SIMONA MASCHI

Simona Maschi is a co-founder and CEO of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. Leading the overall organisation at CIID she heads a team that encompasses a world class consultancy, education programme and a research lab.

Simona has over 15 years teaching experience at various institutions including Denmark’s Design School (DKDS) and the IT University in Copenhagen. She has lectured at the Politecnico University in Milan, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. Until June 2006, she was an associate professor and researcher at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy.

Simona studied at the Polytechnic University of Milan where where she completed both her PhD in Industrial Design and Multimedia Communication (2002), and her MA in Architecture (1996).

DAVE MALOUF

Dave Malouf is currently the Head of Interaction Design at Rackspace Managed Hosting in Austin, Texas where he leads the interaction design discipline as part of Rackspace’s Experience Design team. Before coming to Rackspace, Dave was a professor of interaction design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. His career has spanned experiences from advertising agencies, to financial institutions to major consumer and industrial electronics companies.

The second half of his career has led Dave to focus on industrial and enterprise contexts and the immense challenges of designing for the special type of complexity, scale, and scope that only these types of contexts must manage.

Dave is a traveler, writer, speaker, teacher on many topics of design, but his current passions are focused on storytelling, building design cultures through a studio environment, and the importance of building a viable, scalable, and useful education system for current and future interaction designers. He is most proud of his role in helping to found the founders of the Interaction Design Association.