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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. 

Max Krüger (@krgermax) co-founded ThingsCon. He’s a researcher for Human Computer Interaction at the University of Siegen. Max started a Makerspace in Pakistan (certainly not alone), and works for the Global Innovation Gathering, a network of great people and community spaces all over the globe. Sometime he takes pictures, or plays music for people. 

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After a morning of sharing and discussion on IoT product innovation, from user engagement and design research, to service development and prototyping of responsible IoT ideas. Lorna Goulden proposes to take these IoT product cases as a starting point for a hands-on workshop with constructive-critical discussion on the challenges of building a viable and responsible IoT business case.

Lorna has 20+ years’ experience working across a wide range of industries from smart city developments in Eindhoven, Amsterdam and Barcelona to customer-centric strategies and technology-impact innovations for companies such as ASML, Cisco, DAF-trucks, Deutsche Telekom, NXP, Philips and Ziggo. She has written and spoken extensively about the Internet of Things and Smart Cities with a particular focus on the role of people and the impact on society. She organizes the Eindhoven Internet of Things Meetup community (1500+members) in the Netherlands and initiated the Eindhoven The Things Network community, joining a global initiative that is building citywide community-owned LoraWAN IoT urban data networks.

Lorna is curator and presenter in the track Build a responsible business case (Thursday 10:30 – 17:30h)

Kliment is an electronics and robotics developer with extensive experience in the field of open source 3d printing and open hardware. He does custom electronics development, taking projects from idea to prototype (ask if you need something made). Open source work in the field of 3d printing (electronics, software and mechanical work) and medical hardware.