Vita

Michael Engler is a Senior Consultant and Managing Director at EMPIANA GmbH & Co. KG with a focus on AI, requirements engineering, and usability engineering. With over fifteen years of experience, he advises, trains, and coaches medical device companies. He has held teaching positions at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen and the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria (FH Oberösterreich), where he taught courses on usability engineering for medical devices.

For TÜV Rheinland and TÜV SÜD, Michael conducts seminars on developing medical device software and usability engineering for medical devices. He is involved in the standardization committee DKE/UK 811.4 "Ergonomics, Usability, User Instructions" and the international working group JWG4 focused on IEC 62366-1 (Usability Engineering for Medical Devices).

Michael serves as Chairman of the Medical Technology Working Group at the German Usability Professionals Association.

Previously, he was a Partner and Managing Director at Benkana Interfaces GmbH & Co. KG and a Consultant at Method Park Software AG. He also worked for two years in Ipswich with British Telecom.

Michael Engler holds a diploma in computer science (FH) with a focus on media informatics.

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