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Jerome Nadel is SVP and CMO at Rambus. He joined in 2012 to help transform the company’s business model to products and services with “design-led marketing”. Jerome is a pioneer in user experience and service design, which he applies to product and corporate marketing. He has had a variety of chief marketing officer and chief user experience officer roles at companies including Human Factors International, SLP InfoWare, Gemplus, and Sagem. He also advises start-ups on marketing, positioning, and product/service design.

Patrycja Slawuta, M.A Psych, PhD(c); is a bi-coastal (SF + NYC) researcher and entrepreneur. A native of Poland, Patrycja is a connoisseur of the complexity and nonlinearity of human nature.

After 10+ years of doing scientific research in the area of experimental social psychology,  Patrycja created the SelfHackathon – powerful events that she co-hosts with other world-class experts and scientists to help already high achievers hack their minds for much more confidence, connection and creativity.

www.SelfHackathon.com

Tim Leberecht is a writer and consultant, and the founder and CEO of Leberecht & Partners, a firm that helps organizations express and foster human capacity in their brands, stories, and cultures.

Previously, Tim served as the chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global design and architecture firm specialized in workplace design, with clients from Amazon, Google, Samsung, to Tencent. From 2006 to 2013, he was the chief marketing officer for product design and innovation consultancy Frog Design, famous for its work with Apple, Disney, GE, and many other Fortune 500 brands. In addition to his role at Frog, he also served as chief marketing officer for Frog’s parent company, software engineering firm Aricent Group, from 2011 to 2013. Before Frog, Tim held marketing positions at mind-mapping software firm Mindjet and 3D internet firm Echtzeit, and was a consultant for the 2004 Athens Olympic Torch Relay and Deutsche Telekom. He began his career as a singer/songwriter and the owner of an independent music publishing firm.

Tim is the author of the international bestseller, The Business Romantic: Give Everything, Quantify Nothing, and Create Something Greater Than Yourself (HarperCollins, 2015), that has been translated into eight languages to date. His writing on leadership, culture, design, and innovation appears in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Forbes, Fortune, Psychology Today, Washington Post, and Wired. He has spoken at venues including TEDGlobal, The Economist, SXSW, DLD, Thinking Digital, Next, the Silicon Valley CEO Summit, the School of Life, Commonwealth Club, Carnegie Mellon University, Yale University, the UPS Leadership Series, and the World Economic Forum.

Tim serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Values, the NationSwell Council, and on the Board of Advisors of Jump Associates, a strategy and innovation consultancy. He is the co-founder and co-curator of the 15 Toasts dinner series that creates “safe spaces” for leaders to have conversations on difficult topics. He is also the founder of The Business Romantic Society, a global collective of artists, developers, designers, researchers, and scientists who share the mission to bring beauty to business.

Tim holds a masters’ degree in applied cultural studies from the University of Luneburg in Germany and a masters’ degree in communication management from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Germany and lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.

www.timleberecht.com

www.leberechtandpartners.com

@timleberecht

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 XING, a highly successful business networking platform. As Founder and CEO, Lars oversaw its IPO in 2006, making XING the world’s first Web 2.0 company to go public. In 2010 he founded HackFwd, an innovative pre-seed investment company that supported Europe’s most passionate geeks in launching the world’s most exciting tech startups. Lars is an active member of the Young Global Leaders (YGL) of the World Economic Forum and the Young Presidents’Organization (YPO). Since 2013 he is a member of the Advisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG. His latest project is the Apartimentum, a smart home in Hamburg.

What are you presenting?

“Smart Home: Apartimentum“

What is your vision about the future?

“Everything that can be digital will be digital.”

Markus Durstewitz works for the Airbus Corporate Innovation team. His mission is the establishment of a sustainable innovation culture and effective innovation environment that delivers value to the customers. He has over twenty years of experience in the aerospace industry working in different key positions along the complete product life-cycle. Markus holds a PhD in Cognitive Engineering and Man-Machine Systems. Main interest is in user-centered design and impact of digitalization in offering new ways of collaboration along the complete value chain of aviation.

What are you presenting?

“How to anticipate the challenges of an ongoing digital transformation as a key driver and accelerator for change in our industry and air transport?”

What is your vision about the future?

“It’s all about connecting the people and ideas …“

This is one of Google‘s XPrizes, that pushes the limits of what‘s possible to change the world for the better. Google Luna XPrize organise the race to the moon. Aim: To land a privately funded robot on the moon. The Part Time Scientists are the one German team out of the last five. The goal is to make missions to the moon affordable and thereby discover the 8th continent, that inheres many important resources etc.

In 2007, Google set out the largest international incentive based prize of all times: 30 million $ for the private team who reaches the moon first and fulfills three tasks: land safely, move 500 meters across the lunar surface and send images to earth. It was initiated to promote private and cost – effective travel to the moon. 34 teams started the competition – now only 5 teams (The Part Times Scientists, Astrobotic, Hakuto, Moon Express and Team Indus) are left with a serious chance to complete the mission.

The Part Time Scientist is a Berlin based team competing in the new industries of private space technologies. Over the past 5 years PTS has been developing market-leading technological know-how to deliver space-grated products & services, partly in close cooperation with the German Aerospace Center.

The team is headed by Robert Böhme – an expert in computer system management – who formed this team in 2008 to achieve the goal of landing on the moon. He is the face to the public and in Germany he is already present on some TV shows and other media.

Since 2010 Lutz Freitag researches on robots with the focus on signal processing, perception and motion planning. He started studying computer science in 2007 at Freie Universität Berlin, worked from 2009 till 2013 at Hella Aglaia GmbH in tooling and R&D. Currently he works for Autonomos GmbH and Hanson Robotics in their respective R&D departemts. Lutz participated in the RoboCup with the FUmanoids in the KidSize league where humanoid robots play football autonomosly. Currently he develops software to give robots a sense of their bodies to create smarter and more natural moving machines.

When he is not playing/working with robots he enjoys reading, cycling, parks and most of all: traveling.

Maks Giordano is a Digital Strategist and Creative with 20 Years Experience in Digital. He co-founded the digital consultancy „kreait“ in 2011 with a focus on creating meaningful, user-centric and highly relevant digital services and helping organizations in their digital transformation. He is currently consulting BMW, Deutsche Telekom, eBay, UEFA and many others in Digital Innovation and played a vital role in the re-launch of Condé Nast´s Digital Activities in Germany.

Maks helped to bring the Mobile Monday to Berlin, launched the „Wearable Wednesday“ in Germany. He is an active Business Angel and Mentor to StartUps, serves on various boards as an advisor and was heading the Founder Institute in Berlin. Maks holds an MBA in Media & Communication from the University of St. Gallen Switzerland and is an Associate Professor, teaching „Entrepreneurship“ at Zeppelin University. He is a judge both to the Lovies and Webbys Awards, named the „Oscars of the Internet“, and loves to travel and practicing Yoga.

Sophie Kleber creates engaging user experiences that simplify complex functionality in a user centric way. She provides leadership in key stages of research, innovation, product definition and UI design for some of Huge’s largest clients, including IKEA, Chase and Thomson Reuters. With a background in industrial design she is a thought leader for the intersection of digital and physical, continuously pushing the boundaries of “what’s possible” to meet “what should be”.