Christian Bartosik has been working in Casinos Austria's & Austrian Lotteries' corporate innovation hub since 2016 establishing and deepening Human Centered Design, Lean Startup and agile methods.

In addition to studying journalism and political science, he began working as a software developer for CARD - Casinos Austria Research & Development in 1987. From 1990 onwards, he played a major role in the newly created IT department at Casinos Austria and held different IT position within the next 20 years (from 2003 also for the Austrian Lotteries).

From 2009-2015, as head of innovation management he was responsible for the establishment of innovation services within the company group and in 2015 initiated the innovation hub (assignment: ‚connect/cowork/cocreate‘).

Within this field of activity, research, connecting people/ideas and the curating of hub events and an annual innovation conference are his main tasks.