Debbie is a frequent speaker on design and branding and has spoken at TED Women. Her talk was one of the Top Ten most popular talks of 2020, and currently has over two million views. She has also moderated Design Yatra in India, presented keynote lectures at Rotman School of Management, Princeton University, Yale University, Michigan Modern, the Hong Kong Design Association, the Melbourne Writers Festival, Design Thinkers in Toronto, the Festival of Art and Design in Barcelona, Brand Nieuwe Conference in Amsterdam, Webstock in New Zealand, QVED in Munich, Beyond Tellerand in Berlin, ING in Dubai, ND2C in Pakistan, PS One in China, Web Summit in Lisbon, Design Indaba in South Africa and many more.
Past Selected Conferences & Keynote Presentations
- Design Indaba, South Africa
- Web Summit, Lisbon
- Huiput Design Festival, Helsinki
- AIA Women’s Leadership Conference, Minneapolis
- National Digital Design Conference, Pakistan
- Visual Storytelling Festival, Romania
- 99U Conference, USA
- By Design Conference, Slovakia
- TypoBerlin, Germany
- ING Conference, Dubai
- Convergence: Texas Society of Architects, USA
- Masters of Business Conference, USA
- Segundo Festival, Guatemala
- Adobe Max, USA
- Hopscotch Design Festival, Raleigh, SC, USA
- Brand New Conference, Amsterdam
- Percolate Conference, USA
- Webstock, New Zealand
- Hong Kong Design Association
- NASA Jet Propulsion Lab
- Michigan Modern, USA
- SAG-AFTRA Foundation, USA
- QVED, Munich, Germany
- Festival of Art and Design, Barcelona, Spain
- Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
- Fast Company Innovation Festival, New York, USA
- Design Thinkers, Toronto, Canada
- Design Yatra, India
- AIGA Gain Conference Chair, USA
Selected Museum Lectures
- National Building Museum, Washington, DC
- Museum of Design, Atlanta, Georgia
- Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC
- Museum of Arts and Design, NYC
- Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
- Museum of Sydney, Australia
- SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
- Chicago Design Museum, Chicago, IL
- Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
- Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, FL
- National Museum of Serbia
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Select Corporate Talks (partial list)
- Adobe
- Amazon
- Automattic
- Bayer Corporation
- Campbell’s
- Carbone Smolan
- Georgia Pacific
- Hallmark Corporation
- Havas
- Heath Ceramics
- Hershey Corporation
- IBM
- Jet Propulsion Lab at CalTech
- MailChimp
- Maryland Institute College of Art
- Mattel
- McCann
- New York Times
- Pentagram
- Pepsico
- Salesforce
- Spotify
- SYPartners
- Unilever Corporation
- Wix
- Wunderman
Select Educational Talks (partial list)
- Art Center College of Design
- Austin Peay University
- Columbia University
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- Harvard University
- Indiana University
- Portfolio Center
- Princeton University
- School of Visual Arts
- SUNY Albany
- SUNY Purchase
- Trinity University
- Yale University