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Zhou FengDeputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Hubei Institute of Fine ArtsDevoted to research in the fields of art and design education, cultural industry, art market, and design management, and has completed numerous national and provincial research projects. Published numerous academic works and has published over 50 academic articles. Founded the "Art+" magazine and online transaction platform to promote the development of the art market. Has won numerous teaching and research awards, including the Special Allowance of the Hubei Provincial Government.
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Yu SuihuaiProfessor and doctoral supervisor at Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityChairman of the Board of Directors of the China Industrial Design Association, Deputy Director of the Teaching Guidance Subcommittee for Industrial Design Major at the Ministry of Education (2018-2022), Director of the Key Laboratory of Industrial Design and Human-Computer Interaction of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Center for Industrial Design Development, recipient of the Silver Award of the Guanghua Fund Contribution Award, and recipient of the Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award.
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Cai JunProfessor of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University;Well known for his focusing on design strategy and management since 90’s, he is not only internationally active as jury on design award such as Reddot, Gmark, RedStar and DIA, also as international advisor for IIT, Institute of Design, Aalto University and Hong Kong PolyU. His research involved on design value driven innovation, design strategy, life-centric innovation.
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Zhao BiFounder of Designest ConsultingLeading her team to win over 100 professional awards, including 19 German iF Awards and 11 German Red Dot Awards. Devoted to research on design-driven brands, she pioneered the "Agile Design Three-Ring Model" in the industry and incubated new consumer brands such as KORIN and HAKII. She has helped over 20 enterprises achieve global brand transformation.
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Pradyumna VyasThe incoming Chairman of the World Design Organization (WDO) and Senior Advisor to the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)A distinguished leader in the field of design in India, who played a key role in setting up the Indian Design Council and the I-Mark Awards for Indian Design. He has received numerous international awards for his outstanding contributions to design education and promotion, including the prestigious World Education Summit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Japan Design Promotion Council.
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Lee IngiPresident of the Korean Design Industry AssociationFounded Design Soho, providing design services for well-known companies such as Samsung and Kia, as well as design consulting for urban design regeneration projects in Seoul, Suwon, Donghae, Goseong and Gangneung. Awarded numerous international awards, including the IF Award, the iT Award Grand Prize of the Korean Design Industry Association, the IBA Award Silver Prize, and the Independence Hall Medal of Honor.
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Marc Aurel SchnabelDirector of the Design School at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool UniversitySpecializing in research in the field of digital design, DX, and XR environments. With over 25 years of experience in architectural and design education in Germany, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, he has made significant contributions to higher education in the creative fields. Has published numerous articles on digital architecture, urban design, augmented reality, and virtual reality.
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Simon CollinsChief Creative Officer of Design Innovation Institute ShanghaiSimon Collins leads creative business innovation for global organizations. Simon Collins’ international career is focused on successful industry design innovation, global relations, and creating beautiful solutions.Collins launched the Fashion Culture Design Unconference and in 2017 he launched the WeDesign.org design education platform. He gives keynote speeches all over the world including the United Nations in New York, the Cannes Lions Festival in France and the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen.
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Zheng GangqiangFounder of the Academy of Academicians, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor at Wuhan University of TechnologyPresided over and participated in 20 vertical projects, and completed more than 300 design and implementation projects; He has published 11 books and 87 papers. 59 awards, 21 national patents; Create academician think tank to bring together more than 80 academicians, link hundreds of academicians and Nobel Prize winners to empower regional innovation; With design to help the integration of production and education and the innovation and upgrading of the industrial chain, it has established China's independent strategic scientific design industrialization knowledge system, and has been applied in artificial intelligence, new energy, Marine engineering, mineral construction, life and health industries.
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Liu XiaotianDirector of Industrial Design Institute, Center for International Economic and Technical Cooperation of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of ChinaCourse instructor of the Product Design Theory and Strategy Research Team of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He is responsible for research on industrial design related policies and industrial design park planning, and has planned many industrial design events. He participated in a number of national and provincial key issues, as well as a number of key research projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
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Kazuhiro YamanakaFounder of the Kazuhiro Yamanaka OfficeKazuhiro is the dean and professor of Industrial, Interior and Craft Design Department, Musashino Art University, and he alos as a visiting professor at China Academy of Art. Kazuhiro participates in different aspects of design: from furniture design to product design, lighting design and installation. Yamanaka's designs are often inspired by the relationship between objects. He specializes in utilizing ordinary materials, such as paper or plastic, to create everyday household items that embody minimalist aesthetics.He has won many international design awards such as iF awards, Elle Decoration award, Design report Awards etc. His first major solo exhibition was realized in Power Station of Art (Shanghai) in 2017. His creation belongs to a collection of MoMA(New York).
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Wang JiajingCultural Creativity R&D Specialist, Palace MuseumShe is engaged in research on the development of museum cultural and creative products, cultural industry promotion, and business management. She has authored works such as "A Preliminary Exploration of Multidimensional Integrated Cultural Communication--A Case Study of the Palace Museum", "The Practice of the Educational Communication Function of Museum Cultural and Creative Products: A Case Study of the Palace Museum", “Exploring the Development of Design Elements in the Palace Museum through Plush Toy Product Development”, and “Designing at the Palace Museum: Broad Knowledge and Insights”.
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Zhang WeimingDirector of China Industrial Design Association, Executive Director of Design Education Committee of China Society of Higher EducationHe is the executive director of the National Society of Higher Art Education; member of the IFDA; director of the Heilongjiang Artists Association; the president of the Heilongjiang Industrial Design Association; and the chief editor of Industrial Design.He was the director of the Design Department of the School of Architecture and Design, Harbin Institute of Technology. His research fields include industrial design theory, regional culture and urban environmental design, and environmental product design for public art in cold regions. He has led a number of international and provincial research projects. Participated in and presided over a number of design projects, such as the Harbin Airport Terminal Master Plan Renovation.
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Marco MontanucciCreative Director of Dariel StudioMarco's love for interior design was born in Milan, the cradle of Italian art and fashion.His passion to discover new cultural frontiers led him to travel the world and settle down in China. His cosmopolitan design is the balanced mix of European and Asian influences. As the backbone of Dariel Studio, he has participated in the design of a number of interior works such as “Lady Bund”, “Shencheng Poetic Realm” and “Liquid Office”, which freely wander between eastern and western cultural styles, each with its own creative characteristics, making them refreshing and unforgettable. He has won prestigious awards such as AD100, Elle Deco Interior Design Award, Wall Paper Design Award, etc.
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Chen DengkaiDirector of Industrial Design Department, Northwestern Polytechnical UniversityA leading talent in philosophy, social sciences, and cultural arts in Shaanxi Province, he serves as the Director of the Shaanxi Provincial Industrial Design Engineering Laboratory and the Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Industrial Design and Human-Machine Ergonomics under the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. His main research areas include design philosophy, technical aesthetics, human-machine ergonomics design and other related research. He has participated in over 10 scientific research projects, including the “National Key Technologies R & D Program of China”, “National Key Research and Development Program of China” “National Social Science Fund of China”“National Natural Science Foundation of China”.He has led the completion of more than 10 major industrial design projects in fields such as manned spaceflight and deep-sea diving. He has received 4 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research awards.
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Xiong HaoKurz-Kurz Design China CEOHe specializes in the fields of product design and art collection.In 2016, he founded the Xiong & Yang home design brand. In 2018, he founded the HZReindl Design Museum. In 2019, he became a partner of German Wonderwerk China.In 2020, he founded the Sino-German International Design Innovation Center. He was honored as one of the top 10 Guangdong Province design youths in DDF , and Forbes China's Top 10 Most Commercially Valuable Intelligent Designers.
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Craig VogelPresident of Live Well Collaborative;Past President Elect of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)Craig was invited by Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) as its President to visit China in 1998 under the auspices of the UNESCO, thus initiating formal exchanges between IDSA and Asia. He was named one of the top 50 designers in U.S. history by the IDSA in 2015 for his outstanding contributions to the field of industrial design. He is co-author of the book, Creating Breakthrough Products, which created a new methodology for supporting the integration of new product development at the intersection of design, engineering, and market research disciplines, which is widely influencing design education and corporate design management around the world.
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Zhong FangDirector of the Eco-Design Research Institute of the Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua UniversityShe specializes in sustainable design and social innovation design, and her research areas include waste system, food system, aging design, and community design. In recent years, she has published over 20 papers in both Chinese and English, co-authored the first Chinese monograph on sustainable design titled “Sustainable Design” , and translated and published the first monograph on social innovation design titled “Design in the Age of Everyone as a Designer”. She has also participated in many national and provincial research projects on sustainable design, including the “Zero-Waste City” plan for Guangze County, Fujian Province.
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Bao ShiduDean of Environmental Art Design Research Institute, Donghua UniversityHe founded Chinese urban furniture theory system and Chinese environmental system design theory system, and presided over the formulation of several national standards for urban furniture series. Obtained the only five-star evaluation certification of urban furniture system design in China. He has published many papers and books, and won the Shanghai Art Talent Award, the Second China Environmental Art Contribution Award, the first prize of thesis, the special prize of thesis of the 14th China Standardization Forum, and the gold award of the National Habitat Classical Scheme Design Competition.
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Peter RussellDean, Institute for Future Human Habitats, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate SchoolPeter is a Canadian-born architect and educator. He has served as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University,and as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment at TU Delft, where he was committed to promoting the development of architectural teaching.Over the years, Prof. Peter Russell has been actively involved in collaborative projects in China and has led the team that designed, developed and operated the Interactive City Game which was exhibited at the China-Germany Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai China.
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Wang QingbinDean of the School of Design and Art, Henan University of Technology; Dean of Henan Industrial Design InstituteHead of the first batch of national first-class undergraduate professional construction point Product Design, executive director of China Industrial Design Association, deputy director of the teaching committee of the discipline of China Education Association of Machinery Industry(CEAMI). He is also a famous teacher of higher education in Henan Province, an academic and technical leader in Henan Province, the vice-chairman of the Steering Committee of Art Degree Graduate Education in Henan Province, and a member of the Discipline Review Group of the Art Study Group of the Degree Committee of Henan Province. He is also the winner of the First Prize and Second Prize of Teaching Achievements of Higher Education in Henan Province. He is also the executive editor of the Complete Collection of Chinese Arts and Crafts - Henan Volume, and a member of the editorial board of the Blue Book of Industrial Design China Industrial Design Development Report. He is mainly engaged in teaching, research and design in the field of industrial design and arts and crafts.
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Chang BingVice President of Nezha Automobile and General Manager of Design Center,Nezha AutomobileHe has 24 years of frontline experience in automotive design and has led the design for brands such as Hongqi and BAIC . His notable works include the CA7600J, the Hongqi parade car used in the 2009 and 2015 National Day parades, and the first and second generations of the Hongqi H7 executive sedan. In 2018, he founded the Nezha Automobile Design Philosophy, creating several well-known design works and holding dozens of design patents. He has published over 200 articles and has been awarded the Special Prize for Science and Technology by the Jilin Provincial Government. He is also one of the first to receive the title of Master Engineer, internationally recognized by FISITA and the China Society of Automotive Engineers.
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Nariman BashiriFounder and Design Director of BjörkåNariman graduated from Anadolu University, Turkey with a degree in Industrial Design. He is the founder of Björkå, an emerging lifestyle design brand, and the former founder of the DesignUM China, Turkey's leading industrial design firm, which specializing in product design and automotive design. He led the team to create several classic products and developed the company into a well-known design company in Europe and Central Asia, and won 100+ international awards including RED DOT, IF DESIGN, GOOD DESIGN, etc.
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Wang LupingDirector of Alibaba Cloud Design Center; Vice Chairman of China Industrial Design Association - Design Standard BranchHe founded China's earliest design team specializing in cloud computing - Alibaba Cloud Design Center, and led a design team of nearly 100 people to work on cloud product experience design and innovation, industry digital design, intelligent design, AIGC (AI-generated content) design and other fields. He is the first in China to systematically put forward the concept of “computational design”, which integrates technology, design and business; He leads the exploration of a new paradigm of AIGC design and a one-stop AIGC design platform, PAI ArtLab, which connects education, industry and the design field, and facilitates the change of design in the AI era.
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Huang XinyuanSecretary of Party Committee, School of Animation and Digital Art, Communication University of ChinaSecretary General of the Steering Committee for Teaching Animation and Digital Media in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education, President of the National Research on Basic Computer Education in Higher Education Institutions, and Chairman of the Digital Art Specialized Committee of the Chinese Society of Image and Graphics. He won the first prize of National Teaching Achievement Award. He is the chief editor of Research on Optimization of Film and Video Animation Processes, Digital Media Creation, Introduction to Virtual Reality, New Media Project Management, and other textbooks.
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CHA. Kang HeuiProfessor, Graduate School of lndustrial Arts ,Hongik University Vice president of the KFDA (Korean Federation of Design Associations)For over 30 years as an industrial designer, Kang Heui worked at Daewoo Telecom, Samsung Electronics. And whileworking as the head of the design research center at LG Electronics, he leds the design development and design management work. He was awarded the industrial Service Merit Medal by the Government of the Republic of Korea and also received the Presidential Award. He also served as president of KAlD (Korea industrial Designers Association), vice president of ESK (Ergonomics Society of Korea), general director of Seoul Design Startup Center, and member of the Seoul Public Design Committee.
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Tang YuHead of COROS Watch Business LineHe was honored as one of the Top10 industrial designers in Guangdong Province and one of the Top10 outstanding youths in Guangdong design industry by DDF Award. He has won many international awards including IF Award, China Patent Excellence Award, Guangdong Governor's Cup, China Design Red Star Award, CES Innovation Design Award, etc. In 2018, he founded COROS, a professional sports watch brand, which has steadily ranked the second in global market share for three consecutive years, and is favoured by top athletes and explorers.
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CarsonMember of Alumni Advisory Board, Brunel University LondonHe has previously held positions as Design Manager at Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics, Design Director at Neusoft Medical, Industrial Design Director at SonoScape Medical, core member of the YDC, World Design Organization, and a jury for the Goldreed Industrial Design Award, DDF Award, and DIA. With over a decade of experience in medical device industrial design, he has accumulated expertise in more than 50 types of medical devices, ranging from human to veterinary use, and from hospital and home applications to military applications. intensive care unit to pharmacy, radiology to medical/surgical. He has been honored with over 50 awards, including Forbes China's Top 10 Most Commercially Valuable Intelligent Designers, Top 10 Outstanding Young People in China's Design Industry by DDF, China Design Patent Gold and Silver Awards, among others like iF, Red Dot, and IDEA awards.
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TRAN NGOC DANHVice President of VDAS Vietnam Design Association | Hochiminh city; Founder & CEO of VMARK VIETNAM DESIGN AWARDMs. Danh has over 20 years of management experience in the design industry and the diverse activities related to the design field, she is committed to connecting designers, entrepreneurs and international organizations through Vietnam Design Week. She works with the Association to build a solid identity for the Vietnamese Design, Ms. Danh’s goal is to grow and nurture this generation of new Vietnamese designers and show the world its freshness and enhance the global impact of Vietnam's creative industries through international cooperation.
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Pan HuChief Designer of TigerPan Packaging Design LabPan Hu is the chairman of the D&AD Packaging Design Category Jury, vice president of Shenzhen Illustration Association, visiting professor and postgraduate tutor of several design institutions. He has been engaged in product and packaging design research for 28 years, and has worked with clients such as Chu's Orange, Mengniu, Luckin Coffee, Budweiser, Feihe, C&S Paper, Jinmailang, Bvlgari, Tsingtao Beer, Snow Beer, and Alibaba Group. He has won more than 200 international awards such as D&AD, ADC, Dieline, iF, One Show, Pentawards, and so on.
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Hao NinghuiDean of School of Design, Central Academy of Fine ArtsHe is the chief expert of the National Social Science Foundation of China-Major Projects, Forbes China-2021 Top 10 Designers, DDF Award-Top 10 Outstanding Young People in China's Design Industry, China's Top 10 Design Educators, Beijing Famous Teaching Teachers, and Outstanding Teaching Managers of Beijing Colleges and Universities. He has designed more than 300 national design projects and he has won many international awards such as Red Dot Award, IF Award, China Design Award, etc. He has also presided over major projects of the National Social Science Foundation and many national projects.
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He RenkeFormer Dean of the Design and Art College , Hunan University; Chairman of the Academic CouncilHe Renke is the Chairman of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Industrial Design Major of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, Invited Vice President of China Industrial Design Association, Member of the Seventh Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, he is also a national teaching master. He is a member of the jury of Red Dot, IF, G-MARK and CORE77 awards, and the chairman of the Goldreed Industrial Design Award. He was the dean of the School of Design, Hunan University. In 2018, he was awarded the first prize for Higher Education National Teaching Achievement Award (digital and globalized design innovation talent cultivation system oriented to national strategy).
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Xi XiaochaoAssociate professor, master tutor of School of Digital Media and Design Art,Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsHe has been supported by "Xiaomi Young Scholars". His research fields include industrial design, intelligent interaction design, design semiotics, Chinese traditional culture, etc. He has undertaken many provincial and ministerial-level research projects, published many high-level academic papers, and served as a reviewer for international conferences such as IASDR, Cumulus, and Chinese CHI. His representative works have been awarded with Red Dot Design Supreme Award, IF Design Award, Good Design Award, IDEA and so on.
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Lin FengProfessor of the School of Fashion and Art Design, Donghua UniversityMember of the Cultural Committee of Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Democratic Revolution; Bachelor of Arts degree from China Academy of Art, Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Donghua University, Visiting scholar of Art Talents Special Project of China Scholarship Council. He presided over two provincial and ministerial projects, including Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Planning; Presided over 3 key and general projects of the central university basic research fund; Hosted the international master's event "Dare to Design". He has published more than 20 academic papers in CSSCI and art core journals, 3 international academic exchange lectures, 2 books by the first author and 2 books by the second author. A number of design works were recorded in the design yearbook, and won awards in international landscape, cultural and creative design competitions, and held personal exhibitions at home and abroad. In recent years, he has focused on the design theory and application of Chinese cultural standpoint, digital, intelligent and Chinese characters, font design, teaching, social innovation design, social aesthetic education and other research.
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Wang YunlongVice Dean of School of Design, Jianghan UniversityWang Yunlong is an academic expert for the Cultural and Creative Committee of the China Association of Ethnic Folk Artists, Executive Committee member of the Art and Design Committee of the Hubei Higher Education Association, and leader of a first-class course in Hubei Province. He also serves as a jury for Milan Design Week, the National college Digital Art Design Competition, and the Digital Design Dimensions Show. He is Recognized as an outstanding young teacher in Wuhan City, and has participated in a total of 9 humanities and social science research projects, taking the lead in 5 of them.He has published over 20 educational and research papers and works in academic journals both domestically and internationally,and 14 of them have won National and Provincial Scientific Research Awards.
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Kang XiujiDean of the School of Art and Design, Communication University of ZhejiangHe is the outstanding expert of CCIA, the cultural expert of Jiangxi and one of the four batch of engineering talents,a gold medal professor in Jiangxi Province, a double-creative talent , and a Tao Du Talent in Yixing City. His main research direction is product design and cartoon art. In recent years, he has presided over and participated in 35 projects, including 12 projects above provincial level; he has published more than 50 papers in various academic journals. His design works have been shortlisted in the National Art Exhibition and won 27 awards, including the Gold Award of Asia Industrial Design Award.
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Li XuVice dean of the School of Design,Southern University of Science and Technology.Li Xu holds a Doctor of Higher Education from the University of Michigan, USA, and a Master's degree in Educational Management from Teachers College, Columbia University.Li Xu joined the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2010, focusing on the development of modern university systems and the cultivation of top-tier innovative talents. She has been involved in establishing several functional departments within the university. In 2020, she assumed the role of Executive Vice Dean of the School of Innovation and Creative Design, responsible for supporting the establishment of the new school, strategic planning, discipline development, teaching assessment, and industry-academia research collaboration.
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Zhang XiaogangVice Dean of School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of TechnologyVice Dean and Professor of School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of Technology, doctoral supervisor,doctor of Fine Arts , chief planner of the 11th Governor Cup Industrial Design Competition in Guangdong Province and Guangdong Design Week series activities, Additionally, he is the Chairman of Industrial Design Branch of Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society,He has consecutively won the Second Prize for Outstanding Achievements at the 6th (2013) and 7th (2015) National University Humanities and Social Sciences Awards, as well as the second Prize of the 10th Guangdong Provincial Outstanding Achievements in Philosophy and Social Sciences.
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Zhang TingDirector of School of Design and Art,Henan University of TechnologyShe is the head of product design and industrial design major in the School of Design and Art of Henan University of Technology, the deputy director of the Women's Science and Technology Working Committee of the CFCA, and the main editor of the three-year action plan for the construction of "Designing Henan" and the medium- and long-term development plan. He is the expert of China Machanical Innovation Competition and China Creative Challenges Contest. She has published 32 professional articles in CSSCI, EI, Chinese core, etc., and presided over 16 provincial, ministerial and local projects. Led the student team to win more than 100 awards of domestic and international professional design competitions, such as Red Dot, IF, China Good Design, National Student Industrial Design Competition, and so on.
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Lu JianzhouVice Dean of School of arts and design,Zhengzhou University of Light IndustryHe has won the honorary titles of Famous Teacher of Henan Province, Excellent Teacher of Henan Province, Civilized teacher of Henan Province, Teaching model of Henan Province, etc. He presided over dozens of signs and packaging design projects, such as the visual design of the 19th Ethnic Minority Games, the Provincial Party Committee, the Organizing Forum, Henan Higher Education Association, Happy Youth Daily, and Yuqing News. His personal poster work "Dying" won the first prize in the Second Art Design Competition of Henan Province. The public welfare poster design "The Trauma Left by the Earthquake, Let's Make Up with Love" was collected by Sichuan Art Museum.
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Zheng ZhongyangFounder of Shanghai Puxiang Culture Communication Co., LTDHe has a master degree from East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, and worked for Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare Co., Ltd. He won the Gold Award of China Notebook Design Competition, Silver Award of Sunshine Cup Industrial Design Competition, two German IF Awards, etc. In 2013, he established Puxiang.com, the largest online community in China's industrial design field, which is dedicated to the designers' ecosystem centered on product/industrial design, and has now become a powerful force in the Internetization of the design industry.
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Zheng JunyanCo-founder of Shenzhen Nuoxinda Fund Management Co., Ltd.Zheng Junyan holds a Master's degree in Faculty of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong , with nearly 20 years of experience in R&D and investment in the information technology field, she has worked in ZTE, Huawei, Pusu Capital Management and Kang Chengheng Capital Management Group successively, Now she is the co-founder of Shenzhen Nuoxinda Fund Management Co., Ltd., and she holds the title of Shenzhen Municipal Technology Expert. Her investment cases include NaaS Technology Inc.,Shenzhen Hangshun Chip Technology Development Co., Ltd., Shanghai Hydrogen Propulsion Technology Co.,Ltd. and so on.
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Niu XuHead of the National Industrial Design Center at Sugon (Dawning Information Industry Co., Ltd.)He is recognized as one of the Top Ten Outstanding youths 's design industry in DDF Award,, Industrial Design Leading Talent of MIIT, Vice President of Tianjin Industrial Design Association, Executive Director of Beijing Industrial Design Center, Talent Ambassador of China Industrial Design Association, and honored with the "Outstanding Young Engineer of Beijing" and "Contribution Award for Industrial Design Practice and Design Demonstration in Tianjin". He was honored with "Beijing Outstanding Young Engineer" and "Tianjin Industrial Design Practice and Design Demonstration Contribution Award". His innovative design work spans significant research projects such as the "Nebula High-End Computer" and the "Silicon Cube Liquid Phase Change Cooling Computer." He holds over a hundred domestic and international design awards and patents, and has led the design team to innovate and promote the Group's products to achieve sales of more than 10 billion yuan for many years in a row.
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Ren GuoguangDesign Director and Center General Manager, Shenyang Innovation Design & Research Institute Co.He is the top ten outstanding youths in China's design industry in DDF Award, a senior engineer, and the jury of Liaoning Province's Strong Province Cup Industrial Design Competition. As the design director of the research institute, he is deeply engaged in the equipment manufacturing industry, and has made every effort to promote basic theory research, key technology research and major equipment development, creating value-added of tens of billions of dollars for the enterprise. He has presided over 3 national projects and 1 group standard, been approved 42 patents, and won more than 100 domestic and international design awards, such as the Gold Medal of China Good Award and the Red Star Design Award.
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Zhao ZongqiangManager of Word Magic Camp (Chinese cultural creative camp)Member of the China National Democratic Construction Association,Co-exhibitor of the 50th Anniversary of China-Belgium Diplomatic Relations,Invited observer of the U40 China Art Township Construction Workshop. He planned more than 260 events and exhibitions, created the first designer New Year's Eve meeting, the first designer PK competition and other products, affecting the growth of tens of thousands of designers.
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Xiang ZhongxiaSecretary General of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Economic Zone Innovation Design Industry AllianceXiang Zhongxia is a deputy Director of Industrial Design Innovation Center,a head of the Industrial Design major,Tianjin University, she is a member of the Teaching Guidance Sub-Committee for Industrial Design under the Ministry of Education, and Vice Chairman of the Tianjin association of design. Her main research interests lie in mechanical design and theory, as well as human-computer interaction research.
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Wang RuiVice Dean of the School of Art, Hebei University of Science and TechnologyIn 2018, she was selected as the third batch of Hebei Provincial Young Top Talents. Presided over and researched more than 10 provincial projects; Edited 3 professional books. The research results have won 1 third prize of Hebei Province Social Science Excellent Achievement Award, 1 third prize of Hebei Province Social Science Fund Project Excellent achievement Award, and 1 first prize of the second Hebei Province Education Science Research Excellent Achievement Award.
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Zhou LinFounder of Beijing Top DesignHe is the lead designer of the 70th National Day Colour Car - Innovation Drive, a special appointed expert at the Industrial Design Talent Station in Beijing's sub-centre, and an outstanding young talent of the capital design center. Over the years, he has led his team to win hundreds of international and domestic design awards, including RedDot, IF design, IDEA, G-mark, CEID(China Excellent Industrial Design), etc. He has also assisted his clients to obtain more than 1000 appearance patents and utility model patents, driving the economic value of design to 20 billion yuan. He founded Top Design in 2009 and has since established twelve branches of design companies and the Top Design Institute in cities such as Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Jinan, Shijiazhuang, Nantong etc.
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Zhang WeihuaDirector of Industry Department, Jiangxi Industrial Design CenterZhang Weihua is the first secretary-general of Jiangxi Industrial Design Association,with over a decade of experience in industrial design, participated in the drafting of several industrial design related policies in Jiangxi Province. He has continuously organized the "Tiangong Cup" Industrial Design Competition in Jiangxi Province for seven sessions, , actively promoted the exchange and cooperation between Jiangxi industrial design community and other provinces and cities, His efforts have significantly contributed to the promotion of industrial design in Jiangxi Province.
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Bai ZhonghangDean of the School of Architecture and Art Design Hebei University of TechnologyDoctor of Engineering, post-doctoral in management, professor of design, doctoral supervisor, Hebei University of Technology "Yuanguang Scholar", China Scholarship Council sponsored visiting scholar in the UK. He is the vice president of Tianjin Design Society, the director of Design Education Branch of China Industrial Design Association, and the director of Xiongan Future Industrial Design Institute. He has presided over 6 scientific research projects above provincial and ministerial level such as National Natural Fund, 3 teaching and research projects at provincial and ministerial level, published more than 90 academic papers, and authorized 20 invention patents and utility model patents.
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Luo YufenFounder of Taiwan Pinyan Life Aesthetics Co.She graduated from the Department of Product Design of Shih Chien University and the EMBA of the University of Montpellier in France.In 2010, the company invested in brand management and founded cuckoo and pincollection. It is committed to creating products of life aesthetics and exploring traditional folk arts, and continues to promote "local culture to the international stage". As the designer of the Yii brand, she has participated in many design exhibitions in Milan and Paris, using design to modernize traditional culture. She has won five awards including IF and Red Dot.
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Hua HaoHead of Design Center, Yuwell GroupHua Hao has a Master's degree from Purdue University West Lafayette.As the head of the Yuwell Group’s Design Center, Hua Hao leads the team and undertakes the design work of all Yuwell products. He has worked for many top design consulting firms in the U.K. and the U.S, and worked at Philips Shanghai Design Center for many years, and has rich experience in medical design.
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Huang JingVice Chairman of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Youth Association and Executive Chairman of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural and Creative Industries AssociationACE Creative Education Association (Hong Kong) Chief representative, specialist adviser of JM City Box, Guangdong Furniture Association Design Committee deputy director, Hong Kong Furniture Decoration Manufacturers Association director, Hong Kong Furniture Decoration Manufacturers Association Youth Committee deputy convener. Huang Jing has repeatedly united the upstream and downstream forces of domestic and foreign home building materials industries to help excellent Chinese brands enter the international market.
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Zhang YongliangDirector and Chief Designer of Styling Design Center of Dongfeng Motor CorporationHe is the sixth vice president of the Industrial Design Committee of Hubei Mechanical Engineering Society, and he is the founder of the Dongfeng brand "Telling China's Story with Dongfeng Design". He leads the styling design work of all independent passenger car brands of Dongfeng, and coordinates the three major business segments of Dongfeng, namely passenger cars, commercial vehicles and military vehicles. He is responsible for the management of Dongfeng Wuhan Global Styling Design Center and Dongfeng Shanghai Design Center (Shanghai Zero One), and has won more than 100 domestic and international design awards such as Red Dot Product Design Award and International CMF Award, and holds more than 200 design patents.
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Shen HongDean of the School of Art, Yenching Institute of TechnologyShen Hong serves as a part-time Master's supervisor at Wuhan University and a tutor for master's thesis of Renmin University of China.She has presided over and participated in more than 20 projects; Published 29 papers, including 6 CSSCI papers; Published 1 monograph, 10 textbooks, 2 translations and 3 patents. She has presided over many practical projects such as the facade design of Beijing Yanqing Government Office Building.She has been awarded as a famous teacher and excellent teaching team in Hebei Province undergraduate colleges and universities, the third prize of provincial teaching achievements, the third prize of the Sixth National College Students' Art Exhibition, the first prize of the Fifth NCDCTS(National Competition for Digital Creative Teaching Skills), she presided over one first-class course in Hebei Province and one first-class specialty at provincial level, and served as the head of the provincial key laboratory.She served as an expert for the"Yuanye Cup" and the NCDA(National College Digital Art&Design Awards).
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Jin XinPartner of Beijing Kemeworks Creative Cultural Co., Ltd.and KEMElifeJin Xin is the founder of Visual China Community, a master of PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University and he concurrently serves as executive director of the Copyright Society of China, the vice president of China Arts and Crafts Association Color Sculpture Professional Committee,the executive director of the National Association of Commerce and Industry,the co-curator of the China Cultural Intellectual Property, he is also a top Cultural Talents and Special Experts in Tongzhou District, Beijing, Jin xin is a comprehensive cross-border talent in domestic culture and art design and cultural tourism IP operation.He founded China's first cultural and creative internet platform-- Visual China Community, during his college years, which has 8 million registered members involving all design and art disciplines such as product design, clothing design, film and animation, publishing and distribution, and graphic advertisement, and is the first main board listed company in China's cultural and creative industry.
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He RenkeDoctoral Supervisor, Former Dean of the Design and Art College , Hunan UniversityDoctoral Supervisor, Former Dean of the Design and Art College , Hunan UniversityCo-chairman of the GIDA 2023
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David KusumaPresident-Elect of the World Design Organization (WDO)David Kusuma is the President-Elect of the World Design Organization (WDO), and Vice President Research and Product Innovation Worldwide at Tupperware Brands Corporation, where he is responsible for leading R&D and technology research. His focus is to leapfrog conventional boundaries of innovation through open innovation, crowd sourcing, and industry partnerships, and create game-changing product solutions by developing new technologies and materials. David is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He is a board member of the SPE Injection Molding Division and a board member of the World Design Organization (WDO).
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Chen GuoqiangMember of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Yanshan UniversityD. in Engineering, Professor. He is also the director of the Industrial Design Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society and the director of the Industrial Design Innovation and Development Research Center of Hebei Province. He has hosted and participated in more than 20 vertical projects at national and provincial levels, more than 40 horizontal design projects, published more than 30 CSSCI academic papers and applied for 3 national invention patents and more than 10 utility model and appearance patents.
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Ren HeTechnical expert of COMAC(Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd)Ren He is a senior Engineer, a doctor in Engineering from Northwestern Polytechnical University, and he has led a team at COMAC ( Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd ) to successfully bid for the first "National Civil Aircraft Industrial Design Center" in China (2017), he establish COMAC Customer Service Company as one of the "Top 10 Innovative Enterprises in National Industrial Design" (2015). He has won honors such as the first flight award of JH-7 Fighter-Bomber, the first prize for China Economic and Social Outstanding Achievement Award, etc. He has published 9 scientific and technological academic monographs and 1 literary book; He has published more than 100 scientific and technological academic papers; Owned 30 national patents, and won 5 scientific and technological progress awards at the provincial and ministerial levels and above.
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Wu JianVice President of Haier Smart HomeWu Jian is a member of CPC, a senior engineer, an expert of the State Council government subsidy, and a national excellent science and technology worker. He is now responsible for the innovation and design of Haier's global brands. At the same time, he is also the vice president of China Industrial Design Association, the vice president of China Fashion Color Association, the vice president of "Science and Innovation China" Innovation and Design Consortium, the jury of German iF Design Award, the member of the National Standardization Committee, the member of ISO/IEC, etc. He has taken the lead in formulating a number of international and national standards, and has undertaken a number of major national science and technology projects.
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Zhao ChaoAssociate Dean, School of Fine Arts, Tsinghua UniversityHe is the Vice President of Tsinghua Qingdao Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Director of Tsinghua University Institute of Health Care Industry Innovation Design, the Secretary General of the Steering Committee of Design in Higher Education, the Changjiang Young Scholar of the Ministry of Education, and the Vice President of the International Design Federation. He focuses on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural design research and innovation practice, integrating cultural, technological, aesthetic and commercial elements through design innovation to achieve social attributes, humanized experience, and sustainable development of design. Dr. Zhao Chao has been engaged in research, teaching and industrial practice in the fields of industrial design, experience design, healthcare design, humanistic design, design for ageing, social innovation, and design for cultural migration in recent years.
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Jarmo SuominenVice-dean College of Design & InnovationJarmo‘s research is focusing on the relationships between humans and their environments, for more sustainable behaviors and environments. Jarmo has been developing theory and solutions for Service Dominant logic-based applications for Architecture and design.He had strong understanding both of academic requirements and practicalities of business life. He has led various multidisciplinary projects between industry, academia, and public organizations. Jarmo Suominen has won numerous architectural competitions. Jarmo Suominen is awarded expert and entrepreneur in service-oriented solutions for new working environments and flexible workplaces. He is utilizing methods of platform economy to create an optimal network of resources for corporate and institutional users enabling more sustainable use of environment. He is continuing his research and development integrating academia and industry interest and achievements using new methods and tools and most recent development of AI. For future research Jarmo is developing novel methods and models for using AI at Environmental design.
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Juha KosonenChief Designer of Huawei Consumer Business Group, Wearable Business UnitJuha Kosonen is an internationally experienced industrial designer and design manager in highly competitive consumer product development areas. High knowledge in practice in the field of consumer electronics design, professional equipment design and brand based product identity development, as well as in utilization of the latest design technology and methods. Involvement in industrial design company’s new business development through new service product creation. Over 35 years of experience in branding, creative thinking, user research, strategic design and creation of new product concepts, leading companies to find new product and business strategies. Involved also in development of business to business development and marketing communication. Core strengths are experience creation, concept innovation and product strategies.
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Simon CollinsChief Creative Officer of Design Innovation Institute ShanghaiSimon Collins leads creative business innovation for global organizations. He has been a board member, creative director, dean and creative advisor for; Nike, Parsons School of Design, Fila, Polo Ralph Lauren, and Zegna. He currently runs the House of Collins Shanghai innovation consultancy, Collins launched the Fashion Culture Design Unconference and in 2017 he launched the WeDesign.org design education platform. He gives keynote speeches all over the world including the United Nations in New York, the Cannes Lions Festival in France and the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen. Simon Collins’ international career is focused on successful industry design innovation, global relations, and creating beautiful solutions.
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CHOI KeeyeulDirector of KIDP(China)Since joining the KIDP in 1994, he has been deeply involved in various fields such as design industry cultivation, creative fusion talent cultivation, and professional design enterprise cultivation, and was awarded by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Trade and Resources of Korea. Over the years, he has devoted to the mutual development of design in Korea and China, including exchanges with the Chinese government, design organizations, enterprises, designers, etc., promoting collaboration and support between Korean and Chinese enterprises and educational institutions, expanding Korean-Chinese design exchanges, providing support for Korean-Chinese enterprises to cooperate, and building bridges of communication for cooperation between the design communities in Korea and China.
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Sun LingyunProfessor and Dean of International Design Institute, Zhejiang UniversityHe is DDF Award "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" in Chinese design industry(2019), Zhejiang Youth Top Talent (2019), National Youth Talent Program (2021), Huang Tingfang chair professor. Focusing on the field of intelligent design, he uses artificial intelligence to empower the design industry and applies design paradigm in the era of artificial intelligence to digital creativity, intelligent hardware design. He has undertaken National Key Research and Development Program of China, The National Natural Science Foundation of China, with his research results published in important journals and conferences such as Science, Design Studies, SCIENTIA SINICA Informationis. He has won more than 10 awards such as Good Design, reddot winner best of the best, IF and DIA; 2021 Super AI Leader in WAIC, 2022 CCF Science and Technology Progress Second prize.
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Chen DongliangInvited Vice President of China Industrial Design AssociationChen Dongliang has been committed to design research practice, industry promotion and international exchange for many years. He established the Beijing Industrial Design Center in 1995, organized and implemented the Beijing Municipal Government's 50 Industrial Design Demonstration Projects, curated a number of exhibitions such as the "Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition", and curated the "Design Beijing · Perceive China" exhibition in Paris, France. He successively established the Beijing DRC Industrial Design and Creative Industry Base, Red Star Design Award, Beijing Design Week, and the "China Beijing - Nairobi Creative R&D Center in Kenya". Chen Dongliang successfully organized the declaration of UNESCO Beijing "Design Capital". and successfully organized and declared the UNESCO Beijing "City of Design". He also participated in the drafting of relevant design policies of national ministries and Beijing Municipality, and edited the blue book "Annual Report in Design Industry Development of China" and booklet "Designing People's Livelihood and Society" etc. He is a "National Advanced Worker" of the State Council and a recipient of the "China Design" Gold Medal of Guanghua Longteng.
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Li JieExecutive President and Chief Editor of DesignHe is DDF Award "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" in Chinese design industry, "Top Ten Design Drivers" in China Design 100, "Young Design Talent" in Beijing Industrial Design Promotion, nominated experts of Forbes China Intelligent Industrial Design Award, China Intelligence Design Award, Goldreed Industrial Design Award, etc., visiting professor and external graduate supervisor of nearly 20 universities, including Central South University, Beijing Forestry University and Luxun Academy of Fine Arts. He has edited 13 books and more than 150 magazines independently. And he has been invited to serve as judges and guests of domestic and foreign competitions such as China Intelligence Design Award, Goldreed Industrial Design Award, kapok Design Awards, etc.
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E DongHead of Siemens Medical's Clinical Treatment System Strategy DepartmentGraduated with a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University.Previously he worked in the upstream development department at Siemens Healthineers, Germany headquarters, responsible for defining the first-generation Angiographic system at Neusoft Medical Systems, and worked at KPMG Medical Consulting.
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Liu HaoranGeneral Manager of OPPO Industrial Design CenterHe, a senior design director, serves as the head of two brands (OPPO, OnePlus) the dual brand (OPPO, OnePlus), responsible for planning the design of all OPPO and OnePlus products and developing design strategy and design language. He was honored as “top ten outstanding Youth in Shenzhen Design Industry” and “top 100 Outstanding Youth” in China Design industry. In 2021 and 2022, he led his team to re-organize and construct OPPO and OnePlus design strategy, from product design, experience design, packaging design, process materials, CMF design to design strategy, with excessively rich experience, aimed at promoting brand development and improving user experience.
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Soon-In LeeFomer president of WDO ( World Design Organization )Soon-In Lee has been in the industry for more than 40 years, and his professional fields cover industrial design, interior design, etc. He was President of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) ;Executive Managing Director of Seoul Design Center; The Chair of Asia Design Network and Korea 3D Printing Culture Forum; Dean of IDAS Hong-ik University in Seoul; Executive Director, LG European Design Centre ; Director of Gwangju Design Biennale. Over the years, he has continued to support international design-related projects, Served as a special guest speaker at the 100th anniversary seminar of Tsinghua University in Beijing, invited a lecture at the Bauhaus Special Form Changsha, and served as a professor at Hunan University.
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Duan ShengfengVice President, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor of Sichuan Fine Arts InstituteDuan Shengfeng committed to strategy design and green design research and practice. His design work "All Terrain Assault and Rescue Vehicle" was awarded the Gold Medal of the 11th National Fine Arts Exhibition and Gold Medal of the "Creation Award of the First China Art Award". He was selected to be part of the National Hundred and Thousand and Ten-Thousand Talent Project, National Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions, National Cultural Talent and Celebrity of the Central Propaganda Department, he is a virtuous and cohesive art worker in Chongqing. A member of the National Administry Committee in Higher Education under The Ministry of Education (Design Category), and a council Member of the China Industrial Design Association.
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Shangguan ChangshuVice President, Chief Design Officer of SkyworthHe has been deeply engaged in automobile design for 15 years. With the love of traditional Chinese culture, he attaches importance to China-Chic culture in automobile design and proposes Longyan design concept, gravitational wave aesthetic system, etc., so as to make Chinese automobile design more family-oriented, and traditional culture go global through automobile design.
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Nicola ButtiFounder of BUTTIstile Italian design StudioNicola Butti, Italy Milan Polytechnic graduated (industrial design) and holder of a Master Degree in Transportation design and management.Teaching various design disciplines at JinagNan University School of Design since 2009.Previous working experiences include ALFA ROMEO Automobiles and MV AGUSTA Motorcycles.Owner and creative director of BUTTIstile Industrial Design Co.: leading design firm in China growing electric motorcycles and medical products fields and established innovation partner for many customers worldwide.
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Zhong SupingDesign Director of Hangzhou Robam Appliances Co., LtdAs the head of the national-level Industrial Design Center at Robam Appliances, she was awarded the "Top Ten Outstanding Young People in the Chinese Design Industry" at the "DDF Award." She also received the "DDF Award ? Zhejiang 70 People" in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China. She has led the design strategy and planning, product design, concept design, trend research, and other design management work for over 10 product lines at Robam Appliances. Gradually, she has developed a unique high-end kitchen appliance design style for the company. She has promoted the establishment of a design innovation whole-process system within the company, incorporating ID+UI+IXD+CMF, and has launched over 6000 innovative designs. She has won more than a hundred domestic and international design awards, including the Reddot Design Award, IF Design Award, Good Design Award, International Design Excellence Awards, and China Red Star Design Award. In 2018, she won the gold award China Good Design Award, and in 2021, she received the gold award of Design Intelligence Award.
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Guo YingDean of the School of Jewelry at China University of Geosciences (Beijing)Winner of the 7th National Outstanding Science and Technology Worker Award, the first Beijing Excellent Young Teaching Scholar at Higher Education Institutions, and recipient of the Capital Labor Medal. He was invited multiple times as an expert on brand programs such as "Heirloom" on CCTV1, "YiChuiDingYin" "Consumer Advocacy" on CCTV2 Finance Channel, as well as a guest on various programs on China National Radio and Beijing Television Station.
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Liu ZongmingDean of Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, College of Art and DesignHe is head of Doctor's degree level subjects, leading talent of provincial "Double thousand Plan" Philosophy of the Social Sciences, "excellent innovation and entrepreneurship mentor" by Ministry of Education. He has presided over more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects such as the National Art Fund. And he is editorial board of core periodical Furniture & Interior Design, deputy editor of Hunan Packaging.
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Filippo MerliCross-cultural fashion business of Here Fashion Hub (HFH) --Co-founderFilippo Merli is an Italian entrepreneur who has been based in China for several years. In 2018, he co-founded Here Fashion Hub (HFH), HFH is dedicated to strengthening the exchange of design ideas and practices between China and Italy, promoting cultural collaboration in the fashion industry. In addition, Filippo Merli is a co-founder of Vadoworld, Filippo is dedicated to simplify travel for all types of travelers, By providing innovative and practical travel solutions, vadoworld enhances the travel experience for individuals worldwide. Filippo Merli maintains strong partnerships with various Italian institutions in China, such as the Italian Consulate General and Chambers of Commerce. Through these collaborations, he actively contributes to promoting business interactions and fostering trade relationships between Italy and China. Furthermore, he actively mentors students and startups in Italian universities and design schools. By sharing his knowledge and experiences, he helps aspiring entrepreneurs and designers navigate their professional journeys and achieve success.
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Zhou LigangChairman of Hangzhou Bole Industrial Design Co., LTDHe has been a judge of National Industrial Design Center, DDF Award, China Excellent Industrial Design, and China Canton Fair CF Award; senior industrial designer, off-campus supervisor and visiting professor of Zhejiang University and Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. As a China design industrialization business model explorer, he has devoted himself for 30 years, leading Bole to "National Industrial Design Center" and "China's Top Ten Industrial design enterprises". He has successfully incubated ZEN'S BAMBOO, Kalar Kitchen, MR.BOND and other brands, with titles like Design Service 500+ Brand Enterprises, Innovation Design 1000+ new product launch. Known as the industry leader in integrated design, his design has promoted tens of billions of yuan of business value, creating a set of "innovative design + R & D intelligent manufacture + brand sales" design industrialization innovation group in Hangzhou, Chongqing and Shenzhen.
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Jiang ZhongbiaoFounder/General Manager of Shenzhen Houlang Industrial Design Co., LTDHe established Shenzhen Houlang Industrial Design Co., Ltd. in 2020, which is a partnership company composed of experienced designers in the industry. Based on the two major ports of brand and product, the company creates a series of brand CI identification system and product PI language system. The company has provided design support for many well-known brands at home and abroad, such as FLYCO, SUPOR, Joyoung, Hisense, BULL, iFLYTEK, Alibaba and so on.
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Andrea PontiPonti Design StudioA graduate of the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, Andrea Ponti is an Italian designer specializing in product and industrial design,Ponti now lives in Hong Kong where he founded Ponti Design Studio in 2012, with a focus on technology and sustainability. His projects combine the elegance of Italian design with the minimalism of Japanese design. The dualism of east and west, past and present, art and technology best represents his professional development and design language. Andrea Ponti has been heading Ponti Design Studio and broadening his range of design products and services, he designed for Panasonic, Philips, Oppo, Haier, Samsonite and The Peninsula Hotels and he has received prestigious international design awards such as the iF Design Award, the Red Dot Design Award and the Good Design Award.
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Lan ChaoMaster Supervisor of College of School of Art and Design, Beijing Forestry UniversityShe is the member of China Artists Association, chairman of the National College Art Education Expert Alliance, member of China Construction Culture and Art Association, member of the Teaching Cooperation Committee of the Cultural and Creative Design of Beijing tertiary colleges, representative of the Haidian District People's Congress, director of the Haidian District Intellectual Association.
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Yoshiaki OsadaGK Design Shanghai Inc. --Director, general manager Haier Innovation Design Center—DirectorIn 2008, he graduated from the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo with a specialization in Social Foundations. In the same year, he joined GK Design Group, focusing on research topics related to spatial environmental signage systems and urban environmental construction. Yoshiaki has more than ten years of experience in the design industry, mainly covering research in visual and communication design (VI, BI), product design (healthcare, household appliances), and urban environmental design (signage, street facilities). He actively engages in design education institutions and industry events in China, dedicating himself to promoting the enlightenment of Japanese design, and he once give speech at the Japan Design Lecture organized by the Consulate-General of Japan in Shanghai. Yoshiaki is the guest evaluation jurors at the Wenzhou International Design Biennial. He has also delivered lectures on Japanese design at the International Design School at Zhejiang University and various design seminars at Donghua University, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, and Tongji University.
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Hu XiaoDirector of Guangdong Shanyi Interaction Design CommitteeHu Xiao is the workstation manager of Guangzhou Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Promotion Association, and the founder of "Beta Space" provincial incubation base.He used to work as a senior product manager at NetEase, He founded the International Conference of Experience Design (IXDC) in 2009, which has been successfully held for 14 times and IXDC is the largest international conference for user experience designers in Asia. Hu Xiao organized and hosted the special competition of the Guangdong Governor's Cup Industrial Design Competition for many years. And presided over the Mei A Education and Guangdong University of Technology to build a provincial-level postgraduate joint training demonstration base, and with the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts to build a joint training demonstration base for postgraduate education.
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Wei JieDean, Professor, PhD Supervisor of School of Design of Jiangnan UniversityHe is the member of the National Art Graduate Education Steering Committee, Vice president of China Industrial Design Association, Deputy director of the Council on Education of China Arts and Crafts Society, Top Ten educators in Chinese Industrial design, "333 high-level talents" in Jiangsu, "Excellent Youth Teacher Plan" middle- young academic leader in Jiangsu.
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Christian BlytFounder and creative director of Corelam StudioChristian Blyt is an Associate Professor in Industrial Design at Emily Carr University and visiting Professor at Guangdong University of Technology. His specialty is Interior Architecture and Furniture Design. His work encompasses a wide range of international experiences in different segments of the education, design and manufacturing industry. He is the founder and creative director of Studio Corelam, a progressive research, design, and manufacturing studio that strives to challenge the status quo and thinking of how people perceive quality and value of things that accompany them throughout their lives through simple, honest design and storytelling. His design works have won a number of international design awards.
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Adrien NazezCo-founder of Blank Ltd.With 16 years of experience in the design industry, Adrien Nazez is a visionary design master who is committed to cooperating with notable institutions, he's been dedicated to empowering leaders to embrace transformative design for meaningful growth.He has always maintained his passion and deep thinking for design work, deeply considered societal needs in the process of work, fostering global collaborations, he unites cultures, ideas, and consciousness and created groundbreaking design cases. His journey weaving through Tokyo, Shanghai, and Marseille, he has been contributing to the promotion of collaboration in the global design field over the years, Simply put, Adrien paves the way for a brighter, design-conscious future.
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Ye DehuiDean of the School of Art and Design, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, and Vice President of Guangxi Industrial Design Association
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Chen BoProfessor and Master Supervisor in the Industrial Design Department, School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University
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Huang XujingDeputy General Manager, Sichuan Engineering Equipment Design & Research InstituteGraduated from Jiangnan University and Southwest Jiaotong University, majoring in industrial design. He has served as a judge of China-US Youth Creator Competition and Tianfu Baodao Industrial Design Competition for many times. She has worked for Haier, Rococo, Jalantu, Japan GK and other famous design companies at home and abroad, designing hundreds of products and obtaining 3 utility model patents and 36 appearance patents.
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Tang WenquanGeneral Manager of Qi Jia Zhi Xing Technology
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Ma FeiExecutive Vice Dean ,Professor of the School of Art and Design, Geely University of China.
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Wang ChaoVice Director of the Institute of Human-Machine Environment System Design, School of Design and Arts, Southwest Jiaotong University.
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Ji LeiSenior Design Manager, Chief Designer at Elex China.
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Li MinDean of the School of Arts at Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Director of the Innovation Design Research Institute of China Industrial Design Association
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Zhang ZhanChairman of the Shanghai Design Capital Promotion Center
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Wang NaiVice Dean of the Jewelry College, China University of Geosciences (Beijing).
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Wu ZhijunDean of the School of Architecture and Art Design at Hunan University of Science and Technology
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Zou ZhenmengFounder and Chief Designer of Shejizou Industrial Design.
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Cao MingDeputy Director of the Key Laboratory of Industrial Design in the Light Industry of China
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Wang NianwenDirector of the Industrial Design Department, School of Art and Design, Yanshan University.
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Zhang QunxingVice president and Secretary General of Zhejiang Industrial Design AssociationThe founder of "design and manufacturing" magazine and general manager of Zhejiang industrial design innovation service base, has been awarded the title of "top ten industrial design innovation promoters in Zhejiang Province", and the silver medal of China design contribution award of the 13th Guanghua Longteng award. It has successfully planned and hosted Zhejiang excellent industrial design exhibition, China Intelligent Design Award tour exhibition, 2018 World Industrial Design Conference · design week, design exhibition and various "design +" docking activities.
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Han PengAssociate Dean of Teaching at the School of Art and Design, Beijing Forestry University.
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Wang ZhenyaProfessor at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University
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Cui TianjianProfessor at the School of Art, Southeast University, Deputy Director of the Design Education Branch of China Industrial Design Association
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Ding ZhiyongSenior Design Director at Shenzhen Yutong Packaging Technology Co., Ltd.
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Wang XiaohuiAssociate Chair of the Industrial Design Department, Beijing University of Science and Technology
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Xu KaiqiangDean of the School of Arts at Hubei University
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Jiang ShaohuaVice Dean, School of Art and Design, Shenyang Normal University
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Xu MingVice Dean, School of Architecture and Art, Central South University Deputy Dean of the School of Architecture and Arts at Beijing Jiaotong University.
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Zhang YeVice Dean, School of Architecture and Arts at Beijing Jiaotong University.
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Bai YongAcademician of Norges Tekniske VitenskapsakademiHe is a member of the Zhejiang Province "Hundred Talents Program", the fifth batch of national "Thousand Talents Program", and a Fellow of the American Society of NVAL Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME). He won the best paper award at International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) in 2000.
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Xin XiangyangDistinguished Professor at Tongji University
Founder of XXY InnovationFamous Chinese Alumni of Carnegie Mellon University. He is also an invited personal executive director of China Industrial Design Association, Xin has provided various consultant and R&D services for partners including P&G, National Post Office, Hong Kong SAR Government, Huawei, Tencent, Changhong, AURORA, Midea, Changhong, etc. For his outstanding contributions in the fields of interaction, experience and service, he has been awarded the annual award of "2015 Future Voice of Interaction Design" by IXDA, the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award, the gold medal of Guanghua Longteng China Design Contribution Award, "40 People of Chinese Design in 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up" and "70 People of Chinese Design in 70 Years of the Founding of New China" and other honorary titles. -
Linghao ZhangPresident, Nanjing University of ArtsHe is a visiting scholar at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He was selected as one of the national talent program (youth) of the Ministry of Education, one of the excellent talents of the new century of the Ministry of Education, one of the high-level talents of the "six talents peak" of Jiangsu Province, and the "333 project. He is the first "China Industrial Design Top Ten Award - Top Ten Educators". He is in charge of the Key Laboratory of Industrial Design of China Light Industry, and the Excellent Innovation Team of Jiangsu Universities in Philosophy and Social Science "Experience Design and System Innovation", etc.
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Sébastien MalevilleStudio Creative Director – Jacob Jensen Design | KMUTT BangkokA multi-award winning designer, consultant and educator, Sebastien is an international design ambassador with deep experience in China and South East Asia. His team has received a variety of prestigious design accolades, including Red Dot, IF, G mark and other awards. Sebastien’s work with Jacob Jensen Design has been broadly published and exhibited internationally. After working for technology companies such as Lenovo and TCL Multimedia, he joined Jacob Jensen Design in 2014, where he was responsible for creating Jensen Design’s creative team in China, and later founded his Bangkok, Thailand studio to serve and support the growth of design-centric brands in South-East Asia through iconic & long-lasting design solutions.
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John van de WaterCo-founder of Beijing NEXT International Architectural Design & Consulting Co.John van de Water has published, taught, exhibited, lectured and participated in juries and advisory boards around the world. Work and thinking has been recognized by numerous awards, like the '2012 China Golden Design Award'. In 2010, he was one of the youngest Dutch architects ever to publish a semi-biography, titled: 'You Can’t Change China, China Changes You'. NEXT architects Amsterdam quickly gained reputation among others by an extensive research project on the changing appearances of world metropolises. The research included documenting 26 of the biggest cities on earth in just 100 days. Currently the office is involved in construction projects in over a dozen of Chinese cities.
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Torsten ValeurCEO of Valeur DesignersOver the years, Torsten Valeur has been a prominent profile in the Danish and international design community. He is a popular speaker on various design issues just as he has contributed to several design publications. Torsten Valeur is on a constant quest for originality. He always aspires to find solutions that are surprising yet intuitive while staying within the technical boundaries that each project inevitably brings.
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Moritz LUDWIGManaging Director of s design AffairsMoritz is passionate about envisioning smarter hardware and software for the digital age and sees design as a way to explore the future. He is leading designaffairs China, one of the worlds most awarded design agencies and part of Accenture Industry X.0. With a team of 50 creatives, Moritz has provided design solutions and strategic consulting to more than 40 of the Global Fortune 500 companies as well as many startups, including Airbus, Porsche, BMW, Huawei, Mercedes, Bosch, Siemens etc. Throughout his career, his works have received recognition from Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, CES Innovation Awards to the European ISPO fashion prize.
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Wu HuanlongHead of Gree Electric National Industrial Design CenterHe has been working deeply in the field of household appliances in terms of front-line industrial design and design management for 24 years, and he led the team to define the development direction of world air conditioners. The design team led by him won many awards at home and abroad, including China Appearance Patent Gold Award, German Red Dot, German iF Design Award, etc. He has continued to explore the design in breadth and depth, brighten life with design, and promote Gree to realize the vision of “Make the World Fall in Love with Made in China”.
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Sun ShouqianDirector of the Institute of modern industrial design of Zhejiang University
Senior visiting scHe is Professor and doctoral director of Zhejiang University. Currently a member of the design discipline evaluation group of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, a member of the design teaching steering committee of colleges and universities of the Ministry of education, the director of Zhejiang Engineering Research Center for digital creative Intelligent Technology and equipment, the vice president and Secretary General of China innovative design industry strategic alliance Executive deputy director of industrial design branch of China Mechanical Engineering Society. -
Shao JingfengChief Designer of SAIC Innovation Research and Development InstituteHe is Chinese famous car designer and the National Model Worker. Chief Designer of SAIC Innovation Research and Development Institute, responsible for the modeling design of SAIC’s self-owned brands such as Roewe, MG, Marvel. He has set up an international design team for SAIC in Shanghai, London, Tokyo and other cities and led the design of series of Roewe RX, MG, and Marvel, which won great success in domestic and overseas markets. He was also the winner of a few international and domestic design awards. He serves as a part-time professor or supervisor with Tongji University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, East China University of Science and Technology, Central Academy of Fine Arts and other universities. Furthermore, he organized global automobile design competitions for ten consecutive years in order to promote the rapid development of industry, education and research in China’s automobile design field.
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Liu XinDirector of Ecological Design Institute of Tsinghua University
Co-director of Design for SocialTenured Full Professor of Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, Co-coordinator of LeNS China (the Design Learning Network on Sustainability in China), Director of Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Association Sustainable Design Special Committee. He focuses on teaching, research and social practice of sustainability design, ecological design and product service system design. -
Wang QingbinDean of School of Design and Art, Henan University of Technology
President of Henan Industrial DProfessor, PhD., and Doctoral Supervisor. Head of the Product Design, first national first-class undergraduate discipline construction site, the Standing Director of China Industrial Design Association, and the Vice Chairman of the Industrial Design Discipline Teaching Committee of China Education Association of Machinery Industry. He was recognized as Famous Teacher of Henan Institutions of Higher Learning, Henan Provincial Academic Leader, Vice Chairman of the Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of Arts Majors in Henan Province, and member of the Discipline Review Group of the Arts Group of Henan Provincial Academic Degree Committee. He is the winner of the first and second prizes of Henan Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award. He is the Executive Chief Editor of Complete Works of Chinese Arts and Crafts - Henan Volume and the co-editor of Blue Paper of Industrial Design - Report on China’s Industrial Design Development. -
Zhang MingDean of Industrial Design School of Nanjing University of the ArtsPhD., Professor and Doctoral Supervisor. Vice President of China Industrial Design Association, the first National First-class Professional Leaders recognized by the Ministry of Education, Key Cultural and Creative Talent recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Secretary General of the Design Research Professional Committee, Vice President of the Education Chapter, Vice General Secretary of Jiangsu Industrial Design Society, Top 10 Educators of Chinese Industrial Design, and the First Zijin Cultural and Creative Talents. He provided design consulting services for Samsung, Bosch Siemens, Haier, Daikin and other world-renowned companies.
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Qin JingyanVice Dean of Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Science and Technology Beijing andShe won Guanghua Longteng Design Award - China’s Top 10 Outstanding Youth Designers, and acts as Executive Director of Information and Interaction Design Committee (IIDC), China Industrial Design Association, Member of CCF, ACM and CRUCIBLE. She led more than 20 provincial and ministerial-level vertical scientific research projects such as National Natural Science Foundation of China and National Social Science Foundation of China, as well as more than 60 enterprise-level horizontal scientific research projects, and won over 30 design awards such as Red Dot Award and Red Star Design Award in the fields of driverless vehicles, robot design, big data information visualization, intelligent product design, virtual reality game design, virtual museums, and digital cultural heritage. She published more than 150 SCI and EI papers and authored 11 books, in addition to 15 invention patents.
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Leo MaDirector of Successful Design CompetitionSince Leo Ma became the Director of the Successful Design Competition, he has provided consulting services for many of the Global 500 and industry-leading enterprises and brands such as Unilever and P&G China to participate in the Successful Design awards, and he is also responsible for the overall work of the Successful Design Competition, including strategic planning, market publicity, business expansion, etc. Through organizing the Successful Design Competition, he aims to promote crossover integration and to discover, interpret, disseminate and jointly create successful designs.
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Ding WeiFounder of MOMA Design
President of Future Design Institute, International Innovation Center of THe graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University and served as the Vice President of Shanghai Industrial Design Association, Vice Chairman of Shanghai Creative Workers Association, Vice President of Shanghai Young Creative Talents Association and other social posts. He won many awards, including the UNESCO Creative Pioneer Award, the Red Dot Award, the iF Design Award, the American IDEA, G-MARK, the China Industrial Design Contribution Award, China’s Top 10 Industrial Designers, the Gold Award of the China Red Star Design Award, and China’s Top 10 Intelligent Designers with the Most Commercial Value by Forbes. He published Design Evolution, Magnified Design, and New Concept of Cultural and Creative Design and other works. -
Jin ChangbaoCo-founder, Director and Vice President of Hangzhou RE & DER Design Co., Ltd.
International JudgeIn 1995, he graduated from Zhejiang University with a bachelor’s degree in industrial design. His graduation design work was for Fotile’s first range hood. He holds the Master Degree of Design of Italian DOMUS ACDAMY, and the first senior industrial designers in Zhejiang Province. His works won many international awards including Red Dot, iF, American IDEA, as well as "Golden Intelligence" Award of the first Chinese Design Intelligence Award (DIA) in 2016. He led the design of Fotile’s A-type machine, Q-type machine, European type machine, near suction range hood, sink dishwasher, etc., which have epoch-making significance for China’s kitchen electricity industry. -
Hao NinghuiVice Dean of Urban Design School, Central Academy of Fine ArtsThe designer of the Olympic landscape facilities, the Executive Director of the Information Design Special Committee of China Industrial Design Association, the Youth Talent of Beijing Higher-education Institutions, the Top 10 Teachers’ Moral Models in Beijing, the member of the expert pool of the Ministry of Education for general projects in humanities and social sciences, the expert of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for industrial design review, and the Director of the Design Committee of Beijing Youth Art Development Association. He designed and participated in the design of many national programs, including the CPC and World Political Parties Summit, the stamps of celebrating the 20th CPC National Congress, the maglev high-speed train etc. He was awarded in many international design competitions.
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Victor LeiCo-founder and General Director of Fondazione EMGdotART, ItalyFounder of Venice Design Collaborative Innovation Center and Co-founder of Sino-Italian International (Architecture) Research Fund. He has been focusing on international cultural exchanges and social innovation for a long time. In 2013, he and Professor Marino, former President of Venice University of Architecture in Italy, co-founded the Fondazione EMGdotART in Venice, becoming the first non-profit culture and arts foundation jointly sponsored by Chinese and Italian non-governmental organizations. It aims to promote international exchanges and cooperation in contemporary architectural design and culture and arts by taking advantage of Venice’s international cultural and art platform.
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CarsonMember of the Alumni Advisory Committee of Brunel University London
Former YDC core member of WorHe is a native Hong Kong designer with a blended background of design and marketing knowledge. He is currently a member of the Alumni Advisory Committee of Brunel University London, and a former YDC core member of World Design Organization (WDO). He has been engaged in the industrial design of medical devices for over ten years, with accumulated experience in designing more than 30 kinds of medical products, covering the human use to veterinary, hospital/home application to military application, intensive care unit to pharmacy, radiology department to internal and surgery, full cycle management of diseases from prevention and diagnosis to treatment and rehabilitation. -
Zhu ChenFounder and Senior Director of the Industrial Design Center of iFLYTEK
ecretary General of ArtifiHe has long focused on the design and research of interactive experience of robots and artificial intelligence products and human-computer engineering. His design works won the Gold Award for China Excellent Light Industrial Design, the Silver Award of Chinese Red Star Design Award, the American IDEA Bronze Award and other honors. He planned and operated several DIQUA Cup Industrial Design Competitions, and served as a judge in China Excellent Industrial Design Competition, Anhui Industrial Design Competition and other competitions. -
Oded EzerFounder of Oded Ezer TypographyEzer serves as a Professor of Graphic Design at the Holon Institute of Technology. He was an artist-in-residence at the Rhode Island School of Design, and frequently leads conceptual design and typography workshops in the US, Europe and Asia. His monograph ’Oded Ezer: The Typographer’s Guide to the Galaxy’ was published by Gestalten in 2009. His works have won various international awards and have also been exhibited around the world, some of which have been collected by prestigious museums such as MoMA, V&A Museum and Typomania Festival Moscow.
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Shinnoske SugisakiCreative Director of Shinnoske Design
Member of AGI
Professor at the Osaka University of ArtsHas worked on a wide range of projects throughout consistent design principles, from cultural sectors to corporate branding, information design and space graphics. Exhibits and lectures in many places across the globe, actively presenting his experimental challenge. He has won several important awards in international competitions. His works have been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts and Crafts in Hamburg, Germany, the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and many others. His Books include Design: Understanding by Head and Body, PIE International. -
Chris WoebkenCo-founder of the Extrapolation FactoryChris Woebken is a design futures researcher and a participatory futures practice. His work examines the potential of design for discussing new imaginations around complex social, technological and ecologic challenges. He is teaching at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation as well as Parsons School of Design The New School, The New School. His work has been exhibited widely including at the MoMA, NCCA National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow, and the China National Museum in Beijing.
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Richard HuttenOne of the core founders of Droog Design
Art Director of GispenKnown for his conceptual and playful designs. He has worked with many top brands in 15 countries on 3 continents and has won many international heavyweight design awards such as Red Dot, German Design and LAI. The list includes MoMA New York, Victoria & Albert Museum London, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Vitra Museum Weil am Rhein, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Design Museum London, Design Museum Gent, Stedelijk Museum ’s Hertogenbosch, Chicago Art Institute and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. -
Fons HickmannProfessor at Berlin University of the ArtsFons Hickmann studied photography and communication design. He has taught at several universities, held lectures and workshops around the world and is a professor at Berlin University of the Arts. He is a member of the Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club New York and the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
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Thomas KVANThe Founding Dean and Chair Professor of School of Design, Southern University of Science and TechnoPreviously, he has held positions as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Campus and Global Development and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong. Professor Kvan is recognized internationally for his pioneering work in design, design learning, digital environments, design management, and virtual heritage. Professor Kvan received his Ph.D. in architecture from Open University, MArch in Computer Applications in Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles, MA, and BA from Cambridge University.
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Mirko IlicFounder of Mirko IIic CorpHe was the art director of Time Magazine International Edition. Later he became art director of the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times. In 1995 he established his firm Mirko Ili? Corp. The studio is especially known for its strong visual concepts. Mirko is the co-author of several books with Steve Heller, including Genius Moves: 100 Icons of Graphic Design, Handwritten, The Anatomy of Design, Stop Think Go Do, Lettering Large, and Presenting Shakespeare. With Milton Glaser he co-wrote The Design of Dissent.
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Sun YuanboProfessor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Design & Arts, BIT;Deputy Director, Information & InterHis research interests include: interaction design and evaluation of intelligent networked vehicles, design thinking education and promotion, big data information visualization design, and intelligent product design. In 2018, he took in charge of Research on the Introduction and Implementation of Design Thinking Education in Primary and Secondary Schools, a project funded by the Humanities and Social Science Planning Fund under the Ministry of Education. He edited Fundamentals and Design of Human Factors Engineering, a national planning textbook for general higher education in the 11th Five-Year Plan, which won the Beijing Higher Education Excellent Textbook Award in 2011. In 2021, he took in charge of the construction of Virtual Reality-based Human-Machine Interaction Design Evaluation Platform for Smart Vehicles, an industry-university collaborative talent training project under the Ministry of Education.
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Huo YunfengChartered Designer in Germany;Founder of HUO DESIGN, CanadaHe is a former consultant and mentor of Huawei Design Center, a design manager and a design thinking researcher. As a participant and witness of the early days of industrial design education in China, he has been involved in project-based design teaching, parallel product development and design consultancy in universities in recent years.
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Tang YaoyaoSenior Engineer, No.59 Institute of China Ordnance Industry;Director, Editorial Department of No.59In 2016 and 2018, Packaging Engineering, which she edited, was awarded the Outstanding Academic Journals of International Influence in China. In 2017, she was responsible for the preparation of the launch of Industrial & Engineering Design, which was approved by the State Press and Publication Administration in 2019. In 2019, she was awarded the Outstanding Person of Chongqing Periodicals on the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China by Chongqing Periodicals Association. In 2020, she was put on the list of Top Ten Editor-in-Chiefs by the Chongqing Editology Society of Science Periodicals (CQESSP). Besides, she has also received many other awards from Chongqing Cultural Committee, CQESSP, and Chongqing Periodicals Association.
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Yang WenqingCo-founder of LOE DESIGN;Associate Professor, College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University;ProfAs one of the top ten outstanding designers of industrial design in China, he has repeatedly won international design awards and served as a design award jury member. He integrates design as a collaborative innovation tool into the DNA of the business, providing companies with systematic and integrated design solutions with branding at the core.
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Zhan QinchuanDean, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, College of Art and Design, Shaanxi University of Science anHe is the head of the national first-class undergraduate major construction point of industrial design, director of the Silk Road Cultural Heritage and Innovative Design Research Center, which is a major research base of philosophy and social sciences for universities in Shaanxi Province, head of the provincial advantageous discipline "Design Science", head of the provincial design and art experimental teaching demonstration center, and the director of the provincial industrial design center. What's more, he is also an expert member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of Art Degree in the field of art design, Vice Chairman of the Education Branch of China Industrial Design Association, a standing committee member of the Industrial Design Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Deputy Director of Innovation Culture Committee of China Innovation Design & Industry Alliance, member of the Fine Arts Working Committee of Shaanxi Provincial Higher Education Teaching Steering Committee, and a member of Shaanxi Provincial Industrial Design Strategy Advisory Committee.
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Wang LiduanProfessor and Master's Supervisor, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute;In recent years, he obtained the World Green Design Contribution Award, Silver Medal of China Design Contribution Awards, China's Top Ten Educators in Industrial Design, and the Chongqing May Day Labor Medal. He secured the First Prize of Chongqing Teaching Achievement Award issued by Chongqing Municipal People's Government respectively in 2009 and 2017. His artworks were picked out for the 13th National Art Exhibition in Beijing and for the 6th, 9th, 12th and 13th National Art Exhibitions. In 2019, he pocketed the Original Design Prize of China Red Star Design Award. The number of awards that his teaching achievements brought to him exceeded 100.
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Xie YongDean, Professor, and Master\'s Supervisor of the Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang University;DirectoOver the years, he has devoted himself to artistic intervention in society in an attempt to dialogue with social reality through artworks and present social concerns through artistic creations. Through artworks, he speaks for the vulnerable to make their voices heard. He uses artistic works to convey humanistic care and consider the relationships between man and society and between man and the natural environment and at the same time, he tries to intervene in social reality by virtue of art creations, exhibitions and interactions between artistic works and audience.
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Chen FengDeputy Dean, Professor, and Master\'s Supervisor of the School of Art and Design, Shenyang LigongHe is a member of Industrial Design Discipline Teaching Committee under China Education Association of Machinery Industry; expert of Shenzhen Association of Ergonomics Application (SAEA); evaluation expert of China Graduate Contest on Smart-city Technology and Creative Design; and a member of China Industrial Design Association.
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Peng ShengfangVice President and Professor of the School of Industrial Design, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFShe has been successively awarded the titles of "Young Cultural Talent" by the Publicity Department of CPC in the Four Batches Project, "Thousand, Hundred and Ten Project" Talent of colleges and universities in Guangdong Province, and "Youth Cultural Talent" in the Special Support Project of Guangdong Province. She is a member of the Theory Committee of the Guangdong Artists Association, an executive director of the Board of Directors of the Guangzhou Overseas Returned Scholars Association, and a member of the Board of Directors and Vice Chairman of the Arts Committee of the Southeast Asia branch of Western Returned Scholars Association (Overseas-educated Scholars Association of China).
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Peng XuelinExecutive Chief Architect, Xiong\'an Branch, China Southwest Architectural Design And Research InsHe gets involved in architecture, planning, landscape layout and industrial design, but focusing on the creation of the building and living environment. Grounded in life and concerned with humanistic design, he believes that design can make life even better. He insists that architecture should be integrated with the environment and that architecture should communicate with other disciplines, especially with industrial design, so as to achieve mutual learning and common innovation and promote the further development of the overall design level.
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Luo WanlanDesign Director of IDING DESIGN;Director of the Product Design Teaching and Research Department, SchHe used to work as the design supervisor of the Industrial Design Center for Hisense Group. Having been involved in the industrial design sector for 20 years, he is committed to innovative research and practice in the field of design, with rich experience in product development and aesthetic judgement, aswell as a strong integrated product view. He is committed to well handling the entire industry chain including production definition, market strategy, interaction logic, and production management and well integrating various fields, such as healthcare, industry, instrument, consumer electronics, robotics, smart city, etc. He has built product images for hundreds of enterprises and institutions, forming a complete innovative design strategy system.
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Han RongDean, Professor, and Master\'s Supervisor of the School of Arts, Jiangsu UniversityIn the past five years, she took in charge of and participated in nearly 30 projects at the provincial and ministerial levels, including the project funded by the national social science foundation, humanities and social sciences general research project under the Ministry of Education, industry-university cooperation talent cultivation project under the Ministry of Education, research project funded by the Department of Culture of Jiangsu Province, education and teaching reform research and practice project funded by Jiangsu Art Fund and the Department of Education of Jiangsu Province, college philosophy and social science research project in Jiangsu Province, and the research project on education reform in higher education of Jiangsu Province. She published a total of 42 papers in teaching and research, some of which can be indexed by A&HCI, CSSCI, and EI and have been covered by Chinese core journals.
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Liu YujieVice President of Design and Partner of SVFACTORY; and head of the Industrial Design Institute in thHe used to work as a C2M industrial design expert for Jingdong Group, design leader of JD AI NeuHub, and Design Director and Chief Designer for several smart hardware companies. As the winner of such big awards as the Best of the Best at Red Dot Design Award, China Excellent Industrial Design (CEID), etc, he boasts rich experience in multi-terminal product design and mass production of the whole chain. His research focuses on how to guide the incubation of new product design through the insight into big data and AI technology, namely, the C2M reverse customized industrial design mode, translate data into design information, and transform product positioning, brand elements, and functional definitions into competitive industrial designs.
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Liu YanbinFounder of Japan Design Station, well-known design aesthetics blogger, and a practitioner of designHe is a well-known design aesthetics blogger, a practitioner in design media and the founder of Japan Design Station. He founded the "Talk on Design", a short video program of design aesthetics. He planned the "The Story of 100 Designers", a short video of design aesthetics which is intended to interview nearly 100 top-notch designers in and outside the country.
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Wang YuefeiFounder of Wangyuefei DesignWang Yuefei, an advocate of Chinese graphic design enlightenment movement, is one of the major curators of the exhibition - Graphic Design in China in 1992 and one of the founders of Shenzhen Graphic Designers Association. Besides, he is a member of the Art Evaluation Committee of Shenzhen Publicity and Culture Fund and an expert on special allowances from Shenzhen Municipal Government.
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Dirco FongFounder and Creative Director of Cosmic Design Co.;Chief Supervisor of Macau Product Design AssociatHe has been engaged in design for many years. The works he designed and planned have brought him more than 30 awards in design competitions in and outside Macau, which include a number of bronze and silver awards in packaging design, advertising and corporate image promotion received from the Macau Design Biennial, China Design Yearbook, China CIS Yearbook, and the Identity Year Book of the Cities in China. His works have been invited to participate in many design exhibitions in Mexico, Poland, ROK, Beijing, Shenzhen, Taiwan and Macau.
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Zhao ChaoAssociate Dean, School of Fine Arts, Tsinghua UniversityHe is the Vice President of Tsinghua Qingdao Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Director of Tsinghua University Institute of Health Care Industry Innovation Design, the Secretary General of the Steering Committee of Design in Higher Education, the Changjiang Young Scholar of the Ministry of Education, and the Vice President of the International Design Federation. He focuses on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural design research and innovation practice, integrating cultural, technological, aesthetic and commercial elements through design innovation to achieve social attributes, humanized experience, and sustainable development of design. Dr. Zhao Chao has been engaged in research, teaching and industrial practice in the fields of industrial design, experience design, healthcare design, humanistic design, design for ageing, social innovation, and design for cultural migration in recent years.
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Xie YuxianFounder and CEO of Socor IntelligenceHis design products have won numerous awards at home and abroad, including the iF Design Award in Germany, the RED DOT Award in Germany, the Gold Award of "China Good Design", and the G-MARK Good Design Award in Japan. He has also received the G-MARK Good Design Award in Japan. He has also been awarded the title of "Leader of China Industrial Design Association" and "Mentor of Shanghai Qingpu District Youth Entrepreneurship Association". He is the innovation consultant of the "Mobile Lifestyle Design Research Laboratory" of Jiangnan University, the vice president of the Shanghai Qingpu Youth Entrepreneurship Association and the vice president of the Young Entrepreneurs Association of the Qingpu District Federation of Industry and Commerce.
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Tong HuimingProfessor, Guangzhou Academy of Fine ArtsA 40-year industrial design learner, researcher, practitioner and educator, he proposed the concept of design-driven brands (BDD) in 2017 and launched the BDDWATCH (Design-Driven Brand Watch) research and communication platform in early 2018 to promote the development of design-driven startups in China.
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Sayoon HongCEO of DouM DesignVice President of Korea Internet Professionals Association; Consultant Committee, Korea Institute of Design Promotion. He has served as Advisor of LG Electronics Corporate Design Center, Director of Display & Media Design Lab, Vice president of HE&B Design Institute, and Director of LSR/UX Design Lab. In June 1996, he was awarded the Korea Good Design Selection of the President’s Award and in August of the same year, he proposed the "Environmentally friendly home appliance design practices and procedures". In December 2017, he proposed the "Guidelines for New Product Planning Processes that Predict the Future Environment and are Based on Users".
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Srini SrinivasanPresident of World Design Organization (WDO)Srini Srinivasan,working to promote design for a better world, and the Chairman & CEO of LUMIUM DESIGN, Inc., a Silicon Valley based, world class and award-winning product Design Company. As an Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design at Tongji College of Design & Innovation, Shanghai and a member of its International Advisory Board, he helps and mentors several technology start-ups as well as educational institutes. Srini is also an active member of IDSA. He has been a Keynote Speaker on leading Design Conferences across the globe on Innovation & Design topic.
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David GrossmanPast President of ico-DDavid Grossman is the International Council of Design. He has lectured and served on juries in many countries and has organized and curated many design exhibitions and events. In recent years he has been active in developing the design industry infrastructure in China. Of late he has been focusing on new perspectives on design history, the importance of professionalism in designing, the universality of design and the meaning of globalization, the need for design curricula evolution and the need for a more accurate design vocabulary. He is an environmental graphic designer and has many years of experience as a practicing designer, educator and activist in the international design community. He was the first President of the Israel Community of Designers, Israel's national multidisciplinary professional design association.
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Matteo O. IngaramoCEO of POLI.design, Politecnico di MilanoVice President of World Design Industry Organization (GDIO). His main research areas and directions are: innovation and new product development, design product value based on materials and perception. Some of the brands he has studied and consulted with include: Haworth, Whirlpool, Cartier, Vacheron Constantin, Richemont Group, SunStar, Ariete, Rancilio, Sacea, Carpisa, Fastweb, etc.
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Paul PriestmanPriestmanGoodePaul is recognized as one of the world's leading designers. Experienced in running the largest and most complex design projects and proving design leadership to companies and organizations through critical moments of investment and market changes. A clear thinker and inspirational speaker. Global Creative Director of CRRC Sifang Locomotive. Director of Design for Hong Kong Metro Trains. Top 500 most influential people in the UK list, Times News Paper, 2014, 2016.
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Mathis HellerDeTao Masters AcademyGerman Industry 4.0 design expert; BMW car concept designer; Chief designer of top design institute in the Netherlands.Mathis Heller is a cross-disciplinary designer with over twenty years of industry experience in the creative, automotive and product design fields. Since 2000, he has been the principal designer of the Dutch design firm Well Design, with many international clients such as Unilever, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, Sonder, and Delgado Medical. His work has won numerous international awards, including two 'Oscars' in the design world: the Red Dot Supreme Award and iF Gold Award. In China, he was appointed as an honorary professor at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts and has established his own studio at the DeTao Arts & Technology Centre.
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denisJMKMidea group microwave and cleaning divisionHe works in SAMSUNG Electronics, Hanyang University Adjunct Professor and KAYWON University of Art& Design Adjunct Professor. Standing Director of the Korea Industrial Design Association(KAID)
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Moritz LUDWIGdesignaffairsMoritz is passionate about envisioning smarter hardware and software for the digital age and sees design as a way to explore the future. He is leading designaffairs China, one of the worlds most awarded design agencies and part of Accenture Industry X.0. With a team of 50 creatives, Moritz has provided design solutions and strategic consulting to more than 40 of the Global Fortune 500 companies as well as many startups, including Airbus, Porsche, BMW, Huawei, Mercedes, Bosch, Siemens etc. Throughout his career, his works have received recognition from Red Dot Design Award, iF Design Award, CES Innovation Awards to the European ISPO fashion prize.
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Maki HirakawaHirakawa Design Studio Co., Ltd.Maki Hirakawa has more than 20 years of professional experience in product design, industrial design, and design produce with the public sector, etc. Maki is the President of HIRAKAWA DESIGN STUDIO Inc., which she founded in 2001 after having worked for Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.. Maki served on the board of the Japan Industrial Design Association (JIDA) from 2015 to 2021. In cooperation with other international design organizations, she had worked to support and promote design and designers around the world. Her achievement in China includes planning and promoting design seminars for in-house designers, collaborated in exhibitions such as CHINAPLAS, and cooperating with various design awards including DIA (Design Intelligence Award) and so on.
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Suresh SethiProf&Chair-Industrial Design University of ILLinois UASuresh Sethi is Chair of Industrial Design, School of Art & Design since 2020. Sethi was in the leadership role in a corporate environment - as Vice President, Design, Whirlpool Corporation Asia. He has been a founding Professor of the School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore. His research on life under artificial light as multisensory interaction includes culture, emotion, and sensation together is published as a book "Light Shines, Light Reflects."
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Troels SeidenfadenFounder - Seidenfaden Design ConsultingHe is the curator of Shenzhen Industrial Design Fair 2018. Containing more than 20 years experience in the design-business and 8 years in the weapon-industry, he has a broad knowledge and experience in the?development process concerning product and branding. For the last 8 years he has been involved in building up the new Danish Design Association “Designdenmark” (Dd).
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Thomas GarveyBoard of Directors WDO 2019-2021 & Associate Professor School of Industrial Design, Carleton UniversResearch in design for extreme and minimal environments, small-scale living spaces and urban density, integration of UN SDGs in design curricula, and international collaborations.
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Zeng HuiBeijing International Design WeekZeng Hui is a design scholar and curator of art and design. He was awarded the Ikuo Hirayama Award, the "China Star" Best Design Award, the China Outstanding Brand Image Design Award and the Golden Finger Award. He was awarded the "Advanced Individual of Beijing Olympic Games" and the Most Influential Graphic Designer Award of China Advertising Design Style List. He hosted the design of "The Olympic Culture Scroll" which won the Merit Award of Hong Kong Print Awards 2012 and the All China Print Awards 2013. He has been in charge of planning and designing hundreds of brand image, event promotion, planning and design and city image landscape design and promotion projects for China FAW, Yili Group, CITIC Group, China's excellent tourist cities, etc. He was involved in the planning and organization of the previous Beijing International Design Week.
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Gao FengZhongxingTelecomEquipmentHe is one of the Top Ten Outstanding Designers in China and DDF Top Ten Outstanding Youths in China Design Industry. He has presided over the design of products exported to more than one hundred countries and regions, with cumulative sales of over 500 million, and won more than 20 domestics and international design awards such as iF Award, Red Dot Award and Red Star Award. He focuses on product innovation and design, emphasizing human-centered design thinking and design-driven innovation workflow. He has personally applied for more than 40 patents, covering various fields such as display touch, voice control, human-machine interaction, process structure and appearance design.
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Han TingShanghai Jiao Tong UniversityHan Ting is a double-appointed professor of the Institute of Medical Robotics, a young scholar of the "Changjiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education (2019), a selected candidate of the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, an excellent teacher of Baosteel, an excellent scholar of Tang Lixin, the member of the Steering Sub-Committee of Industrial Design of the Ministry of Education, a deputy director of the Industrial Design Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, a member of the Shanghai Design Capital Promotion Center Management Committee member, Head of Cultural and Creative Base of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, Head of Scientific and Creative Base of Shanghai Municipal Science Commission.
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Hu QizhiGuangdong Industrial Design AssociationHu Qizhi is a master of engineering, senior industrial designer. He joined Guangdong Industrial Design Association in 2005 and is engaged in the promotion, management and planning of industrial design. He has carried out a series of pioneering work and made outstanding contributions to the development of industrial design in Guangdong and China. He was awarded the title of "2011 China Industrial Design Top Ten Promotion Excellence" and "DDF Award (2015) China Design Contribution Award".
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Huang JunhuiCRRC Corporation LimitedHe is a professor-level senior engineer who proposed and presided over the design and project execution of 380BG high-cold EMU, 3A EMU, 3X EMU, 350 km/h sleeper EMU and industrial platform EMU. He presided over the design of the industrial platform EMU won the Gold medal of "China Excellent Industrial Design Award", the high privacy and large capacity longitudinal sleeper EMU won the Goldreed Industrial Design Award the Best of the Best, individual World Green Design Contribution Award, DDF Award For Chinese design contribution Gold medal, "Mao Yi-sheng Science and Technology Award".
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Li QiHangzhou Ruide Design Co.Since founding RD Design in 1999, he has successfully built RD Design into a technology-based integrated design group with product, space and brand as its core. In 2014, he led the company to be successfully listed on the New OTC (Over the Counter) Market, and was hailed as the "pioneer of Chinese industrial design" by Phoenix Weekly. For more than 20 years, Li Qi has led his team to successfully complete more than 2,000 super cases in large span business fields, creating more than 300 billion business value, and continuously leading the change and forward movement of China's industrial design with business innovation.
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Ma YuTianjin Polytechnic UniversityHe is mainly engaged in the research of industrial design of textile machinery and equipment, He presided over the completion of more than 140 design projects including cotton spinning machinery, presided over the completion of two standards of industrial design of textile machinery and equipment; completed above provincial and ministerial level Scientific research projects 6; published more than 120 papers. He has won the 14th DDF Award for China Design Contribution - Silver Medal, China Industry-University-Research Innovation Award, Design Intelligence Award Masterpiece Award.
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Pan ChangxueWuhan University of TechnologyHe is a member of the National Steering Committee for Postgraduate Education of Art Degree; a member of the Steering Committee for Undergraduate Teaching of Design of the Ministry of Education; Vice President of the Aesthetics Society of Hubei Province; Head of the National First-class Major in Product Design; Head of the National Experimental Zone for Talent Cultivation of Industrial Design of the Ministry of Education.
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Sun LiYanshan UniversityHe is the author of "Fundamentals of Product Design Engineering", "Aesthetic Fundamentals of Wheel Hub Design Technology" and "Theory and Application of Elephant Element Design". 2020, he was the judge of the Hebei Region of the National Student Industrial Design Competition; the final judge of the First National Mechanical Industrial Design Innovation Competition; the final judge of the Xingtai "Jingkai Cup" Industrial Design Innovation Competition. In 2021, he will be the final judge of "Milan Design Week" Design Competition in Hebei Province; the final judge of the 1st China (Dingzhou) Industrial Design Innovation Competition for Sports and Fitness Products; the final judge of the 3rd "Qilu Cup" Industrial Design Competition.
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Wang ZhongCentral Academy of Fine ArtHe was awarded the "Craftsmanship Award" for the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the He was awarded the "Craftsmanship Award" of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China - China's Hundred Excellent Projects in Public Art; the New China Urban Sculpture 60-Year Construction Achievement Award; the Outstanding Contribution to Chinese Environmental Art Award; and the Life hacker 2019 Top Ten Chinese Interior Designers of the Year. He has served as a judge for the Tianhe Award International Innovative Design Competition; a judge for the Bi Lu Cup Public Art Elite Competition; a judge for the Xiongan Urban Furniture Design (International) Competition; a judge for the Beijing International Design Week Classic Design Award; a judge for the Huayi Space Cup China National Home Product Innovation Design Competition; a judge for the Global Design Award, and a judge for the Chenrezig China-Jing Qilin Award.
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Xue YiNankai UniversityHe was a professor and head of the Department of Art and Design of Hebei University of Technology (Tianjin), the first dean of the College of Architecture and Art Design of Hebei University of Technology, the director of the Digital Creativity and Intelligent Design Research Center of Nankai University, a member of the National Steering Committee for Graduate Education in Art, a member of the China Artists Association, the president of Tianjin Creative Industries Association and the member of the Expert Committee of Beijing Cultural and Creative Competition, and judge of the national finals.
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Yin ZhengshengTongji UniversityHis vehicle design won the Shanghai Industry-Academia-Research Award, Nanjing Road pedestrian street design won the Shanghai Planning Design Award, won the Exhibition Design Award, indoor generation design system won the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award in the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum. He is the member of the planning and design team for the 2000 World Expo. He is jury member of Red Star Award, expert leader of National Barrier Free Design Inspection Team of MOHURD in 2020, jury member of Osaka International Design Competition and so on.
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Zhang XiaokaiTianjin Chengjian UniversityHis main research directions include design revitalization of traditional industries, urban art design, etc. He presided over the completion of the National Publication Fund project "Chinese Bamboo Ware" and one humanities and social science planning project of the Ministry of Education. He presided over the completion of two provincial-level projects, including the Tianjin Art Science Planning Project and the Tianjin International Think Tank Project. He was a judge of the industrial design project of the sixth and seventh national NOC competition for two consecutive years, and a judge of the 2020 Tianjin University Theme Poster Design Exhibition on the theme of "Tree a clean breeze - to promote integrity", and a judge of the 2021 Tianjin University Theme Poster Competition "Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Party". Jury member of the theme poster competition.
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Li YichaoLKK Innovation Design GroupSince he joined LKK, he has held the positions of designer, general manager of company in Shenzhen, group vice president and president, creating business value through product design and continuously iterating the service model of the design industry. He took the lead in building a "design + R&D + supply chain" product innovation system, allowing small and medium-sized enterprises to fill in the gaps in product development, process management and other multi-link capabilities, explored the "vertical industry innovation" service model, such as photoelectric LED splicing screen industry, presided over the design of the splicing screen "Black Onyx" included G-MARK, Red Dot Award, IF Award, IDEA and many other awards. He has led the team to continuously contribute 68 patents and more than 50 international awards to the industry, and the industry output value has risen from 1 billion to 30 billion, helping four companies to go public.
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Chen ShibinFounder CEO of Shenzhen Good Luck Culture Technology Co.Co-founder of Moonstep Technology and initiator of the i-LINK charity campaign. His design works have won international awards such as the Red Dot Design Award in Germany, the iF Award, the G-Mark Design Award in Japan and the IDEA Award in the USA.
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Zhou LinFounder & Chairman, Shangpin Creative Design GroupHe is the lead designer of the 70th Anniversary National Day Colour Car - Innovation Drive, a special expert of the Industrial Design Talent Station in Beijing's urban sub-centre, and an outstanding young talent of the capital's design. Over the years, he has led his team to win hundreds of international and domestic design awards, including RedDot, IF, IDEA, G-mark, China Outstanding Industrial Design Award, etc. He has also helped his clients to obtain more than 1000 appearance patents and utility model patents, driving the economic value of design to 20 billion yuan. In 2009, we founded Shangpin Design, which has 12 major institutions, including Beijing, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Jinan, Shijiazhuang and Nantong design institutions, and Shangpin Design Institute.
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Liu YangHead of Industrial Design Department, Beijing Institute of TechnologyIn 2007, he founded Beijing Huaxin Yichuang Industrial Design Co. He is currently a member of the Cultural Committee of the Central Committee of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong (DAB), deputy director of the Cultural Committee of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the DAB, a member of the Chaoyang District Youth Federation, deputy secretary-general of the Beijing Design Institute, chairman of the supervisory board of the Haidian District Cultural and Creative Industries Association, and a member of the National Industrial Design Centre of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. He has been awarded as one of the "Leading Talents of Beijing High-Tech Program", "Top 100 Leading Talents of Science and Technology Beijing", "Four Batches of Talents of Beijing", "Top 10 Outstanding Industrial Designers of China", and "Top 10 Industrial Designers of China". Top Ten Outstanding Industrial Designers" and "Top Ten Outstanding Youths in China Design Industry".
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Xiong WeiFounder/Chairman, Smart Plus Design GroupHe is the Vice President of Halls Design Innovation Institute and one of the top ten outstanding young people in the design industry in China. He has 11 design agencies, with global bases in Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Shenyang, Hangzhou, Milan and other cities, focusing on integrated and innovative design services for industrial products. The company has won more than 2,500 design projects in 18 product areas, including medical devices, household appliances, industrial equipment and public facilities, and has received more than 100 international and domestic design awards, including the German Red Dot Design Award, IF Design Award, Taiwan Design Golden Dot Award and China Outstanding Industrial Design Award, etc. The economic value driven by design is RMB 10 billion.
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Gu CongAssociate Professor, China Academy of ArtD. in Art, visiting scholar of the National Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany, excellent young scholar of China Academy of Art. He is currently teaching at the Collaborative Innovation Centre for Cultural and Creative Design and Manufacturing of the China Academy of Art, and is the deputy director of the organizing committee of the China Design Intelligence Awards (DIA). His research areas include industrial design, cultural and creative product design, industrial design exhibition and display, and Internet group intelligence and crowdsourcing. He has participated in the construction of major art projects of the National Social Science Foundation and many provincial and ministerial projects, and has published dozens of research papers.
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Ji XiaoliangEditor-in-Chief, SiteCool.comChairman of the organizing committee of the Station Cool Awards. He has been involved in the design industry for more than 15 years, with in-depth research on graphics, UI, industrial products, illustration, animation, photography, etc. He has been a judge for Intel, Adobe, Vivo, McDonald's, Midea, Haier, Tencent, Byte Jump and other major brand design and creative competitions.
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Chen LuSenior Director, Xiaomi Eco-chainShe joined Xiaomi in 2011 and has led the team to design the packaging of all Xiaomi products from the first generation of Xiaomi mobile phones, Xiaomi, Mi Home and Mi Rabbit branding, Xiaomi Home flagship shop, and many Xiaomi peripheral derivative products. He has won the Gold Award at the Pentwards Design Awards in the UK, the Good Design Award and Best 100 Award in Japan, the Gold Award at the Graphis Design Yearbook in the US, the First Prize at the Dieline Design Awards in the US, the Red Dot Design Award at Red Dot in Germany, the IF Design Award in Germany, the Gold Award at A Design in Italy, etc.
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Wang XiaoaiChief Representative of the Glasgow School of Art in ChinaIn 2004, he was selected as one of the top 100 most influential young artists in the world by The Times magazine, and in 2017, he was selected as Curator of the Year by Creative Scotland. He has been a juror at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games medal design, Singapore Design Week, the 7th and 8th Glasgow International Art Festival Biennial, and the London Design Fair.
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Wei MinFounder and CEO of Shenzhen Jiajian Geometry Industrial Design Co.Ltd. was established in 2014, and has led his team to win more than 100 domestic and international design awards, including the world's four major design awards (reddot, iF, IDEA, G-Mark). In the past 7 years, he has led his team to win more than 100 domestic and international design awards, including the world's four major design awards (reddot, iF, IDEA, G-Mark).
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Jiang ChunhuiDesign Director, Haier Innovation Design CentreResponsible for Haier Group's all-brand and category industrial design segment. He has won 59 German IF and Red Dot design awards; 20 national patents for technical inventions, 76 patents for utility models and 307 patents for designs; from 2017 to 2019, he won 2 China Design Gold Awards from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, 1 China Design Patent Gold Award and 2 Excellence Awards from the State Intellectual Property Office; in 2020, he was awarded the title of Qingdao High-Level Talent, Shandong Province In 2020, he was awarded the title of Qingdao high-level talents, the gold medal of the third "Governor's Cup" industrial design competition and the medal of Shandong model worker. In the past 15 years since joining Haier Group, he has led the innovative design team to design a number of star products for Haier Group.
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Cao LeiAssistant President of China Shipbuilding Industry Comprehensive Technical and Economic Research InsSenior Engineer, Director of the Service Design Engineering International Joint Laboratory, one of the top ten outstanding young people in China\\\'s design industry, and the leader of the service design profession in CSG. He has pioneered the cross-border innovation of service design in the industrial field: he led the establishment of the Service Design Engineering International Joint Laboratory, integrated the top resources of service design at home and abroad, and created an open innovation platform for service design; he introduced the concept of service design engineering for the first time in the international arena, and constructed the dual mainline model and method of service design engineering.
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Bao LiangyouSenior Director, Apparel Development Centre, Li Ning (China) Sporting Goods Co.In 2005, he was one of the top ten pattern makers in China, the first executive member of the Technical Committee of the China Fashion Designers Association, and participated in the drafting of the national standard "Specification for Knitted Sportswear for Men and Women". His works have won the China Good Design Winner Award and the Gold Award of Contemporary Good Design for many times. From 2009 to 2020, he has innovated and developed 55 technical patents and obtained authorization from the State Intellectual Property Office, achieving a commercial output value of over RMB 5 billion.
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Deng MingHead of Industrial Design Department, Tohoku UniversityD., Associate Professor. In recent years, he has presided over and participated in one project of the National Social Science Foundation, one project of the Basic Research Business Fund of the Ministry of Education, more than 30 horizontal projects of large and medium-sized government and enterprises at home and abroad, one independent monograph, one industry specification, and published more than 20 papers. He is a senior interior designer in China, an outstanding young interior designer in China, and a deputy director of the China Building Decoration Association. He has won 9 awards from 1st to 3rd class in domestic and international competitions.
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Gao HongheVice Dean, School of Art and Design, Liaoning University of Petroleum and Chemical Technology, DesigHe has obtained 21 authorized patents, presided over 4 provincial projects and 2 municipal funds. Honours received include: inductee of the Cultural Industry Entrepreneurial and Creative Talent Pool of the Ministry of Culture, director of the Industrial Design Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, deputy secretary-general of the Industrial Design Branch of the Liaoning Mechanical Engineering Society, and director of the National University Art Education Experts Union. His works have won the Wisdom Award in the China Wisdom Competition, the A'design award in Italy, and have been selected for the Support Programme for Entrepreneurial and Creative Talents in the Cultural Industry - Outstanding Creative Works for Youth.
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Guan TaoShenyang University of Technology Master\'s Degree TutorMaster of Chinese Ceramic Design Art, Liaoning Provincial Master Teacher of Teaching, Member of Chinese Artists Association. He is the head of the national first-class course and the head of the first-class major in Liaoning Province - product design. He has been engaged in ceramic culture and product design research for many years, and his personal ceramic art works have been selected for many art exhibitions at home and abroad.
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Liu YangProfessor, Dean of School of Design and Art, Shenyang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MaHe is a member of the Teaching Sub-Committee of Industrial Design of the Ministry of Education, the Deputy Secretary-General of the Liaoning Mechanical Engineering Society Industrial Design Branch, the Vice President of Shenyang Industrial Design Association, the national first-class professional construction site of industrial design of Shenyang University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the head of the national characteristic professional and provincial first-class professional construction site. He has been a judge of the Strait Cup (Jinjiang) Industrial Design Competition, the Industrial Design Award of Hebei Province, the Harbin International Snow Sculpture Competition, the Shenyang Industrial Design Competition and the Dalian Mayor\'s Cup Industrial Design Competition for many times.
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Zhang LimingConsultant of Strategic Planning and Product Management Center of Shenzhen Haobo Window Control TechHe specialises in comprehensive practical and theoretical research on corporate strategy, lean R&D, lean management and industrial innovation in the real economy. He has a long history of research and development in innovation, standardisation and market value system reengineering for enterprises and industry products. He has extensive experience in the application of cutting-edge materials, new processes and new technologies.
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Wang LinHead of Sculpture Department, School of Fine Arts, Southwest UniversityHe is an associate professor, master's tutor and double leader of the discipline at the School of Fine Arts of Southwest University, a visiting scholar at the School of Art of Taiwan Normal University, a thesis reviewer at the Ministry of Education's Degree Centre, a member of the Chinese Sculpture Society, a director of the Chongqing Sculpture Society and a member of the Chongqing Artists' Association's Sculpture Art Committee. His works have been exhibited in many important national and international exhibitions, and some of his works have been exhibited in the National Art Museum of China and collected by relevant institutions and individuals. His representative works of public art are "Harmony. The Morning Dew of Feng Dan" and "Ginkgo Golden Goose" were installed in Chongqing New Town Square and Jinyun Mountain National Nature Reserve Square respectively.
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Sun JianFounder of Shengyang Branding (Beijing) Co.Member of the Academic Committee of the China Advertising Association. His works have won the German National Design Award, the German Red Dot best of the best award, the German iF design award, the US muse creative award platinum award, the US IDA international design award gold award, the US good design award, the US IDEA design award, the Netherlands indigo design award gold award, the Italian A design award silver/bronze award, the Australian good design award, the UK Illustration International Award, France Paris Design Award, European Product Design Award, UK World Brand Design Award, UK London Creative Awards Award, Asia Design Awards Bronze Award, Korea k Design Award, Korea Good Design Award and other awards.
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Jin ZisenFounding Partner of Garage Coffee, Chairman & CEO of Garage Coffee Education Management Company, VicHe is the Vice Chairman of New Finance Alliance, an expert in corporate strategy and management consulting, and an angel investor. He has mature insights and practical experience in top-level design, operation and operation, platform management and talent training of innovation and entrepreneurship incubation services and industry-financing integration, and has undertaken the training of incubation operation and management staff of the Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security since 2014. More than 10,000 people have been trained. He has successfully provided innovation research and industry consulting projects for governments, management committees, science and technology parks, incubators and universities in many places.
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Chi WeiFounder of +86 Design Sharing Platform+86 Founder of China Food Design Alliance, curator of Future Food International Food Design Festival, founder of Beijing Zhi Xiang Innovation Design Consulting, mentor of Tsinghua University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Enterprise, partner of APES.ART Digital Gallery. He has been awarded the iF, Red Dot Award and the 2020 Beijing Science and Technology Commission\\\'s special support for outstanding design talents. As a curator, he initiated the designer100 China Design Red Book publication project, +86 China Food Design Alliance, planned the 798 Design Festival, Shunde International Food Design Festival, released the China Design Industry Price Report, 119 World Designers\\\' Day, Bauhaus Caravan China and other activities.
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Zhai XiaominEditor-in-chief of Xinhua's Hebei Channel and Deputy Chief Editor of China Xiong'an Official WebsiShe is responsible for the editorial work of Xinhua's Hebei Channel and the official website of China Xiongnu. Some of her works won the 2013, 2014 and 2017 Hebei Province Network Good News Awards, and the 2018 Outstanding Story Award of the Short Video Contest for Women Journalists issued by the Capital Women Journalists Association. She has participated in the judging sessions of Internet communication excellence in Hebei Province and Shijiazhuang City.
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Cao ZhaoyangDirector of Integrated Media Production Department, Great Wall New Media GroupHe is a "Five Excellent" journalist of the Propaganda Department of the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and a training instructor of the Talent Centre of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television. He is the creator of the national phenomenon programme model "992 Everybody's Gang", which has won more than 40 awards, including the first prize of the China Journalism Award and the first prize of the Hebei Journalism Award; he has also planned and created many integrated media works with 10 million views, such as "Hundred Views of Feng Hua Tu Jing Zhi", which has had a great impact on the industry.
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Wang YanHead of Department of Industrial Design, School of Art, Design and Communication, East China UniversFrom 2017 to 2020, he presided over provincial and ministerial-level topics such as major disciplinary special research on the construction of Shanghai IV peak plateau disciplines, served as a judge of the China Red Star Award, an expert in the evaluation of financial support funds for the promotion of cultural and creative industries in Shanghai, a director of the Shanghai Creative Designers Association, the executive vice chairman of the Design Committee of the Guangdong Packaging Technology Association, and the deputy director of the Technical Committee of the Jiangsu Industrial Design Innovation Strategy Alliance, among other social positions.
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Chen GuoqiangMember of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Yanshan UniversityEngineering professor and doctor, director of Industrial Design Branch of Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, director of Hebei Province Design Innovation and Industrial Development Research Center, he presided over and participated in more than 20 national and provincial government sponsored research, has published more than 30 academic papers, some in CSSCI source journals.
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Zhang QiChairman of Dragon Design FoundationZhang Qi is an Executive Committee Member of World Green Design Organization. Adhering to the tenet of "discovering design talents and setting up innovation models", he initiated to set up of "DDF Award". In order to promote green design,World Green Design Organization was established jointly with relevant domestic and foreign institutions in 2013 to promote global sustainable development by means of "green design", advocating green production, green consumption and green life.
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Tapani HyvönenSenior Consultant of ED design, FinlandTapani Hyv?nen graduated as an industrial designer from the present Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. In 1976, he founded the design agency “Destem Ltd.” and was co-founder of ED-Design Ltd. In 1990, he has served as the CEO and president of both agencies until 2013. He has been a visiting professor at Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou and Donghua University in Shanghai, China. His many award-winning designs, for which e.g. he was honored with the Industrial Designer of the Year Award of the Finnish Association of Industrial Designers TKO in 1991 and the Pro Finnish Design Award by the Design Forum Finland, are part of the collections of the Design Museum Helsinki and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York. Tapani Hyv?nen was an advisory board member of the Design Leadership Program at the University of Art and Design Helinki 1989-2000, and a board member of the World Design Organization (formerly Icsid) 1999-2003 and 2009-2013. He was president of the Finish Assocation of Designers Ornamo 2009- 2012 and a board member of the Finish Design Museum 2011 -2017.
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Michael YoungMichael Young Design Studio (UK)Michael Young is one of the most influential contemporary designers, British industrial design master. Michael Young\'s design involves industrial design, interior design, art design and other fields. His design style is elegant and simple, especially keen on the pursuit of technology. He is known as a complex minimalist in the industry. His designs, with elegant and gorgeous design aesthetics is highly praised and collected by international awards and art galleries. In pursuit of pioneering technology, Michael Young set up his own studio in Hong Kong in 2006. Until today, the studio has become one of the best-known design firms in Asia, with close ties to Chinese design.
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Masayuki KurokawaWorld-Renowned Architect and Industrial DesignerMasayuki Kurokawa is an architect and thinker, and also director of Yashi Kurokawa Architectural Design Office, a member of Architectural Institute of Japan, Japan Architects Association, Japan Design Committee, Japan Decoration Design Forum and Chairman of Japan Industrial Designers Association. He also holds the position of professor at the Graduate School of Art at the University of Japan. He was born in a family of architects, graduated from Department of Architecture in Waseda University, and got the title “PhD of Art”, which is the only one in Japanese history. Some of his works are collected in NYC‘s Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum and the Metroplitan Museum of Art (New York City).
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Dirk SchumannFounder of Schumann DesignMr. Dirk Schumann, German designer, has been a member of the Red Dot Award Jury since 2006 and has served as jury member at the Red Dot Concept Award in Singapore since 2015. Mr. Schumann has received dozens of international professional design awards, including the Red Dot Design Award/Best of the Best, iF Design Award, G-Mark, DeutscherDesigner Club Award, German Design Award, PlusX Award, and Design Plus Award. Mr. Schumann has been working since 1992 in the field of strategic design consultancy and product design in many areas of both consumer and investment goods industries. These include; home appliances, communications technology, sanitation, energy and medical equipment, and plant engineering.
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Chen JiangDean of the Industrial Design College of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine-ArtsDoctor, Professor, Master Tutor, Deputy Director of Specialized Committee of Information and Interaction Design of China Industrial Design Association (IIDC). He is the Vice Chairman of the Design Education Branch of China Industrial Design Association, Vice Chairman of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Industrial Design Major of Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, the top ten educators of Industrial Design Major in China, the Chairman of the Teaching Guidance Committee of Industrial Design Major of Guangdong Province, the member of the Expert Evaluation Committee of the National Art Fund of the Ministry of Culture, and the member of the "Thousand Talents Program" of Expert Evaluation Committee of the Ministry of Culture, Executive Member of Guangdong Industrial Design Association, Executive Deputy Director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Industrial Design Creativity and Application Research. The major research areas are industrial design engineering, system design and design management. Since November 1992, he has undertaken more than ten enterprises and institutions entrusted design research projects and government sponsored design research projects. And he has designed for dozens of various companies for many times. And he has obtained more than 20 patents. The design practice areas include: product appearance, internal structure design and function design of original products, system design, display design and design management consulting.
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David KusumaPresident of the World Design Organization (WDO)David Kusuma is the President-Elect of the World Design Organization (WDO), and Vice President Research and Product Innovation Worldwide at Tupperware Brands Corporation, where he is responsible for leading R&D and technology research. His focus is to leapfrog conventional boundaries of innovation through open innovation, crowd sourcing, and industry partnerships, and create game-changing product solutions by developing new technologies and materials. David is a Fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He is a board member of the SPE Injection Molding Division and a board member of the World Design Organization (WDO).
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He RenkeProfessor and Doctoral Supervisor,College of Design and Art,Hunan UniversityHe Renke is the Chairman of?the Teaching Guidance Committee of Industrial Design Major of?Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, one of the three initiators of "China Design Day", initiator of Design Engine Innovation Alliance, winner of "Gold Medal of China Design Contribution Award of?2014 DDF Award",?as well as chairman and judge of?many?international design competitions.?His major research areas include product design theory and methodology, design management, design and business model.?He is also responsible for drafting the China Industrial Design Discipline Construction Planning?and Evaluation System.
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Gert TrauernichtPartner and co-founder of Squareone Düsseldorf Germany
Professor of University of Wuppertal
GuMember of VDID, Germany and member of the extended jury of Braun Prize, Gert Trauernicht was invited to give exhibitions many times. His works had yielded many awards including International Sony Design Competition, DDC-award and IF Hannover. His clients includes Siemens, Germany Airbus, France/Germany and Johnson & Johnson USA. -
Bao ShiduDoctoral Supervisor, Dean of Environment Art Design Academy, Donghua UniversityBao Shidu is the academic leader in environmental art and design of key disciplines in Shanghai, president of Urban Furniture Branch of China Standardization Association. He founded the environmental art system design theory and the Chinese urban furniture theory system, presided over the formulation of Chinese urban furniture group standards.
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Bi XuefengDoctoral Supervisor, Dean of College of Art Design, China Academy of ArtMember of Alliance Graphique Internationale(AGI). His designs had been collected by institutions such as the British V&A Museum and the Hamburg Design Museum in Germany. He had served as a judge for the National Exhibition of Fine Art, China, GDC Graphic Design in China, Taiwan Golden Pin Design Award, Macao Design Award and China International Poster Biennial.
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Cai JunAcademy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University
Director, Design Management Research Lab, Arts &Well known for his focusing on design strategy and management since 90’s, he is not only internationally active as jury on design award such as Reddot, Gmark, RedStar and DIA, also as international advisor for IIT, Institute of Design, Aalto University and Hong Kong PolyU. His research involved on design value driven innovation, design strategy, life-centric innovation. -
Chen DongliangVice President of China Industrial Design Association (CIDA)
Managing Director of Beijing IndustHe is presiding chairman of China Red Star Design Award Committee, director of Beijing Industrial Design Center, juror of Good Design Selection, and industrial design development consultant of the Academy of arts&design,Tsinghua University. -
Franci FengFounder of Rito Design, Consultant of Shenzhen Graphic Design AssociationGuest professor of Shenzhen University, one of the Top Ten Outstanding Youth of Chinese Design Industry, he has been deeply explored in the fields of branding, design, architecture, space and art for 30 years, and is committed to promoting the development of local values and the practice of creative industries with contemporary cogitation.
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Hang JianChina Academy of Art
Director of Art Museum of CAAAs a design historian, he was the planner of the 1st Beijing International Design Triennial, and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd China Design Exhibition. He was in charge of building Tsinghua University Art Museum and the Folk Art Museum of China Academy of Art. Now he is the Vice-president of the Academy of arts&design, Tsinghua University. -
Cathy HuangFounder of CBi China Bridge
The initiator of SDN (Service Design Network) ShanghaiCathy founded CBi China Bridge in 2003. Most recently, she co-founded Successful Design, a social enterprise aiming to amplify the value of design. She is frequently invited to conferences in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Her continued dedication to challenging the limits fuels her creativity for both business and design. -
Rhonda JiangEditor-in-Chief of Package & Design MagazineRhonda Jiang is the editor-in-chief of Package&Design Magazine which is one of the most influential design magazines in China with a history of 48 years. Having been working in the magazine for 18 years, she has rich experience in reporting excellent designs worldwide, is familiar with the design development in China and overseas and holds special viewpoints on the social responsibility of design.
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Li LifengDirector of the Promotion Division of National Research Center for Rehabilitation Technical Aids DeaA doctor and associate professor, Deputy Secretary General of Chinese Association of Assistive Products, Deputy Secretary General of the Rehabilitation Branch of CSBME, he has long been engaged in scientific research of rehabilitation aids and theoretical research of industrial policies.
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Lin JiayangDoctoral Supervisor,School of Design and Creativity, Tongji UniversityDeputy director of the Teaching Steering Committee of design major in Colleges and universities of the Ministry of education, executive director of China Industrial Design Association. The main achievements include the first prize of Jiangsu provincial teaching achievement, the first prize of Shanghai teaching achievement, the second prize of national teaching achievement, and the speaker of national excellent course / national excellent resource sharing course / MOCC (MOOC) online learning platform of China University.
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Sean ShihGeneral Manager Reddot Design AwardSean Shih has many years of international and multicultural experience in enterprise management. Now he is China General Manager of Red Dot, curator of the Red Dot Design Museum the chief curator of the exhibition hosted by the China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
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Wang JianzhongDoctoral Supervisor of Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua UniversityWang, Jianzhong is currently a professor and doctoral tutor in Tsinghua University. He is also the Vice-Chairman of Arts and Crafts Committee of China Artists Association, the Vice-Chairman of China Arts and Crafts Society, the Executive Chairman of Art Committee of China Ceramic Industry Association, National Member of China Association of Science and Technology.
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Xue WenkaiDean of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Industrial DesignDirector, professor and postgraduate tutor of Industrial Design Laboratory Teaching Center of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, director of Design Education Branch of CIDA, Xue Wenkai is now engaged in teaching research and design practice in industrial design.
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Song WeizuDeputy Secretary General and standing committee member of the Beijing Municipal Committee of CPPCC DHe also served as Deputy Secretary General of China Industrial Design Association, full-time vice president and Secretary General of Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Association, vice president of Beijing Arts and Crafts Association, deputy director of Beijing International Design Week Organizing Committee Office, and chairman of China Guanghua Longteng award jury.
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BAEK BYUNG KOOKDirector of Samsung Design China (SDC)BAEK BYUNG KOOK,director of Samsung Design China (SDC), graduated from Kookmin University.
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Bertrand DeromeCEO of World Design Organization
President of the Quebec Association of Industrial DesignersBertrand Derome is the Managing Director of WDO and Past-President President of the Quebec Association of Industrial Designers (ADIQ), has cumulated more than 20 years’ experience in design and innovation management and sustainable design. He is also a confirmed lecturer who eagerly advocates for design’s social, environmental and economic impacts, for the betterment of the world. -
Davide ScomparinFounder and CEO of Desall.comBorn in 1982, he graduated from the IUAV University of Venice in Industrial Design. During his career he has been awarded with several prizes including a “Silver Award” from Samsung Young Design Award 2008. In 2011, starting from the idea – "Let’s all take part in the conception and creation of a new product" – he founded Desall.
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Elena RahoFounder of HERE FASHION HUBShe graduated from Industrial Design at the Polytechnic University of Turin – Italy. She used to work in Fila, Adidas and Armani, etc. Early in her career, she travelled to China for her work in design and development. HERE CREATE has developed beyond expectations, evolving into a broader platform concept for the future lifestyle and fashion industry.
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Hannu PöppönenFull-time professor, Guangdong university of technology, School of art and designFull-time professor, Guangdong university of technology, School of art and design, organizer of the Introduction to Design Workshop for BA students, editor of the university journal, has received several grants and awards including the National Vaasa Award for Design Journalism 2010 and the Finnish Cultural Foundation 2009 for writing the book Design Bubbles—Phenomena in Finnish design.
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Susanne LengyelPresident of the Association of German Industrial Designers
Vice President for Teaching and LearnSusanne Lengyel was President of the Association of German Industrial Designer e.V. for twelve years. As a design consultant, she has worked on many internationally awarded products. Today she is the Vice President for Teaching and Learning at Hamm-Lippstadt University and a professor with the subject area "Engineering Design and Prototyping". -
Tully GehanCo-founder of ChaiHuo Maker Space
Shenzhen's Chapter Leader for Hardware MassiveTully Gehan graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology. As an Engineer he has worked at great places, such as help build the world's largest laser used for fusion research at the lab for laser energetics and the American engineering think tank DEKA. Also, Tully was the Co-Founder of Chaihuo Maker Space and Shenzhen's Chapter Leader for Hardware Massive. -
Zhou YufangVice-president of the School of Architecture of Central Academy of Fine Arts Head of Department of AAs member of the 13th Science Popularization Committee of ASC, managing director of the Building Reconstruction and Urban Renewal Professional Committee of ASC, and director of the Urban Design Branch of the Architectural Society of China, he has won the Henry Adams/AIA Scholastic Gold Medal.
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Dong ZhanweiGeneral Manager of the China South District of Shanghai Chuangyi Jingwei Consulting Co., LTDSupport Chinese enterprises to establish and improve the identification of brand, retail, product and communication, and implement brand strategy. At the same time, he is a lecturer of Shenzhen Design Institute of Marangoni, responsible for the courses of brand packaging, including fashion and luxury business management, fashion marketing, fashion brand packaging, product development principles of fashion and design industry, supply chain management, etc Experience in brand management (audit, strategy, execution).
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Li YanboCEO and Founder of Shejipi (Design Hobby)With 14 years of new media experience, he has launched 36 krypton and design mania, and is committed to helping entrepreneurs realize their dreams. At present, its design addiction has accumulated more than 2 million users. It has served many famous brands such as BMW, Dyson, DuPont, Haier and Autodesk. It is the official cooperative media of German red dot award and if award. It has close cooperation with Qingmei, Yangmei, Gome, Guangmei, Tongji, Jiangda and other design institutes.
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Feng XiaoManager of the Northern District of Langtu CreativeUrban and industrial design experts integrate urban strategy, industrial planning, brand building, product design, marketing, etc. with the concept of grand design, they are committed to promoting the transformation and upgrading of urban characteristic industries and creating international famous brands.
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Luo YufenFounder of Pinyan LifeIn 2010, we launched brand management and founded cuckoo and pincollection. It is committed to creating products of life aesthetics and exploring traditional folk arts, and continuously promoting "local culture pushing to the international stage". Yii brand designer has participated in design exhibitions in Milan and Paris for many times, and has modernized traditional culture with design power. He has won five awards such as Germany if and red dot.
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Luo HuanExecutive President of Shenbang International Consulting Co., LTD of ShenzhenWith 17 years of experience in design consulting, he founded the business innovation theory of "Prospering business by design". He was invited by Tsinghua University and a number of other institutions of higher learning to teach the course of "Prospering business by design". He was employed by the Department of industry and information technology of Hunan Province as a special expert in industrial design development in Hunan Province. He has done a lot of in-depth design and business training for government officials, enterprise representatives and entrepreneurs all over the country.
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Liao LitingGeneral Manager of Shenzhen Nanli Creative WorkshopThe only Chinese representative of outstanding female leaders in the steam field of the US State Department\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s International Leadership Program (IVLP) in 2019. From 2015 to 2017, she served as the Chinese core representative of the British educational and Cultural Association\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Sino British bilateral maker cultural exchange activities. From 2016 to 2019, speaker of maker fair forum for 4 consecutive years.
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Huang YantaoResearcher of the Chinese Intangible Cultural Heritage InstituteDirector of Sichuan Industrial Design Association and executive director of Sichuan Sanjiang Pinyuan cultural and creative Co., Ltd. Since 2003, he has been engaged in teaching in Mianyang Art College of Sichuan Conservatory of music and Sichuan Institute of culture and art. We have applied for 30 trademarks and more than 700 works have been registered.
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Liu YuanDean and Professor of Product Design School of North China Electric Power UniversityHe is a member of Hebei art association and director of Baoding Art Association. He has been teaching in North China Electric Power University since July 2005. In 2015, he went to Tsinghua Academy of fine arts to study design research in the context of visual culture.
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Li JieExecutive President and Chief Editor of Design magazineHe is a well-known media person in the design industry. He has been rated as an outstanding youth by national research institutes, Guanghua Longteng award, one of the top ten outstanding young people in China\\\'s design industry, and 70 nominees of user experience design for the 70th anniversary of the founding of new China. Planning and editing a number of books, invited to participate in domestic and foreign competitions, judges and award guests, etc., has a high reputation and praise in the industry.
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Zhang QunxingVice president and Secretary General of Zhejiang Industrial Design AssociationThe founder of "design and manufacturing" magazine and general manager of Zhejiang industrial design innovation service base, has been awarded the title of "top ten industrial design innovation promoters in Zhejiang Province", and the silver medal of China design contribution award of the 13th Guanghua Longteng award. It has successfully planned and hosted Zhejiang excellent industrial design exhibition, China Intelligent Design Award tour exhibition, 2018 World Industrial Design Conference · design week, design exhibition and various "design +" docking activities.
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Xiong ZhenhuaPartner of Shenzhen Creative Oriental InvestmentHe has many years of operation and management experience in entity enterprises and more than 10 years of equity investment management experience. Familiar with entity enterprise management and capital operation, familiar with the establishment, management and investment business of various funds. It has led the establishment of funds with a scale of nearly 3 billion yuan, including industrial funds, venture capital funds, development funds for listed companies, fixed increase funds, etc., and led the investment in projects such as Huawu shares, manor ranch, Keruite, Sinochem, shengweilun, and Xiaopai technology.
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Zhao YuboExecutive President of Shenzhen Institute for Innovative DesignExecutive vice president of Shenzhen Youth Science and Technology Talent Association and member of Shenzhen Youth Federation. 2005-2008, worked in Beijing Feijian Software Co., Ltd., participated in the development and sales of FEPG software. Since 2008, he has worked in Shenzhen Institute of advanced technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was once the director of CAE laboratory and director of Engineering Center. In 2011, he also served as director of CAE research center of Guangzhou Institute of advanced science and technology.
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Huang JingVice President of the Furniture Association of FHKIPresident, CEO and Design Entrepreneur of international design Federation of Shenzhen Furniture Industry Association, focusing on the design of space and shape, including interior, furniture, product design and brand management, participating in a number of business fields related to design, and planning various exhibitions and activities.
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Zheng DedongExecutive President of Tourism and Landscape Institute of Southeast UniversityDeputy director of Design Department of Art College of Southeast University, member of editorial board of guidelines for urban furniture in xiong'an new district; director of cultural and creative lighting special committee of Jiangsu Provincial Lighting Appliance Association; project host of research on reconstruction of space artistic value of traditional villages under Rural Revitalization Strategy by social promotion department of Ministry of agriculture; and in 2020, he presided over and completed the construction of benign narrative Township under the background of "night tour economy" of Ministry of agriculture The last part of this paper is the conclusion of the project.
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Shu PingDean and Professor of the Architecture and Art Design School of Hebei University of TechnologyVisiting scholar of the University of Virginia in the United States, presided over more than 10 national and provincial projects, published more than 80 academic papers and published more than 10 academic works. It has won more than 10 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research and design awards such as the 13th China Book Award.
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Qiu YueyeSenior Journalist of 21st Century Business ReviewHe has successively served as the editor in charge of Business Review Magazine in the 21st century, director of new media, senior reporter, and researcher of think tank of Southern finance and economics Omnimedia group. Track large domestic and foreign technology Internet companies and innovative companies, pay attention to the cross-border and intersection of art design and commerce, and be good at business analysis and in-depth reporting.
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Chen HongzhiVice President of Hong Kong Design AssociationHe is the Dean of the Environmental and Design School of the technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong, focusing on the research of planning and design theory, technology and the interdisciplinary cooperation. He is also the honorary professor of Hong Kong University who has plenty of experience on management, academy, design and community service.
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Xiao ShuilongPresident of Shenzhen Creative Oriental InvestmentAt present, he is the director of Tongji University Education Development Foundation, executive vice president of China Venture Capital Commission, vice president of Guangdong Venture Capital Association, vice president of Shenzhen Venture Capital Association, and executive vice president of returnee entrepreneurship College (Shenzhen) of European and American Students Association. Familiar with financial trust, equity investment, M & A fund, real estate fund, enterprise management, with a wide range of investment business resources.
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Zhu JunPresident of Jiangsu Hangang Culture CompanyFrom 2006 to 2010, he founded Nanjing Hangang culture and Art Development Co., Ltd., Nanjing Hangang Exhibition Co., Ltd. (now Nanjing Jiayuan cultural and Creative Tourism Industry Development Co., Ltd.) and Jiangsu Hangang Cultural Development Co., Ltd.
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Zhou LiqunDean and Professor of Cultural Products Design Institute of Shenzhen PolytechnicHe is now a member of China Artists Association, member of the 6th Art Education Committee of the Ministry of education, member of the art design professional teaching guidance committee of Vocational Colleges of the Ministry of education, deputy director of the industrial design special committee of the national machinery vocational education and Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, deputy director of the art and Design Professional Committee of Guangdong colleges and universities, and vice chairman of Shenzhen design and Art Alliance Deputy director of Shenzhen Watercolor Art Committee.
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Chen LiyuDean and Professor of the Interior Design School of Chung Yuan Christian UniversityIn the Chung Yuan Christian University, he also take charge of the Creative Design Center. He is a passionate designer who has created over 100 design items ranging from furniture, art to environmental design. Also, he is a dedicated professor, who has published over 60 theses in terms of design and related areas.
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Li YubingFounder of the At Cultural DesignSenior advertiser, author of "from qualitative change to quantitative change", three new principles, let outdoor resources have more advantages, etc. He has won the awards of advanced individuals in the province's advertising industry to create spiritual civilization activities, top ten advertisers in Shaanxi Province, entrepreneurial advertisers in Xi'an advertising industry, 30-year meritorious figures in China's advertising industry, and 15-year outstanding operator awards of Asian outdoor industry.
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Yan GuojunContent Director of Tencent Culture and TourismHe has been responsible for the content operation of Tencent network and Tencent News client, the development of government tourism category, the expansion of media and KOL, the cooperation between central ministries and local governments, the brand building and commercialization project support of Tencent government affairs, Tencent culture and tourism, the establishment of government Penguin list and public security inspection tourism, and the "one mobile phone Tour Yunnan" project (provincial and company level intelligence) Content operation, Tencent culture and tourism content system construction, product solution packaging, etc.
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Ao RanVice President and Secretary General of China Audio-video and Digital Publishing AssociationExecutive member of the Publisher’s Association of China and China’s Periodicals Association. He has dedicated to important projects of digital publishing and IP protection of digital publishing in China. In 2013, he won a government prize praising his personal contribution on Chinese publishing area.
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Li HonggangFounder of the Maker Collider Artificial Intelligence LabFrom 2007 to 2015, he served for Intel, the initiator of Intel (China) maker movement, and was responsible for the formulation of intel wireless broadband technology standards. He was responsible for Intel open innovation center, and presided over a series of new technology projects such as artificial intelligence, wearable, robot, Internet of things. More than 50 international patents and IEEE documents have been published.
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Zong XuemeiPresident Assistant of Jiangsu Xugong Mechanical Engineering InstituteResponsible person of XCMG industrial design center, senior engineer, mainly responsible for the planning and research of industrial design and green manufacturing technology of XCMG products. Deputy director of future construction machinery Research Institute of Tsinghua University, master tutor of School of design and art of China University of mining and technology, leader of earth moving machinery remanufacturing standard working group of national land and land Machinery Standardization Technical Committee, director of China Construction machinery maintenance and remanufacturing branch, and expert member of Jiangsu industrial design Association.
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Shi JianzhongGeneral Manager of Hebei Office of People’s NewsIn 1989, he entered Hebei People\'s broadcasting station to engage in news gathering and editing, from a front-line reporter editor to a reporter station head, a news channel deputy director, and a deputy director of a news center. In 2014, he left to start a business. Later, he served as deputy director of the network information office of xiong\'an new area, and joined Hebei Branch of people\'s network in early 2018.
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Chen ChunmeiVice President of Industry and Information Development Institute of Hebei ProvinceSenior economist of China. She has been working on over 20 projects on the industry and information research area, one of which was verified as the “Excellent” class on the provincial level, two of which as “Good” class on the city level.
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Li HuaChairman of Yuanjian Hui Consulting Co., LTDExecutive vice president of Shenzhen United Research Institute and vice president of Shenzhen Huaya International Research Institute for transformation of scientific and technological achievements. He has been engaged in financial investment for more than 20 years. He has been the judge guest and speaker of many international and domestic venture capital competitions, the judge of Shenzhen "innovation list" and the judge of "science and technology innovation star" of Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao.
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Liang ZhenhuiPresident of Industrial Designers Society of Hong KongProduct designer, has won the German Red Dot Design Award, German if design award, Japanese excellent design award, American Muse design award, South Korea Asian Design Award, Korea K There are more than 80 product design awards including design award, IDA design award, Taiwan Golden dot design award, Taiwan Guangbao design award, EPDA, China Red Star Design Award, China Innovation Design Award, Hong Kong Smart Business Design Award, global design award of Hong Kong Designers Association and German promotional gift award.
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Chen JingDirector of the UX Design Department of BAIC BJEVWith nearly eight years’ experience on user experience design in the area of new energy automobile, he has developed special insight on the cutting-edge technology and design in the field of transportation means. As the department director of the UE design, he has built the UE research and design system from zero to one.
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Gao NanDirector of the Industrial Design Center of the CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Co., LTDsenior engineer. Since 1998, I have been engaged in industrial design in CSR Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Co., Ltd. At the same time, since 2016, he has also been the tutor of master's degree in art design and design of Hunan University of technology.
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Tang WenquanManager of BYD Design Center of BYD Automobile Co., LTDWe have built and developed BYD\'s modeling design center team, explored and created the "dragon face" family design system, promoted and built a new digital design process of BYD, organized and compiled BYD design criteria, and planned and implemented the construction of BYD\'s global design center.
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Chen HaiboPresident of Deepblue TechnologyHe has great influence on the smart manufacturing area. In 2018, he was selected as one of the most influential figures in Business innovation. In 2019, he was selected as one of the most excellent people of the year on the artificial intelligence.
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Zhao BingChief Editor of Changcheng New Media GroupHe was awarded the honor of special allowance expert of the State Council, excellent expert of provincial management of Hebei Province, the second level candidates of "four groups", the first excellent editor of Hebei Province, the outstanding communist party member of Hebei Province, and the innovative person of national newspaper industry integration development. He has been engaged in news gathering and editing for 31 years, and more than 60 works have won national and provincial News Awards.
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Li ShouqiangDesign Director of Reading and Writing Technology of IFLYTEK Co.LTDFrom 2004 to 2017, he successively worked in Sanyo Electric (China) Industrial Design Department of Japan and whirlpool (China) industrial design center of the United States. And has won the German Red Dot Design Award, German if design award, China Red Star Award, DIA design award.
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Ye GenjunProfessor of Art and Design School of Xihua UniversityHe has successively won the "top ten outstanding young people in China's design industry" and "20 years' design achievement person Award", including hundreds of international and domestic awards, including German red dot award, American Idea Award, German plus x award, and China excellent industrial design award. He has presided over 10 national and Sichuan scientific research projects, has more than 160 patents of various types, and enjoys the special subsidy of the State Council.
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Huang ZhonghaoVice CEO of the Smart Terminal Design Center of TCL Co., LtdOver the past 15 years, he has won dozens of well-known design awards at home and abroad, including Germany if award, red dot award, CES Best Innovation Award, golden point award, Red Star Award, most successful design award, contemporary good design award, cotton red award, first prize of governor cup, etc.
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Tang JingtingVice Executive Officer of the 13th Research Institute of CETCGeneral manager of Tonghui Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. From October 1989 to December 2012, he served as the director of the 48th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation. Since December 2012, he has been deputy director of the 13th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation.
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Yin BinPresident of He Chuang (Beijing) Technological ServiceHe has more than 20 years working experience in the field of information economy, and has in-depth research on cloud computing and other new IT technologies, e-commerce, mobile Internet, big data, o2o, visualization and video systems, financial informatization, Internet finance, and information society.
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Lv JigangDesign Director of Smart LoT System Business of BOEWith more than ten years of industrial design and design management experience, familiar with the eastern and Western design culture, advocating the importance of combining design theory with practice. BOE Alta products, which presided over the design and development, won the German "if Gold Award" and "red dot award" in 2015, and the BOE picture screen, which presided over the design and development, won the international data group (IDG) "global display product innovation and Application Award" and "IFA annual display technology innovation Gold Award" in 2017.
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Wang NianwenDean and professor of Industrial Design Department of Art and Design School of Yanshan UniversityHe is a Postgraduate Tutor of South China University, a visiting scholar at the University of huverhampton, and an expert in the evaluation of the national industrial design center of the Ministry of industry and information technology. He has presided over and undertaken one national major special project "intelligent robot design" and 12 provincial and ministerial level projects. He has presided over 100 design projects and won 6 national invention patents and more than 70 utility model and appearance patents. It has won more than 150 awards such as "German red dot design supreme Award".
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Zhang JunxiaDean and professor of School of Mechanical Engineering of Tianjin University of Science and TechnoloHe has been engaged in the research of industrial design education and man-machine engineering for many years, presided over and completed the projects of National Natural Science Foundation and national key R & D plan, and won two second prizes of provincial and ministerial level science and technology progress.
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Wang HaijiaoExecutive Partner of GTJ Investment GroupHe used to be assistant to the general manager of Boyang Biotechnology Co., Ltd. and the investment director of Suzhou Longyue venture capital. He has more than 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship, enterprise management and investment in the medical industry. The investment cases include boassez, annoeuda and sinomedi.
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Yan RuiChief Editor of HebeiNews.comFrom July 1997 to August 2016, he successively worked in the important news department of Hebei Daily, the Ministry of rural areas, the economic news collection and editing center, the editing and publishing center, and the political, scientific and educational news center. He has been the chief editor of Hebei news network since August 2016. His works have won the China News Award, Hebei News Award and the third prize of the national provincial and urban party newspaper news award.
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Cao PengfeiDirector of the Product Center of Qu Mei Home Furnishings Group Co., LtdHe became a designer in the Qu Mei company since 2011,
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Li WeiProfessor of Design School of Central Academy of Fine ArtsHe has successively worked as a designer in China packaging and decoration design company and Singapore pike exhibition company in Beijing Branch. From May 1995 to August 2000, he served as the director of product design department of Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Center. Since then, he has worked in the Design Institute of the Central Academy of fine arts.
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Li FenglangChief designer of L+Brand7 years teaching experience in Department of industrial design, Harbin University of technology. In 1999, he joined Lenovo PC Design and worked as senior design director. He was responsible for the design of Lenovo brand PC, notebook and other commercial and consumer products. His business covers 165 countries, with a turnover of US $15 billion. In 2017, lplus design, a designer product brand, was founded.
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Xiang ZhongxiaSecretary General of Innovative Industries Association of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei AreaDirector and professor of industrial design innovation center of Tianjin University, Professor of Mechanical Engineering School of Tianjin University, and director of industrial design. The main research directions are mechanics and human biomechanics. He has been awarded excellent young teacher of Tianjin University and "March 8th" red flag bearer of Tianjin University. He has participated in 5 projects including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the science and technology development plan of Tianjin Science and Technology Commission and horizontal projects, published more than 20 scientific research papers, and participated in the compilation of 4 teaching materials.
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Sun JianbinPresident and Chief Designer of the Caige Design Group in Heilongjiang ProvinceHe is one of the top ten outstanding promoters of industrial design in China, vice chairman of the mass entrepreneurship and innovation alliance of China Federation of overseas Chinese, special expert of Shandong provincial governor cup industrial design competition, vice president of Heilongjiang Industrial Design Association, vice president of Heilongjiang Science and Technology Innovation Association, President of Harbin Industrial Design Association, and special tutor of practice education base of Harbin Institute of technology.