Paul Van Der Linden

Position: Founder and Owner at PaulvanderLinden-Consulting

Paul is a senior business consultant with over 25 years’ experience in Digital Innovation, marketing and transformation. He started at Philips Lighting’s headquarters in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. There he was part of the Digital Innovation team. In 1996 he led Philips Lighting into the online world and developed personalized user journeys for B2B and B2C. After moving to Atos, Paul was asked to support Procter & Gamble in their quest to transition from traditional (paper/TV) marketing to online marketing. He worked for the world’s largest brands such as Pampers, Pringles, Gillette, Hugo Boss in B2C always using the latest technologies to improve the user experience and build global communities around Baby Development, Teens and Beauty.

Paul started a digital agency in the Atos organisation and worked for companies like Air France/ KLM, Nestlé, Novartis, Akzo Nobel, DSM, SGS, Siemens, and in the sport industry (the IOC, NOC*NSF, Olympique Lyonnais, Liverpool FC) on topics such as digital transformation, fan-experience, user experience, and disruption models. In 2019 he connected with Stéph Cruchon and joined as “fellow” the Design-sprint team in Lausanne.

Paul has been a regular speaker at Innovation Centres, organised and facilitated workshops. In his free time he is a fanatic trail-runner, football coach and volunteer at several sport-events such as the Montreux Trail Festival.

#itoday a worldwide community of Innovators


Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

Clio Rossier

Freelance - I use my creative mindset, my empathy and my future thinking skills to help you innovate

Cheri Ruane

Practice Leader for Landscape Architecture - Weston & Sampson Design Studio

Sasa Spasic

Business Design and Innovation

Anaïs Salson

Entrepreneur, Globe Trotter, Speaker - Try The New

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Arnaud Begle

Group CEO at Peter Lang

Jonas Vonlanthen

Partner - Liip Digital Progress

Mariella Pastori

Innovation Consultant at MPConsulting

Fabrice Atallah

Head of Innovation and Change Management at Hilti

Orlane Perey

Designer & Art Director at Serendipity Agency

Michaël Ambass

Associé & Digital Project Manager at troisdeuxun sàrl

Martin Sandhu

Founder at Nuom

Lisa Weinsberger

Remote Design Sprint & Innovation Facilitator at Designtribe

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Jackie Colburn

Product Leader. Facilitator. Design Sprinter. Experimenter. Educator. - Independent Consultant

Katie Swindler

User Experience Strategist - Allstate

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Tony Medrano

Executive Creative Director at Six Foot

Cristina Famano

Co-founder at ADA Strategy

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Thiago Tonus

Head of Product Design - Logic Design

John Elbing

Coach/Consultant/Storyteller at Standpoint

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Roy Franke

Innovation facilitator at 2get-there GmbH

Yves Pigneur

Professor Emeritus UNIL

Ramatoulaye A. Diallo

CEO of Orange Money in Sénégal, Director Sonatel cluster

Marc Gruber

Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Américo Alves

Consultant

Julien Suard

Lead Product Designer UX / UI at Design Sprint Ltd- itoday Conference Organizer

Hélène Valat

Digital project manager at Wide

Olivier Petro

Owner at YOUBEQUITE

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Kai Haley

Head of UX Methods and Process at Google

Matthieu Chamorel

Founder at DYN SA I Fiduciaire

Gael Nini

Head of Project Managemet Office at Electro Medical Systems

Jakub (Jacob) Korczak

Co-founder at JQK-on

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Yukio Ando

Design Sprint Master at Exa Corporation

Alona Nadieieva

Pega CSSA at Knowledge Expert

Lisa Mo Wagner

Sr. Product Manager at Finiata

Claude-Alain Glauser

Solution Unit Manager at Trivadis

Vladimir Koncar

Director of Design - Kiwi.com

Ana Paula da Silva

CEO, Digital strategist and facilitator consultant at Rethink.br

Jameel Somji

Founder & CEO - SpiNovation Labs

Benoît Dubouloz

COO at Knowledge Expert

Jean-Sébastien Daigle

Facilitator & Designer at JSdaigle