Michela Magas bridges design and technology, research and industry. She is Chair and Director of Research and Innovation of the Stockholm-based Industry Commons Foundation, advisor to the European Commission and the G7 leaders, Member of President von der Leyen’s High Level Round Table for the New European Bauhaus, and member of the Advisory Board of CERN (ISAB-G). She currently serves as President of the Brussels-based International Knowledge Graph Alliance.

She is the Founder of Stockholm-based MTF Labs and has over the past 12 years been conducting technology experiments with its global community of 8000 contributors from the arts and sciences with methods that have been selected as best practice of Knowledge Valorisation by the European Commission. For 20 years she ran Stromatolite Design Lab in London creating design futures with global clients such as Apple, Nike and Nokia. In 2017 she was awarded European Woman Innovator of the Year by the European Commission, and in 2016 she was presented with an Innovation Luminary Award by the European Commission and Intel Labs Europe.