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Juhani manages Key Accounts and strategic partnerships globally at Siili Auto. Juhani has 20+ years of experience in SW business in different industries. Before joining Siili 6 years ago, Juhani worked for 19 years in telecom industry and two years as entrepreneur.Read more

Chris Giordano has been a landmark employee at DiSTI since 1999, managing several of the company’s program for Boeing, Hyundai, Jaguar Land Rover, Lockheed, NASA, and The Space Ship Company. Upon starting as an engineer, he quickly moved into a program management position where he controlled nearly 60 different visual programs and product managed forRead more

Friedrich Niehaus is responsible for heading up projects in the field of human machine interaction including HMI for autonomous driving, V2V communication, automotive connectivity & BEVs in the Advanced Engineering Department at Daimler Trucks. He has a background in animation, photography & design and completed his diploma in industrial design at the Stuttgart State AcademyRead more

Christopher Brockmeier [M] (M.Sc., B.Sc.) [“Manager Research Area Vehicle Concepts & HMI”] studied mechanical engineering and business administration at RWTH Aachen University as well as Econometrics at Harvard College in Boston. In the scope of the European funded epsilon project he obtained a Master of Science degree in 2016, developing and evaluating a small urbanRead more

Boris runs the European business for design firm Goodpatch and serves as a board member at the HQ in Tokyo. As one of the early members of Goodpatch in Tokyo, he helped grow the team to a size of 140 designers and developers. In May 2015, he moved back to Germany after 3 years in TokyoRead more

Armin Böshenz has more than 20 years of experience in different sales, marketing and management roles within the semiconductor industry with a strong background in automotive and industrial markets. Armin holds an engineering degree in electronics from the Technical University in Munich.Read more

Pamela is a futurist of feelings. Obsessed by our conflicted emotional relationship with technology, her work is part deep dive research and part design. As founder of Change Sciences, she’s collaborated with teams at Google, IKEA, 3DS, Prudential, and Virgin. Her insights have appeared in the LA Times, NPR, Slate, CBC, Quartz and her recent O’ReillyRead more

I’ve led creative teams in the domain of user experience at Dropbox, NIO & IDEO. They have three thingsin common: they place the user at the core, they push the boundaries of what’s possible and they are fullof some of the smartest and nicest people I’ve had the privilege to work with.Read more

Katharina Hottelart is a UX Research Manager at Valeo. She studied market and communication research at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences. Katharina joined Valeo in 2007 whilst undertaking a part-time MBA program at Steinbeis University Berlin. Since 2010 she has been working with the Innovation and Collaborative Research Team on a wide range ofRead more

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