Founder of Alan Chan Design Co.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Alan Chan is a designer, a brand consultant and an artist who has won more than 600 design awards locally and internationally with his company in the past 49 years.

The ‘Oriental Passion Western Harmony’ design philosophy initiated by Alan has been well-recognised by the international design scene and has brought immense influence to young designers.

Since 2000, Chan ventured into the new arena of visual art.

His works have been exhibited in various cities including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, Osaka, Singapore and Milan and collected by art institutions and private collectors worldwide.

Architects, Klein Dytham architecture Klein Dytham architecture (KDa) is a multi-disciplinary design practice known for architecture, interiors, public spaces and installations.

Established by Royal College of Art graduates Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham in Tokyo in 1991, today KDa is a multi-lingual office with an international reputation and a high-profile client list.

In 1996, Yukinari Hisama joined to KDa as a key member.

Representative works are Daikanyama T-SITE／Tsutaya Books (2011), GINZA PLACE (2016) and Open House (Bangkok, 2017) and some of the winning awards include American Retail Environment Awards, D&AD Awards, World Architecture Festival Awards, Wallpaper* Design Awards and Design for Asia.

In 2003 Mark and Astrid devised PechaKucha Night as an event for Tokyo designers to meet and share their work – it has now grown into an international network with events running in over 1,100 cities around the globe, inspiring creatives worldwide.

Portrait credit: Brian Scott Peterson

Principal, HASSELL Tom is a Hong Kong-based Principal of HASSELL, a multidisciplinary design practice with studios in Asia, Australia, the UK and US.

He has extensive experience in workplace, hospitality and residential design, having contributed to and led multiple large scale, award-winning projects across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

These include Eversheds LLP London (winner of the BCO award), Google Beijing, KAPSARC in Riyadh and most recently the China Resources HQ in Shenzhen.

Tom approaches each project with a deep understanding of the local and international context, informed by research, data and decades of experience with an internationally diverse range of clients.

He finds great purpose in nurturing creativity, diversity and making the creative industries more accessible.

On the ground in Hong Kong, he has been involved in several installation projects, including Clockenflap and the United Nations World Environment Day arts programme.

Director & Senior Architect of KplusK associates Paul graduated from the Bartlett School of Architecture in 1987, and worked for CGHP Architects, designing social housing for inner city London.

He subsequently established a 5 year partnership with Peter Davidson (founder of LAB Architecture Studio) and also worked with EP Associates from 1993 on numerous university and arts related projects.

In 1996, Paul joined his twin brother in Hong Kong to set up KplusK associates, a multi-disciplinary design team who have since won over 43 regional and international design awards.

In 2008, KplusK associates won the prestigious “Seeking Zero” Competition organized by YTL (Malaysia) for the creation of Zero Energy housing in Malaysia.

Since then, KplusK’s work has been typified by the pursuit of sustainable and environmentally responsible environments that respond culturally and organically to the many geographic locations in which their work is located.

Global Design Principal, Aedas Graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Master of Architecture, Christine Lam is a perceptive and compelling architect with over 20 years of experience.

A Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects, she has designed and delivered over six million square meters of mixed commercial developments in Hong Kong, mainland China and Southeast Asia, including Hong Kong’s The Landmark redevelopment, Wuxi’s Center 66, Dalian’s Olympia 66 and Shanghai’s Hongqiao Longfor Mixed-use Project.

Her success and contribution to the industry is highly regarded - she was recognised with the Perspective 40 under 40 Award and her designs have won a number of prestigious international design awards including The Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Awards, ICSC Asia Pacific Shopping Center Awards, MIPIM Asia Awards, Global RLI Awards and many others.

In addition to her professional work, Christine is deeply committed in inspiring and cultivating young architects.

She actively takes part as external adjudicator at architecture schools in Hong Kong and mainland China, as well as advisor to architects at professional examinations.

She is also a regular speaker at international conferences and forums to advocate high-density work-live urbanism.

Architecture Director of INSTINCT Caroline Sohie has almost two decades of design experience in the leadership of large public infrastructure environments around the world, where interior spaces represent a natural extension of the broader external urban systems, and boundaries between the outside and inside are blurred and redefined.

As an architect she is passionate about interdisciplinary design as she believes innovation lies in the cross-fertilisation of ideas, stemming from many parallel disciplines.

After developing a wide ranging portfolio for the global design and engineering company ARUP, from rail, aviation to projects in culture and education, she became a principal of the international design practice INSTINCT, featuring projects that bring strategic and creative responses to the challenges of a rapidly evolving world.

Her most recent design and research focus lies in engaging with the social and cultural ecologies of ‘place’, to enable realities that can add quality of life to people whilst creating systemic change.

Chairman, Hong Kong Design Centre Prof. Eric C.

Yim is the founder of POSH Office Systems (HK) Limited and a successful Cambridge-trained architect and bespoke furniture designer. Prof.

Yim, a home-grown industrialist, scholar, and major contributor to the art and design industry in Hong Kong, is now internationally recognised and revered in his field as a renowned advocate for design education, and stern campaigner for the design industry.

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Yim serving as Chairman of Design Council of Hong Kong (DCHK) since 2011.

He is also the Chairman of Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC), which is the strategic partner of HKSAR Government in promoting the use of good design and design thinking in Hong Kong.

Prior to the award of a Master’s Degree in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, Prof.

Yim graduated with a First Class (Honor) Degree in BA and a Distinction in BArch at the University of Manchester.

He is a Member of Royal Institute of British Architects and Fellow of Royal Society of Arts. Prof.

Yim was not only named ‘Young Industrialist of Hong Kong 2005’ and ‘Leader of Excellence 2006’ but also honoured with the ‘Asia Pacific Outstanding Entrepreneur Award 2009’, ‘Asia Pacific Culture & Creative Industries Award 2016’ and ‘City Contribution Award 2017’ of the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Lifestyle Awards.

Prof. Yim was appointed as Justice of the Peace in 2015.