Thomas Ogilvie has held a number of management positions over more than fifteen years with Deutsche Post DHL Group. He joined the company in December 2001 with the Market Research Service Center (MRSC) at Deutsche Post Consult GmbH. He then went on to hold a number of product and business development roles within the Post & Parcel division, taking over the newly created role of Senior Vice President for Private Customers and Online Strategy, DHL Parcel Germany, in 2011. In January 2016, he was appointed Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Deutsche Post DHL Group.
Since September 2017 Thomas Ogilvie has been appointed Member of the Corporate Board – Human Resources.
Thomas holds a Diploma in Psychology from University of Bonn in Germany, and a PhD. Economics from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Thought Leader | HR Innovator and Strategist | COO | Digital Transformation Executive

In 2021, Dr. Christian Schmeichel assumed the role of SVP and Chief Future of Work Officer, leading SAP´s newly created global Future of Work organization. In this role, he is responsible for driving SAP’s holistic Future of Work agenda – focusing on leading-edge people practices and innovative workplace approaches for SAP’s more than 100,000 employees across the globe to continuously attract and retain the best talent in the industry.

From 2019 to 2021, Schmeichel served as Head of HR for multiple SAP Board Areas including the Office of the CEO, Technology & Innovation, and Global HR, where he and his teams designed business focused people strategies to help drive SAP’s own business transformation across talent, leadership, and culture.

From 2015 to 2018, Schmeichel was COO for HR, where he led SAP’s HR transformation aiming at best-in-class employee experiences for SAP’s global and diverse workforce utilizing advanced people technology and analytics. Previously, he held various global and local management positions such as Head of HR Strategy, Programs and Processes, and Head of HR at SAP Japan Co., Ltd. based in Tokyo.

Prior to joining SAP in 2005, Schmeichel worked as a Strategy Consultant advising clients on how to improve organizational performance and effectiveness. He is considered an expert on the topic of future of work as well as global HR transformation programs in the era of digitalization.

Being a global citizen who has worked and lived in Asia, Europe, and the US, he currently lives with his family close to SAP’s Headquarter in Heidelberg / Germany.

El Cavanagh-Lomas is VP for People & Communities for Cisco EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) and APJC (Asia Pacific, Japan and China) regions. She leads the business partnering and country consulting support to all functions within the regions ensuring the alignment of global & regional strategy. She is passionate about driving business outcomes which have the employee experience at the heart.

El joined Cisco in April 2010 as part of the acquisition of Starent Networks. Prior to joining Cisco and Starent, El spent 8 years with Aspect Software.

El is FCIPD qualified, with a BSc. Honors in Law & German and is an Employment law expert for the EMEAR Region. El is also a qualified Business and Performance Coach and an NLP Practitioner and has a passion for the development of HR professionals.

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Roopesh has 20+ years of joy as a Talent Acquisition Leader and believes that the best is yet to come. At present he has the privilege of leading the Global Executive Talent Acquisition teams for all Uber businesses worldwide. Roopesh has had the fortune to work with incredible leaders who have pushed and challenged him over his career working for amazing brands such as SAP, Workday, Expedia and VMware. Building teams that have tangible impact and help to create optimal experiences at every touchpoint of the hiring process, that's the goal. A magnifying lens on inclusivity and data driven strategies have been the common thread across all that he has done whilst making sure to have fun along the way.

Danielle Jones-Hunte is an agile storyteller with over a decade of executive experience in marketing and communications.
She led the people and culture communication for the largest transformation in bp’s history and was the communication strategist for the agile transformation of the company’s Upstream business. Danielle has also led and coached teams on 3 continents while working for multinational corporations, conglomerates changing India and start-ups poised to change the world. She now leads the global employee advocacy efforts for bp – harnessing the passion of teams across the globe to reimagine energy for people and the planet.
In addition to her corporate pursuits, Danielle is also an author, television host, university lecturer and a motivational speaker. She has designed for a fashion label, was a finalist at Miss Universe, has been featured on reality TV and is a passionate advocate for breast cancer awareness.
Danielle holds a Master of Arts in Communication and Culture from Howard University and has a certificate in leadership from Stanford University but is most proud of her role as a wife, boy mom and career coach. Danielle is a proud Trinidadian who and is always up for a conversation about culture over great cuisine.

Nandani Lynton has lived and worked in India, the US, Germany, Denmark and China and more briefly in 40 further countries. With experience as a successful entrepreneur, a business school professor and consultant, and senior leader in two major conglomerates, she develops inclusive work cultures in which both people and sustainable business to thrive. Lynton is now global head of Organisational Growth at Siemens Energy, focused on transformation, culture, inclusion & diversity, and leadership development. Previously Lynton led Siemens Leadership Excellence and developed a high performance leadership culture at A.P. Moller-Maersk.

Her popular publications include articles on the issues facing European companies in China (Zeitschrift für Politische Beratung 2009), on dilemmas facing Chinese Executives (Harvard Business Review 12/05), on what differentiates highly effective expatriates in China (Organizational Dynamics 5/06) and a column on Businessweek.com. A frequent public speaker, her engagements have included presentations at the Conference Board and at three World Economic Forum’s China Business Summits.

Armin is a professor for human resource management at the top-ranked business school of Furtwangen University. Beyond being an engaged teacher, Armin is well known as a thought-leading author, inspiring keynote-speaker and trusted advisor. He is committed to a new and modern way of human resource management. In times of digitization, talent shortage, and knowledge economy, he is deeply convinced about the urgent need for new solutions to long lasting people-related challenges. Through his work, Armin makes make a valued contribution to this important field.

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Sander joined ING in 2018 as their first Head of Global Employee Experience. In this role, Sander is responsible for a differentiating and consistent employee experience within ING. With almost 20 years of experience in Marketing and Talent Acquisition roles Sander has delivered numerous customer and candidate experiences. As ING is globalizing People Services, it is Sander’s responsibility to design experiences that are personal, smart and easy and that will contribute to an engaged and high performing organisation.

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Ms. Gustetic is a senior executive who architects innovation systems for impact.
Currently she is the Director of Early Stage Innovations and Partnerships for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. In this role she leads a portfolio of technology programs that engages diverse sources, creativity and innovation across the country, awarding more than $300M in funding annually through prize competitions, SBIR/STTR, research grants , internal innovation team projects, advanced concepts studies, and technology transfer. She is also a founding co-chair of the Partnership for Public Service's Innovation Council (2018-today).

Previously she has served in various program executive roles at NASA HQ, as the Assistant Director for Open Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and throughout her career has led numerous communities focused on incentive prizes, citizen science, design thinking and the maker movement.

Vinod Philip is the Chief Technology and Strategy Officer at Siemens Energy and is located in Berlin, Germany.

Since the spin-off of Siemens Energy in 2020, Mr Philip has been pivotal in shaping the strategic direction of the company as it transforms to meet the growing global demands of sustainable, affordable and reliable energy. He has also been responsible for the development and implementation of the technology and innovation strategy to uncover the future technologies that address the energy industry’s global trends and help Siemens Energy and its customers transition towards net zero.

Mr Philip has a strong background in energy. He started working for Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1997, later Siemens, and quickly assumed management positions with increasing responsibility, among them Head of Gas Turbine Engineering from 2010 – 2013, CEO of the Generator Business Segment from 2013 – 2015 and Chief Technology Officer for Power and Gas from 2015-2017 and CEO of the Service Power Generation business unit (2017-2019).

Mr. Philip holds a Master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Central Florida and also received a Master’s degree in Business Administration in International Business from Rollins College, Florida.

Ernesto Ciorra became the Enel Group’s Chief Innovability (Innovation and Sustainability) Officer in September 2014. He began his career as an Associate with the consultancy firm Busacca & Associati, supporting leading Italian and foreign telecoms companies in a number of innovative projects. In 2003, he founded Ars et Inventio, a consultancy specialising in innovation and creativity, which he headed until taking up his current position. Ars et Inventio has worked with leading companies in Italy and abroad on the conception and launch of innovations that have gone on to achieve worldwide success.

Ernesto Ciorra has lectured in Innovation Management in Italian and Spanish Universities and Business Schools. He was Scientific Coordinator for the Master’s in Innovation Management at the Il Sole24Ore Business School and is a member of the advisory board for the Master’s in Strategic Innovation at Venice’s Ca' Foscari University. He is director of the Advanced Innovation Management Programme at the Istituto de Empresa in Madrid. He is also the author of three collections of poetry and a play that has been staged in several Italian theatres.

Jody Kelman is the Head of Lyft Autonomous and VP of Product, where she leads self-driving vehicle deployments for the rideshare company. She previously spent nearly half a decade as the product executive responsible for Lyft’s consumer self-driving efforts. Prior to Lyft, Jody worked at McKinsey & Company, focusing on public-private partnerships and technology-driven infrastructure investments. In 2008, Jody served on President Obama's Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform (TIGR) transition team, advising the incoming administration on using technology to improve government performance. Jody graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, and holds a master's degree from the University of Sydney, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Jody is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Operator Advisor with Assembly Ventures, a mobility-focused venture fund.

Hector enjoys the ups and downs of life in sunny California. He has lived in six countries and eleven cities always refining his routine. A designer by heart Hector is driven by finding potential in everything and everyone and translating that potential into making our lives a bit better. Hector currently leads Design for Google Search and Assistant products. He is fascinated by a better future in which technology and people understand and interact with each other easily. Previously he worked on multiple other products at Google, MIT Mobile Experience Lab, HP, among others.

The design has the power to transform obstacles into new business opportunities, because its essence is innovative. I have dedicated the last 20 years to innovation, first studying at the Politecnico di Milano and then working for major technology companies, which have chosen to change the market with innovative and beautiful products: Samsung Electronics, Whirlpool Corporation and now 3M, the temple of innovation, where not only we design products but solutions. From Milan, one of the world capitals of design, I’m leading the Design Europe Center, where a team of industrial designers, packaging designers, and strategic designers each day translates weak signals into business opportunities for our customers and for the corporation create sustainable business and innovation both B2B and B2C business.
I have previously held various roles of increasing responsibility, Design Manager at Samsung Electronics, Whirlpool Europe Design Centre where several projects have been awarded by ADI, Red Dot, ADA and IDSA. In 2014 I’ve been awarded with the “Merit and Talent “ Award by the Executive Management Association in Italy. Lecturer in Design Management and speaker at international conferences. Since 2012 Board member of the Alumni Association of Politecnico di Milano University.

Hands-on design management executive with a passion to build products that delight people, she has a Customer oriented mindset with the final objective to create value for her Company and the Clients through innovation strategies. Lead product vision, strategy, and building of next-generation of physical and digital products. She has experience in 4 Top Corporations of 3 Nationalities in 4 different Industries (Consumer Electronics, Telecommunications, Innovation Industry, Healthcare, Automotive, Advanced Materials B2B-B2C, Home Appliances): Deutsche Telekom AG, 3M, Samsung Electronics, Whirlpool Corporation-Kitchen Aid. Monica Dalla Riva has also extensive experience in innovation strategy, marketing, technology, and future vision (eg. Ecosystem design, AI, Data-driven design, consumer electronics design, marketing design strategies). Currently VP of Design and VP of Customer Experience at the biggest Telecommunications company in Europe, Deutsche Telekom AG. Forrester CX Pro (CX-1) certified professional. Monica Dalla Riva is the award-winning of the Deutsche Telekom Global “Lead to Win” Award 2020 and of the Woman Leader Award at the Executive Leadership Association, got featured in several prestigious design and business magazines, and her product designs received 20+ design awards in her career. With a vision to change the way businesses think, act, and operate, to innovate while becoming customer centric, she is world-renowned as one of the few Design Corporate Executives in innovation corporations. Monica works with Board Member and Innovation leaders and organisations in nearly every industry to help transform company culture into innovative and customer centric. Former Head of Design at the most innovative company 3M, for Europe. Former Board member of the Alumni Polimi Association, Politecnico Univertity of Milan. Former Design Manger at Samsung Electronics, and Samsung-Armani Alliance design leader Former Design Leader at Whirlpool Corporation and IKEA collaboration. Fast Track Management Program as global talent at Whirlpool. Lecturer of Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano University, SDA Bocconi Economic University and at IED European Institute of Design.

Anton Thomas is responsible for the Connected Mobility Business Venture within the Global Services and Solutions Business Line for the Michelin Group. He is based in Lyon, France.

Prior to taking his current responsibilities, Thomas was the Vice President for Product Performance at Michelin North America, Inc., where he was responsible for internal product homologations, industry standards, government regulations and customer engineering support teams. He also had several R&D leadership roles in product, simulation tool and test method development. He holds a Doctorate in Applied Mechanics and Master’s in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Florida A&M University.

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Hansjörg Reick heads the European Open & Startup Innovation organization at Procter & Gamble. With a background in mechatronics engineering, he joined P&G in 1996 where he assumed different positions with growing responsibilities in the area of R&D and Engineering of consumer health and medical devices. Hansjörg fosters a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to innovation and integrates open innovation partnerships to create step-changing solutions with irresistible experiences and performance. He champions and piloted scrum and lean startup in physical product development and engineering, also in their scaled applications and is a catalyst for lean and agile transformations and culture change with the company’s Growthworks program. Hansjörg holds more than 50 global patents and is a Fellow of AIMBE, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

Graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Technical University Aachen, Germany, in 1992, and in Business Administration from University of Toronto, Canada, in 2001, Dr. Johannes Sommerhäuser joined Bosch in 2001. After being Head of Business Development of Bosch subsidiary SupplyOn AG in Munich, Germany, he took responsibility for Controlling, Finance and Administration of SupplyOn in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Sommerhäuser assumed the position of Head of Finance and Controlling of the Bosch Car Multimedia division in Hildesheim, Germany. In 2011, he changed as Commercial Plant Manager to Bosch Car Multimedia S.A. in Braga, Portugal. Since 1st of April 2015 Dr. Sommerhäuser is in charge for Innovation at Bosch Management Consulting in the Bosch Headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany.

Dr. Chris Brauer (Dr. Chris) is Director of Innovation and founder of the Centre for Creative & Social Technologies (CAST) at Goldsmiths, University of London where he teaches innovation, project management, and behavioural economics. His research specialises in the intersections of emerging technologies and human behaviour, socio-economic and socio-cultural life. His projects focus on public engagement and impact and have been covered extensively in over 400 media outlets worldwide. Current research focuses include industrial internet, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, blockchain, driverless cars, emotion tracking, and the psychology of openness and common ground.

Sean Carney leads the Experience Design (XD) organization at Philips, ensuring customer need informs the innovation practice and design thinking flows through business and clinical recommendations, with the ambition to transform healthcare with the 700+ in-house designers, architects and consultants and their collective design thinking approach.
Since it was first founded in 1925, Philips XD has consistently been a champion of strategic change at Philips. Today under Sean’s leadership, Philips XD is reimagining and redesigning the future of healthcare globally and plays a crucial role in Philips’ transformation in becoming the world leader in Health Technology. His team’s success in positively impacting the lives of customers, clinicians and patients around the world, is widely recognized with 183 top design awards won by Philips in 2021.

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Ms. Gustetic is a senior executive who architects innovation systems for impact.
Currently she is the Director of Early Stage Innovations and Partnerships for NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate. In this role she leads a portfolio of technology programs that engages diverse sources, creativity and innovation across the country, awarding more than $300M in funding annually through prize competitions, SBIR/STTR, research grants , internal innovation team projects, advanced concepts studies, and technology transfer. She is also a founding co-chair of the Partnership for Public Service's Innovation Council (2018-today).

Previously she has served in various program executive roles at NASA HQ, as the Assistant Director for Open Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and throughout her career has led numerous communities focused on incentive prizes, citizen science, design thinking and the maker movement.

Maurits van Tol is Chief Technology Officer at Johnson Matthey, a global leader in science that enables a cleaner and healthier world. With over 200 years of sustained commitment to innovation and technological breakthroughs, we improve the performance, function and safety of our customers’ products. Our science has a global impact in areas such as low emission transport, pharmaceuticals, chemical processing and making the most efficient use of the planet’s natural resources.
Before joining Johnson Matthey, Maurits was Senior Vice President Innovation and Technology at Borealis. Maurits was responsible for shaping the Circular Economy business for Borealis as well as being part of the company’s management board responsible for their Plastics business. Maurits was a senior leader with Borealis since 2012. He spent 19 years with Royal DSM in a wide variety of R&D, Innovation and Business Management roles.
Maurits has a PhD in Catalysis and an MSc in Physical Chemistry and Catalysis, both from Leiden University, Netherlands. Parts of his studies were also performed at the University of East Anglia, and UC Berkeley. He shares our passion for science having achieved 18 patents and 30 publications and he sits on a number of Advisory Boards for Technology across the Chemicals Sector.

Ernesto Ciorra became the Enel Group’s Chief Innovability (Innovation and Sustainability) Officer in September 2014. He began his career as an Associate with the consultancy firm Busacca & Associati, supporting leading Italian and foreign telecoms companies in a number of innovative projects. In 2003, he founded Ars et Inventio, a consultancy specialising in innovation and creativity, which he headed until taking up his current position. Ars et Inventio has worked with leading companies in Italy and abroad on the conception and launch of innovations that have gone on to achieve worldwide success.

Ernesto Ciorra has lectured in Innovation Management in Italian and Spanish Universities and Business Schools. He was Scientific Coordinator for the Master’s in Innovation Management at the Il Sole24Ore Business School and is a member of the advisory board for the Master’s in Strategic Innovation at Venice’s Ca' Foscari University. He is director of the Advanced Innovation Management Programme at the Istituto de Empresa in Madrid. He is also the author of three collections of poetry and a play that has been staged in several Italian theatres.

Jody Kelman is the Head of Lyft Autonomous and VP of Product, where she leads self-driving vehicle deployments for the rideshare company. She previously spent nearly half a decade as the product executive responsible for Lyft’s consumer self-driving efforts. Prior to Lyft, Jody worked at McKinsey & Company, focusing on public-private partnerships and technology-driven infrastructure investments. In 2008, Jody served on President Obama's Technology, Innovation, and Government Reform (TIGR) transition team, advising the incoming administration on using technology to improve government performance. Jody graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, and holds a master's degree from the University of Sydney, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Jody is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an Operator Advisor with Assembly Ventures, a mobility-focused venture fund.

Hector enjoys the ups and downs of life in sunny California. He has lived in six countries and eleven cities always refining his routine. A designer by heart Hector is driven by finding potential in everything and everyone and translating that potential into making our lives a bit better. Hector currently leads Design for Google Search and Assistant products. He is fascinated by a better future in which technology and people understand and interact with each other easily. Previously he worked on multiple other products at Google, MIT Mobile Experience Lab, HP, among others.