Ian Chalmers is a design entrepreneur and principal of Pivot Design Group, an experience and systems design agency in Toronto. He’s also the driving force behind DesignMeets, an event platform that promotes the sharing of information, ideas, and different points of view on critical design topics, and a founder of ARCTRN Group, an experimental initiative exploring the process of uncovering human stories and insights in data.    
 
With more than 25+ years of design and design research, Ian is acknowledged as a business leader, mentor, creative director, and solutions provider across Canada’s business landscape and in the academic community.
 
His recent project work has focused on the healthcare vertical, applying people-centric design solutions for researchers, scientists, physicians, and institutions. Through DesignMeets, he has explored the relationship between design and topics such as climate change, artificial intelligence, and the circular economy.

 
Ian is also a committed community member, serving on the board of Pencils for Kids, a charity that provides scholarships, farming programs, and sewing programs for young women in a small community in Nigér, West Africa. He’s a former member of the board of directors of the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and teaches a Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Design program at George Brown School of Design.
 
He is a Design & Visual Communications Program graduate at OCAD University.