Session Details

Thursday, 14 September, 11:00-12:00

d.note speakers:

• Sam Yen, SAP

It is impossible to ignore the fact that technology is changing how we live our lives. But technology alone isn’t the silver bullet that leads to breakthrough innovation. Exploring & identifying the right problem to solve is a critical component of the innovation process as well. Join Sam Yen, SAP’s Chief Design Officer as he talks about how Empathy & Human Centered Design principles can be used to discover the problems worth solving. A framework and methodology formalized as Design Thinking.

• Uwe Raschke, Robert Bosch: Applying Design Thinking principles to organizational design

Did you ever ask yourself what organizational design has to do with Design Thinking? Or why we would need to change at all? The starting point for answering those questions are 3 significant developments: Digitalization, demographic changes and the values by which the Generation Y lives. While each company needs to find its own way and respective solutions to organizational development and new forms of collaboration. The speech will cover elements which might generally be applicable. Design Thinking principles play a significant role as well. Also some insights on how Bosch tackles this challenge and what the major learnings are will be shared.

Thursday, 14 September, 12:00-13:00

Digitisation challenges all companies. It doesn’t only mean technical progress, it changes the way business is done: faster, with the customer in mind, on a global scale. Design Thinking is a method to come up with new, user-centric business models, but it is also a philosophy that requires you to think out of your own box. Therefore, more and more companies are incorporating Design Thinking into their operations, including many in the tech industry, which I cover for the German business newspaper Handelsblatt. It is highly interesting to watch how start-ups try to shake up markets with this approach while incumbents reinvent themselves.

Moderator: Christof Kerkmann, Handelsblatt

Panelists:

• Sam Yen, SAP
• Uwe Raschke, Robert Bosch
• Guillaume Alvarez, Steelcase
• Monica Dalla Riva, 3M

Thursday, 14 September, 14:00-15:00

The way we move from A to B constitutes an important part of our daily routine. Whether we prefer private or public transportation, it should be fast, safe, and convenient. Since the establishment of the common means of transportation in the 19th and 20th century, the requirements for mobility have increased. Transportation needs to become cheaper, more sustainable, safer and even more entertaining. As visions of driverless cars and connected infrastructure are becoming reality, we need to discuss technological challenges as well as problems for the mobility management of the future. Will we move in shared, autonomous vehicles enabling us to work and be entertained on our daily journeys? How can Design Thinking help expecting future problems and finding creative solutions to implement these visions? In this session, we will address approaches for the future of mobility and discuss how experts are bringing their innovative ideas to life.

Moderator: Franziska Krüger, Consultant for Business Design, User Centered Innovation and Digital Transformation

Speakers:

• Benedikt Groß, moovel lab
• Tino Klähne, Lufthansa Innovation Hub
• Inga Schlichting, Deutsche Bahn
• Jury Witschnig, BMW Group

Thursday, 14 September, 15:00-16:00

This session focuses on the place being one of the three pillars of Design Thinking—besides the process and multi-disciplinary teams. More and more companies start to re-design existing places or even set-up new spaces in order to support Design Thinking or the innovation culture of the corporation, in general. This session will offer different perspectives on corporate Design Thinking spaces, such as experiences from small and large corporations, scientific findings, as well as insights from a furniture company. We will tackle questions, such as how to best design Corporate Design Thinking Spaces, what are good and bad practices of such spaces, or what will be the future of Corporate Design Thinking Spaces.

Moderator: Martin Schwemmle, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program

Speakers:

• Julia Leihener, design akademie berlin, SRH Hochschule für Kommunikation und Design
• Judith Pfeiffer, Bosch Corporate User Experience
• Michael Held, Steelcase
• Anton Reinig, System 180
• Julian Jost, Spacebase

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

In times of proceeding digitalization, organizations and human resources managers are looking for new ways to optimize work across departments, countries and even continents. More and more organizations realize that they need to move from old analogue working cultures where individual performance is assessed to a more collaborative working environment in order stay to competitive and innovative. How can human resources departments become more flexible and accelerate their processes? How can HR teams make sure that employees identify with the organization’s overall strategy? In this session we will explore how human resources management can innovate itself by applying Design Thinking. We will discuss why Design Thinking enables HR managers to better understand the needs of executives and employees and ultimately helps fostering successful collaboration and fruitful team performance.

Moderator: Nina Buschle, HR Innovations Consultant

Speakers:

• Sarah Glate, Google Germany
• Katharina Heuer, DGFP - German Association for People Management
• Max Neufeind, Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs

Thursday, September 14, 14:00-15:00

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are important drivers for innovation and technological progress and therefore play a central part in modern economies. However, to stay competitive they need to engage in digital transformation processes and rethink their business models. In this session we will discuss how SMEs are applying Design Thinking to foster their innovative character. We will address questions such as: How do SMEs get in contact with Design Thinking? How have the panelists experienced their first contact with the method? 3. How did it change their way of thinking? And how did they manage to inspire their companies to use the method for their daily business (if they are using it)?

Moderator: Martin Talmaier, Hasso Plattner Institute

Speakers: 

• Claudia Dettweiler, Rehau
• Inga Kühn, BEOS Berlin
• Mito Mihelic, Viessmann
• Matthias Spanic, ALBA Management

Thursday, 14 September, 15:00-16:00

What is 'design thinking'? Coming from versatile backgrounds and different research foci, the panelists will shed some light on the origins and multi-faceted notions of this term. They will explore together what is so particular about "design" cognition and "design" ability and how this all is connected to the methodology and mindset of Design Thinking we know and use so naturally nowadays. Being both distinguished design researchers as well as practitioners themselves, they will not only discuss the current state of research and further promising avenues, but also give practical implications and insights.

Moderator: Katharina Hölzle, University of Potsdam

Speakers:

• Neeraj Satish Sonalkar, Stanford University
• Gabriela Goldschmidt, Technion Israel
• Anders Berglund, Cenox Solutions
• Bo Christensen, Copenhagen Business School

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

Martin Wezoswki, Chief Designer SAP Innovation Center Networks & Chief Innovation Office - ‎SAP

I have been loving and living design and innovation my whole career. I moved across a broad range of design disciplines from visual, interaction, usability, service to system design and to be leading design as a strategic endeavor. Right now, I am on the mission to map, build and inspire a future we want to live in. As Chief Designer and futurist for SAP's Innovation Center Network & Chief Innovation Office. I craft future outlooks, strategies and products, define and run innovation frameworks to find out what’s next for SAP and the future of work. I was named 1 of 100 most innovative minds in Germany by the biggest financial newspaper Handelsblatt in March 2017.
 
I frequently share my passion for the future of technology and design (TEDx, SingularityU Summit, CES, SxSW, Webit, Ada Lovelace, CeBIT, MOBx, Grace Hopper, SIME, MLOVE etc.) I build on my international adventures stretching from Poland, Sweden, China to Germany and across companies like SAP, Sony and Huawei, working with consumer electronics, media services and business software. There are probably very few Sci-Fi movies I have not yet seen, there are hundreds of forests I would love to mountain bike in and miles of coral reefs to dive on. Ask me about anything of the above and you will catch a spark in me eyes and possibly an interesting conversation.
 
Topic: “Let’s map, build and inspire a future we all want to live in”

We talk about change, but what are the mechanics behind it, the dynamics of change? How fast is it? What it means to be an innovator and designer is transforming faster than before, from classic product definition and styling of the superficial to system design of everything, including social and political systems, deeply rooted in a space of challenges and promises between cutting edge tech and humanism. In an increasingly exponential and converging digital-fueled change, we design a relationship, a behavior, that the product will follow. This exponential change is our most important innovation brief and the stakes are high, It is just too important to be left only to designers, or any single team. Technology is the human evolution this gives a new playground for “Human centered“-work, I call it the Humachine, a symbiosis between human creativity and empathy and machine intelligence, this opens new worlds for creatives in any occupation.

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-12:00

From its opening in 1919, the German Bauhaus changed the way we think about design and design education. Hands-on experience, interdisciplinary thinking, and a creative way of tackling the challenges of modern life were as vital for the Bauhaus as they are for Design Thinking and the HPI D-School. In this panel, architect Wolfram Putz (GRAFT Architekten), Dr. Alexandra von Stosch (Bauhaus Council@Bauhaus Archive/Museum für Gestaltung Berlin), design professor Prof. Katja Thoring (Hochschule Anhalt) and Van Bo Le-Mentzel (Hartz IV Möbel) discuss the links between Bauhaus thinking and Design Thinking.

Moderator: Christine Schnaithmann, HPI School of Design Thinking

Speakers:

Thursday, 14 September, 14:00-15:00

Not only private and non-profit organizations can benefit from Design Thinking. The human-centered mindset can also help organizations operating in the public sector. In this session, we will present and discuss best cases by governmental and political organizations that applied Design Thinking as a tool to innovate the way they approach their assignments, processes and missions.

Impact Hub Berlin will share how they further developed the new model for international development work cooperation together with the GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit) that replaces bureaucracy with user research, collaboration and Innovation: The "Lab of Tomorrow". The Lab sources innovation challenges in developing countries and matches organizations, experts and users to develop new business solutions. 

We will hear about an 18-month social innovation university project conducted by students from opencampus (Kiel) and HTW Berlin. Together with refugees they explored co-working with the principles of Design Thinking. Join us to learn about their Design Thinking process and findings and discuss social innovation and co-creation. 

Moderator: Steven Ney, HPI School of Design Thinking

Presentations:

• Innovating international development work through Design Thinking: Anna Lässer, Impact Hub Berlin

• DEIN RAUM - Design Thinking for Social Innovation: Birte Bösehans, Marzavan

• Scaling User-centered Design Government: Kara Kane & Martin Jordan, Government Digital Service

• Stakeholder engagement strategies through gamification: Ana Lacorte, Tekio

Thursday, 14 September, 15:00-16:00

Can data-driven scientific methods be combined with the creative mindset of design thinking? We think yes and prove it! Three panelists, three stories, three approaches. Learn how the BioThinking Program at Charité establishes true transdisciplinary interaction in research, how Nofima enhances collaboration and high impact with research projects, and how Innofo3D at Fraunhofer IOF applies Design Thinking for innovation processes and product development for technological sectors. What you will take away: how the challenge of compatibility of scientific and creative work can be overcome and how the gaps between mindsets can be bridged combining intuitive, agile approaches with rational, analytic ways of thinking.

Moderator: Arndt Pechstein, Biomimicry Germany

Presentations:

• BioThinking – Design Thinking for researcher in regenerative medicine: Andrea Scheer, Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, Charité Berlin & Felix Fischer, Coordination Einstein Center for Regenerative Therapies / BioThinking, Charité Berlin

• Design thinking and natural sciences – utilizing the best of both worlds to secure research funding: Antje Gonera, Nofima

• Our Design Thinking Journey: Reinhold Papst, Fraunhofer-IOF Jena

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

Increasingly change-makers are advocating for more sustainable and fair social practices. They employ social processes of innovation such as empowerment, co-creation and open source methods and make sure that their innovations have a social purpose and will make an impact. In this session, our speakers will illustrate the strong impact social innovations can have on civil society and business alike. Learn more about the Design Thinking journey of an interdisciplinary team of researchers that decided to promote Indigenous Rights in the Americas. Hear from the Melton Foundation about how they use Design Thinking to develop global citizenship competencies through experimental learning and how the method helps developing the sensibilities needed to change the world.

Moderator: Claudia Nicolai, HPI School of Design Thinking

Presentations:

• Sight without Vision: Lakshman Pachineela Seshadri, SAP
• FPIC.INFO - Tackling Knowledge Needs for Indigenous Communities in the Pan-American Region: Hector Pahaut, Indigenous Rights and Resource Governance Research Group & Pedro Poblete Lasserre, The Melton Foundation
• Design Thinking as a Tool for Global Citizenship Education: Pedro Poblete Lasserre, The Melton Foundation
• Changing the Way We Change the World: Niels Billou, The Humanos Institute

Friday, 15 September, 10:00-11:00

Speaker: Frederik G. Pferdt, Chief Innovation Evangelist, Google

Innovation cannot be forced or ordained - but it can be allowed.

How do you create a culture that allows radical thinking and makes innovation an integral part of the value system?

Technology accelerates at an exponential pace, leading us into a future much faster than we can anticipate. But each individual plays a role in determining what the future will look like. Your creativity is needed - now, along with a healthy disregard for the impossible.

Immerse yourself in the beliefs and practices that reinforce Silicon Valley’s thriving innovation culture. Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt will provide answers on how organisations can create a future-forward environment that encourages experimentation and meets the challenges of tomorrow, today. The founder of Google's Innovation Lab & "The Garage" will give an exclusive insight into how successful "innovation cultures" emerge and function. Learn how you can transform your organizational culture into one that allows innovation and helps invent the future.

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-12:00

Design Thinking goes global: In the past years a strong international network of Design Thinking schools has evolved. Renowned schools in the US, China, Malaysia, South Africa, Sweden, and Germany support each other, collaborate in research projects and engage in fruitful exchanges on the latest trends and developments in Design Thinking. What impact do cultural differences have on the Design Thinking mindset and process and what kind of approaches are developed in different cultural contexts? In this session representatives from international Design Thinking schools will share highlights of their learning journeys and discuss trends and issues for Design Thinking schools and their impact on an international scale.

Moderation: Claudia Nicolai, HPI School of Design Thinking

Speakers:

• Richard Perez, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design Thinking at University of Cape Town
• Bernie Roth, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University
• Xiangzhong Liao, CUC Communication University of China
• Dato Lee, Genovasi Malaysia
• Ivar Björkmann, OpenLab Stockholm

Friday, 15 September, 12:00-13:00

Technology is rapidly changing the way we live and work and presenting numerous opportunities to improve our learning environments. We need to let go of old education models and embrace a new learning culture that is project based, practical and applicable in diverse places and at different times. New education models need to consider that it is becoming more and more important to acquire skills and knowledge across disciplines. What are the characteristics of new learning models? And how can Design Thinking help to develop processes focusing on personalized, continuous learning channels? Let’s tackle these challenges together in this interactive session. Bring your theses and let’s design a new vision for the future of learning together.

Moderator: Marco Eisenberg, MINT EC

Speakers:

• Jörg Winterberg, SRH Higher Education
• Katja Hölttä-Otto, Aalto University
• Peter Spiegel, GENISIS Institute for Social Innovation and Impact Strategies
• Richard Schuhmann, Landing School of Boat Building and Design
• Matt Parkinson, Penn State University

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-15:00

In a more and more complex society with rapidly progressing technical developments, we need to fundamentally rethink the way we work. Organizations need to detach themselves from paradigms shaped in analogue times and embrace a digital and networked mindset. How can new workplace structures be created that foster a more collaborative and flexible working environment? What factors do organizations need to change in order to stay innovative and enable business competitiveness in the digital age? In this session our speakers will discuss the impact team collaboration has on innovative processes. How do working environments need to be adapted to unlock creative potential and enable employees to find solutions to complex problems.

Moderator: Ulrich Weinberg, HPI School of Design Thinking

Speakers:

• Steven Hill, political writer and columnist
• Reiner Hoffmann, Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB)
• Nancy Birkhölzer, IXDS
• Kim Dabbs, Steelcase

Friday, 15 September, 12:00-13:00

Humans are a uniquely creative species with outstanding achievements in fields such as science and art. What about human biology allows us to be so innovative? On the other hand, some people are clearly more creative than others. When can we expect to be creative, and when does our biology incline us to perpetuate conventional solutions? Join our discussion panel, where experts share their insights into the neurobiological underpinnings of creativity. Contribute your ideas when we discuss the application of neuroscientific findings in design thinking practice – and prospects for neurobiological creativity research based on design thinking experiences.

Moderator: Julia von Thienen, Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program (HPDTRP)

Panelists:

• Stefanie Faye Frank, New York University
• Sergio Agnoli, University of Bologna
• Manish Saggar, Hasso-Plattner-Institute of Design at Stanford University
• Caroline Szymanski, Max Planck Institute for Human Development

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-15:00

The ubiquity of information in the digital age won’t lead to the revolution we seek. We also have the responsibility of unlocking the potential of every student because the world in our times needs more rule-breakers, lateral thinkers, problem-finders, leaders and maker. Schools and teachers are perfectly positioned to take on this challenge. So let's discuss and share Ideas of how we can turn the schooling experience into a transformative and long lasting learning experience for the next generation.

Moderator: Elias Barrasch, Education Innovation Lab - Universität der Künste Berlin

Speakers:

• Evan Wang, Youth MBA China
• Christiane Bauer, SAPYoungThinkers
• Wilhelm Schaffitzel, Hohenloher Spezialmöbelwerk Schaffitzel

Friday, 15 September, 15:00-16:00

Large enterprises face similar challenges in adopting Design Thinking at scale: It ranges from building up a Design Thinking team, finding and executing the right projects end to end with a human centered design mindset, developing the next leap forward in their innovation programs, and exploring new business models for their services, inside and outside of their organisation. In this session, Design Thinking leaders from Daimler, Philips, SAP and Swisscom will share learnings, ups and downs from the past 12 months. The session is hosted by Design at Business, a network of change makers accelerating a people centric innovation approach across large enterprises worldwide.

Moderator: Maren Christin Mueller, SAP

Speakers:

• Daniel Biedermann, Daimler
• Maarten Rincker, Philips Design
• Andreas Hauser, SAP
• Angela Haas, Creaholic

Friday, 15 September, 15:00-16:00

For the first time, d.confestival and the Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes (Federal Government’s Centre of Excellence for the Cultural and Creative Industries) join forces to enrich the festivals program with presentations, discussions and networking opportunities in the realm of the creative industries. 

On 15 September you have the chance to attend a series of talks by inspiring entrepreneurs from the Cultural and Creative Industries. Following the motto 'drop your tools, think beyond methods' this Input Sprint reveals unique and exceptional stories about personal approaches to business development. Strongly driven by their inner urge to create, the actors in the Cultural and Creative Industries often develop alternative ways to produce, promote and distribute their products and services. In short inputs, the speakers share personal experiences from building up their companies. Following the input session, you are warmly invited to a Meet & Greet with all participants in the Networking Area on the bus.

Speakers:

• Christian Zöllner, THE CONSTITUTE: From local to global to local – meaningful circulation systems in arts & tech
• Leonie Pichler, bluespots productions: Form follows context – theater concepts with impact
• Christina Barleben, Thoughtfish
• Christoph Brosius, Why E-Mental-Health should feel like a game

As a facilitator, translator and match maker Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft creates and advances visibility for the relevance and value of the Creative Industries as a dynamic, highly adaptive and innovative sector. The entrepreneurs in the Cultural and Creative Industries – and especially the small and micro businesses – their ideas and innovative business models are the center of our continuous communication, transfer and networking activities.

Friday, 15 September, 12:00-13:00

Hear stories and cases of a diverse set of experiences; from cancelling meetings without user centricity over a year of capability building to small and huge steps into becoming an agile organization. These individual and company specific learning journeys with Design Thinking are told by three different customers of the HPI Academy. Triggered by the stories, the community shares their insights and opens up the discussion about applying Design Thinking and how the journey continues with and outside of the HPI.

Moderators: Katrin Lütkemöller Shaw and Selina Mayer, HPI Academy

Speakers:

• Ute Conradi, UCB BIOSCIENCES
• Andreas Bürgler, DB Station&Service
• Andreas Leinfelder, Robert Bosch Power Tools

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-16:00

Is Design Thinking a METHOD, a MINDSET or a specific CULTURE? All these different meanings are put into practice by Design Thinking Pioneers in various industries. Born in the HPI D-School’s Professional Track, the Hacking Jam is a platform where practitioners share how they applied or misapplied Design Thinking to overcome system-immanent hurdles. Their common goal: growing a human centered way of work, collaboration and value creation. Get inspired by 10-minute-stories of guerilla tactics that sowed the first seeds of change in their systems.

Moderators: Annie Kerguenne and Udit Bisht, HPI School of Design Thinking, Hedi Schäfer, Innovationgym

Speakers:

• Abraham Taherivand, Wikimedia Deutschland
• Julia Jantschgi, Integrated Consulting Group
• Katherine Ossenkopp, Sanofi
• Phillip Wagner, Deutsche Asset Management
• Sabine Gourmain, Danone Nutricia Research
• Todd Pope, B.Braun / Aesculap
• Sabrina Tiefuhr, Nord/LB
• Sabrina Steiner, Volkswagen

Friday, 15 September, 17:00-18:00

Moderator: Molly Wilson, HPI School of Design Thinking

Presentations:

• Design Thinking for butchers: Annika Kaiser, Coaeva

• Redesigning the Security Control Experience at Airports – The story of a multi-stakeholder project between human centeredness, safety & efficiency: Friederike Moeller, Airport Innovation Lab & Hauke Blohm, German Federal Police

• Designing the ways we design everything: Rui Quinta & Tiago Nunes, With Company

• Innovation to empower amputees: Lucas Paes de Melo, Amparo

Friday, 15 September, 17:00-18:00

The current economic and political reality is becoming increasingly complex, not just complicated. All systems based on human interaction, are complex by simple nature.  Preparing managers and leaders for this network based reality needs not just to transfer some new skills, but rather to support a transformation of mindsets. Transformation in our view means that we have to understand complexity and systemics, in order to use that understanding for creating solutions.  Solutions, in our view, contribute to a better world, an improvement of living conditions for all, and a more equal and fair world. A learning experience needs to develop a mindset to be comfortable to explore, understand and act in a hyper-complex world, disrupted by exponential technologies and a new societal reality, while becoming the entrepreneur and creator of sustainable, scalable solutions. How can we do this?

Speaker:

• Walter Baets, thecamp

Friday, 15 September, 19:30-20:00

Schools, organizations, governments, parents, entrepreneurs, and leaders around the world increasingly see creativity as key to their future. George Kembel believes we have the opportunity and responsibility to help steward the larger global shift already underway towards a more human-centered, collaborative, and creative culture.  But how do people learn and use creative strategies in radically different contexts and cultures? In his talk, George Kembel will share how he and his team want to bring more empathy and experimentation into people’s daily lives, transforming the organizations and communities they serve.

Speaker:

• George Kembel, dglobal.org

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-16:00

In South Africa we often work with diverse teams and continue to develop and prototype several activities that acknowledge and build on the different world views, experiences and meanings individuals bring to the collaborative space. Acknowledging and valuing these different perspectives is key to develop both innovative teams and products.

Speakers:

• Rael Futerman, HPI d.school at University of Cape Town
• Keneilwe Munya, HPI d.school at University of Cape Town
• Rob Kellas, HPI d.school at University of Cape Town

Friday, 15 September, 17:00-18:00

ThisIsDesignThinking.net is the largest web resource for case stories of design thinking implementation in organizations. In this session, we present you the juiciest bits from our collection: The pivotal moments in design thinking projects. How did a certain insight spark design inspiration? Which extreme user opened the eyes of designers? Next, we dive into your storytelling. Your design journey, insights and outcomes are very important to you – how do you share them with colleagues or customers, with novices and experts? Together, we will map your stories and share some rules & tools for storytelling.

Speakers:

• Jan Schmiedgen, Hasso Plattner Institute
• Karen von Schmieden, Hasso Plattner Institute

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

The theory of Design Thinking works great to come up with an innovative concept for a human need. The challenge is getting from the concept to implementing the solution. This workshop will allow you to collaborate with other DT practitioners to describe the work that needs to be done to move a user experience concept into a delightful solution.

Speakers:

• Andrea Anderson, SAP
• Joern Brueckner, Nestlé

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-13:00

Deep Empathy is an experience that invites participants (men and women) to live through specific situations in which they have the opportunity to observe and feel what thousands and thousands of women have to deal with everyday. Afterward the experience, participants will be able to create solutions that really generate impact.

For every Deep Empathy Experience we create three different sensorial objects:

WEARABLES to foster a physical relation with their bodies (body)
RELATABLES to foster the feeling of how is the relation with others (relation)
SITUATIONABLES to foster the situation in context (culture)

Speakers:

• Juliana Proserpio, Echos - Innovation Lab
• Ricardo Ruffo, Echos - Innovation Lab
• Mario Rosa, Echos - Innovation Lab
• Reinaldo Campos, Echos - Innovation Lab

Thursday, 14 September, 14:00-16:00

A participatory approach to needfinding helps us to develop our innovation challenges in a more assertive and efficient way. This workshop focuses on how we use participatory video to reach out beyond the usual workshop structure to include some of the world's most marginalised groups, ensuring  they are in control of defining their problems and designing new and appropriate social innovations. Come and experience participatory games and exercises which enhance group decision making and engagement. From collective Intelligence to the Margolis Wheel from the Name game to twist in frame - how can this innovative and participative use of video enhance the Design Thinking processes?

Speakers:

• Chris Lunch, Insight Share
• Andrés Bedoya, d.school Paris at École des Ponts
• Alejandra Ramirez, d.school Paris at École des Ponts

Thursday, 14 September, 14:00-15:00

We present a new and unique design-thinking based futuring workshop format, called Future Makers Workshop - An Innovation Approach for a Preferred Future. Our goal it to make this workshop a standard module in SAP’s innovation and co-innovation practice. In bundling design thinking, foresight, and innovation practices, we created a 1.5 days workshop that bridges the former distinct practices of futuring and innovation. It allows teams to seamlessly create their own future scenarios based on trend inputs by SAP and/or workshop participants and create innovation prototypes linked to these futures.

Speaker:

• Kai Goerlich, SAP

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-12:00

Falling in love with Design Thinking ultimately means that you want it to survive and thrive within your firm. Still, it seems that the same aspects that make Design Thinking so special can actually make it difficult to implement. Many of these aspects are linked to organizational culture. In this workshop you will learn how to use a cultural fit tool of Design Thinking in your organization and participate in an exercise that will support you in bringing Design Thinking to life and scaling it beyond a small initial team.

Speakers:

• Lisa Carlgren, Chalmers University of Technology
• Ingo Rauth, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, IE Business School

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-13:00

This workshop is for practitioners and researchers who want to explore intuitive decision making. With the introduction of Design Thinking into corporate environments the need for quick scaling seems to tighten the room for intuition within design processes. Many teams struggle to develop a deep and shared understanding for their users or simply lack the “guts” to follow their gut feelings. We will look at some well known methods and see how they enhance our intuitive decision making and why that is important.

Speakers:

• Bettina Michl, tiefenschärfe
• Robin Mehra, tiefenschärfe

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-16:00

Building on the Stories and Cases told earlier in “Design Thinking Stories & Cases”, we invite you to continue the started discussions in an informal setting. Discussion rounds allow conversions and a look behind the scenes of experts, major enterprises and role models in implementing Design Thinking by showcasing their experiences around Design Thinking throughout the last years.

Speakers:

• Katrin Lütkemöller Shaw, HPI Academy
• Selina Mayer, HPI Academy

Thursday, 14 September, 15:00-16:00

This workshop will help participants mapping the role of creative problem solving—focused on Design Thinking—within their work environments. The result will be a map of their current ecosystem which will help them to identify gaps, opportunities, and principles for further exploration. The session will be hands-on and interactive. We will begin by sharing existing maps and discussing patterns that emerged. From there participants will create their own ecosystem maps through a scaffolded exercise. Our goal is to help people taking a step back and seeing how design is (or can) affect the broader strategy of an organization.

Speaker:

• Adam Royalty, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University, Columbia Design Studio

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-15:00

As a new and innovative Upper Secondary School located in Copenhagen, Denmark, we strive to be the best school of innovation in Denmark. We work specifically to increase the level of innovative skills and mindset amongst all of our students. We aim to educate a whole generation to be creative and capable solution-oriented employers or employees in any business or organizational setting. Last year we received the “Teaching Entrepreneurship Award 2016” for our way of translating Design-Thinking into a teaching model for Upper Secondary Schools. Our workshop will demonstrate the different tools we use to increase our students innovation skills.

Speakers:

• Camilla Rye Jørgensen, Lyngby Gymnasium KNORD
• Thomas Hjelm Olesen, Lyngby Gymnasium KNORD
• Nana Henriksen, Lyngby Gymnasium KNORD
• Mathias Otzen Kruse, Lyngby Gymnasium KNORD

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

Designers, Futurists and Innovators ask themselves: How are ideas and innovations explored, designed, tested and iterated for future contexts? We tried something new: we combined the two approaches 'Foresight' and 'Design Thinking'. Foresight methodologies try to extend time frames: in a structured and systematic way alternative future scenarios are being defined. This gives a broader understand on how possible different futures might look like. The focus of Design Thinking on the other hand lies on the product. What happens when we bring the strengths of both approaches together? Stay tuned!

Speakers:

• Caroline Rudzinski, Volkswagen
• Bettina Maisch, Siemens Corporate Technology
• Ulf Pillkahn, FOM  University

Friday, 15 September, 17:00-18:00

The peer lab is an effective form of employing the knowledge, experience and intelligence of a group. In this slot, participants have the opportunity to share their individual professional Design Thinking challenge in small groups, and will receive feedback and ideas regarding next steps or solutions from each other. Participants will leave the peer lab session with a variety of perspectives on how to tackle their challenge, and learnings/experiences from other members of the Design Thinking practitioners’ community.

Speakers:

• Samuel Tschepe, HPI Academy
• Felix Hoch, HPI Academy

Friday, 15 September, 15:00-16:00

Redesign Democracy is an interactive format that allows participants to turn their political motivation into action. In a Design Thinking sprint, they identify a focus on what to change in today's problems of democracy, get in touch with people outside their filter bubble and build feasible solutions that can be implemented in their neighbourhood, city or country right away. So they will shift from the mentality to fight against something to the inspiration of creating their own solutions.

Speakers:

• Michael Metzger, d.collective
• Katharina von Sohlern, d.collective
• Jan von der Heyde, d.collective

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-12:00

A discussion panel with the audience and renown experts in the fields of design thinking and agile formats. We will discuss why design thinking & agile seem to be complementary from a strategic point of view and also how organizations have applied various combinations.

Speakers:

• Holger Rhinow, HPI Academy
• Jan Schmiedgen, Hasso-Plattner-Institute
• Abraham Taherivand, Wikimedia Deutschland
• Markus Andrezak, überproduct

Friday, 15 September, 12:00-13:00

Drastic political changes, navigating digitalization, or resource scarcity – we are surrounded by wicked problems. Using the Design Thinking (DT) approach, a user-centered framing of those problems, enables us to find innovative solutions rooted in the users’ needs. However, in an increasingly complex world, DT might need to take another look at the bigger picture. Combining DT with Futures Thinking to expand our view to a wider context and add a long term perspective may be an answer.

Speakers:

• Nele Fischer, Free University of Berlin
• Lilith Boettcher, 180 Degrees Consulting
• David Schrade, Airport Innovation Lab

Friday, 15 September, 11:00-13:00

When Design Thinking and Participatory Design meet, it is possible to transform the design process itself into an instrument for political solutions and decisions. This way Design Thinking becomes a powerful way to address issues of our local and our larger communities. While previously stakeholders often locked themselves in political conflict,  they now innovate and transform towards better futures.
We offer a deep dive into the field of participation and Design Thinking - including collaborative methods tackling questions like:

• How to design with rather than for stakeholders?

• How to design for sustainability in communities?
• How to interlink design processes and political processes?

• How to bring innovation and transformation to areas of political conflict?

Speakers:

• Jascha Rohr, IPG Institut für partizipatives Gestalten
• Hanna Ehlert, IPG Institut für partizipatives Gestalten

Friday, 15 September, 17:00-18:00

This workshop highlights the problem of systematic and structured consumer-centric explorative research in innovation design and new product development and introduces a hands-on structured method to identify customer hidden needs and generate unique consumer insights. The method is based on the streamlined Repertory Grid Technique that represents the cutting-edge approach in innovation management adopted by leading world companies. Incorporation of this powerful multidisciplinary method enhances the Design Thinking approach and offers limitless potential in business and product design for entrepreneurs, start-ups and big companies

Speaker:

• Marina Abrosova, permitto CONSULTING

Friday, 15 September, 15:00-16:00

Collaboration might be one of the most powerful resources for the future. Consequently, Design Thinking also received some attention in education to foster collaboration, empathy and creative problem-solving. But how do you get the most out of it? Schools have to follow specific regulations and mechanisms and are traditionally not close to Design Thinking methods. In schools, Design Thinking cannot yet be the “one method fits all”. In this workshop we will especially address teachers and suggest Design Thinking as a powerful method for schools. We will try to find out together, in which fields Design Thinking could be applied and which areas of education would be interesting to focus on. Additionally, we will share some best practice examples of Design Thinking in schools.

Speakers:

• Wilhelm Schaffitzel, Hohenloher Spezialmöbelwerk Schaffitzel
• Julia Primavera, Innoki
• Anna Ostwald, Innoki

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-16:00

Learn how to design an innovation culture in your team and organization. With coaching tools and techniques, "Leading for Innovation" helps you to empower your team members to think creatively and drive innovation.

Within Google's innovation framework, learn what you can do to build an innovative team:

● Prompt user focus by testing assumptions and building empathy

● Drive 10X thinking methods and facilitate radical, inclusive brainstorming

● Encourage rapid prototyping and fast failing to maximize learnings

Speaker:

• Julianna Burt, Google

Thursday, 14 September, 14:00-16:00

Newborn ideas aren’t usually the beautiful, coherent, powerful solutions we imagine them to be. More often they come across as unfinished, absurd or even ugly – and yet they can still contain the seeds of profitable innovations. In a fast-paced, highly competitive business context, these ill-defined ideas are often prematurely discarded by faulty screening criteria.

This workshop shows participants how to start an innovation journey by locating the elements and dimensions that form and define a design idea. Teams use We-Q in vertical brainstorming sessions to focus on fuzzy ideas, envision prototypes and discover possible testing scenarios. Bring your own idea or collaborate on someone else’s; expand your toolkit for taking a fuzzy idea to the next level.

Speakers:

• Alejandro Lecuna, HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences
• Katja Thoring, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
• Roland M. Müller, Berlin School of Economics and Law

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

As ways of working have changed over the last several years, workspaces must adapt as well. This hands-on workshop enables participants to lay the foundation for their own creative workspaces. Using a collaborative toolkit, thoughts are made tangible, spatial layout ideas are visualized and discussions about team values and behaviors are triggered. The toolkit is played in several steps, resulting in an envisioned creative space that fits the team it is meant for.

Speakers:

• Leonie Fremgen, SAP
• Alessandro Sposato, SAP
• Karen Detken, SAP
• Vera Geier, SAP

Friday, September 15, 17.00-18.00

Dive into the world of puppetry and find a common breath with your peers. Giving life to objects is a challenging process and we share our experience and the principles of puppetry and build the bridge how puppetry can change your team & organizational perception. Puppet Thinking is a revolutionary workshop approach linking the art of puppetry with agile collaborative team challenges to rethink collaboration and communication in a fun way: DUNDU means DU UND DU (You and You) and will be the inspiring tool in the impulse workshop: Creating an emotional connectivity and supporting the needs of the digital transformation through the analog haptic experience in motion.

Speaker:

• Fabian Seewald, DUNDU - The Giants of Light

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

Get to know the HPI Academy team and learn more about us, our projects and our experiences in facilitating innovation projects in different contexts.

The advisory team looks back at an extensive experience from various client projects and innovative teamwork. From 2013-2016 we have conducted a total of approx. 400 workshops with more than 8000 participants. Come to our terrace, let’s have a drink together and talk about Design Thinking!

Analogue Social Media is a fun and creative platform to reflect and express your d.confestival experiences. The installation offers a medium to interact in hands-on way, and share in just 140 characters your thoughts and ideas with the other attendees.

Speaker and coordinator:

• Sabine DeSchutter, DeSchutter Lighting Design

Recharge and reflect at our beer tent furtniture seating area in the shade of a big tree. Hanging from the branches: strings with loving thoughts about Design Thinking on colorful postcards, envelopes full of prototyping material and finished prototypes guests have already built. During the three days of the festival, the tree grows by getting filled with more and more love notes and prototypes.

Exhausted festival guests are invited to harvest either an empty love note or a prototype kit or even a finished prototype from the tree to reflect the day or their thoughts about Design Thinking. For writing snf building the beer tent furniture of the d.garten provides just the right place to either do it alone or with others, maybe even strangers.

• Stephanie Ries, HPI School of Design Thinking Alumni
• Katharina Kleiter, HPI School of Design Thinking Alumni
• Katharina Schwarz, HPI School of Design Thinking Alumni

Thursday, 14 September, 17:00-18:00

You may know tape as a tool of stage workers at concerts. But tape can be used in many more ways. In fact it is a multifunctional workshop tool. Use it to decorate, to structure and even in creative methods.

Speaker and coordinator:

• Matthias Lenssen, Innovation Radicals
• Simone Jogwich, Innovation Radicals
• Mayte Kappel, Innovation Radicals

Thursday, 14 September, 14:00-16:00

Improv Theatre is a form of theatre in which the actors improvise everything that happens on stage. There is no playbook, nothing planned ahead. For it to work the improv team needs to have a certain mindset. That is agile, empathetic and requires a "yes and" team that approaches new challenges with a positive attitude. And interestingly this is exactly how we want our Design Thinking teams to work. Collaborating in full trust that we will take the right steps once we’ll get there.

Speaker and coordinator:

• Janis Goldschmitt, Robert Bosch

Juggling is called metaphorically to keep things moving, continuously giving small impulses so that everything stays in circulation. Once something falls, it forces you to go on with curiosity, courage and the feeling of "you can do it". It means dealing with risk and learning inner strength and a self-confident attitude to look forward into the future. Juggling requires and promotes the right mixture of physical activity and mental concentration and also the willingness to gain new knowledge. The exercises are consecutive, impulses create a good learning atmosphere, small intermediate goals help to keep up motivation and curiosity.

Speaker and coordinator:

• Christine Oymann, Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft

How does it work: A participant uses an iPad to determine their learning style, based on Kolb’s Experiential Learning Styles.
• They cut a diamond-shaped template based on their results.
• The color of diamond they use depends on their discipline.
• They tape their diamond on an enlarged version of the diamond.

Speakers and coordinators:

• Mana Taheri, HPI School of Design Thinking
• Molly Wilson, HPI School of Design Thinking

Friday, 15 September, 14:00-16:00

Objectives
• The participants should simulate iterative product development in a "safe" environment
• Experiment with Scrum that means in more detail: experiment with self-organization, cooperation, communication, stress, understanding, respecting people, teamwork, creativity, productivity
• Show effects of continuous improvement by having retrospectives and iterations
• Fun

Speakers and coordinators:

• Nora Schuler, Siemens
• Till Richter, Siemens

Failure frequency is an interactive performance combining storytelling, live analog Failure frequency is an interactive performance combining storytelling, live analog synthesizer tweaking, and live visual scoring. Failure Frequency is inspired by the concept of fuck up nights adding the essential artistic aspect of failures: Mistakes as gatekeepers for future beauty. Creativity as the art of making mistakes.

Speakers and coordinators:

• Ariel William Orah, Luftmenschen Klangwerk
• Maximilian Kupi, Luftmenschen Klangwerk

An interactive art exhibition showcasing one year of post-its from the HPI School of Design Thinking. Play and build on the ideas of others, unearth a challenge by interacting with others and experience a fun and
alternative approach to idea generation. The exhibition contains more than 20 kg of Post-its from D-School Students!

Speakers and coordinators:

• Scott Wiese, HPI School of Design Thinking

This is an innovative game, which we created together with our students and clients for trend-watching
and future forecasting while on a strategic or Design Thinking session dedicated to creating new
products and services. Using a deck of playing cards with 5 types of trends (political, technological,
economical, environmental and societal) and a playing field two teams play "against" each other trying
to create as many future scenarios for the product or service, as possible.

Speaker and coordinator:

• Maria Stashenko, Wonderfull laboratory
• Sergey Komardenkov, Wonderfull laboratory

In this workshop, we will provide a compact yet compelling framework for pitching an idea visually. By practicing the framework in the workshop, participants will get a deep understanding of the required ingredients of a successful pitch and learn how this approach can be used for efficient communication in and outside the team.

Speakers and coordinators:

• Johanna Wittig, SAP
• Tatjana Borovikov, SAP
• Felix Harling, SAP

Can a playful activity make you more present?
Is it possible to shake off shame or fear in a random group in just 5 minutes?
Join us and find out!
Our warm-ups make participants to wanticipiants. You will feel more fresh and energized for the inputs.
Where and When?
You will hear us — a megaphone is a megaphone.
We will make you mooove!

Coordinators:

• Donia Hamdami, Lecturer, Industrial Design & Design Thinking Coach
• Andi Mueller, Improv Trainer & Design Thinking Coach

I am Rope. I am a rope. I am 213 foot long and 12 inch thick. I weigh 432 pounds. It would take eleven people to carry me. I am made from 1,4 miles of polypropylene ribbon braided around a foam core. I was born in April, 2017. A team of five hand-braided me in thirty-eight days. I think it was somewhere in Leuven, Belgium. It is a confusing experience, being braided. They made me absurdly big, bigger than all the other ropes. I just don’t know what to do with myself. I am traveling to explore new possibilities. You may use me for anything. You can create a wall with me. A pavilion. A museum. A giant shadow. You can use me to upset people or to create bewilderment. You can sit and relax on me, play an XXL game of tug-of-war, or take me on the train to a distant city and back. Do something with me.

What might be the future role of Design Thinking in organizations? In order to explore the possible futures of Design Thinking we want leverage the diverse perspectives and experiences of the community. Let us collect, discuss and map the trends and driving forces that are impacting your work on human centered innovation. We use those inputs to create a set of scenarios depicting how the practice of Design Thinking might develop and change in the future. The result will be shared with the community.

Coordinators:

• Astrid Möller, openmjnd
• Stefan Latt, openmjnd

What does a room require to turn into an inspiring space where creative workshops can be held? After years of working in plain conference rooms with rickety flipcharts we started looking for a way to transform corporate meeting rooms into creative spaces. Having the needs of Design Thinking professionals in mind we developed a series of lightweight furniture consisting of a whiteboard, a standing table and stools. The clue about it: all furniture fit in a transportable box and are super easy to set up. At the d.confestival we present our prototypes and invite you to try them out.

Coordinators:

• Astrid Möller, openmjnd
• Stefan Latt, openmjnd

The Global Design Thinking Association (GDTA) is a network of institutions that teach, research and further develop the methods and mindsets of design thinking. This world-wide network of institutions promotes excellence in Design Thinking education and research. The aim is for the GDTA to become the global platform for the exchange, debate and exploration on best practices in Design Thinking education, training and research. The GDTA enables encounters and creates learning opportunities for both experienced and aspiring Design Thinkers from a wide range of disciplines. In this way, the network will facilitate the lively debate needed to inform and drive the development of Design Thinking education. By extending, strengthening and deepening the collaborative ties between educators and practitioners of Design Thinking, the association will create a suitable institutional framework to accelerate this global exploration.

Yoga Thinking is a mix of yoga, meditation and design thinking. The user centered innovation potential of the latter is being combined with breathwork, visualisation exercises and body asanas from Hatha and Kundalini Yoga. The result is a unique experience, where the analytical actions of the mind are enriched by soothing and energising yoga techniques.

Coordinator:

• Galina Emelina

Interested in looking at Design Thinking from a scientific point of view? Drop by at our Lab, learn about research results and inspire future studies with your ideas about what we should look at. Design Thinking Research studies innovation as a holistic phenomenon from a multiplicity of perspectives. It delivers valuable insights for practitioners by looking into the fundamentals of how DT works, when it works and when it fails. Visit us in the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Lab! Dive into exhibits and workshops, seek exchange with our researchers who are looking forward to learning about your views.

WHAT TO EXPECT AT THE DESIGN THINKING RESEARCH LAB The Design Thinking Research Lab at d.confestival is the place where researchers and practitioner meet.It is the central contact point where you can learn about the different aspects of Design Thinking, and its applications in various fields. It offers the unique opportunity to meet and exchange with the international community of junior and senior researchers in the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program and to actively contribute to our work, and the knowledge about Design Thinking to be created in the future.  The program is designed around three aspects of Design Thinking Research:

• Design Thinking Research & the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Community - meet us and learn more about our findings from the past 8 years of Design Thinking Research and find out what we're currently working on. For the d.confestival, our researchers visualized the database of their program providing a retrospect of the last years in Design Thinking Research: Trace the projects they started, the people that were involved and the results they found! You may also experience the tangible outcomes of our research in the prototype gallery - from card decks to patient-doctor interaction settings.

• Hot Topics in Design Thinking Research and Practice - get involved into active discussions about hot topics in Design Thinking that matter to you and us. Our researchers are curious to hear your opinion and learn more from you! Our research community identified several “hot topics” around Design Thinking and invite you to join the discussion in moderated sessions of 45 minutes with up to eight people per topic. Additional “hot topics” and “burning questions” will be collected from visitors at d.confestival who are then invited to host a session themselves. This is your platform to not only share your knowledge and opinion but also to connect to those you may want to continue the discussion with throughout the D-Confestival and beyond.

• Design Thinking Research Life - contribute actively to our research and have an impact on future knowledge about Design Thinking. Within interactive workshops members of the international community of senior and junior researchers from our program invite you to experience and contribute actively to their research by sharing your experiences and knowledge and/or providing feedback to current findings and tools. In exchange you will gain insights in and learn about most recent findings around different research topics such as Design Thinking and space, education, health and much more.

Thursday, 14 September, 19:30-22:30

Join us on Thursday evening for a festive gala reception in our big top to celebrate 10 years of the HPI School of Design Thinking!

• Laudation: 10 years of HPI School of Design Thinking - Hasso Plattner, Bernie Roth & Larry Leifer
• Welcoming speech: Albrecht Gerber, Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy Brandenburg; Steffen Krach, Permanent Secretary for Higher Education and Research of the federal state of Berlin
• Launch Global Design Thinking Association (GDTA): Steven Ney, HPI School of Design Thinking
• Concert by musicians of Kammerakademie Potsdam
• Get-Together

Friday, 15 September, 20.00-20:45

• Improv theatre frei.wild
• Closing words: Christoph Meinel and Ulrich Weinberg