Adrienn Gréta Schönberg

Visual communication

Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino

Author, Interaction Designer

Alexandra is an interaction designer, product designer, entrepreneur based in London. She was named 1st in a list of 100 Internet of Things Influencers (Postscapes, 2016), 2nd in Top 100 Internet of Things Thought Leaders (Onalytica, 2014) and in the Top 100 Influential Tech Women on Twitter (Business Insider, 2014), Smith & Williamson Power 100 (2017).

Alpár Rácz

Alvaro Valls Boix

Consultant, project manager

Alvaro is mathematician and project manager with experience in small and large companies. His problem-solving oriented mind makes him always look for continuous improvement. He is passionate about service design, and thinks it is the key to make the world a better place to live.

Amber Francis

Service Design

Digital Marketing professional with 10+ years experience in SEO and SMM with a focus on international markets. Three years of experience working on special projects completed using Design Thinking methods and processes. Currently completing my degree in Service Design at SCAD.

Amira El Shawarby

Furniture designer

Amira is a designer, an entrepreneur and a researcher who is passionate about using her design skills to catalyze change. She’s triggered by problems, world potentials and solution hunting while believing in innovation, creative thinking and story telling as a lens.

Anab Jain

Co-founder and Director of Superflux

Anab is a designer, futurist, filmmaker and educator. As Co-founder and Director of Superflux, she hopes to realise the vision of the Studio as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. She has received awards from ICSID, UNESCO, Geneva Human Rights Festival, Apple Computers Inc., and the UK Government’s Innovation Department.

Andrea Szilágyi

Business analyst

Andrea Vâță-Diénes

Singer

András Stefanik

Programme Manager at Prime Minister's Office

Aniko Brachmann

E-commerce entrepreneur

E-commerce entrepreneur with a background in finance.

Anikó Bakos

Ecology

Anna Diósy

Theology

Anna Mészár

Account manager at Mito

Anna Regina Enyedi

Preservation of Cultural and Architectural Heritage

Anna Ulahelova

UX Designer

Anna is a designer in UX, information and graphic design. She likes to observe and research topics connected with society, city and environment. She is passionate about design theory in Central Europe and Slovakia. She likes complex and meaningful projects where she can help to analyse, ideate and use visualisation to understand problems. Currently working as freelancer on projects in Slovak culture, design and environment. She co-works with strategic design and innovation company Stride XL in the Czech Republic.

Archana Mani Srinivasan

User Experience Researcher at GE Transportation Lab

Archie works as UX Design Researcher at GE Transportation, a Wabtec company, serving the global freight industry by driving user-centric practices, modernizing products, and finding new opportunities for humans to interface with artificial intelligence and industrial automation. On the side, she collaborates on projects, mentors students, and co-organizes the ATL Speculative Futures meetup in the local design community. In addition, she is part of the organizing committee of Primer 2020 taking place in Atlanta, USA. Archie loves people, working with them, getting inspired by them, and most importantly solving for them. Oh! by the way, she is a Yes and! person.

Attila Cosovan

Attila is associate professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Marketing and Media, Department of Marketing, Media and Designcommunication and founder of coandco.cc. He is a designer artist, with his company coandco.cc holds several international design awards such as Red Dot. Attila is the author of designcommunication, DIS.CO, complex creative design methodology.

Attila Róbert Csóka

Architect at Paradigma Ariadné

Attila Ágoston

Architect

Balázs Orlai

Freelancer designer. Previously head of the MOME Department of Design, co-founder of Sausagefence! design studio, designer of the iconic Hungarian Mustache Ba, P-shaped Bike Parkers and BKV Passenger Information System Designer.

Barbara Predan

Barbara is an assistant professor, theoretician, designer, author, and Design for Europe Ambassador. Co-founder and leader of the department of design theory at the Pekinpah Association, and director of the Ljubljana Institute of Design, an academic research organisation. Since 2010, with Petra Černe Oven, she has been co-editing Zbirka 42, a series of books on design, under the auspices of the Pekinpah Association.

Bence Bán

Bence Makkai

Philosophy

Bettina Alscher

Event manager

Beáta Bartha

Architect

Beáta Bordás

Art history

Beáta Tünde Szabó

Mathematical Modeller at Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Boglárka Andrea Székely

Communication and PR

Bálint Eckhardt

Product design

Bálint Kádár

Associate lecturer at Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Cansu Deniz Bayrak

Cansu is an early stage investor for tech for good companies. As senior partner, her focus at BGV is building meaningful partnerships for their portfolio teams and the fund itself. She also supports fundraising efforts for their investment vehicles. She has been involved with early stage ventures as founder, operator, mentor and now investor throughout her career in tech.

Collyn Cooper

Service Designer

Csaba Szalai

Architectural designer

Dan Pikalo

Industrial, Product Design

I graduated from the ALUO, in the course of industrial design, and continued studying the master's degree in the stage design/scenography at AGRFT. Currently I am crafting scenes for theater and film. I enjoy music and basketball.

Dana Olarescu

Dana is an interdisciplinary artist working between the boundaries of art and design, with a focus on social and climate justice. Amongst others, her participatory projects have been presented at Tate Modern, Museum of London, and London Short Film Festival (UK), Incheon Art Platform (South Korea), Centre for Art on Migration Politics (CAMP), Tanzhaus NRW (Germany), La Virgule (France), and Tranzit (Romania).

Daniel Kozma

Artist, Freelance Graphic Designer

Daniel is a Budapest based graphic designer who graduated from the Royal College of Art, London. He is the co-founder of Diaméter Collective.

Daniela Haas

UI/UX Designer

Diego Alatorre Guzmán

Professor at National Autonomous University of Mexico

Professor, researcher and designer, his work portrays the interest to understand the link between creativity and education. With a special curiosity for the interpersonal dynamics elicited by certain objects - like games and other playful artifacts - Diego explores complex social systems through collaborative design. His ideas have been constructed, exposed and debated in different formats from Mexico to Germany.

Dominika Majewska

Industrial Design/ Speculative Design

Dominika is a designer, researcher and social innovator based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She works at the intersection of social design and environmental transitions, focusing on creating balanced connections between human-made and natural systems. User experience researcher passionate about psychology. Explorer, looking for connections between the urban and rural tomorrows.

Dorottya Marosváry

Head of the Kindergarten Club at the Real Pearl Foundation's "tanoda" program

Dorottya works as a teacher, mentor and communication specialist for non-governmental organizations working for Roma inclusion and equal opportunities in Hungary. Her main areas of expertise are reading motivation, mother tongue development, she currently works mainly with the 3-4- year-old age group. She strongly believes that the for-profit and non-profit sectors could learn a lot from each other.

Dávid Smiló

Architect at Paradigma Ariadné

Architect, writer, critic and co-founder of paradigma:ariadné. He studied architecture at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and at the West Hungarian University. He is a former president of Budapest Architecture Student Studio and author of dozen essays, studies and articles in the topic of architecture, urbanism and politics. In his architecture related works he always collaborate with artist, designers and urban thinkers.

Dóra Horváth

Dóra is associate professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, Institute of Marketing and Media, head of the Department of Marketing, Media and Designcommunication. Her areas of research include diffusion of new technology in personal communication, designcommunication, co-creation, projective research techniques. Her areas of education involve: strategic and creative planning of marketing communication, design management, advertising management.

Dóra Németh

Vype Activation Manager at British American Tobacco

Eliana Vargas

Design and Innovation consultant

I am curious about people’s culture, stories and needs. I am very keen to listen, see and discover how they think, how they behave, why and how we can help. As a Design Thinking Consultant, I am collaborating in the development of design projects for social and technology innovation at Bayteq in Quito, where we centre our research and outcomes in humans.

Eliza Chojnacka

Social designer

Ella Weldon

Project Lead and Community Developer

Ella is currently working as a Project Lead and Community Developer for social and environmental consultancy Liminal. Her academic and work background spans psychosocial research, international development, migrant’s rights advocacy, youth mentorship, women’s empowerment and public health, with equity and justice the thread that ties them together. Ella is a DJ and radio host and puts on parties with her community sound-system cooperative.

Emese Burista

Urbanism

Enikő Molnár

Biology

Enikő Tóth

Landscape architect

Erdenejargal Rinzaan

Architect

Ervin Molnár

Biotechnology

Eszter Bircsák

Co-founder and Food Curator

Eszter is a curator and cultural mediator who is interested in CEE regional creative industry and local movements. She is the co-founder of Holis and was part of the team until 2019.

Eszter Horváth

Designer

Eszter Kalóz

Project manager

Eszter is constantly looking for opportunities where she can use her knowledge and experience for a greater good. Combining her Sociology degree with her background in tech, she’s currently working as a project manager in a social enterprise that aims to educate and empower hearing impaired professionals to make a successful career in the digital economy.

Evelin Horváth

Media design

Fanni Csernátony

Fanni Csernátony is addicted to design workshops and co-creation ever since she started studying Product Design in Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). She participated and organized several events focusing on creative teamwork. She believes that the design process works best if it involves people with different cultural and professional backgrounds.

Fanni Csöbi

Product Designer

Fei Feng

Innovation & Service design

Fruzsina Lilla Kovács

Painter

Gabriela Szałańska

Product designer at Studio Rygalik

Gosia Rygalik

Partner at Studio Rygalik

Gosia graduated from the Design Department at Warsaw’s Academy of Fine Arts (2010 MA). She also studied at the Danmarks Designskole and gained her first professional design experience in Copenhagen. During the studies in Warsaw she was a member of the PG13 platform – responding to experimental design briefs, exhibiting, organizing and taking part in design workshops and competitions as well as industry supported projects.

Gunjan Singh

Strategic Product Design

Gunjan is a strategic designer and researcher who likes working on challenges that involve people, processes and systems. Her skills and tools are drawn from diverse fields of practice: human-centred design, business strategy, organizational change and education. She is a lifelong learner and enjoys herself best while working on transdisciplinary projects in diverse contexts.

Gábor Lukács

Designer at ChemAxon

I work as a product designer at a cheminformatics company. I define myself as a generalist with the obsession of small details. I believe that my role as a designer is to facilitate co-creation and give the ability to people with the relevant knowledge to share their voice. Continuous experimentation and small iterations motivate me the most during my everyday work.

Gábor Suhajda

UX Design

Gábor is a UX team lead and product designer at Emarsys (part of SAP). He spends most of his time there facilitating a common understanding between teams and improving design processes. He’s the co-founder of MOME ID, one of the most acknowledged product design courses in Hungary where he’s a course leader, lecturer and mentor. With the MOME ID team, he’s been running design camps since 2016 dealing with non-digital co-creation, design thinking, speculative design & service design.

Hanna Demes

Cinematography

Henryk Stawicki

Co-founder of Change Pilots

Helps organizations create products, services and brand scenarios based on design strategies. As a co-founder of design consultancy Change Pilots he offers a unique point of view as both strategist and designer capable of creating measurable, novel solutions. Always brings multicultural perspective thanks to years of practice abroad including New York and London and such organizations as Parsons School of Design and IDEO.

Hermina Csala

Graphic design

Hitomi Tachikawa

Customer Experience Designer at O.P. Holdings

Ingrid Van der Wacht

International & Public Affairs Manager at Dutch Design Foundation

Ingrid is a connector, conceptor, communicator with a focus on co/design for people and planet. Over the years she has initiated projects for the use of design as the driver for social innovation, economic growth and sustainable development. She has extensive experience in cross-sectorial partnerships between public authorities, industries, businesses and designers.

Iria Lopez

Service Designer

Iria's passion is using the power of design processes to transform people's lives. After studying psychology Iria started her career in 2001 working as user researcher / ethnographer (exploring people’s needs in their context of use) working in several private companies in Barcelona. In 2005 she learned how to integrate user/cultural research with design and business processes.

Iwona Kastunowicz

Customer Success Manager

I am energetic and self-motivated advisor with more than 10 years’ experience in: project management, strategic communication, business development, event management & service design.

Izabella Buzogány

Sociology

Jana Hřebecká

Designer

Jana is a designer from design studio Pábení from the Czech Republic. Pábení wants to bring sustainability into the lives of organizations. Jana helps fulfil this vision with educational design, organizational culture projects and regenerative, circular service design. She deeply believes that the responsibility of designers is to take care of the needs of users and stakeholders as well as society and planet.

Jarmila Martinková

Design student

I am a 2nd-year Interior Design master's student enrolled at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia. I am currently living in the Netherlands.

Jennifer Pauli

Innovation Consultant & Agile Coach

Jeremiasz Rzenno

Designer

I am a product / graphic designer. I was the co-founder of Have a Bite (a media startup) and I have been working with Ergo Design - a design and consultancy agency.

Jimena Garcia Mateo

Design Researcher and Service Designer

Jimena is a curious creative and change maker, passionate about improving people’s lives through design. She thrives on connecting with and learning from people, and on coming up with new and enhanced ways of doing things. She has vast experience in user research, creative facilitation and service design, having worked with multiple clients across varied industries. She works now as a Service Designer at wearereasonablepeople.

Joana Braga

Joana is a researcher, architect and intermedial artist. She coordinates and curates Topias Urbanas (Urban Topias), an artistic and urban research project which, combining a processual, collaborative and relational ethos with a discursive and reflexive dimension generates experimental and interrogative cartographies of the multiple layers that compose urban space.

John Stevens

Senior Lecturer at Royal College of Art

Dr John Stevens joined the Royal College of Art in 2013 to help launch the new Global Innovation Design MA. John’s research interests concern the application of design methods to emerging contexts of innovation such as service design, multi-disciplinary design and design management, especially applied to social, cross-cultural and humanitarian innovation. This necessarily encompasses the design of products, interactions and systems.

John Thackara

Writer, Advisor, Speaker

John Thackara is a philosopher, writer and advisor. He helps companies and cities design innovation platforms that benefit all life, not just human life. His most recent book (of 12) is How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today. John curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years, first in Amsterdam, and later in cities throughout India.

Julcsi Péterfi

special education teacher, 'tanoda' teacher at the Real Pearl Foundation

Julcsi has worked in the model village of the Foundation, in Told for 6 years. She joined at the very beginning of the Tanoda program during her university years as a volunteer. She now works with children from the age of 3 to 18, but her focus area is early childhood development, especially preschool programs and motor skill development.

Justyna Turek

Co-founder of Change Pilots

Designer, researcher, and initiator of the ideas. Creates processes, experiences and visual systems that allow brands, organizations, and events communicate integral value offered to their users. Her experience comes from working with design studios, product and service companies as well as design and culture centers in Paris, Helsinki, New York, and across Poland. Passionate about sustainable development, Human-Centered Design, and mindfulness.

Júlia Eszter Ürmösi

Brand manager

Karina Rachwał

UX Designer

I am an aspiring UX Designer and a novice user researcher. I am interested in people, their needs, and their problems. I'd like to use my skills and empathy to help design digital products. I also graduated in Architecture and Urban planning, which taught me a holistic approach to solutions.

Karolina Sielicka

Geoinformatics

Karolina Styczeń

Graphic designer

Kasia Zawada

Curatorial Practice

Kata Salamon

Katalin Zsuzsanna Nagy-Szabó

Business Analyst

Katarzyna Witkowska

Production Coordinator

An open-minded and optimistic thinker. Effective problem-solving mindset, resilient to things that didn't go as planned. A quick learner from any mistakes and failures. Constant willingness to learn and fast adaptability to change. Full of empathy.

Kitija Matisone

Service Management

I am a Service Management masters student at Copenhagen Business School with a focus on how to design services. Given my previous education experience in the Top Up bachelor degree in Digital Concept Development, based on Multimedia Design and Communication, I worked with user research, user experience, user scenarios, customer journeys, personas, service blueprints and storyboards.

Krisztián Kárász

Krstan Petrucz

Photo and Video

Krstan is a photographer, director and screenwriter. He took his first photo when he was 5. He directed ads, experimental movies, and television programmes. He has been practising ju jitsu since he was 13 and run several marathons. He has 2 children.

Károly Szántó

Founder & Strategic Lead

Károly is passionate about sailing, He holds a professional skipper licence and has 38 years of active sailing experience. Finding the next secluded bay is the ongoing motivation for him. He is the Founder of MandoLab startup incubator, and Co-Founder of CEEDAR sustainability and cleantech venture capital investment, and Co-Founder of MandoVentures Holding which is a consulting firm. Heartfelt local dishes, the wide-open horizon of the sea, the company of authentic people are some of the features of life that makes him happy.

Larasati Larasati

Experience Designer at Mirum Agency

Lesley-Ann Donnell

Social Design

I’m a designer and researcher who’s curious about people, society and the world we live in. My drive is to create a positive impact for the future through collaboration and co-creation.

Lewis Greener

Learning Designer and Facilitator

Lewis has worked internationally, across private and public sectors. From community-based outreach to formal youth work, arts outreach and structured programmes, working in roles that foster mutual learning and that can make meaningful change in individuals lives motivates him. Since moving to London 3 years ago he has been working freelance with lots of different projects and clients.

Lili Varga

Cultural anthropology

Lili Veszprémi

Pattern designer and illustrator