Sabine is Principal Key Expert for Digital User Experience at Siemens Technology in Munich. She is passionate about exploring how technology impacts human behavior, businesses, and society.

She started her career as a user researcher and UX designer at multiple digital agencies and as a self-employed UX professional. After several years in the digital agency world, she joined the Institute of Information Management of the University of St.Gallen to research, teach, and consult on mobile business and business innovation, while pursuing her PhD on digital transformation strategies.

Nancy leads the Experience Consulting team at PwC Germany, since her design and innovation studio IXDS, with studios in Berlin and Munich, was acquired by PwC in 2020.

Her passion lies in sustainable product and service innovation, focused on systemic change and value creation, based on sustainable business models. She supports ESG transformation projects in organizations from the design & innovation perspective and is globally responsible for PwC’s “Sustainable Innovation” approach.

Additional focus areas of her work included the empowerment of innovation teams in design studios, as well as in design and innovation departments within organizations, and organizational development (New Work).

Pelin Celik is professor for Industrial Design at the HTW Berlin since 2017. Her research focuses on Holistic User Experience in Age and Technology as well as experimental and participative design processes.

Before being assigned to the HTW Berlin, she worked as a professor at the Hochschule für Kommunikation und Gestaltung in Ulm and as a visiting professor at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule in Halle. As a designer in international companies, she has received numerous awards for her work.

Lisa Gerkens is helping founders to make the right steps when building their ventures at Forward 31 by Porsche Digital.

She is a product development generalist, with a focus on driving decisions, getting teams unstuck and guiding them to figure out what their next steps should be and how to take them. Lisa is a true advocate for continuously testing both products and businesses and combining sales and product development.

In addition she doesn’t like long Bios.

Oliver Gerstheimer is the founder and design director of the digital co-innovation agency chilli mind in Kassel, Germany. Following the founding of his company in 2001 he worked intensively on a pragmatic business method and design process, focusing on how to co-create new digital services and interactive products in a meaningful and human centric way.

Together with the extensively awarded chilli mind team of multi-stack-designers and creative fore-thinkers Oliver works for international clients in more than 15 different industry areas including eMobility, agriculture, healthcare and pharma, media and entertainment, education, fintech, telecommunication, transportation or industrial automation 5.0.

With over 20 years of design practice Oliver is an enthusiastic and well-known evangelist for human-centered design (HCD). He gives regular talks and publicizes papers in international platforms for design and digital transformation.

After studying industrial design at the FH Darmstadt, Johannes Geyer started at B/S/H, Munich, his design activities in the field of household appliances for the Siemens brand. In addition to various product categories, he dealt with a variety of visionary innovation topics and organized, among others, the first Siemens Home Appliances Design Award with the participation of several design universities.

Currently Johannes Geyer is globally responsible for Design Laundry Care for the Siemens brand, with a particular focus on European and Asian markets. Together with his team he has won numerous international design awards for a wide variety of products.

Ole leads the Customer Experience Management team within the Technology and Innovation Board department at Deutsche Telekom. He started his career as a user experience designer and has since expanded his knowledge to include agile product development and new technologies such as AI and voice interfaces.

Ole and his team view customer experience from a holistic perspective. They focus on the context of each interaction within an end-to-end customer journey. Ole firmly believes that new ways of working are needed – and that there is a direct link between the employee experience and the customer experience.

Stephanie Hölzlwimmer works as Director Innovation and UX at BOSCH Connected Mobility Solutions. This is a still-young Bosch division with the purpose to shape the future of mobility with connected services.

Stephanie is responsible for building a user-centered innovation system by leveraging design thinking and UX/UI design approaches. Her mission is to empower innovation and product development teams to create fascinating user-driven digital services for B2B-customers and partners.

Stephanie became a human-centered design enthusiast – and a HPI d.school certified DT coach – as Head of Product Management at BOSCH Power Tools where she pioneered the application of user-centric collaborative working methods in international, interdisciplinary product development teams.

Tapani Jokinen is an industrial designer working at the intersection of circular economy, systems, foresight, and design. He looks back at more than 25 years of extensive design experience in various capacities and global locations. In his daily work Tapani helps teams and businesses to become more resilient by applying circular design principles in order to make their future business, products, and services more sustainable.

Besides his work as a design consultant at the Fraunhofer IZM, an applied research institute for systems and electronics, he is the founder of TJ Design, a creative consulting firm that fuses strategic innovation and design with sustainability business practices. He was Head of Design Portfolio and Strategy at Microsoft / Nokia, and the initial designer behind the iconic Nokia 3310.

Anja leads the User Experience and Design team at Siemens Healthineers. Together with her team, she is passionate about improving the efficiency of care teams, increasing patient satisfaction and humanizing medical care.

After graduating with degrees in communication design and information design, Anja began her user experience design career in consultancies before moving to the corporate sector. Ever since, she has been building in-house experience design teams, and is continuously working to increase the impact of user experience in healthcare.

She won several awards for her work as an experience designer, including the UX Design Award.

Amber Lundy is a Senior Designer at Amazon UX Lab, the advanced concept design team focused on R&D for products, services and devices of the future. Her upbringing spans countries and her training spans design spaces, starting in industrial design and computer mediated communications before branching into UX and transmedia art.

Over the years she has lead design and conception for products at startups and big tech giants such as Emotient Analytics, Raytheon Websense, Apple and Amazon. Today, her broad design practice has come together to focus on driving deep rooted change, unlocking new customer value and manifesting emergent experiences.

Rob has been a UX leader for 16 years. After his early beginnings in linguistics and communication as co-founder of the music-centric PR company basicpeople, he joined Nokia in 2005, where he learned everything about usability and customer-centricity from the ground up, and helped establish a solid user research practice.

In 2014 he moved on to SoundCloud, building the user research capability basically from scratch, and making an entire company more user focused by leveraging everyone’s “inner user researcher” and by establishing strong user models.

In 2017, Rob joined Zalando, where over the last 3 years he has transformed a small research team of four into a research and customer knowledge organization counting 30 professional user researchers, data analysts, business developers and engineers. His team helps to create truly individual and personalized customer experiences by combining traditional user research with analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches.

Laura is currently building the first UX/UI team for Henkel (dx) globally. She makes sure that the motivation behind building new products and user needs align. Her team creates meaningful digital products by combining user needs, business models and branding.

She worked for leading digital and branding agencies before diving deeper into the field of business and innovation. She has a passion for inventing products and insists on following new ideas. She worked for brands such as Daimler, Airbus, VW, BMW, Siemens, ERGO, Migros, SOS-Kinderdorf and DHL.

In her spare time she coaches startup founders on digital product strategy and UX, helps students enter the UX world by mentoring them and blogs about UX-related topics.

Judith Peeten is an experienced designer focused on designing in context while having the user, business and technology in mind. Challenged and inspired while working in a multi-disciplinary team and she is an expert on User Experience Design for Healthcare and Design Systems.

Since 2019 she is leading a team of UX Designers that design solutions for professional Healthcare and the Digital Design Language System of Philips. She strongly believes in learning by doing and guides people to trust and build on their own strengths.

As designer and managing director of Scholz & Volkmer, Peter Post is responsible for the area of Connected Products. Born in Frankfurt in 1969, he studied communication design at Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. In 1995 Peter Post moved to the Netherlands, where he founded and managed Interaction Design departments at various agencies. His clients included KPN Telecom, TNT Post, Randstad and Dutch Police.

In 2006 he joined Scholz & Volkmer as a Unit Director. In 2008 he became Managing Director and serves clients such as Deutsche Bahn, Mercedes Benz, Lufthansa and Riese & Müller. Peter Post teaches interaction design and user centered design. His work has received awards such as the red dot, the iF and the ADC, among others.

Tracy Rolling is Experience Director at Futurice in Berlin, one of the largest independent innovation consultancies in Europe. Tracy has long been focused on emerging technology, especially the IoT.

Tracy speaks on topics including how to stay human centric when working in emerging technology, the opportunities and dangers of automated systems, and how to escape the pathology of optimism that prevents us from designing new technologies in a way that is compatible with democracy and equity.

In the past, Tracy has worked at Philips, building mobile applications for connected consumer healthcare devices, and at Nokia where she built location-based services and worked on research projects in VR, AR, and Wearables.

Eija Salmi (FRSA) is a global connector and advocate for international higher education and research in art, design and media. She has been working as Secretary General for the Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges in Art, Design and Media since its founding in 1990.

Eija takes it as her responsibility to empower upcoming generations by encouraging students and their alma maters to collaborate and to play an impactful role in the face of our world’s needs – by creating the right balance between the planet, people and profit. Her background is in finance, art history and languages, her credo: Do not imagine, live Cumulus!

Werner Spicka has been Executive Director of the interdisciplinary Interaction Experience Unit since 2016.

His focus is based on constant confrontation with the rapidly changing challenges of interaction design and the transfer of strategies and ideas into feasible designs. His wide knowledge and cross-industry experience in design development, implementation and consulting help him and his team to create new and brand-defining interactive experiences.

He gives lectures on current UI design developments and methods in UI design and has been awarded prizes such as the "iF communication design award" and the "Good Design Award."

Björn Sorge has been a consultant, entrepreneur and thought leader in digital business for over 20 years. He describes himself as a "child of the New Economy" with countless digital projects and products to his credit.

He is passionate about embedding a consistent customer-centric strategy and vision in the sense of "USER FIRST" in businesses. Björn is also firmly convinced that a strong focus on experience design in digital products is becoming increasingly important and is developing into a key competitive advantage.

His personal motto: You do well what you enjoy! And this is what he tries to convey in his daily work with design teams. In his role as Vice President Experience Design, he is currently engaged in the digital transformation of ProSiebenSat1.

Katina Sostmann has been working as a service- and product designer in commercial and academic contexts for many years realizing projects for international clients with a strong focus on digital Healthcare.

At the same time, she teaches and researches at different Universities. Since 2018, she is leading the cluster for digital health and as an Executive Creative Director responsible for the topic of Service Design at the IBM iX Studio Berlin.

Markus Turber is fascinated by designing desirable, sustainable and intelligently connected solutions. He founded Intuity, a strategic design and innovation lab based in Stuttgart, Germany, in 2002. The interdisciplinary teams at Intuity combine design with technology, IT and science. They help their clients succeed in the digital world.

Intuity has received numerous national honors and international awards for its work, including the UN World Summit Award. The joint development of digital products with young start-ups is particularly close to Markus' heart.