 The purpose of the event was to create ideas on how design can contribute to America's competitiveness, sustainability and inclusiveness.Following the Roundtable on Design, he was selected to testify before the 103rd Congressional Committee on Science, Space and Technology as to the importance of design in commercialization of technologies and U.S. competitiveness.Hardy also participated in another government design initiative in 1993 as Chair of a National Endowment for the Arts' Design Program working group to propose a White House Council on Design.