Host City

Singapore

Host Partner

Design Singapore

Supporting Partner

EDB

Knowledge Partner

McKinsey

Partner

wework

Gadi Amit

Founder and Principal Designer

NewDealDesign LLC

Paola Antonelli

Senior Curator of Architecture & Design and Director of Research & Development

Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Robbie Antonio

Chief Executive Officer

Revolution Precrafted

Christian Bason

Chief Executive Officer

Danish Design Centre

Dr. Beh Swan Gin

Chairman

Singapore Economic Development Board

Kristina Blahnik

Chief Executive Officer

Manolo Blahnik

Sean Carney

Chief Design Officer

Royal Philips

John Cary

Author

"Design for Good"

Tony Chambers

Founder and Creative Director, Studio TC & Friends and Co-chair

Brainstorm Design

Clay Chandler

Asia Editor, Fortune; Chair,

Brainstorm Design

Nigel Coates

Founder

Nigel Coates

Mark Curtis

Chief Client Officer

Fjord

Tom Dixon

Designer and Guest Creative Director

Brainstorm Design 2018

Thierry Dreyfus

Founder

Atelier Thierry Dreyfus

Mark Dytham

Co-founder

Klein Dytham architecture and PechaKucha

Rod Farmer

Digital Expert Associate Principal

McKinsey & Company

Tucker Fort

Partner

Smart Design

Joe Gebbia

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer

Airbnb

Phil Gilbert

General Manager, Design

IBM

Maria Giudice

Design Leader and Co-author

"Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design"

Sanjay Gour

Executive Director, Digital Business Transformation

UBS Wealth Management

Kenya Hara

President

Nippon Design Center, Inc.

Charles Hayes

Partner and Executive Managing Director, Asia

IDEO

Thomas Heatherwick

Founder and Design Director

Heatherwick Studio

Yuichiro Hori

Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Stellar Works

Hwang Yu-Ning

Acting Deputy CEO and Chief Planner

Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority

Masazumi Imai

Design Manager, Design Center

FUJIFILM

Fujiyo Ishiguro

President and Chief Executive Officer

Netyear

Natasha Jen

Partner

Pentagram

Pei-Ru Keh

New York Editor, Wallpaper*; Co-chair

Brainstorm Design

Derrick Kiker

Leader, McKinsey Design (Asia Pacific); Partner

McKinsey & Company

Agnes Kwek

Executive Director

DesignSingapore Council

Elizabeth Laraki

Director of Product Design, Social Good and Goodwill

Facebook

Don-Tae Lee

Executive Vice President and Head, Corporate Design Center

Samsung Electronics

  Lee Seow Hiang

Chief Executive Officer

Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Shanying Leung

Director of User Experience Design, Alipay

Ant Financial

Jeanne Liedtka

Professor

University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Mark Lin Lin

Head of International Operations

Mobike

Justin Maguire

Senior Vice President, Design and User Experience

Salesforce

Miguel McKelvey

Co-founder and Chief Culture Officer

WeWork

Silka Miesnieks

Head of Design Lab

Adobe

Jaime Moreno

Founder and CEO

Mormedi

Alan Murray

President, Fortune and Chief Content Officer Time Inc. Brands

Meredith Corporation

Michiyo Nakamoto

Editor, Japonica; Senior Advisor

Brainstorm Design

Kohei Nishiyama

Co-founder, Elephant Design Holdings; Founder and CEO

Cuusoo System

Brian O'Keefe

Deputy Editor; Co-chair, Brainstorm Design

Fortune

Liz Ogbu

Founder and Principal

Studio O

Beatrix Ong

Founder

Beatrix Ong

Norman Pearlstine

Senior Advisor, Brainstorm Design and Former Editor in Chief and Vice Chairman

Time Inc.

Mauro Porcini

Chief Design Officer

PepsiCo

Ernesto Quinteros

Chief Design Officer

Johnson & Johnson

Alex Rasmussen

President

Neal Feay Company

Alice Rawsthorn

Author

Design as an Attitude

Daan Roosegaarde

Artist and Founder

Studio Roosegaarde

Kashiwa Sato

Founder and Creative Director

SAMURAI

Ole Scheeren

Principal and Chief Designer

Buro Ole Scheeren

Peter Schreyer

President and Head of Design Management

Hyundai Motor Group

Maithreyi Seetharaman

Director, FORTUNE Live Media Content, Europe; Co-chair,

Brainstorm Design

Shohei Shigematsu

Partner; Director, New York Office

OMA

Norihiko Shinya

Vice President

Super Potato

Rosanne Somerson

President

Rhode Island School of Design

Sarah Stein Greenberg

Executive Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school)

Stanford University

Jim Taylor

Co-founder and Chief Executive

Proximity Designs

Nils Uellendahl

Design Director, Shanghai Studio

Designworks, A BMW Group Company

Patricia Urquiola

Designer, Architect, and Founder

Studio Urquiola

Matt Vella

Executive Editor; Co-chair, Brainstorm Design

Time

Jonathan Ward

Design Partner

NBBJ

Mark Wee

Executive Director Designate

DesignSingapore Council

Harry West

frog fellow

frog

Jane Withers

Curator and Design Consultant

Jane Withers Studio

Sam Yen

Head of Digital, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Banking

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Zhang Fan

Vice President, Head of Design

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.