Intersection Conference

Alastair Somerville is a sensory design consultant. He provides expert advice on cognition and person-centered design to companies and public organisations who provide both physical and digital products or services. He facilitates workshops on sensory and emotional design for major conferences and corporations, including SouthBy Southwest (SxSW) and Google. 

Marc is a digital designer, researcher and AMVR creator with  a degree in Cognitive Systems & Interactive Media. He turns visions into meaningful, perceptible artifacts. Throughout the years he shaped the design of web shops and apps, the conception of AI-based services, and the development of mixed reality games for kids with autism.

Mey is a Software Engineer, a Public speaker and a Mentor.
When she is not spending her weekends coding games or speaking at tech conferences, she experiments with algorithms or playing Super Mario Bros. in Nintendo Switch.
Mey is a sworn star wars fan. May the force be with you

Filippo Elgorni studied physics and worked as a videomaker. His dedication for math and his passion for visual communication found a common ground in the field of data visualisation. He currently works at Accurat as a developer and scientist.

Federico Del Gaudio is a software engineer at Accurat where he develops complex data-driven interfaces.
Previously, he worked as a full–stack developer for enterprise–level applications and as a UX/UI designer.
Always passionate about interaction between technology and art, he enjoys live coding music and video.

 Australian born, Berlin based. Adam has worked with everyone from Indigenous Australians to corporate Austrians. His previous roles include companies like Zalando, IXDS, Factory Berlin, Telekom and more, in these roles he has been able to facilitate meaning, purpose and drive vision. He is now also the co-host of SDD Berlin and loves to talk about the more human side of life. 

Graduated with full marks in Economics and Social Sciences from Bocconi University in Milan and Keyo University in Tokyo.
From 2020 he is CFO and Co-Founder of Reasoned Art, the first Italian benefit start-up company entirely dedicated to crypto art.
In 2022, he was included among the 100 under 30s of Forbes Italy.

Sara is the Head of Customer Experience for Tech Operations at ThoughtWorks, a globally distributed team of 500+ people. She led the Design Strategy for the pluriannual Global Program “Empowering ThoughtWorkers Growth“ to redefine a holistic experience to support the continuous development of 7000+ employees in 14 countries.

Giulia Calabretta, Ph.D., explores the intersection of (strategic) design, management, and innovation, and has been published in several academic journals. She is the co-author of the successful book "Strategic Design" and of the recently published book "Design Leadership Ignited: Elevating Design at Scale". Giulia plays an active role in the creation of effective design leadership education for the future.

Claudia is a Service Designer at Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale, the Italian government team that aims to improve digital services within the Public Administration. 
She believes in the power of communities and peer collaboration, thus she built the Service Design community in Milan.

Tiziano is a young independent mobile apps developer that at the age of 11 years old he was officially recognized as the "Youngest Official Apple Developer in the World" during the iOS Tech Talk World Tour 2011 organized by Apple. He is currently working for A2A as tech lead and junior solution architect in a new R&D unit: the PulsarHub. Tiziano is very passionate about digital technologies, especially when applied in the public sector. 

Matteo is a multidisciplinary creative and entrepreneur. He worked as a UX designer and Art Director for international brands such as Samsung, Whirlpool, OnePlus, FCA Group, Philip Morris. Author of award winning creative products Intùiti, Fabula and Cicero and founder of Sefirot Independent Publisher. He founded UXBox, an online academy that delivers the most advanced online UX design course in Italy.

He works on design research and product definition, designing interactions for a wide range of digital channels with constant attention on finding the sweet spot between users’ needs and business feasibility.

Since 2020 he has participated in teaching activities at TAG, IED and Unito.

Giulio is a Frontend Developer at Hinto. Initially trained in London as a classical pianist, he decided to take up the challenge and retrain to join the tech world.

He enjoys the creative side of development and is constantly researching and practicing new ways to create more visually-pleasing, interactive, and intuitive experiences.

Product Manager Director at frog Milan Centre of Excellence, works with client stakeholders and partners to define features and priorities along the different phases of the product development life cycle, building up the product roadmap and planning releases, with focus on getting the best DesignOps process setup.

Design Director at frog Milan Center of Excellence, passionate about bringing to market meaningful experiences to enhance user’s everyday life.
In his 15+ years of experience with Product Design Innovation and User Experience, Guido has delivered effective products for a wide range of global clients across different industries.
 

Physicist with a passion for getting people together and collaborating on things greater than themselves. He specialized in open source strategies and tactics, worked with design teams around the world and created small pieces of open design himself. He is currently leading the Developers Italia team within the Digital Transformation Department of the Italian Government.

Giulia currently works in A2A as a digital project manager and business development analyst. She has always been involved in the world of digital marketing and not only in the utilities sectors. With experience also in events and in the creation of advertising campaigns, she believes in the power of well-done communication to change things.

More than 20 years of experience in the IT market, he switched his role from pure IT to the startup world in 2015 and he met Atlassian. He moved to the Netherlands in June 2021 to Join Atlassian team. Now, as Channel Manager Southern Europe he’s helping partner and customer to adopt Atlassian tools.

Raquel is Channel Manager for Spain, Portugal and Israel at Atlassian and she started her career in the marketing and communications more than 10 years ago. She’s passionate about how new technologies and how innovation can shape and improve the future of any industry.

Grant MacInnes is Reseller Channel Manager at Usercentrics, the company behind Cookiebot CMP. He is committed to helping partners and their customers respect their users' privacy rights whilst protecting their advertising revenue and keeping their websites compliant with the latest privacy legislation.

Reshika Fernando is native from Sri Lanka but moved to Italy when she was 10. Since a young age she has been fascinated by visual communication and its great impact on people. During her years in high school studying in the Communication Technology, she has come across the concept of “Web Designing”: she fell in love and decided to study a degree in Communication and Graphic Design.

Back in 1992, when Andrea was only 5, his father brought his first computer at home. It was a 386 with Windows 3.1: the first time he turned it on is something unforgettable in Andrea's mind. From there, nothing could stop him from building stuff on a computer. He loves to be part of the tech community, programming enterprise web applications with a huge impact on customers and helping them to facilitate their job.

Richard has been the Technical Support Lead for Cookiebot Consent Management Platform since 2019. He has more than 20 years of experience in Application Development and an additional 5 years of experience in Technical Support. Richard's core competency is finding solutions to complicated issues and relay them in an understandable manner to partners or customers directly, or by writing guides and/or technical documentation.