About the Conference

September 14-15, 2009

Full Conference prices have been reduced to only $99.  Keeping your competitive advantage just became an even better value!  If you are serious about education, the Full Conference package is just for you.  With Full Conference you can attend as many Single Conference Sessions for only $99.  Also, all Conference Sessions at HD Boutique 2009 are LU/CEU accredited.

HD Boutique's accredited conference program selects hospitality leaders and design luminaries from cutting-edge architecture, interior design, purchasing, and consulting firms, and across industry segments including restaurants, hotels, spas, and more.

Conference Schedule-at-a-glance
Conference Session Descriptions

HD Boutique “learning exclusives” include:

• Best of Boutique Winners Announced: Hospitality Design magazine is pleased to announce this year's Best of Boutique (BOB) Winners. Over 50 entries were received in categories ranging from lighting to outdoor furniture to flooring. This year's BOB judges were: Orit Kaufman, principal, NEMAWORKSHOP; Ray Chuang, designer, Rockwell Group; and Rafael Alvarez, principal, Alvarez-Brock Design. Each winner will be honored with an award to display at their booth at HD Boutique. All of the winning products will be showcased in the November issue of HD, as well as on hdmag.com. And the winners are:
  Gloster Furniture, Inc. (booth #C1833) – The Axis Armchair
  Maya Romanoff (booth #701) – Meditations
  MDC Wallcoverings (booth #1605) – tabrasa
   
• Radical Innovation in Hospitality: The Radical Innovation in Hospitality Award competition offers conference-goers the chance to select real-time the winner of this renowned global contest. The challenge is clear: designers worldwide create their vision of the future of hospitality design. The top two design teams (as selected by an independent jury) present their innovative projects at a special conference session at HD Boutique. The annual competition, sponsored by and founded by John Hardy, president and CEO, The John Hardy Group, and Michelle Finn, vice president, Hospitality Design Group, is open to hospitality brands, design and consulting professionals, and students. Hospitality experiences and/or projects built or un-built are eligible for entry.
  
  
• Wave of the Future: The hottest new design professionals will be feted at the Wave of the Future as next-generation visionaries, selected by HD editors, share their projects, insight, and energy through an interactive panel. Always a captivating session, the Wave of the Future offers exclusive access to the unconventional and disarming intellect of tomorrow’s top designers and owners.
  
  
• HD Boutique Keynote Conversation
  Jeffrey Beers in conversation with Michael Adams
  Integrating art and architecture
  Architect. Global tastemaker. Fulbright scholar. Jeffrey Beers, Founder and Principal of Jeffrey Beers International, has created some of hospitality’s most memorable spaces. From the Fontainebleau to China Grill to Ono to Saks Fifth Avenue, to the Dylan Hotel and Atlantis Dubai, his unique and notable projects are internationally acclaimed for extraordinary design and impressive success. Beers talks with Michael Adams, Editor-in-Chief of Hospitality Design magazine, about his immense creativity, his work with legends Dale Chihuly, Oscar Niemeyer, and I.M. Pei, and his affinity for the integration of art and architecture. 
  
   

• Pecha Kucha: Design Authenticity (HDBFS1) -FREE Session
  Tuesday, September 15
  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
  Catch this global phenom with a provocative edge.  If you are not acquainted with Pecha Kucha, now’s the time. Pecha Kucha, loosely translated, is Japanese for chit-chat.  It's the anti-Twitter.  It's a trademarked, live visual and verbal presentation style (www.pecha-kucha.org) in 190 cities globally to showcase innovative ideas from all realms.
  
  So here we go with Design Authenticity, a customized program featuring genuine experiences, products, projects, ideas, and expressions. Presenters are allowed 20 slides (PowerPoint format), each shown for 20 seconds, providing 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter.