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Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002 and as director of the Design Museum in London between 2006 and 2020, he led the museum’s move from a dockland warehouse to its new home in Kensington.  
He was the founding editor of Blueprint Magazine, and director of the Glasgow City of Architecture and Design festival.  

Nadja was the first female member of the Executive Board of Swarovski, which was founded in Austria by her great-great-grandfather Daniel Swarovski in 1895. She led the Branding, Sustainability and Licensing divisions and launched the luxury fashion jewelry and home décor brand Atelier Swarovski.

Nao Tamura is a designer in the most modern terms. Her talents cross-over cultures, languages, disciplines, concepts and styles with consistency of smart thinking always at the heart of her work. She is truly global in her insights and execution. As a product of Tokyo and New York City creative communities, her solutions are equally at ease in the world of 2D and 3D, with an uncanny ability to find that emotional connection with the industry status-quo often insists upon. Her unique solutions are more than simply design and possess a rare balance of innovation and beauty.

Sherif is an architectural engineer, software developer and researcher. He is an Associate Partner, Design Systems Analyst and leading the applied ML projects at Foster + Partners' Applied R+D (ARD) group. 

Sherif's position there allows him to work on complex challenges on a daily basis, utilizing his expertise in geometry optimization, digital fabrication, virtual and augmented reality, and machine learning.  

Designer based in New York, the city where he founded his studio in 1978. An early pioneer of the Hospitality industry, the award-winning designer, renown internationally for creating innovative interiors worldwide, including The Beverly Hills Hotel, The Breakers Palm Beach, Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice, Four Seasons Dubai DIFC and The Oberoi in New Delhi to mention few. Tihany has also created award-winning restaurants for celebrity chefs such as Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, Heston Blumenthal and Jean-Georges Vongerichten. 

Born in Milan, he became interested in photography after completing his studies in Art History.

Stefania Trenti, graduated in Economics from the Bocconi University of Milan; she obtained an M.A. in Economic Analysis from the Strasbourg University. Since 1998, she has worked as an industrial economist at the Research Department of Intesa Sanpaolo, where she is Head of the Industry and Local Economies Research. Her main interests are international trade, technological innovation and environmental economics. She has authored numerous papers and articles in these areas.

Luca Trevisani is a visual artist. In his works the historical characters of sculpture are questioned or even subverted, in a relentless investigation of matter and its narratives. His multidisciplinary practice has been exhibited internationally in museums, institutions and publications.

Marjan van Aubel Studio is an award-winning innovative solar design practice that brings solar

energy into daily life. Designing for a positive future through combining the fields of

sustainability, design and technology.

The studio is creating lasting change through solar design, integrating solar power seamlessly

into our environments such as in buildings and objects. With the goal to make solar power

more accessible for everyone. Most notable works are Sunne, Current Table, Power Plant and

Classe 1986, giornalista con un debole per i viaggi e la fotografia. Si laurea allo IED di Milano e lavora nella redazione di Casamica prima di partire per un giro del mondo con la sua reflex.

Federico Villa was born in Como in 1983 and he studied Industrial Design at Politecnico in Milan. Federico opened his studio in 2010 and started to work with important Italian design companies and architecture firms. The fundamentals of his work are to focus on the qualities of a specific product, the space and an individual in the photographic image: project and subject become a single and continuous course. At the same time he is devoting particular attention on photography used as archiving of contemporaneity with a critical analysis between natural and artificial.

Armand Vokshi is a university Associate Professor and has been the Chair of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanistics at the Polytechnic of Tirana since 2020.

He graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence in 2005. He continued his Architecture and Town Planning Research Doctorate at the Department of Architecture at the University of Florence is 2010-2013, on the subject Traces of Italian Architecture in Albania 1925-1943. 

Lukas Wegwerth works on the intersection of crafted objects and engineered modular structures. All projects find common ground in the territory of joints and connection making and their accompanying methods and strategies. The Three+One system is an ongoing project that explores a straightforward approach to modular constructions— from furniture to architectural-scale structures. It provides a platform for collaborative building, lending itself to use in multiple contexts such as exhibition design, academic research, public spaces and private interior.

Liam Young is a designer, director and BAFTA nominated producer who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures.

Photographer, originally from Treviso, now living and working in Milan.  Her personal research interests lie in the urban landscape and in documenting reality; her shots are informed by a particular desire to depict space in its aesthetic and narrative form, unearthing the subjects for her narratives of daily life in apparently marginal details.  

Maurizio Zanella, founder and chairman Ca 'del Bosco.

Ca’ del Bosco is a leading producer of Franciacorta wines. It has reached this position thanks to the enthusiasm, dedication and hard work which, since the ‘70s, have transformed a house in the chestnut woods into one of the region’s most modern and advanced wineries.

At Ca’ del Bosco, there is only one guiding principle that shapes all our production process, from the vineyards to bottling, and that is quality. The very highest level of quality, in fact: excellence.