its much-loved in person format after two years of completely remote events! And while digital forms of communication and collaboration have come along in recent years, there’s no match for the culture and vibrancy that only happens when we share a physical space. Our profession, the act of industrial designing, is inherently highly tactile, so it’s only natural that designers gathering to exchange ideas, support one another, and build community has become such an enduring hallmark of our organization. 

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IDC 2022 was also unique in that it was the first event of this scale where much of the on-stage content was simultaneously livestreamed to a virtual audience. We first experimented with this format for the Women in Design Deep Dive in March; but for IDC, we took it to a new level, thanks to our onsite audio-visual team who created a high-quality, multi-camera broadcast. Hybrid events increase accessibility to IDSA programming for those who were not able to join us in person, and our Academic Group Watch Party tickets allowed groups of students and educators to gather in a single location to watch together.

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No matter how you joined us, we were elated to welcome hundreds of designers in our global community for three very special days of inspiration and fellowship. There is nothing quite like the experience of uniting with friends old and new to celebrate the power of creativity and reconnect over our shared passions for creating a better world through design.