Meet the people who makes Hatch Conference a reality!
Damian Martone
Founder & Curator
With a background in product design but organising events for designers and e-commerce merchants since 2018. After the success of Berlin Product Designers Meetups, looking at how Berlin needed a larger event for design professionals to meet and connect after the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While still freelancing on cherry-picked projects on the side, he's now fully dedicated to continue to make Hatch Conference one of the best UX events in the world.
Clemence De Robert
Co-Organizer and MC
Her story took her from France to Canada, and back to Barcelona where she's found her place in the world.
Clemence is a product designer working at Front by day, and organizing all types of events in her free time.
She joined Hatch in the first year as MC and has continued to rock that role, and this year she's taking a bigger role heading the efforts for the EU Mixers.
Nina Juric
Co-Curator for Design & Strategy Day
Nina is a multidisciplinary designer and design leader that spent the last decade building apps, brands, complex platforms and design systems having worked for companies like relayr, and currently Zalando.
She's previously organised the DOA Berlin chapter and currently is the organiser of Led by Design, a community for design leaders in Berlin.
Julia Kestner
Dome Stage MC
Julia lives in Hamburg and has over 10 years of experience in the design field, having long worked in the agency world and later on becoming a Design Advocate Manager at Figma.
She's now currently a Freelance Design Lead.
Alex Thurmann
Online Conference Manager
Origjnally from the UK, Alex moved to Germany a few years ago and currently lives in Köln where he works as a designer for DeepL. He's been involved from year one and this year is taking care of moderating the online conference.
Angel Poon
Volunteers Manager
An Aussie expat living in Berlin and currently working as a freelance designer, and co-leading the Berlin SDN Chapter.
Mrinali Jindal
Customer Experience & Production
Our latest addition to the team, Mrinali brings years of experience in events of all kinds and is the person behind all things related with supporting participants and production matters.