Peter Rössger is the founder and owner of beyond HMI/////. beyond HMI///// fo­cusses on creating knowledge on humans in autonomous driving, HMI concepts, us­ability and user experience for the automotive industry, the industrial internet, mobile machinery and software applications. They perform studies on markets, cultures, usability and user experience. Their strategic market analysis gives deep insights into automotive markets, the future of mobility, usability and user experience trends and technologies. The target is to lift their clients to new levels of business, success and satisfaction. They use their knowledge to develop HMI concepts for custom­ers. This includes development of strategic options, team coaching, development of scenarios, user journeys, use case identification, interaction designs and the roll out of specifications, among others. Peter is assistant professor for human factors at the International School of Management, at the Hochschule Esslingen and the Joanneum Graz (Austria). In 2017 he received the certification as a systemic management coach by the ICF. Until early 2015, Peter was business development director at TES Elec­tronic Solutions GmbH. During his 12 years with Harman Automotive he created HMI concepts for automotive OEMs like Mercedes, Porsche, Toyota, Hyundai, PSA, Ferrari, Chrysler and Harley Davidson. For Daimler, he worked 4 years in driver-vehicle inter­action. Peter holds a doctoral degree in human factors engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He published various papers on usability, user experience, cross cultural HMIs and autonomous driving. His first book was published on Amazon KDP in November 2016

As senior director of innovation management, Nils Lenke is managing a team focused on disruptive innovation within Cerence Inc. (previously the Nuance Automotive Divi­sion.) His team works especially on multi-modality of the HMI in the car, the cockpit of the future, and new hardware architectures. As part of this, Nils also manages technology partnerships and academic co-operations. He has a strong background in research: as a board member he is also represents Cerence Inc. as a shareholder at the DFKI, the German AI Research Centre – the world’s largest AI center. Be­fore changing into his automotive role, he had been coordinating Nuance corporate research for almost 10 years. In that period Nils was responsible for organizing the internal research conferences and orchestrating research activities on knowledge presentation, deep learning and voice recognition, as well as natural language under­standing and other technologies needed for AI-based virtual assistants. Nils has been with Cerence Inc./Nuance (before: ScanSoft) since 2003 after filling different roles at Philips Speech Processing for close to a decade. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Bonn for his thesis on “The communication model of AI research”, as well as a diploma in computer science from the University of Koblenz and a PhD in computer linguistics from the University of Duisburg for his dissertation in AI on natural language generation of paraphrases. Since this is clearly not enough, he also holds a master’s degree from the University of Hagen in environmental sciences. Nils currently holds nine patents and speaks six languages – including his native tongue German, as well as a bit of Russian and Mandarin. In his spare time, Nils likes hiking and scanning archives for documents on the history of science (especially astronomy and alchemy) in the early modern period.

Over the past 14 years within Valeo, Siav has contributed and created new user experiences in the automotive industry using smartphones as a car key or as a remote control to park your car. He designed and developed new car cockpits with the challenges of autonomous driving, whereas now, he is playing around connectivity and cloud technologies to design new remote experiences that can be enabled by 5G and cloud computing. With his intrapreneurship mindset, he is relentlessly pushing the boundaries of his company. But with great opportunities comes great challenges...     

Technology enthusiast, Siav has a singular approach on innovation, being at the crossroad between technology and user experience. 

Hamed Yahyaei is a senior UX, CX, Service & Strategic Designer at Scania Group; an elected representative & part of the Leadership working group at Scania Akademikerföreningen (AF); Core team member & co-founder of VW Group Digital Meetup. 

As a systems thinker and enterprise design thinking coach with more than 17 years of professional experience in different design areas, Hamed is involved in Design Leadership & Mentorship on a global scale via his various roles such as the Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) Europe Manager; IxDA Local Leader in Sweden; UX Mentor at Nielsen Norman Group; CX Mentor at CXPA; Service Design Global Conference Director at SDN; Service Design Mentor & Course Training Reviewer at Service Design College; Entrepreneurship & Innovation Mentor for MSc students at Lund University; Founder & User Group Leader of Miro Scandinavia; Global Goals Jam, Global Gov Jam, Global CX day, and World Interaction Design Day organizer in Sweden. 

He also won several awards like Best Visual Experience 2016 at OpenHack in Greater Copenhagen, VOLVO Innovation Challenge 2018 for Transportation of Tomorrow, and OpenHack 2018 Sweden First Place for Smart Cities & Sustainability.