Meet Catapulters, our clients, or hear about our methods and project work at any of these upcoming events:
Every first and third Wednesday, Open Studio Hours
Catapult Design Open Studio, 4-6pm, every first and third Wednesday of the month. Have a question about Catapult, want to see the wind turbine, or are you working on a cool project that we’d be interested in? Stop by our studio during Open Studio hours, every first and third Wednesday at 972 Mission St. in San Francisco!
January 25, 2012
We’re attending the meet & greet sponsored by the new Navajo Chamber of Commerce in Window Rock, AZ. Join local entrepreneurs and representatives from government at the Navajo Nation Museum to kick off this historic launch for the Navajo Nation.
January 25 – February 25, 2012
Our Lead Designer, Noel Wilson, will be conducting field work in Rajasthan, India and looking for cool orgs to visit. Drop us a line if you have time to meet up with Catapult!
January 27th – February 2nd, 2012
We’ll be participating in Pepal’s Innovation in India series in Hyderabad, India. The program partners international executives with Indian business partners and community/NGO leaders to develop business models at the Base of the Pyramid.
February 7-11, 2012
Our CEO, Heather Fleming, will be on-site in Nairobi, Kenya for Pop!Tech’s Climate Resilience Lab. Let us know if you’ll be in the area!
March 1, 2012
We’ll be running a design workshop at the Robert H. Smith 4th Annual Social Enterprise Symposium at the University of Maryland. Register to join us at this event.
March 22 – 24, 2012
Join us at the Engineers Without Borders 2012 International Conference in Las Vegas! We’ll be there to join the discussion with ASME’s Engineering for Global Development committee.
April 14-18, 2012
We’ll be down in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico for the 2012 World Economic Forum on Latin America.
Past Events
To get a picture of the type of topics we cover, take a look at a few of our past engagements:
Cusp Conference, 2011, “7 Myths of Design for the Base of the Pyramid”
World Economic Forum, 2011, New Solutions: Poverty and Social Inclusion
IDSA Design Impact, 2011, Is Social Design Good Business?
New Mexico State University, 2011, Innovation for a Developing World
Unite for Sight Global Health & Innovation, 2011, Good Products, Bad Implementation
Conversations in Design, 2011, Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community
Compostmodern, 2011, Democratizing Design
TEDxBay Area, 2010, Designing Paths Out of Poverty
Engineers Without Borders West Coast Workshops 2010, Cross-Cultural Communication
Global Engagement Summit 2010, Design for the Developing World
Engineering for the Developing World Summit 2010, Engaging the Engineering Community
Sustainable Business & Social Impact 2010, Designing and Engineering Social Impact
TEDxSoMA 2010, The Human Factor: the designers approach to societal change
University of the Pacific 2010 , Social Entrepreneurship
IEEE’s Humanitarian Technology Challenge 2009, Funding Strategies for New Products
SD Forum 2009, Women and Technology in Developing Nations
Influx Curated 2009, Design and Behavioral Change
Pop!Tech 2008, Catapult Design
Net Impact’s Footprints 2009, Social Entrepreneurship
EWB – USA National Conference 2008, Design Thinking for Development Work
