Germán León builds AI products and trains designers to do the same.

He is the Director of the Master's in Human Interaction and Artificial Intelligence at Elisava, one of the first programs in Europe focused on training designers to work with AI.

He is the founder of Gestoos, a Forbes-featured AI startup acquired by Preact, where he pioneered privacy-first machine-learning systems.

Many of his students now work at companies like Apple, Meta, Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

His work sits at the intersection of design, AI, and real-world execution, focused on building products that ship.

Previously, he was Managing Director at Oblong Europe and Lead Designer at Vodafone Group.

He holds a Master's in Interaction Design from Umeå University and training in AI design from MIT.