About The Speaker

Shilpi Kumar, founder of Khoj Lab, a global innovation consultancy based in Chicago, USA. Her mission is to help business leaders discover new growth opportunities and optimize the process to implement innovation strategies to scale their organizations.

She brings 15+ years of professional experience working as a Futurist, Design Strategist, Lead User Experience Researcher, Industrial Designer, Architect, and Design Educator in organizations namely General Electric and Herman Miller. Over the last year, she has built a global team of multi-cultural, multi-lingual women who interact with clients in six different languages- English, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and Spanish.

Her expertise lies in being a great liaison between design and business thinking while engaging her clients in design-led methods and frameworks to further enhance the value of their businesses. Shilpi has a Masters of Design Methods from the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech Chicago with a focus on Innovation/Design Research/Strategy, a Masters of Design from the Industrial Design Center at IIT Bombay, India, and professional BArch from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India.