Hamburg & Malmö 2015

Helena Henneken

Helena Henneken

Coaching, concepts,stories

Helena works as a freelance creative coach, communication consultant and writer. Her ultimate source of inspiration in everything she does: Encounters. Snapshots. Discoveries. Ordinary and exceptional ones. At home and throughout the world. That's he

David Einsiedler

David Einsiedler

Founder & CEO, PLY Unestablished Furniture

PLY is a Hamburg Interior Studio for furniture, light and interior design in the heart of Altona/Ottensen. The showroom plyground in Hohenesch 68 is located in a former fish smoke house and displays prewar vintage originals along with modern classics

Andreas Lundberg

Andreas Lundberg

Konceptmanager STUDIO Malmö Studio Malmö @studiomalmo @alatskanska Studio Malmö on Andreas Lundberg

He lives on the countryside outside of Malmoe but with a passion for urban development.

Franziska Luh

Franziska Luh

Innovation Strategist @trialandanswers Franziska has worked in Hamburg as a business and brand strat

After graduating from the University of Applied Science Pforzheim with a Diploma in business, marketing and communications, Franziska Luh launched her career in strategic planning at the agency Philipp und Keuntje in Hamburg. Her clients included Jäg

Martin Kleppe

Martin Kleppe

Head of Development Ubilabs Session: Robots Dance Ubilabs aem1k Martin is involved in several tech-r

His company develops applications based on the Google Maps API for an international client base. He is famous for hacking artsy code that bends the limits of programming. Martin is an active speaker at conferences and loves to share the latest insigh

Arne Kittler

Arne Kittler

Director Mobile @arnekittler @producttankHH Arne works as Director of Mobile Product at , the leadin

Currently his role includes guiding the company's shift to a distributed mobile product development. Arne is co-organizer of Product Tank Hamburg, a networking event for local product people and has been playing bass in Hamburg bands Jullander and Pa

Inga Wellmann

Inga Wellmann

Head of Department Arts and Creative Industries Ministry of Culture, Hamburg

Christophe Stoll

Christophe Stoll

Co-founder & Designer precious design studio @preciousforever Christophe founded precious design stu

precious helps innovators shape meaningful products and services that people love to interact with. Before that, he worked at some design agencies, ran a record label and released his own electronic music. He loves his two kids and their mother more

Carsten Buck

Carsten Buck

Founder and CEO, Mutter

Personal @BuckCarsten Carsten trained as a graphic designer, long before the advent of computers. He worked his way up from his dream agency, Ogilvy & Mather, in the 1980s, joined one of Germany's first creative agencies, Scholz & Friends, worked at

Steffan Heuer

Steffan Heuer

US Correspondent for brand eins, co-author of Fake it - Your Guide to Digital Self Defense

brand eins Digital Self Defense @sheuer Steffan Heuer has been covering technology and innovation at the messy intersection of economics, culture, and social change for almost two decades, racking up about 80,000 air miles a year. He is the U.S. Corr

Andreas Hedin

Andreas Hedin

Head of Design Tactel AB

Harald Neidhardt

Harald Neidhardt

Curator & CEO, MLOVE MLOVE @hneidhardt Harald is passionate about the Future of Mobility, Smart Citi

He created the MLOVE ConFestival and M Forum as an inspiring global event series that brings together thought leaders and startups in a interactive format. Harald is a Co-Founder of Smaato – a pioneering mobile advertising company headquartered in Sa

Jens Wille

Jens Wille

Co-Founder & CEO Ubilabs Ubilabs Jens is Managing Partner of Ubilabs GmbH, a company developing inte

Ubilabs is Google GEO Enterprise Partner since 2011. With their projects Ubilabs are also represented at art festivals and industry platforms such as transmediale Berlin, Hamburger Architektursommer or CEBIT Hannover. Jens is a frequent speaker at na

Susanne Harnisch

Susanne Harnisch

Filmmaker Pikofilm @pikofilm @zwzora

Jeremy Abbett

Jeremy Abbett

Creative Evangelist Google Germany @jeremytai Jeremy is an American designer, entrepreneur, tinkerer

Voted as one of the 100 most influential people in the European digital industry, his mission is to elevate creativity in all its forms through inspiration, collaboration and creation

Martin Thörnkvist

Martin Thörnkvist

Director The Conference by Media Evolution @thornkvist Martin is working in the borderland between c

He loves to explore what happens when content and design of all kinds are combined with new technological opportunities. Martin's background is in music. In the beginning of the century he ran music clubs and festivals and founded a music label. Toge

Simon Semrau

Simon Semrau

Head of Client and Label Care Finetunes When Simon realized that his musical talent didn't suffice a

For over six years he worked as a dispatcher, event engineer and FOH engineer at an events service, during which time he was responsible for various duties - from cleaning cables to production management of larger events - he did everything. Simon al

Sven Meyer

Sven Meyer

Musician & creator of Kymat

Kymat Elfenmaschine

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Hamburg 2016 & Malmö 2017

Anna Lafrentz

Anna Lafrentz

Art and Culture Mediation / Educational Programme ,Millerntor Gallery

She studied art history and art education and spent a year in Sweden (Lund). Since 2012 she is active at Viva con Agua de Sankt Pauli e.V. Together with the collective she organizes the social art, music and cultural festival "Millerntor Gallery". Th

Henning Weiß

Henning Weiß

Chief Development Officer, 25hours hotels 25hours must grow

Henning " the product developer" (born 1978) ensures that any new hotels, wherever they are in the world, still have the individuality and spirit that is expected from 25hours. The challenge of his job is to manage different interests of all particip

Alisa Türck

Alisa Türck

Managing Director, pilot Hamburg

@ alisatuerck Alisa Türck works for the independent agency group pilot. She started her professional career in 2000 as a consultant for the online agency add2 GmbH in Dusseldorf. In 2003 she joined pilot 1/0 in Hamburg working as a consultant in the

Arne Kittler

Arne Kittler

Director Mobile @arnekittler @producttankHH Arne works as Director of Mobile

Currently his role includes guiding the company's shift to a distributed mobile product development. Arne is co-organizer of Product Tank Hamburg, a networking event for local product people and has been playing bass in Hamburg bands Jullander and Pa

Petra Wille

Petra Wille

Product management expert & startup advisor

Loves the web, music and kitesurfing. @loomista 24 May 2016

Jon Karlsson

Jon Karlsson

UX Designer & UX Strategist , inuse Jon spends his days working with clients

By working in the borderlands between user needs and business goals Jon tries to ensure that both perspectives becomes the focus of his projects. Jon has degrees in both behavioral science and interaction design. For the past 12 years he's been worki

Pernilla Lavesson

Pernilla Lavesson

Community Manager, Media Evolution At Media Evolution Pernilla work close wi

She meets many people on daily basis and really enjoy to connect people with each other. mediaevolution.se 30 Aug 2016

Mitra Kassai

Mitra Kassai

CEO & Founder Le Beau Bureau- FIne Services for Cultural Workers

Session: Play Hamburg Songs Bingo. f acebook Le Beau Bureau delivers select management services for artists. Bands, musicians and other culture-related professionals benefit from Le Beau Bureau's excellent contacts, thought-through strategies and sma

Lars Hinrichs

Lars Hinrichs

Founder and CEO, Cinco Capital

Session: Experience the Future of Living. @larshinrichs Lars Hinrichs is Founder and CEO of Cinco Capital, a private equity fund that invests in European and American tech companies. In 2003 he founded , a highly successful business networking platfo

Yukiko E. Kobayashi

Yukiko E. Kobayashi

ImpactDOCK HAMBURG Yuki is passionate about tackling today's challenges by con

5 Aug 2016

Fridtjof Detzner

Fridtjof Detzner

Co-Founder Jimdo

Jimdo co-founder Fridtjof Detzner has a rare sort of idealism, even within the startup community. His drive extends beyond just making a great product, together with co-founders Christian Springub and Matthias Henze, Fridtjof is focused on building a

Florian Schimmer

Florian Schimmer

Art+Creative Director, hobby @FlorianSchimmer W ebsite hobby is an independe

We develop and deliver well-reflected and surprising solutions from strategy to execution for Brands, Agencies and Startups. We also design and lead co-creative processes for joint problem solving. Quite often that not only makes more sense – but is

Franziska Luh

Franziska Luh

Innovation Strategist @trialandanswers Franziska has worked in Hamburg as a

After graduating from the University of Applied Science Pforzheim with a Diploma in business, marketing and communications, Franziska Luh launched her career in strategic planning at the agency Philipp und Keuntje in Hamburg. Her clients included Jäg

Ole Keding

Ole Keding

Innovation Manager, pilot Hamburg

@olekeding Ole Keding is Innovation Manager for the independent agency group pilot and lecturer at University of Hamburg. He learned how disruption works at MTV and Warner Music at a time where video killed the radio star before it was killed by the

Martin Werner

Martin Werner

UX team lead for the ProJobs , Up until May 2016 Martin has worked as a crea

His key responsibility was the creative part in developing consumer-facing transactional platforms for national and international clients. With more than 15 years of knowledge in the agency environment, Martin moved on to , to gain new experiences an

Christin Hinrichs

Christin Hinrichs

API Partner Manager AG Refugees on Rails Christin is passionate about connec

In her she contributes as API Partner Manager to , the leading professional social network in the German speaking markets. She is also currently leading the Hamburg spin-off of Berlin based Refugees on Rails to connect refugees and Ruby on Rails deve

Stellan Colt

Stellan Colt

Concert & Event Manager at Slagthuset www.slagthus.se

Helena Henneken

Helena Henneken

Coaching, concepts,stories

Helena works as a freelance creative coach, communication consultant and writer. Her ultimate source of inspiration in everything she does: Encounters. Snapshots. Discoveries. Ordinary and exceptional ones. At home and throughout the world. That's he

Peter Bengtson

Peter Bengtson

CEO Slagthuset Malmö

30 Aug 2016

Ina Feistritzer

Ina Feistritzer

Chief Editor Next Conference Ina loves exploring how technological innovatio

She is a trained journalist with working experience in Germany as well as in New Zealand (Axel Springer, Fairfax) and has a background in cultural anthropology. For almost five years she has been working at the digital agency SinnerSchrader. As Chief

Christophe Stoll

Christophe Stoll

Co-founder & Designer precious design studio @preciousforever Christophe fou

precious helps innovators shape meaningful products and services that people love to interact with. Before that, he worked at some design agencies, ran a record label and released his own electronic music. He loves his two kids and their mother more

Tim Schurig

Tim Schurig

Head of Sales & Communications m indmatters @schurock Product Field: http://

As a Product Field practitioner and contributor from day one, he aims to constantly improve the user´s insights as well as the method itself. 21 Aug 2016

Stephanie Döring

Stephanie Döring

Head of tvino.de Head and face of tvino.de is the 1982-born sommelier Stepha

(Louis C. Jacob, Hamburg, Gordon Ramsay, London) By personally curated by its range of wines and sparkling wines from all over the world responded tvino.de always in close dialogue with its customers to meet their needs; this also includes the creati

Richard Arthursson

Richard Arthursson

He is also co-founder of the startup AddCreators that gives creative individuals the ability to help companies with creating posts for their social media, and get paid per post. Company Startup 30 Aug 2016

Ulrike Parson

Ulrike Parson

The company was founded in 2006 in Hamburg and is specialized in technical communication, knowledge management and technical consulting. Ulrike's areas of expertise are developer documentation and content strategy. 30 Aug 2016

Andreas Schnuerer

Andreas Schnuerer

Senior Sales & Marketing Manager, 25hours hotels Andreas "the bed seller" (b

He is responsible to transfer the corporate 25hours claim and proper hotel stories to all interested parties and guests. Education and previous employers: Steigenberger Hotel Osnabrück, ROBINSON Club Landskron AT, A-ROSA Resorts & Hideaways, Vitalho

Christoph Faschian

Christoph Faschian

Creative Director, hobby @CFaschian W ebsite hobby is an independent creativ

We develop and deliver well-reflected and surprising solutions from strategy to execution for Brands, Agencies and Startups. We also design and lead co-creative processes for joint problem solving. Quite often that not only makes more sense – but is

Martin Thörnkvist

Martin Thörnkvist

Director The Conference by Media Evolution @thornkvist Martin is working in

He loves to explore what happens when content and design of all kinds are combined with new technological opportunities. Martin's background is in music. In the beginning of the century he ran music clubs and festivals and founded a music label. Toge

The Creators of the Product Field

The Creators of the Product Field

http://productfield.com 17 May 2016

Ole Utikal

Ole Utikal

I'm working for the design and publishing industry for 10 years

From 2001-2010 i was internationally unknown as the streetartist 56K. See a selection of artworks on www.56k.de . 24 May 2016

Björn Lindén

Björn Lindén

Art Director at Oatly AB Creative who has been working at large adv

Joined OATLY (an oat drink alternative to milk) last year. At OATLY we are trying to create sometimes provocative and always disruptive communication. Oatly's sole purpose as a company is to make it easy for people to turn what they eat and drink int

Fanny Ericsson

Fanny Ericsson

Project- & Business Coordinator Fanny works as at the innovation platform Me

On daily basis she working with communication and coordinating projects and activities for their community. A community that wants to develop together in the age on digital transformation. She love to use her creative side to design new ways of conce

Jeanette Gostomski

Jeanette Gostomski

Scenografer and Architect of Space Do: Create Spatial Design, Installations

Rainer Klute

Rainer Klute

»Swedish« means a friendly, well-structured and functional design and co-working with his clients, too. In addition to that he loves to connect designers by organizing events such as the InDesign User Group Hamburg. His passion is to rise the appreci

Varelsen - Martin Ottosson, Kristofer Ström, Andreas Larsson

Varelsen - Martin Ottosson, Kristofer Ström, Andreas Larsson

Creators of moving images Varelsen, The Creature in English, is a small Malm

The studio consist of four individuals with a long background in arts, music and advertising. As a group, Varelsen has existed since 2008, but some of us met all the way back in 1997 while studying graphic design. Explaining Varelsen to an outsider i

Martin Müntzing

Martin Müntzing

Event organizer at by day, product geek by night

At Foo Café in Malmö Martin helps companies understand the power of meetups and knowledge sharing. He also runs the local ProductTank user group, driving discussions on product management, business strategies, analytics and more. When not working, yo

Kalle Magnusson

Kalle Magnusson

Designer and music label executive

Working and playing with new ideas within the fields of design, media and pop culture. Co-founded the experimental design bureau Studio Pop in January 2013. Studio Pop offers new-thinking design and art direction for modern clients. The main focus is

Hamburg 2018 & Malmö 2018

Kristina Bonitz

Kristina Bonitz

After starting off her career in trend research, where she analyzed global and local cultural behavioral shifts, she decided to put her thoughts into more concrete practice and became an innovation consultant. She strongly trusts in good teams and co

Michael Sillus

Michael Sillus

Emerging Technologies & Concepts, Head of Airbus ProtosSpace Hamburg Michael

He studied Business Administration with focus on Innovation and Technology Management in Lüneburg and partly Gothenburg. He started his career at Ericsson Telecommunications and a TrustCenter for Digital Signatures and is since 15 years now with Airb

Nina Hälker

Nina Hälker

Research associate CityScienceLab , HafenCity University Hamburg Board member

@citysciencelab @cities2connect Nina Hälker is a research associate at the CityScienceLab at HafenCity University Hamburg. The Lab, a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab , focuses on the impact of digitization on cities. Besides her research, Nina is

Karin Lidman Adseqård

Karin Lidman Adseqård

UX Designer, inuse Karin works as a UX designer, striving to create great wo

She is ever curious about peoples behaviour, especially when there is a chance to make them more environmentally friendly. 16 May 2018

Natalia Tomiyama

Natalia Tomiyama

Co-founder of a Hamburg-based tech startup, NÜWIEL

NÜWIEL develops electric transportation solutions for urban areas. Its first product is an electric cargo trailer for package delivery in last mile logistics. NÜWIEL was in the Top 10 qualified for the first IKEA Bootcamp in Älmhult with 1.200 worldw

Holger Prang

Holger Prang

@hlgrprng @citysciencelab Holger graduated with an engineering degree in media

Since 2013 he has been working in the Conscious City Lab at the Architecture Department of the Technical University of Berlin with Prof. Bunschoten. Since the beginning of 2017, he has been part of the CityScope team at CityScienceLab at the HafenCit

Filip Pedersen

Filip Pedersen

Teacher at Skanör Falstero Montessori School

I work as a teacher in Swedish and history, and both languages and history are two of my greatest interests in life. Before I became a teacher I worked as a tourist guide and in that line of work I realized that I wanted to continue to work both with

Stellan Colt

Stellan Colt

CEO and partner at Slagthuset

Slagthuset is one of Malmös coolest, oldest and bigest venues. 8000 square meters in the central of the city. We do concerts, corporate events, conferences, dinners and social meet ups. Owner of Radiospot - producing radio commercials for over 20 yea

Anna Oscarsson

Anna Oscarsson

COO at Topp design and Innovation

Topp has studios in Malmö, San Fransisco and Stockholm. They work with creating impact through design within areas such as AI, automobil, AR, IoT and emerging digital areas. Anna has a passion for creating an organisations and great designers that ca

Fanny Ericsson

Fanny Ericsson

Project- & Business Coordinator, Media Evolution Fanny work as at the innova

On daily basis she working with communication and coordinating projects and activities for their community. A community that wants to develop together in the age on digital transformation. She love to use her creative side to design new ways of conce

Nick Beholz

Nick Beholz

She loves Margaret Atwood novels, unconventional vegan food, and to interest people in political participation. Her projects include Save Democracy and Zweimeilenladen . 29 May 2018

Sascha Jacobi

Sascha Jacobi

Project Manager, Hamburg Marketing GmbH In his current position at Hamburg Mar

Sascha serves as a primary point of contact and professional adviser for Hamburg's brand communication as a location for innovation. He is responsible for the www.future.hamburg . The digital platform is the online point of contact to learn about the

Franziska Luh

Franziska Luh

Innovation Strategist & Entrepreneur @xo_projects Franziska has worked in Ha

Franziska launched her career in Hamburg's ad agency scene as a strategic planner to evolve from communication strategy, into brand strategy and finally business strategy and innovation. She co-founded her first innovation consultancy in 2012, a fin-

Niels Stehn

Niels Stehn

Creative Director, Peter Schmidt Group Niels is a designer with over 15 years

Together with his team he helps to create and redesign businesses, brands, products and services to form identities. He is fascinated by great ideas, outstanding concepts and visionary design that meets clients' needs in bringing businesses to life.

Dorit Mielke

Dorit Mielke

Head of User Experience, Cornelsen Dorit works as Head of UX at Cornelsen Ed

She and her team work within product teams throughout the whole development process, from problem identification to ideation over to production. Her previous experiences include positions at as Design Team Lead Mobile and at Nokia/HERE as Team Lead U

Maren Köster

Maren Köster

Freelancer UX Design & Art Direction Since about 12 years she is working wit

Between user needs and business requirements she validates the right balance and best solution. She likes sketching on paper - not only prototyping, being outside and doing analog-things for deversion. After a long time in Hamburg she changed to the

Arvid Laban Falk

Arvid Laban Falk

Hotel Manager at MJ'S

Project Manager at The Conference 2017 Start Up Manager at Boulebar in Malmö, Gothenburg, Stockholm and Copenhagen 2013-2017 also head of brand, head of communications and board member. www.boulebar.se Studied Economy, philosophy and theatre at Lunds

Jenny Steinhorst

Jenny Steinhorst

User Experience and Product Strategist Jenny works as a freelance User Exper

With her background in user research she is still passionate about finding the true stories and things that really matter in listening to others. She also loves creative team work, design sprints, sustainable products and processes as well as being i

Karin Kiesl

Karin Kiesl

Co-Founder of Facts and Stories Karin spends her days working with clients t

By working in the borderlands between consumer needs and business goals Karin tries to ensure that both perspectives are successfully connected and that on the journey from first ideas until final product realisation and communication „no wrong exit"

Martin Thörnkvist

Martin Thörnkvist

Medium Martin is a concept and business developer who previously worked at M

His background in the music industry, where he organized festivals and clubs as well ran the record label Songs I Wish I Had Written. 14 May 2018

Florian Schimmer

Florian Schimmer

Hi, i am a designer and co-founder of hobby

we create digital solutions for brands and start-ups –and most importantly: value for the people. we also design and lead co-creative processes for joint problem solving. quite often that not only makes more sense – but is also more fun. whenever it'

Sven Franke

Sven Franke

Design Director, Peter Schmidt Group Sven has worked for the Peter Schmidt Gro

He studied communication design in Dortmund and began his career in Hamburg with an internship at EIGA Design. As a design director for the Peter Schmidt Group in Hamburg, Sven is responsible for leading a ten-person team. Supporting start-ups, globa

Alexander Meinhardt

Alexander Meinhardt

Experience Designer, Krunchtime Alexander is an artist, designer and consult

He is best known for his work for digital studios such as Hi-Res! London and Hamburg, as well as developing the mobile studio Swipe as Creative Director for the past five years. Alexanders interests range from motorsports to bass music, to streetwear

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Christina Elmer

Christina Elmer

Previously, she established the data journalism department and was member of the editorial board at SPIEGEL ONLINE. Before she joined the newsroom as a science editor in 2013, Elmer worked at Stern magazine's investigative unit. Her journalistic care

Dan Hill

Dan Hill

A designer and urbanist, Dan's previous leadership positions have produced innovative, influential projects and organisations, ranging across built environment ( Arup , Future Cities Catapult ), education and research (Fabrica), government and social

Kerstin Fröhlich

Kerstin Fröhlich

As Head of Innovation Management at SPIEGEL-Gruppe Kerstin's goal is to increa

She cares deeply about the people that drive innovation as well as the mindsets, skills and processes that foster innovation in media companies. Previously, she has held various positions in both legacy and digital media companies, ranging from corpo

Pernilla Lavesson

Pernilla Lavesson

Community Manager, Media Evolution mediaevolution.se At Media Evolution Pern

She meets many people on daily basis and really enjoy to connect people with each other. 24 Feb 2020

Kristina Sassenscheidt

Kristina Sassenscheidt

After studying architecture in Berlin, she spent seven years establishing and managing public relations at the department for monument protection of the City of Hamburg. She volunteered to help save the historic "Gängeviertel" and co-founded an onlin

Fredrik Wallin

Fredrik Wallin

Project manager at Malmö tourism Currently working with raising awareness ab

Developing our digital channels and campaigns, creative content and strategic partnerships. Former marketing manager at ustwo Nordics. Journalism student turned communicator with 10+ years experience working in digital sphere. Has a special affection

Stellan Colt

Stellan Colt

CEO and partner at Slagthuset MMX

Slagthuset is one of Malmös coolest, oldest and bigest venues. 8000 square meters in the central of the city. We do concerts, corporate events, conferences, dinners and social meet ups. Owner of Radiospot - producing radio commercials for over 20 yea

Alex Meinhardt

Alex Meinhardt

Experience Designer, Krunchtime Alexander is an artist, designer and consult

He is best known for his work for digital studios such as Hi-Res! London and Hamburg, as well as developing the mobile studio Swipe as Creative Director for the past five years. Alexanders interests range from motorsports to bass music, to streetwear

Martin Thörnkvist

Martin Thörnkvist

Medium Martin is a concept and business developer who previously worked at M

His background in the music industry, where he organized festivals and clubs as well ran the record label Songs I Wish I Had Written. 24 Feb 2020

Matthias Weber

Matthias Weber

Once upon a time, he was an utbytes student at K3 Malmö Högskola , dubbed the Digital Bauhaus . Today, Matthias works on the intersection of culture, technology and economy with his strategy consultancy IT'S THE GLUE . His clients include the City of