Thomas Garvey is President of the World Design Organization, an international non-governmental organization that promotes the profession of industrial design and its ability to generate better products, systems, services, experiences, and ultimately a better environment and society. Garvey has worked across a range of design disciplines and global settings and has led international teams in professional design projects and research programs and co-chaired the reintroduction of the Research and Education Forum at the World Design Assembly in 2019. As WDO President he is focused on ensuring the evolution of the WDO Strategic Plan into the future. Garvey and his teams have earned numerous awards, and their work has been presented around the world. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Carleton University, a M.Sc. in Communications Design from Pratt Institute in New York, and a Ph.D. in Architectural Planning from the University of Tokyo.

Renke He is the Professor and Academic Committee Chair of the School of Design at Hunan University. He is also the Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Teaching Guidance for Industrial Design Major in Higher Education under the Ministry of Education, the Invited Vice President of the China Industrial Design Association, a National Prestigious Teacher, and the Member of the Seventh State Council Academic Degrees Committee for Design Discipline Review Group. From June 2004 to June 2020, he was the Dean of the School of Design at Hunan University. He was awarded the first and second prizes for national teaching achievements in higher education, and the first and second prizes for national teaching materials once each. He has been a judge for design awards such as Red Dot, iF Design Award, Good Design Award Japan, and CORE77 Design Award, as well as serving as the Chairman of the Jury for China Red Star Industrial Design Award.

Kun-Pyo LEE is the Dean of School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was the Professor at the Department of Industrial Design, KAIST, South Korea and the Director of the Human-Centered Interaction Design Lab for more than 30 years. He is Co-founder and President Emeritus of IASDR (International Association of Societies of Design Research). He also served as Chief Design Officer (Executive Vice President) of Corporate Design Center, LG Electronics. He is well known in Asia as an early pioneer in the field of design research, UX design and user-centered design, for which he was recognized as Honorary Fellow of the Design Research Society, and Local Hero at CHI 2015. After returning to KAIST from LG with unique experiences in industry and academia he has been focusing on establishing a new design education paradigm under the name of Design 3.0.

Tong Huiming, professor of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. 40 years of design scholars, educators, practitioners, observers, 5 time entrepreneurs, 2017-2020 Japan G-MARK Award International Jury. In 2017, he created the concept “Brand Driven by Design (BDD)” and have been build up the BDDWATCH (BDD observation) research platform In early 2018, with initiating to promote BDD startups and brand expansion.