George is the vice president client innovation at Atos UK, and a member of the Atos Global Scientific Community. His current research interests include: new business models; autonomics and artificial intelligence, and developing business applications for the Blockchain (the underlying technology of virtual currency BitCoin). He joined Atos business in September 2012. George’s role is to help Atos’ clients understand the business value of new and emerging technologies, and through this work with them to address their most pressing strategic challenges; typically engaging alongside leaders in Atos Consulting, Systems Integration, Managed Services and Worldline. George’s programme includes leading client innovation projects, workshops at our Business Technology Innovation Centre, and major client innovation events – including leadership of Atos’s global C-Suite level client StratHack programme.

Cyrus Kanga is a design director on the Bing search team under the Microsoft AI & Research umbrella. Previous to that, Cyrus ran the Xbox platform design team leading the Xbox console, the Xbox mobile companion apps, the Xbox TV and the Kinect platform design efforts.

Peter Schmutzer is an outsourcing professional with more than a decade of Alliance Management, Strategy Consulting, Procurement and Engineering experience in a variety of domains such as Auto, Artificial Intelligence, Drones and High-Tech. He is currently spearheading a significant disruption in the industry with moving engagement models up the value chain. Leveraging a complex ecosystem globally, he enables new business opportunities and drives supplier innovation and leads the procurement organization with a 360 approach to a value add for Intel. Aside he drives the contingent workforce strategy and is actively pathfinding the way for Intel into a total talent management. His responsibility for external engineering and third party development spans globally. Outsourcing is a critical and integral part of Intel’s end-to-end R&D activities and right at the heart of the cutting edge of compute. Peter is a visionary business leader who regularly orchestrates the big picture. He provides visionary outlook to drive complex strategies and follows through on transformational initiatives. He believes in action rather than power point and gets energized by creating viable business solutions and salient values in partnering. Coming with a degree in business administration Peter held a variety of management roles in the past for direct and indirect materials and joint Intel Corp back in 2011. Prior to Intel he worked as a senior manager for Infineon’s purchasing organization and as Head of Procurement at Nero AG. His professional career is complemented with assignments in Corporate Strategy Departments for Deutsche Telekom, Mercedes Benz and Deutsche Boerse AG.

Anne Amsallem has a double academic background in business management and design for innovation. She has been occupying various positions from sales to business unit management via sourcing and strategy in the Telco sectors for 20+ years. For 7 years, she dedicated her time to innovation focusing on customer experience enhancement, and dealing with change management related to digitisation. Curious, very open minded, she is very keen to tackle any new challenges specifically, mixing various profiles, skills, and backgrounds to solve issues and make innovation happen. She is currently conducting an innovation programme about design and innovation management.

Mette Tang is part of SAP’s Customer & Strategy Office and responsible for ‘SAP Listens’ – one of SAP’s Voice of the Customer Programs. She works closely with customers, SAP user groups, and account teams to enhance customer success by tracking and sharing best practices that improve customer engagement.

Art Director/Associate Director at Cognizant with over 18 years of experience with digital concept development, service design, branding, corporate identity, visual design and marketing communication working for international brands such as T-Mobile, Nike, Tele2, Royal Philips, Liberty Global, Rabobank and Air-France KLM. Boris is working shoulder to shoulder together with designers, strategists, technologists and data scientists, industry leaders and futurists to help clients conceptualise, design, prototype and build future proof digital experiences. He will discuss both the nuances of design as well as the potential of AI and machine learning.

Doug Roerden is the vice president for user experience design strategy at Fidelity Investments, where he joins business, technology, and design partners to lead the customer experience for financial services. With over 20 years pursuing user experience strategy, his practice spans personal computing through today’s digital worlds for non-profit, education, government, and startups through Fortune and Global 500 companies. Doug holds a Bachelor of Music in jazz composition & arranging from Berklee College of Music and is on a mission to make things more intuitive for whomever, whatever, wherever, and whenever.

As Creative Director for User Experience Design at Fidelity Investments, Josephine Holmboe has over 20 years leading teams and creating designs that range from responsive applications to full product suites and has established visual languages, data visualisations and design systems for complex data. In her leadership role, Josephine has employed various techniques such as design thinking, visual thinking strategies and co-designing with business partners as a means towards achieving solutions that provide the best user experience possible.

Rich Bessel is a design leader with a broad background in business, technology, and customer-centred design. He is currently the marketing creative director for Intuit QuickBooks, where he is leads the design of brand awareness, product consideration, and value realisation experiences globally. Prior to QuickBooks, he spent the previous four years leading the design studio for Intuit’s TurboTax team, where he reimagined how customer research was done and totally transformed an organisation to put the customer at the centre of product creation and how to engage them in an end-to-end experience level. By introducing design prototyping to Intuit, he helped accelerate the time between concepts to customer feedback, enabling the #1 US tax preparation SaaS (TurboTax) to turnaround its business to realise double-digit growth year-over-year. Rich’s passion for design grew from his days at Nokia, he helped the design team understand the importance of customer engagement in product development at the intersection of hardware and UX. With an MBA from Duke University, two technical degrees and a design fellowship from the California College of Arts, Rich has taken a leadership track in the tech space and found his home in customer-centred design. It’s his passion to create value for people through creation and use of technology.

Bianca has degrees in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and a Ph.D. in health-performative architecture & social design. Bianca’s former career path includes founding and CEOing two international expert companies working with evidence-based design and decision-making design. Additionally, Bianca has worked as an expert consultant for several public and private companies as well as a number of advisory boards. Finally, Bianca is adjunct professor at University of Copenhagen and University of Washington. In 2015, Bianca decided to join the LEGO Group as director of global design & engagement. At LEGO, Bianca and her teams in Denmark and Shanghai set the agenda for the physical work environment across the entire LEGO Group worldwide. This task involves all scales from designing new production sites, LEGO campus transport, employee housing, landscaping and parks, employee amenity buildings, R&D labs, sales offices, interior concepts, graphic branding. The design & engagement department is a transdisciplinary team of both interior designers, architects, urban designers, landscape architects, graphic designers, anthropologists, and process designers. Bianca has been part of the LEGO Corporate Facility leadership team since 2016.