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Dr. Stefan Becker has been the Supervisor Core HMI at Ford Werke GmbH for over 15 years where he is responsible for global HMI Core projects and concept development for EE-Systems. Since October 2012 he has also been a lecturer in Human Machine Interface & Ergonomics at the University of Applied Science Ruhr West (Bottrop).Read more

Sebastian Rettlinger is a group leader of the hmi development department at the Telemotive AG. There he is taking care of a team of highly motivated and capable colleagues in order to fulfill the current and future needs of customers like OEMs or Tier1s. Prior to his engagement at Telemotive he studied information science atRead more

Nadine Chahine is an award winning Lebanese type designer with a special interest in Arabic typography. She studied Graphic Design at the American University of Beirut and MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading, UK. During her study at Reading, she focused on the relationship of the Arabic and Latin scripts and theRead more

Wolfram Ries recently joined the Mobica team as VP Sales Automotive from Luxoft, an international custom software development company, where he played an integral part in the development of its automotive technologies. He brings more than twenty years’ experience in senior sales and business development roles for numerous international companies, delivering complex hardware and softwareRead more

Ian Meginnis is a space suit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC). Involved with NASA for 10 years, he has been working on the Advanced Space Suit Development team at the Johnson Space Center since 2012. He is currently the project lead for simulated microgravity evaluations of NASA’s latest exploration prototype space suit, Z-2,Read more

Günther Hasna studied Mechatronics (Feinwerktechnik) at the Hochschule München. His first professional job was as Project Manager for Optoelectronic Sensors at TEMIC in Nuremberg. Since 1996 he is working for OPTIS, until 2011 at the headquarters in Toulon/France as a Manager for Consulting and Software Services. Since 2011 he is back in Munich working forRead more

Julia Polleti is responsible for Audi Business Innovation projects in the fields of to design thinking and user centered design, e.g. for interactive data visualization, desktop software or apps. Having worked previously for BMW, she also holds a BSc and MSc in Media Informatics – Human Machine Interaction both completed at the Ludwig-Maximilian University ofRead more

Dr. Astrid Kassner holds a doctorate in psychology and has worked on the development of user-centered concepts in the automotive and aerospace fields for over 12 years. Currently at Volkswagen, Dr. Kassner is Project Lead for UX & HMI and notably worked on the BUDD-e concept car, which was premiered at CES 2016. At Volkswagen,Read more

Derek leads product marketing, partner marketing, and communications for Rightware, the leader in automotive UI software. Building on a career in product management and strategic planning in smartphone software and hardware platforms as well as telecoms, he most recently led cloud and data center community evangelism at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center. Derek’s degrees spanRead more

Carina Häcker joined the UniTyLab (Usability and Interaction Technology Laboratory) of Heilbronn University in August 2015 as a Research Assistant. There, she works as a product developer and designer in various projects. Since 2016 she is part-project manager of “KoFFI”, a research project sponsored by BMBF presented on this conference. Prior to this, she didRead more