Klara Lindner
Director Business & Product Design, diconium data GmbH
Klara Lindner has been working at the intersection of techno-optimism and human-centred design for 15 years. She is the Director for Product & Business Design at diconium data’s Berlin studio, where she helps German corporates understand how to make most out of their data. She is also a founding member of the Data Product Leadership Community, and a mentor at Helmholtz Enterprise, counseling academics in their early founding stage. She started her career co-founding and scaling the impact-driven company Mobisol. There, she led the customer research and business design unit, focusing on developing one of the first connected products for the Global South.
Outside the office, Klara is currently fascinated with exploring indigenous cybernetics, pottery and identifying medicinal plants with her daughter in everyday parks.
You can follow her journey on LinkedIn.
speaker topic 2024
Validate What? – Practical insights from Building an Incubator for Data Products
Have you ever been working on your current project and suddenly had a flash of inspiration for a new product? Have you juggled R&D initiatives alongside your core business, only to end up with a cool POC that unfortunately now one asks for? We’ve been there too. Frustrated by this balancing act—or perhaps enamored by one particular project—we launched our internal incubator for data products. Now in our 2nd cycle, join us as we share our many pitfalls and few strokes of genius gained along this journey, offering practical lessons so you can avoid similar challenges. This session is tailored for those interested in fueling customer focus and business acumen into early tech development, from how to engage potential users without a defined product vision to creating low-fidelity prototypes for cutting-edge AI solutions.