Join us for two days of events with Saloni Bedi, Maggie Snoke, and Clotilde Grimault from Loft as part of the Eastman Innovation Series! On Monday, Feb 17, they’ll share their career paths and experiences in the field of industrial design. Then, on Tuesday, Feb 18, join us for an AI workshop over lunch (pizza provided!) where they will showcase how these tools are used in the design process. 

About the Speakers:

Saloni Bedi:
As an industrial designer, Saloni is passionate about bringing together design, engineering, and business to tackle some of the most pressing challenges around us. She has worked in a variety of fields, including social innovation, healthcare, sustainable product development, and consumer products. Currently serving as an industrial designer at Loft and as the Chapter Chair for IDSA Boston, Saloni got her master’s degree at MIT's Integrated Design and Management program where she saw how the design process can be a key component to bring state-of-the-art solutions can to life. Her work at MIT ranged from conducting user research in zero gravity to make space more inclusive at the Media Lab, developing accessible pregnancy tests for people with vision impairments, and measuring the body's hydration levels at the Gray lab, IMES. Saloni's current goal is to seamlessly integrate emerging tools into product development workflows, utilizing her strengths at key points in the design process to enhance the journey from concept to reality. 

Maggie Snoke:
With varied experience in industrial design, innovation, apparel design and fine arts, Maggie Snoke brings a multidisciplinary approach to her design career. She studied Industrial Design at North Carolina State University, then was part of the Under Armour innovation team following college, where she pushed the boundaries of performance apparel for athletes. She is currently working as a Senior Industrial Designer at Loft Design in Providence, RI, exploring wide ranging product design and emerging tech.

Clotilde Grimault
Clotilde’s favorite creative pursuits are building a solid project plan and coordinating the team to deliver beyond a client’s expectations. Specializing in Mechanical Engineering, Data Science and UX strategy, she approaches product design with a focus on technology, user centricity and business opportunities. From data analytics to Agile mobile development, she offers a wide area of expertise as an architect of digital transformation. Before Loft, Clotilde spent 12 years working for Philips in the Netherlands. Prior to that she was at Accenture Interactive and Agusta Aerospace Corporation. If she is not traveling the world, you might find her in her garden outside of Raleigh, NC, or baking with her two children. Clotilde’s next level skill ... making sense of complex technical workflows and using Design Thinking to simplify them.