About DSCONF
Not just a conference, more like community.
DSCONF started as an idea by Mikko Häkkinen, within Elisa. What originally was an idea to gather up and share knowledge, exploded into a full-fledged conference, based on the worldwide interest both from speakers’ perpective but active participation as well.
Naturally the need for a team was filled by passionate designers that wanted to see this through. We are proud to present you this event, as our hard work and passion, and we hope you are part of this for 2018 and the years to come.
Mikko Häkkinen
Main Organizer
Mikko has been designing digital products and services for the last 15 years, for a wide range of different industries. Currently, he is Lead Service Designer and is responsible for building company-wide design system at Elisa, which is a Finnish telecom operator.
Angelos Arnis
Website & Branding
Co-host with André Noël Chaker
For the past 10 years, Angelos has been working with startups and products, both in early and high growth stage. He has also been organizing Junction – world’s biggest hackathon. Currently working as a product designer at Elisa.
Yves Florack
Co-Organiser & Pre-Event Manager
Born in the Netherlands, raised in Switzerland and educated as an Industrial Designer in one of Europe’s Design Capitals: Eindhoven (NL), Yves decided to move to Helsinki in 2015, founded the UXHel Community in 2016 and now works as an Experience Designer and one of the few Design Tribal Leads at Siili.
Viljami Salminen
Consulting
Viljami is an independent consultant helping companies to build design systems. He’s also an author at Smashing Magazine and the founder of the Helsinki Device Lab, which was established to help web designers to be able to test their work on the ever-growing range of mobile devices.
Sakari Volanen
Operations