Geraldine Fitzpatrick is a Professor of Technology Design and Assessment and leads the Human Computer Interaction group at TU Wien in Austria. She is an ACM Distinguished Speaker, ACM Distinguished Scientist, IFIP Fellow, and IFIP TC-13 Pioneer. She has a diverse background, with a PhD in CS&EE (Uni of Queensland), an MSc in Applied Positive/Coaching Psychology (UEL), international experience in academia and industry, and academic development/leadership consultancy and training, and a prior career as a nurse/midwife.

Anke Jedrkowiak is Director „Key Account Manager for Digital Talents” and Director “HR Business Development” at Robert Bosch GmbH. She is with the company since 1998. From 2005 to 2018, she worked as Project Manager/Director for international research projects in the field of Internet of Things and Services in their Corporate Research department. Before she was system and software developer for vehicle dynamic systems and team leader in process improvement verification and validation. After graduating in electrical engineering from University of Siegen, she had worked as a Researcher at University of Duisburg-Essen on real-time simulation with Hardware-in-the-Loop for vehicle dynamic systems.

Michael Mlynarski is a Computer Scientist who by accident (or not) founded QualityMinds. He has around 20 years experience in Software Engineering, Testing/QA as well as Agile Leadership. His so called “Herzblut” is building high-quality products, technology trends and enabling people to growth. He managed to found QualityMinds and several startups in the past 10 years across Germany and Poland. On a private manner he loves mountains and motorsports.