Florian Baumgartner

Florian Baumgartner is a designer, entrepreneur and innovation facilitator based in Basel. He helps organisations and SMEs develop new products, services and business models, combining Design Thinking and Lean Startup with hands-on AI prototyping.

Since 2012 he has supported the innovation projects of hundreds of Swiss companies and organisations such as Die Mobiliar, Swisscom, Swiss Post, Swiss Life, UBS and PostFinance. He co-founded the innovation agency Innoveto in 2012 and has run Spark and Spice GmbH since 2020, taking clients from their first workshop to a working AI application. He has also facilitated innovation workshops at the Mobiliar Forum since 2014. Starting in 2010 he has founded or co-founded six companies and non-profit organisations, among them the circular office furniture manufacturer mymyio and the learning initiative Creative Kids. He has also co-led the Swiss Design Camp, an interdisciplinary programme for students of design, business and engineering. Earlier in his career he was a member of the executive board and creative director at Vetica Group as well as working for Volkswagen Group Research and the VW Design Center.

Florian holds a degree in industrial design (Dipl. Designer FH) from the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW) and is a certified facilitator of workshops using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method.