Thursday Meet & Greet with Henning Brau, President UPA Germany and UX professional, Daimler/Benz

[Amit Pande]

Hi everyone

I'd like to invite you for a meet & greet session tomorrow. 

Henning Brau is the head of UPA Germany and works in user centered design and cross-cultural work with Daimler (Mercedes Benz folks) in Germany. He is currently in Bangalore for working with the local Daimler/Benz R&D team.

UPA Bangalore and Yahoo! have invited Henning tomorrow @ 5:30 pm to Yahoo! Embassy Golf Links campus, Inner Ring Road (http://bangalore.yahoo.com) to interact with the User Experience community and to give a talk on the UX community and market in Germany and share his design work at Daimler. 

The talk starts at 5:30 pm and Henning will be around later for informal discussions - he is looking forward to building alliances between the design communities here and in Germany. Coffee/snacks will be available. 

Here's Henning's bio below – hope you’re attend. Please RSVP me your participation so we can get an estimate of the total number. 

Thanks

-Amit

 

-----Original Message-----
From: heb...@googlemail.com [mailto:heb...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Henning Brau
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 1:46 PM
To: Amit Pande
Subject: Re: Reg tomorrow's talk

 

Hi Amit,

 

Looking forward to meet you tomorrow at Yahoo!.

Below you find the bio you requested for.

 Best regards,

 Henning

 

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Henning Brau (born 1973) is a senior UX engineer and author of various

scientific publications in the fields of usability, user experience,

change management and technology acceptance, including his widely

acknowledged 2006 book on methods of usability evaluation (german). He

received his Masters Degree in engineering psychology 2002 at the

Technical University of Berlin, Germany. In 2003 he joined the German

chapter of the UPA (German UPA) and was elected President in 2008.

 

Henning began his career as a freelancing market and usability

researcher for various german consultant houses before joining the

Daimler research and technology department as a usability and

requirements engineer. Since 2006 he is university lecturer in Hamburg

and Krefeld (both Germany) for HMI and usability. 2007 he became the

chief responsible for user centered technologies at Daimler Group

Research and Advanced Engineering. Henning led various IT driven

change management projects, focusing on digital production planning as

well as VR and AR technologies. 2008 he joined the human factors

workgroups of the DIN (German national institute on standardization;

cp. ISO), so currently he is also working on influential usability

standards like ISO 9241 and ISO 13407.

 

Henning is keen on promoting usability and requirements engineering as

core competencies for vital and efficient organizational change.