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Naomi Schiphorst is a Scheveningen based architect, living and working in the Netherlands. As a designer she is specialised in smart environments – interiors, buildings, streets, cities – which encourage interactions, using a context sensitive approach.

After graduating from the TUDelft in 2002, Naomi has gained experience as a project architect in several medium and large sized Dutch architecture offices. Projects vary from high-schools to headquarters, from concept to realisation. Focussing on designing transformations, adaptive re-use, redevelopments and urban infill projects, her main fascination lies in the way people together shape their environment, and then the environment shapes people. Since 2017 Naomi works on the design and development of a Smart City Infrastructure for the municipality of The Hague. In this Living Lab Scheveningen the city is exploring how to develop an open eco-system for co-creation of new services and applications by actually building it. How can we re-create our surroundings and interaction to make us healthier and less likely to drop litter, enhance nature, decrease our perception of noise and enable us to reach our destinations more quickly?

As an architect Naomi is connecting spatial (urban) design and technology while creating value for citizens, companies and organisations all working in the public realm. Looking for the cross-realm benefit require a true open mind and creative solutions.

Vera van de Seyp (1993, NL) is a designer and creative coder. She likes creating generative design tools, languages, and exploring the potential of new technologies such as machine learning for the design field. She lives and works in Amsterdam and Antwerp, runs a design practice, is part of various creative coding communities and teaches Digital Media at the graphic design department of ArtEZ, Arnhem.

Vera is speaker at the Connected storytelling session

I am a technology critic and privacy designer who helps citizens, designers and policymakers understand new chances and challenges in our data-driven society.

I do this mainly through PineappleJazz, a consultancy where I help organizations think strategically about technology and the future. A specific issue I talk about a lot is Social Cooling. It describes the large scale chilling effects that arise as the internet develops a new layer on top of it: the reputation economy.

I wrote the book “Design my Privacy“, a beginners guide to ethical design for the Internet of Things, and regularly share my views through articles, through presentations at events like TEDx and SXSW, or through presentations and workshops for consultants, designers and policymakers.

I co-founded SETUP, a Dutch non-profit that creates provocative design fictions to explain data-issues to a wider audience. Well known projects I worked on are Everyone a Spy, The National Birthdaycalendar, and Devious Devices.

I advise on digital arts and culture, and am a member of the Amsterdam Art Councilas well as a board member at the MU artspace in Eindhoven.

Tijmen is speaker at the Connected storytelling session and his work “CANDLE – THE PRIVACY FRIENDLY SMART HOME” can be seen on Friday at the exhibition.

Sjoerd ter Borg is the initiator of Aesthetics of Exclusion: a collective of artists, designers, coders and scientists that uses computer vision techniques and machine learning to explore and analyse aesthetical styles that relate to gentrification and processes of (urban) homogenization through large image archives such as (Google) StreetView and Instagram. Sjoerd ter Borg has graduated in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and completed his master at the Sandberg Instituut. In 2014, he was selected for the talent development program from the Creative Industries Fund (NL). In 2015 he spent a summer residency Documentary Art at Uniondocs, New York. In 2018 he received the Icarus Award, a Dutch prize for art works reflecting about technology and society. His worked has been featured at Alcova Sassetti (Milan Design Week), Art Center Nabi (Seoul), IDFA Doclab Conference (Amsterdam), Dutch Design Week (Eindhoven), Het Nieuwe Instituut (Rotterdam), Northside Festival (New York), Forms Festival (Toronto), Studio-X (Rio de Janeiro), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) and the Biennale of Urbanism 2013 (Shenzhen, China).

Sjoerd will be presenting in the session ‘The Hacking City’ (Friday 11-13h)

Simon Höher is a facilitator of processes and strategies, that explore emerging patterns of technology, culture, and society in a global context. As an innovation and strategy consultant his activities include helping organizations learn about ways to co-create their future, connecting people and communities in the realm of technology, design, and society, and mentoring companies and early-stage start ups in terms of business strategy and user-driven product development. He is sharing his learnings and questions as a conference speaker and active participant in various design and tech-related communities.

In his work Simon connects concepts of open & human-centric design, civic tech, urban innovation and digital transformation. He has hands-on experience consulting and advising DAX30 companies, start ups, and public organizations alike – and among others has been working with the likes of Deutsche Telekom, e.on, Intel, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, GIZ, GitHub, Mediatech, Gruner + Jahr, TU Berlin and more. He regularly mentors at Seedcamp, Europe’s biggest accelerator program for early-stage start ups and is an active member of the MIT-based International Development Innovation Network (IDIN) and the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG).

Shay works at STBY, a London and Amsterdam based design research consultancy. With clients ranging from Spotify and Google, to the City of Amsterdam and the Dutch Ministry of Justice, they explore how systems and services can be considerately designed with people and planet in mind from the outset. 

Shay is a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, Department of Man & Leisure. She is interested in design that facilitates the creation of meaningful experiences and services that have an impact on people and places. For Shay, design research is a method to analyse situations, problems or questions from different angles, offering new points of view on matters in question. Next to working at STBY, Shay is also a project designer at De Voorkamer (www.devoorkamer.org), a meeting place for people living in refuges centres and locals in Utrecht. 

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Peter Bihr explores the impact of emerging technologies, and how to put them to work responsibly and for the public good. Peter is the founder and Managing Director of The Waving Cat, a boutique research, strategy & foresight company where he explores impact and opportunities of emerging technologies—especially Internet of Things (#iot). As an advisor, he helps organizations excel in an environment shaped by digitization, connectedness and rapid change.

Peter co-founded and chairs the board of ThingsCon e.V., a global community & event platform for IoT practitioners that fosters the creation of a human-centric & responsible Internet of Things. He has co-founded many acclaimed emerging technology conferences including ThingsCon, UIKonf and Cognitive Cities Conference, and curated leading conferences including Interaction (2016), NEXT (2012-15), and TEDxKreuzberg (2009-10).

Peter is a Mozilla Fellow (2018), and the author of View Source: Shenzhen and Understanding the Connected Home (with Michelle Thorne). He has provided research and policy recommendations to governments and global tech companies, supported automotive clients with R&D strategy, and helped organizations embrace innovation opportunities as an external radar and sparring partner.

His projects, thoughts and other antics have been featured in Forbes, New York Times, SPIEGEL, The Guardian, ZDF, ZEIT and many others. His work has been exhibited at London Design Festival, the V&A and Fuori Salone. Postscapes named him a Top 100 Influencer in IoT. He blogs at thewavingcat.com.

Megan works at STBY, a London and Amsterdam based design research consultancy. With clients ranging from Spotify and Google, to the City of Amsterdam and the Dutch Ministry of Justice, they explore how systems and services can be considerately designed with people and planet in mind from the outset. 

Megan loves observing and understanding the way people interact with systems of all kinds, in order to make them more intuitive, valuable and trusted. She has a background in social science research at Leiden University, with a particular focus on urban emergency service systems from technical, organizational and service design perspectives. As the co-founder of Franklin (http://www.franklin.co.nl/), she is also passionate about using playful and interactive ways to gain shared understandings of complex socio-technical systems.