Tobias Schmid

Moderation

Tobias joined the team in 2022 as a moderator for events around digital transformation, sustainability, and innovation. He hosts the Protoype Fund Day and the Hippo AI Summit.

Holding a master’s degree in Art and Visual History, Tobias brings a background of humanities to Konnektiv. He has two years of work experience in political consulting with stations at polisphere, Bernstein Group and PRLX.

Currently, Tobias is working as a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University. His dissertation focuses on the visual transformation of health on platform services and mobile devices.

Tobias studied Art and Visual History as well as Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Aside from his work at the University of Tampere he currently serves as a researcher in an EU Chanse funded project on Trust and Visuality with project leaders Katrin Tiidenberg (Tallinn), Asko Lehmuskallio (Tampere), Maria Schreiber (Salzburg) and Gillian Rose (Oxford).