Touching the design community in an appropriate manner

For this being the first year of the Big (D)esign Conference we have had an outstanding response–actually we have had an outstanding response no matter how long the conference has been running. Throughout the planning and organization of Big (D)esign our goal has been to help bring the design community together. To illustrate just how many companies and organizations will be represented at the conference through the trade show, sponsorships, as speakers, and as attendees we have compiled this list. This is by no means a definitive list – we have a lot of people coming and I got tired of sorting through email addresses. Let us know in the comments if we missed you and we’ll update the list and will be sharing statistics after May 30th about the entire conference. Without further ado: