Future House Awards 2022
Global Design News is proud to present Mauro Porcini as Head of the Jury for Future House Awards 2022. Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s first-ever Chief Design Officer and one of “2020’s Top 25 Most Influential Innovators” as named by InnoLead (Boston).
Prior to joining PepsiCo, Mauro served as the first-ever Chief Design Officer at 3M, where his mission was to build and nurture a design-sensitive culture in a technology driven global corporation. His teams, based in the U.S., Italy, China and Japan, won many of the world’s most prestigious design and innovation awards.
Mauro began his professional career at Philips Design and then created his own design firm, Wisemad Srl, in Italy with the celebrated entertainment producer and music star Claudio Cecchetto. His work on wearable technologies has been showcased at the Louvre in Paris as well as the Seoul Art Center.
Mauro is the host of his own successful video podcast “In your shoes – with Mauro Porcini” on Apple podcast, Spotify, and YouTube, where he interviews inspiring personalities from the creative community worldwide.
Since 2020, he is a presenter and judge on the TV show “New York by Design” and “America by Design”, airing on CBS and Amazon Prime Video.
In 2021 his first book was published, in Italian: “L’età dell’eccellenza – Come innovazione e creatività possono costruire un mondo migliore” (Il Saggiatore). His first book in English, “The Human Side of Innovation. The Power of People in Love with People” (Berrett-Koehler), focusing on innovation, design and leadership, is planned to be launched in October 2022.
Over the years he has been on the board of directors for several organizations.
Currently, he is the President of the Politecnico of Milan Foundation in the United States (Fellows of Politecnico), sits on the board of directors of the Design Management Institute of Boston, and on the advisory council of other design, art, innovation, and business institutions.
In his professional career, Mauro has been granted 47 patents on his name.
Mauro’s work has been featured in several books on design and innovation in multiple regions of the world.
Amongst others: “Creative Confidence” (by Tom Kelley and David Kelley), “Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads – On Design Thinking” (HBR), “Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads – The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from HBR – 2017” (HBR), Jugaad Innovation (by Simon Ahuja, Navi Radjou, Jaydeep Prabhu), “Il Minimo Sostenibile” (by Gino Finizio) and “Vincere con le idee” (by Enzo Baglieri, Gabriella Lojacono).
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