Human-Machine Interaction

Strategy Director at frog. He aims to establish a human-centered, interdisciplinary process that creates desirable and sustainable changes in behavior and form. He believes that design is about applying contextual skills in non-traditional territories, which then yield non-traditional, creatively DESIGNED outputs. With a degree in Engineering, a Master of Fine Arts, and an MBA, over the last years he has engaged in diverse activities, from living on the streets of Amsterdam to running a punk mail order, to cofounding a FabLab (Fabrication Laboratory) and a Coworking Space that challenges standard modes of working. Alex Quack is often invited as a Guest Lecturer to share his work on design strategy and innovation at architecture, design, engineering, and business schools internationally.

Has over two decades of creative and business experience in various industries. He studied industrial design at Carleton University and sustainable architecture at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany. He co-founded the award-winning Vessel. He has lead design and innovation for the Adidas Group and Targus, managing diverse international cross-functional teams. Founder of Hundred Mile House, an architectural design and development practice based in California. Co-founder of SmithBarbeau, he drives creative leadership improvement for global brands and is also an adjunct professor at Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles.

Jamshid Alamuti is known as a disruptor, a passionate people development expert, and a transformation strategist.
His rare ability to bring diverse group of individuals together supports his unique concepts to wed technology and creativity, using innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership as platforms and vehicles for this journey. Jamshid Alamuti has an extensive and diverse track record, adding value to every project he gets involved in. After his early activities in music industry, his time in Art Colleague and travelling Europe and North Africa as a choreographer, Jamshid started his corporate life as the global Head of gedas Academy, and serviced subsidiaries worldwide, developing junior and senior management of VW Group that was later acquired by Telekom Training. His focus was on methodology development in sales, project management, change management and pre-sales consulting. His next responsibilities and challenges, in leading organizations such as Neuland Academy for Leadership, Frankfurter Allgemeine Business School or Berlin School of Creative Leadership, to name a few, remained all in the higher education sector as his focused remained on Entrepreneurship and how to use creativity and technology to design programmes.

Luis Villa, Strategy Director at Fjord/Accenture, considers himself obsessed about the human side of the business and the impact of technology on our lives, he helps clients creating a vision and action plans for their companies and business relationships. Experienced teacher, speaker, and Strategist, he has worked as a Senior Manager at international institutions such as World Economic Forum and Capgemini.

He is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in innovation. Besides being responsible for the overall administration of Translated, Marco is pursuing research in machine learning models for integrating machine translation in a human translation workflow. He invests in growth-stage technology ventures through Pi Campus.

Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Persol, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.

Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino.

He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions allover the world.

Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect,both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com.

Massimo is also the author of “Getting Started with Arduino” published by O’Reilly. He is a regular contributor to the italian edition of Wired Magazine and Che Futuro, an online magazine about innovation.

He currently teaches Interaction Design at SUPSI Lugano in the south of Switzerland and is a visiting professor at CIID in Copenhagen.

Sébastien plays an active role inside the startup district and venture fund Pi Campus, where he is Director of AI at Translated, and Faculty Director of the AI Programme at Pi School. After taking an Ingénieur degree from École Centrale Paris, and an MPhil in computer speech and language processing from the University of Cambridge, Sébastien spent 16 years in the speech and language industry in different European ventures. Moving on to machine learning and AI applications more broadly, he took a PhD in probabilistic machine learning with Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge.

A design entrepreneur and business strategist with over 20 years' experience in bringing consumer products to market, Stefane has worked with organizations ranging from Philips Consumer Electronics to OXO. In 2001, he co-founded the award-winning housewares and electronics brand Vessel, expanding it to a global product and retail business that was ultimately acquired by a Fortune 500 company. Stefane has advised on design leadership and customer experience for P&G, Mattel, Ray, Babson, Tufts and MIT. As the executive director for the Design Industry Group of Massachusetts (DIGMA), he has worked with Massachusetts success stories like Reebok, Zipcar, and IHCD to create a comprehensive plan for the economic growth of the state's design sector.