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).

After studying industrial design at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Max Eicher worked independently for several years, focusing on furniture, children's toys and trade fair design, before entering the world of household appliances at B/S/H almost 20 years ago.

Since then, he has dedicated himself to the design of large household appliances. His primary focus lies in the development of innovative product concepts including all of their user layers. In recent years, he has focused on refrigerators and freezers and the diverse and globally diverse user requirements for modern home appliances.

During his work at B/S/H, Max Eicher also supervises cooperation projects with universities. Together with his team, he won numerous design awards for his company.

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.

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.

Tae Young Kang is a Director of Customer Experience and a Product Lead at Deutsche Telekom who holds around 20 years of experience in UX and service design. Currently, he focuses on streamlining and digitizing Deutsche Telekom's customer-centric innovation process, leading a team to implement a corporate-wide collaboration platform that accelerates idea collection, target customer validation, and data-driven concept prioritization.

Previously, he worked at Samsung Electronics for over 15 years, where he cultivated extensive hands-on experience in the end-to-end product innovation process – leading diverse projects from new product development to production model enhancement and shipping to global audiences, including the Galaxy Smartphone series.

Tae Young studied Service Design (M.A.) at the Royal College of Art in London and Visual Communication Design (B.A.) at HongiK University in Seoul.

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.

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.