Markus is founder and partner at einszueins architektur. In addition to 12 years of experience in the planning and execution of residential construction projects of various scales, he has advanced training in the field of mediation and community building. He has experience in dealing with small and large group processes, from process design and communication to the moderation of workshops and working groups. As an expert on the subject of "Baugruppen“ (co-housing) and participation in planning, he will present at the summit the case of Gleis-21 co-housing project. The motto of doing the co ..read more

Tõnis Arjus is the Head of the Department of Sustainable Urban Planning and City Architect of Tartu, Estonia. He has been the City Architect for the last ten years and has been active in public space and sustainability dialogues. Tartu has been granted several annual national architecture awards and other successfully managed proposals, gaining much attention in Estonia. Tõnis will base his assumptions on historical examples and bring out a success story from the best practices of the City of Tartu. For the last three years, Car-Free Avenue has been a part of the summer in Tartu. What are t ..read more

Tomomi Sasaki is a designer and partner at the independent design studio AQ, bringing product strategy, design research and facilitation skills to customer and employee experience challenges. She is interested in how we design the conditions for independent-minded individuals to grow and thrive together. At Design Thinking Tallinn, Tomomi will have a keynote to start off the final panel discussion session. Co-creation is supporting teams in development activities and decision-making. What are the crucial bridges that need to be built between different parties to achieve and implement resu ..read more

Pärt works as a service designer at Nortal. His role is to connect the dots between different stakeholders in – mainly public sector – projects. Pärt loves the process of bringing clarity to complex problems. To do so, he combines his visual expression skills with theoretical knowledge gathered from MA studies in culture theory and semiotics. He believes it is all about the effectiveness of project communication when struggling with wicked problems. At the summit, Pärt will speak about using empathy for improving project communication, and as an intro, he opened the topic a bit more. In our ..read more

Juho is the Director of Design at Miltton, the creative consultancy in Finland. He has extensive global experience with over 20 years of product and service design, design management, innovation acceleration, and design-driven transformations from multiple international organisations, including Google, Zalando, and Nokia. He has also been a prominent design leadership and change management coach in Finland and internationally. We are so glad to have Juho as the host of Design Thinking Tallinn 2022. You joined Miltton quite recently, in April. What has been your first impression as a design ..read more

J. Paul Neeley is an American Designer & Researcher based in London. He consults with organisations in Speculative Design at Neeley Worldwide and teaches these approaches at the School of Critical Design. He has worked across a variety of industries and explored topics from AI, VR, and synthetic biology, to wellness, civility, future mobility, and climate change. At the summit, J. Paul will discuss the New Kind of Design, outlining new approaches to design practice with new frames and methods to address the complexity and computational irreducibility in design and business. Which stage ..read more

Tom Morgan has been an independent product designer, consultant & Senior Lecturer of Design Management and Creative Leadership, and is now a brand strategist and the Managing Partner of ANTI in Bergen. A multidisciplinary agency with studios across Norway; working across design & advertising, technology & business development, TV & film production. Tom shared a very specific and unique process of developing Ventizolve - a drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdose - by involving users, drawing on a great deal of academic research, anecdotal insight and a wide spectrum o ..read more

Sarah Schulman is a Founder of InWithForward, and its Social Impact Lead. As a sociologist, Sarah is fascinated by what makes individuals, families, and policymakers tick. She’s worked with federal, regional, and local governments in 6 countries to shift how policies are made and measured. Her experience working within bureaucracies sparked her interest in redesigning them. At the summit, Sarah will share her experience in designing impactful social solutions. The aim of design thinking and your approach to Grounded Change is to change the order in which most social policies and services a ..read more

The theme of 2021 conference was to decipher and explore how to manage design processes in business so that growth opportunities open up through new user-centric solutions and that the design investments prove profitable. That's why we invited Stefan Moritz, McKinsey's design director, to open the conference. Stefan explains from a personal experience why companies that take design seriously are twice as successful as others. According to "Leading by Design" survey conducted by McKinsey in 2018, there is a strong link between design and outstanding business results, and the potential for desi ..read more

Agne has worked in market and user research for over 20 years. She currently leads the customer and market research department at Pipedrive, where she has worked for almost 4 years now. Prior to Pipedrive, Agne worked for the research company Kantar Emor, where she advised clients from various fields, led the media strategy department at different times, and later, managed the client strategies department. Agne has a lot of experience especially in the field of market research. Working at Pipedrive has added a decent experience in the field of UX. There is a principle in Pipedrive - everyone ..read more