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Brandcenter Friday Forum

February 21, 2020
Speaker: Alain Sylvain, Founder & CEO, Sylvain Labs
Topic: "The Power of Polyculture: How Innovation Can Learn from Irish Lumper
Potatoes and Cavendish"

Alain is the Founder and CEO of Sylvain Labs, a strategy and design consultancy that helps companies seize the reality and potential of their business, products and brands. Clients include Google, American Express, Airbnb, Spotify, BlackRock, Samsung, Pepsico, Diageo, Hilton, AB InBev, IKEA, GM, Sonos, the NBA and others. Founded in 2010, the company is headquartered in NYC, with offices in Amsterdam and Richmond, VA, and is a Certified B-Corporation.


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