Hatch Conference

Wolfgang is an award-winning design veteran with 20+ years of experience and a rare combination of design & product knowledge. He serves as Head of Design at Elli – A Brand of the Volkswagen Group. As a design leader in multiple Fortune 500 companies and highly funded startups, Wolfgang has managed global design teams and worked on products used by tens of millions of users in 190+ countries. Equipped with an entrepreneurial mindset, creative problem solving skills, and an excellent eye for detail, he drives product design & development and creates outstanding consumer & business products. In short, Wolfgang likes building products and simplifying people’s lives.

Maureen is a product designer based in Berlin, and owner of one of the most popular UX instagram profiles: ux.collection. She uses her experience to help newcomers learn UX/UI, and she does it by generating no fluff UX content to help designers navigate the challenges of switching careers and breaking into UX.

Tarek leads design and research at Blinkist, building the destination for the life-long learner. Before that, he built the first design and UX teams at an e-com scale up and worked with a number of startups and larger tech companies at a design & strategy agency in San Francisco.

Sarrah is a user experience design professional, speaker, and author with 15+ years of experience in design, development, and management. Since 2017, she has focused solely on leading, mentoring, and growing multi-disciplinary global remote teams in high-functioning organizations.

Sebastian is a strategic designer who loves to design brand-shaping positive human experiences, drive business growth and accelerate positive futures. He hosts the podcast Designdrives where he interviews design entrepreneurs and progressive design minds who gained their experience in design cultures like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Uber, Spotify, IBM, etc. In 2022, he founded Footprint, a company empowering companies and individuals to accelerate a sustainable future.

Founder of LEAP. ‘be the leap’ with an extensive previous career as Creative Director UX for IBM Studios, Senior Design Manager Qualcomm Inc. and Product Design Director for AJ&Smart. In 2019, he decided that he was going to go back to his original dream of actually creating his own boutique agency. Taking his learnings from AJ&Smart and the corporate design consultancy exposure from IBM and somehow combining the two is exactly where he sees LEAP.

An award-winning product designer in Berlin with an architecture background, creating products that will change human lives for good and help businesses grow. With years of experience in the field, she’s created and collaborated in diverse augmented reality and virtual reality projects.