VIRTUAL Leading Edge: Creative Forerunners in Design, Architecture + Techno - COPY
Hear from Primo Orpilla (Principal and Co-Founder of Studio O+A), Everett Katigbak (Brand Creative Director, Athropic and Fractional Mathematician) and Gene Sandoval, AIA (Partner at ZGF) in conversation with Lisa Boquiren.
The panel will share their stories, discuss their professional path, and weigh in on the impact and influence of Filipino Americans in various creative communities. Held in celebration of Filipino American History Month, this event is presented in community partnership with UPAAA (University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America).
This event is held in celebration of Filipino American History Month, in community partnership with UPAAA (University of the Philippines Alumni Association in America).
Everett Katigbak has a track record of joining transformative companies at early stages and scaling their brands through unconventional approaches. He was among Facebook's earliest employees, co-founding the unauthorized Analog Research Lab—a rogue print studio that challenged corporate culture through guerrilla street art. As the company's Environmental Design Manager, he collaborated with Frank Gehry on Facebook's 1 million square foot Menlo Park campus, scaling company culture globally through physical spaces. As Pinterest's first Brand Creative Manager, he helped build their foundational creative strategy. At Stripe, he helped transform a payments startup into a multimedia publisher, producing the acclaimed documentary "We Are As Gods." As founding Creative Director at Anthropic, he's building the creative organization and brand strategy for how an AI company communicates with the world through his philosophy of "analog intelligence"—thinking with your hands to create authentic, human brands in an increasingly AI world.
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Primo Orpilla is the co-founder of Studio O+A, a multi-disciplinary San Francisco design firm recognized for pioneering new ideas about work and workplace. O+A’s groundbreaking projects for companies such as Slack, adidas, McDonald’s, Yelp, Microsoft, and Hyundai Motor Group have shown how design can transform the workplace into a catalyst for creativity and a driver of change. In addition to his firm’s commercial work, Primo has led a wide range of experimental initiatives—from pop-up installations to next generation office prototypes to new conceptual furniture design. During the pandemic, he guided his team in developing innovative space types for hybrid offices and the next generation of work, resulting in two widely shared digital downloadable guides, A Toolkit for the Times and The Eco Playbook. A frequent lecturer on design and the future of workplace, Primo speaks at schools and design conferences globally, inspiring the next generation of designers to draw on personal experience as their model for creating a better world.
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You might say ZGF design partner Gene Sandoval has an active imagination. From growing up around a family shipbuilding business to finding early inspiration in sci-fi, the creative spirit was instilled in him from a young age. Gene is grateful and proud to have his roots in Asia, where he nurtured a penchant for unconventional thinking and resourcefulness that he leverages today for designs that creatively balance human and environmental performance. Gene leads design teams for some of the firm’s most complex and ambitious projects, including an expansion at the Nike World Headquarter Campus and doubling the capacity of the beloved Portland International Airport.
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A seasoned strategist and design & architecture aficionada, Lisa Boquiren works with creative businesses on branding, marketing and communications. In her previous roles, as Director of Marketing at San Francisco Design Center, then at the legacy architecture and design firm EHDD, Lisa oversaw major rebranding initiatives. Lisa also produces and moderates convergent conversations presented at AIA San Francisco, AIA Los Angeles, and during San Francisco Design Week—including most recently, Stand Out: Storytelling at the Intersection of Brand & Business Strategy. For AIA SF, she has served as Chair, Communications Committee, and Editorial Advisor, Small Firms, Great Projects. Lisa serves on the Board of Directors of UPAAA and is a member of its Executive Committee.