Dr. Michael Mischke, Germany

Keynote Lecturer

Dr. Michael Mischke is originally a boy scout and translated these skills and his enthusiasm into studies of Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Sociology and Engineering Psychology. He wrote his PhD in a contract for AUDI AG on handwriting recognition and multimodal interfaces for cars.

After setting up an internal service agency for HMI in the Volkswagen Group Research and altogether 10 years of industrial experience he left the corporate world to become a Berlin based Strategist and Storyteller for Human Machine Interaction, focusing on ecogood economy, digital networks, online collaboration, urbanization and mobility.

As a founding member of the WECHANGE e.G. he supports NGOs and social innovation startups from Berlin and all over eastern Europe with trainings and coaching in digital collaboration, storytelling, and networking. The digital platform WECHANGE.de provides tools for digital networking and collaboration to more than 10.000 volunteers. As a freelance UX Strategy consultant Michael worked for BMW, Volkswagen of America (ERL}, the Institute for Participatory Design in Oldenburg and the sinnwerkstatt Medienagentur GmbH, he holds numerous patents on interaction patterns and has broad experience in Service Design, participatory design processes and leadership development.

Michael joined PCH INNOVATIONS in 2015, leading long term projects and focusing on urbanization, innovation facilitation and strategy development for mayor brands. Michael Mischke is voluntarily engaged in the following groups: Junge Osteuropa Experten, Bund der Pfadfinderinnen und Pfadfinder, German Usability Professionals Association e.V.