About the Speaker

Thorsten Jonas

Founder at SUX - The Sustainable UX Playbook

Thorsten is a UX Evangelist and Digital Generalist based out of Hamburg, Germany. For more than 15 years he works in the field of UX, Service Design and Strategy Consulting, supporting clients to create meaningful products or build up, lead and coach UX and Product Teams following the idea of empathic leadership.

In 2020 he quit his job as Director UX of an international Digital Agency to focus on some of the major issues we face as human beings and society. Since then he works as a Strategic UX Consultant, especially facilitating Sustainability and Sustainable UX.

At the beginning of 2021 Thorsten started the initiative „SUX – the Sustainable UX Playbook“ with an international group of designers, to push Sustainable UX further for and with the digital creative community.

About the Speaker

Christoph Stark

Creative Director UX/UI at Telefonica

Christoph is a creative leader and problem solver.

His goal is to craft great user experience for digital products and services with a human centered approach and a sustainable mindset.

Creative leadership means to serve my team and humanity. Inspiring, empowering, and sharing of knowledge on all levels are important to Christoph. While always striving for the best solution from a business standpoint he longs for creating sustainable and non-intrusive solutions.

Christoph is in love with innovation, design thinking, cross-functional team work, agile mindsets, challenges, and big smiles.

Over the past 14 years, he worked for individuals, start-ups, agencies, small and big & companies employed and as a freelancer. His mission has been to built products that solve real problems through human-centered design while exploring, having fun, learning, and challenging himself and his team.

Currently, Christoph works as a Creative Director UX/UI at Telefonica in the UX, Strategy and Portals department, leading a team of outstanding creative talent.