Alex is a Creative Director, Product and Service Design in Prophet’s London office. His passion lies at the intersection of human interaction with technology and specifically in more complex B2B2C environments.

Prior to Prophet, Alex was Creative Director and partner at Nimbletank and developed his craft in various agencies from New Zealand to the United Kingdom over the last 17 years. From digital product design to holistic ecosystems, he has helped businesses deliver meaningful, functional, and impactful experiences. Alex has a BA in design from the University of Auckland.

Amber Lundy is a designer leader working on the intersection of advanced concept design and designing for AI-driven experiences. 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.

Bernhard is an experienced designer and unit lead at Intuity Media Lab in Stuttgart, Germany. With a desire to challenge established thinking, he helps organisations discover potential and re-align their service strategy. Enthusiastic about robust service design, he and his team follow initiatives from the initial spark to realisation.

Bernhard strives to use UX as a strategic tool by including business and societal goals as vital factors. In addition to his experience in a wide range of industries, he also benefits from his background in business administration.

A computer scientist by education and an advocate for user needs by heart, Christine heads the “Insights“ project department at the Bosch central UX organization.

From developing intuitive human-machine interfaces to designing and validating new mobility solutions, she loves bringing to life intelligent software that excites and fascinates mobility customers.

In everyday work, her colleagues value her proficiency in combining technical expertise with strategic insight, and her empathy for all things human – and above all, her ability to keep things short and sweet.

Hamed Yahyaei is a senior UX, CX and service designer at Scania Group in Sweden, board member and trustee at the Union for University Graduates of Scania Group (Scania Akademikerföreningen) and co-leader of the Scania Corporate Culture working group at AF. Furthermore, he represents Scania as a member of highest decision making council at Akavia, is an Ambassador for Scania Skill Capture as well as co-founder and core team member of the VW Group Digital Meetup.

Hamed is a systems thinker and enterprise design thinking coach with more than a decade of professional experience in different design areas. He is involved in design leadership and mentorship on a global scale with engagements including the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF), IxDA, Nielsen Norman Group, UX Design Awards, CXPA, SDN, Service Design College, Lund University and the Stockholm School of Economics.

Hamed won several awards such as Best Visual Experience 2016 at OpenHack in Greater Copenhagen, VOLVO Innovation Challenge 2018 for Transportation of Tomorrow and First Place for Smart Cities & Sustainability at OpenHack 2018 Sweden.

Joon-Mo Lee is Managing Director at PHOENIX in charge of the PHOENIX Studio in Munich. A distinguished graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, his client work and public talks explore the intersection of philosophy, culture, design and innovation.

Before entering the design industry, he has worked in the toy and FMCG industry in Düsseldorf, Berlin, Hong-Kong and London. In his past engagements he has collaborated with a broad range of leading brands including LG, Samsung, Boeing, Huawei, BSH, Neff, Hansgrohe, Vorwerk and Schindler.

Joon likes travelling with his camera, loves seafood, has a palate for cheap booze, and enjoys Karaoke nights with his team.

Mine creates user experiences in healthcare. With 15+ years of experience, she not only steers innovation projects but is also passionate about improving current experiences for longstanding products and services. She works with a global team of designers and in close collaboration with clinical professionals and hospitals.

Her design expertise has been applied to a range of clinical domains, including oncology, pathology, genomics, sleep & respiratory and patient monitoring. She strives to craft seamless and effortless experiences for both patients and professionals.

Mine studied product design, followed by a master’s degree in user experience design at Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. She designed edutainment applications for children in the early years of her career. She is currently a Senior UX Designer at Philips Experience Design, based in the Netherlands. She enjoys traveling to explore new cultures, human psychology & physiology, machine learning and cooking to host feasts with friends.

Oliver is a seasoned strategy executive with a track record in large-scale digital transformation programs for mobility, manufacturing, luxury and healthcare. He leads the Experience Design team at Valtech and is passionate about the intersection of technology and human-centered design, which he experimented with already back in the 1990s when graduating at HdM Stuttgart.

In his career he founded New Zealand’s first web design agency, developed driver assistance tools to improve autonomous driving, designed the first fully digital car dealership on high street, introduced direct-to-consumer solutions for OEMs and iconic luxury brands, and enabled life science companies to become patient-centric.

Today, Oliver fosters digitization in established industries and helps to transform business models through design thinking, with accessibility being one of his focus areas.

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.

Shruti leads the design operations, customer research and strategic design teams as Head of Design at Zalando. In collaboration with the cross-functional product organization, her teams provide designers, product managers, and engineers with effective ways of working, actionable insights and strategic direction to drive their work.

A researcher at heart, Shruti now leverages her empathy to build healthy teams and foster nurturing work environments. She is dedicated to sharing her expertise and regularly teaches design students and mid-career professionals. Shruti was born and raised in India, but Germany has been her home for the past 10+ years.