Category: Speaker

Sustainable Open Source e-bike How could a human centered sustainable connected mobility look like? About the challenges of creating a sustainable open source e-bike and introduces the idea of e-bike.brain – wiki and communication platform for developers, supporters, enthusiasts.

Johanna is part of the track How do we shape exciting IoT ideas into responsible products?

Digital Transformation Designer at the Digital Society School.

Youngji is a media artist, visual/interaction designer, creative technologist, and a playful researcher who is interested in beauties and dark sides of technology in and outside of anthropocentric world views, and any phenomenons generated from human nature, or/and mother nature.

Digital Transformation Designer at the Digital Society School.

As our society is going through the rapid digitalization now, her research interest lies in how to preserve or even transcend the seemingly lost physicality: can we make our environment smarter without making ourselves stupider?

Ivan went across the ocean to Berlin and after working in the startup scene in the German capital, he joined there Futurice as a UX/UI designer. He is interested in the complexity of bridging communication gaps between design and tech disciplines in teams. A holistic approach to the design of a service is fascinating to him and the breaking of silos inspire him. He is currently busy working in creating digital tools to make people’s work life easier. Ask him about WoW in multidisciplinary teams, the IoT Service Design toolkit, Latin American politics and Berlin bars.

Simone is UX designer at KPN IoT. We design friendly and intuitive solutions that help our customers in their day-to-day business. Simone is also founder and designer of MINOIS – smart minimalist handbags.

(In the 15 years of designing interactions between people and computer, Simone has seen the field evolving rapidly. She had the privilege to be closely involved in the revolution of digital devices in our lives: touch screens, smartphones, wearables and car navigation. With an MSc in Industrial Design Engineering from Delft University of Technology and a minor ‘Création Industrielle” from Ecole Nationale Supérieure in Paris, Simone combines solid technical knowledge with a keen eye for elegant designs. During her work as UX researcher, manager but above all designer Simone gained a good understanding of designing, developing and delivering complex software solutions. Simone currently combines her role of UX Designer at KPN IoT with her own entrepreneurial adventure MINOIS.)

Simone is hosting the workshop ‘Quick-start with LoRa‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Martijn is a User Experience designer with a preference for physical interfaces. Currently responsible at KPN IoT for the Things Portal – An interface to easily manage your (wireless) IoT devices and port their data to any end-point.

His graduation at HKU’s Interaction Design in 1999 was infused with interactive installations. Starting as an all-round programmer – designer – entrepreneur, he professionalized into a senior UX designer, focussing on improving design processes by promoting a user centered design thinking approach.

Early 2010’s he ran a company, Fuzeo which produced connected hardware, supporting motor-shows and ice-skating rings.

Martijn is hosting the workshop ‘Quick-start with LoRa‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Elias Van den Berg, full stack software developer en IoT developer bij KPN met een focus op de KPN Things Portal applicatie.

Elias is hosting the workshop ‘Quick-start with LoRa‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Paul Coppes, Commercial Product Manager KPN Things at KPN.

Maaike Harbers is a professor of applied sciences in Artificial Intelligence & Society at Research Center Creating 010, and a senior lecturer at the Creative Media and Game Technologies program, both at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. Her work focuses on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence on society, and she researches how designers of interactive, intelligent technology can account for the ethical implications of their concepts during design time. She often makes use of Value Sensitive Design. Currently she is involved in a research projects on public service media recommenders. Maaike Harbers holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, and a MA in Philosophy.

Maaike will be hosting the workshop ‘Make Me Think!’ within the session ‘Relate to the machine‘ (Friday 11-13h)

Tessa Steenkamp (MSc) is an interaction designer focusing on interactions within cities rather than within software. She trained as an industrial designer at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and specialised in emergence and urban systems, receiving her MSc in Emergent Technologies and Design at the AA School of Architecture in London.

Currently, she works as an Experience Designer at UNSense, daughter company of architecture firm UNStudio. UNSense is a research and design company, using technology as a tool for humanising the built environment. Recent projects included the design of human-scale safety measures for The Hague’s International Zone, and convivial versions of e-commerce for the town of Waalwijk, a major logistical hub serving the Netherlands and Europe.

During her time as a Service Designer at the City of Amsterdam, Tessa initiated ‘OpenStad’ (‘OpenCity’). This government innovation programme creates digital tools for making local democracy more interactive, giving citizens more insight in – and power over – their direct living environments. Previously, Tessa worked as a designer and maker for Studio Roosegaarde in Rotterdam, and Umbrellium in London. 

Tessa will be a speaker in the session ‘The Hacking City‘ (Friday 11-13h)