Founder of Shop! Asia Former Shop! Asia Pacific DevelopmentDirector ofShop! APAC) Four-year term Founding Chair of POPAI Australia and New Zealand (1995-1999) POPAI Australia and New Zealand's first CEO (2000-2009)Tom has served and contributed to the industry and associations for many years and was inducted into the POPAI Hall of Fame in 2015, the industry's highest individual honour. For over 30 years, he had been actively involved in SHOP's Global Contests run in over 20 of the World's leading Retail Consumer Markets.

Create amazing work and exceed my clients’ expectations, that has always been my motto. Over the last 20 years I have been fortunate to work as a Creative Director in both small and big agencies before starting my own Creative Agency, which now has offices in China, Holland and South Africa. I have worked with famous global clients but also with start ups and smaller companies. In my years as Creative Director I have won many awards for integrated marketing campaigns, branding and multidisciplinary design projects. Working directly with Clients, I seek to develop long term partnerships to create value and achieve a brand goals. I now have 29 years of experience in international brand management, marketing and design. I worked with international famous brands such as Lamborghini, Liverpool Football Club, Anne Fontaine, Google Platform, Tweezerman, Zwilling Group and many more international brands. I am also an Expert Consultant for Branding and Marketing to UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organisation) and work with them as an international expert, mentor and guide in projects to uplift previously disadvantaged countries.

Ms. Jackie Chan initially engaged in brand advertising business as a creative person. Later, in her business position, she integrated various new forms of consumer communication and interaction business, accumulating practical experience for her subsequent transformation into enterprise management and leading the development of the company. Before joining Publicis Groupe's strategic management team, Jackie focused on the development and maintenance of key well-known brands, such as P&G (Procter & Gamble), Mars Wrigley, Nestle, Coca-Cola and Pernod Ricard etc. She once led a team of nearly 70 people to establish a new shopping marketing center of Saatchi & Saatchi Guangzhou, providing integrated shopping marketing services for the Asia-Pacific region. Subsequently, Jackie, as the Managing Director of Omni-channel Performance Marketing, focused on integrating creativity, communication, public relations, digital dissemination and other capabilities throughout the entire online and offline chain. She implemented the group's policy of "The Power of One" and further provided comprehensive strategic business support for domestic and international clients. Currently serving as the Managing Director of Publicis Communication Guangzhou, Jackie will further focus on customers and assist them in the development of integrated marketing business in the Greater Bay Area.

With more than 12 years of cross-disciplinary experience, Harriet has guided and led the team to provide diversified solutions for brands looking to expand their business in China, and has created dozens of influential online and offline events, including Adidas Summer Practice, Luzhou White Wine, Huawei 2024 New Year Digital Retail Design, ANTA Group Digital Designer Training Camp, etc. he has also won more than 15 international awards for OUTFORM, such as the EUROSHOP ANNUAL AWARD, SHOP! OUTSTANDING BUSINESS AWARD FOR STORES, DMAA INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL MARKETING & BEST MARKETING TECHNOLOGY EMERGING ENTERPRISE OF THE YEAR, etc. Harriet is helping international businesses inside and outside of China, understand what a dynamic, complicated, and advanced market we have here – by having numerous feature articles on topics such as the future of retail and brand experience enhancement in the ASIA PACIFIC region in global publications such as JING DAILY and china project,She has also served as a judge for events such as the British Business Awards.

With 22 years of experience in product design and 15 years of internal design experience at Panasonic, I possess professional design and design management capabilities. I have a keen sense of fashion trends, can quickly grasp consumer insights, and deeply understand Panasonic's design style and direction, accurately controlling the direction. I am good at stimulating the potential design capabilities of the team, identifying fundamental problems, and promptly proposing solutions. I can lead the team to complete design tasks more efficiently and with higher quality. Led teams to win numerous prestigious international design awards, including the Best of the Best Award of the Red Dot Design Award, Gold Award of the iF Design Award, G-Mark Award, etc.

Visionary design executive with 15+ years pioneering cabinet R&D, recognized through 25+ international design awards (4 German iF, 3 Italian A’Design, 6 MUSE, 2 IDA). Serves as juror for 4+ global design competitions, including the Italian A’Design Award (2024-2025) and China Custom Home Industry Award (2024-2025). Architect of luxury cabinet systems driving ¥105M+ sales growth, holding 20+ patents at the intersection of art, technology, and market leadership.

over 20 years of experience in trade marketing and brand marketing in Philip Morris, LVMH and PepsiCo. Currently Managing Director in Coral Group company – national wide provider of unique solutions for retail. Member of POPAI Association “Marketing in Retail”. Founder of POPAI ecological committee.

Dr. Hu's has been a lsPO award judge at Munich Germany from year 2013 and his research interests cover functional garment /products design and development, performance evaluation and standard development. Dr. Hu is listed as an inventor in more than 62 patents which was granted around the world and received innovative product awards from Eureka and the Geneva Exhibition of inventions respectively. Since 2011, he has be a committee member for several National Technical Committees on Textiles and Material Characterization which is part of the standardization administration committee in China. In addition, he is the Chief Technology Officer of Best Pacifc International Holdings Limited; He is an external doctoral supervisor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and a senior researcher of the Department of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Han Jiaying graduated from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. He has been awarded the DFA Asia's Most Influential Design Award Gold Prize and was named one of Forbes China's Most Influential Designers. He is dedicated to innovative experiments in graphic and typographic design. His works are part of the collections of renowned international art institutions, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in the UK, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg in Germany, and the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich in Switzerland. In 2012, he held China’s first solo exhibition for a professional graphic designer, titled "Reflection: Han Jiaying Design Exhibition." In 2023, he held a solo exhibition titled "Han Jiaying's Design A-Z" at the He Xiangning Art Museum. Since 2024, he has served as the Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza. Awards： 2024 Artistic Director and Chief Curator of Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza 2021 Chief Curator of Shenzhen Design Week 2012 Appointed Jury Member of the “China Design Exhibition” by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China 2012 Appointed Curator of the Graphic Design Section of the “China Design Exhibition” by the Organizing Committee of the China Design Exhibition Work collected by the Museum für Konkrete Kunst (Museum of Concrete Art), Germany, on June 26, 2016 Representative Projects： Palace Museum Cultural Projects: A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains Exhibition, Celebrating Chinese New Year in the Forbidden City Exhibition Shenzhen Bay Cultural Plaza Shenzhen Design Week Shenzhen Reading Month China Resources C'estbon (CR C'estbon) Vanke Tianya Magazine

ShenZhen Archihope Architectural Design Firm General Manager/Chief Designer - Master of Design, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Master of Architecture and Urban Regeneration, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany - Further studies at UCL Bartlett School of Architecture and Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), UK - Juror of 2023 WAN World Architecture News Awards - Juror of 2023 FRAME AWARDS China Region Founder of Shenzhen Story Space Design Co., Ltd. and ShenZhen Archihope Architectural Design Firm, comprehensive design firms integrating architectural, landscape and interior design, with "sustainable design" as the business and development philosophy. His works have won important awards such as ASIA DESIGN PRIZE, RIBA 100 Metaverse Creators, LOOP Design Awards, London Design Awards, WA Awards (41st World Architecture Community Network Award), and American AMP Architecture Master Prize. Works have been published in international authoritative media and publications such as *Architecture and Culture*, *DECO JOURNAL* and *INTERIOR DESIGN*.

Wild Urban General Manager Design Director Jacky Chan ,Founder of Guangzhou Wild Urban Architectural Design Co., Ltd. and founder of the Xanadu Cultural tourism brand. Specializes in the integrated practice of design and operation of rural cultural tourism, non - standard commerce, urban hotels and cultural spaces. Has presided over a number of cultural tourism design and renovation projects, and these projects have won numerous domestic and international awards. -Platinum Award in the Hotel & Resort category of the 2025 MUSE Design Awards (USA) -Gold Awards for Cultural Architecture, Rural Architecture and Public Architecture in the 2024 MUSE Design Awards (USA) -"Annual Mountain Resort Beauty Homestay" Award of the Golden Scale Award in 2022 -Special visit to the Annual China Homestay List of the Truffle Award in 2022 -Shortlisted work in the 2021 Architizer A+Awards -Excellence Award of the 2020 - 2021 GHDA Global Habitat Design Awards -Participated in the 2017 Shenzhen-HongKong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture and won the "Urban Symbiosis" Architectural Media Award. He Focus on the natural expression of "wild narratives", reshape nature through the shaping of materials and the topological translation of geometric prototypes, thus transcending daily life.

Jiaxin Zhang | Senior Interior Designer​​ Awarded "Top Ten Outstanding Designers of Guangdong Province" by the China Institute of Interior Design in 2016, with 10 national design awards, 25 provincial design honors, and 2 science & technology awards. Guided by a "human-centered, low-carbon" philosophy, specializes in integrating sustainable development concepts into spatial design. Expertise includes commercial space planning, eco-material applications, and sustainable solutions, dedicated to creating interior environments that harmonize aesthetic excellence with ecological benefits. (Professional alternative: "With 37 prestigious awards including national and provincial recognitions..." could further highlight the award volume if desired.)

Nicholas Fung, a Malaysian graduated from Manchester university is the founder of EZHEN Design. During his tenure at Denniston International Architects, he has gained in-depth knowledge of hospitality hotel design and development strategies while working with various international hotel chains. He has collected more than two decades of design experience and is very fortunate to work with great people in the luxury boutique hospitality such as Adrian Zecha, Jean Michel Gathy, Jaya Ibrahim, and others. From them, he learnt that dedication requires an individual to have an excellent attitude to pursue their truest self. Nicholas recognizes that the acme of one’s attitude stems from the continuous development of their curiosity of the world, never to cease the expansion of their horizons. EZHEN Design serve with passion, honor the craftsmanship of our industry.

Rich experience and attainments in architectural planning, landscape design, interior design and sculpture art, etc. Former professor at Taiwan National University of Arts. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, he possesses international design and cutting-edge artistic thinking, and his expertise covers architectural planning, architectural landscape design, sculpture, interior design and other fields, involving advertising industry, real estate construction industry, municipal construction, hotel design industry, etc., there are thousands of successful cases.

Gaosong Huang | Senior Architect With 16 years of experience in architectural design, Huang Gaosong specializes in urban renewal, industrial buildings, super high-rise structures, prefabricated architecture, and digital building applications. An award-winning professional, he has received prestigious honors including the National Quality Engineering Award and First Prize in Science & Technology from Guangdong Civil & Architectural Society. As a contributing author, he co-authored two professional publications published by China Architecture & Building Press: "BIM Design Methods and Applications for Prefabricated Concrete High-Rise Buildings" and "BIM Forward Design Methodology and Practice". Proficient in BIM technology for end-to-end design optimization, Huang possesses extensive practical expertise in prefabricated and super high-rise construction. He is committed to advancing digital transformation and sustainable development in the architecture industry. Key Specializations: • Urban regeneration design • Industrial facility planning • Prefabricated construction systems • Digital building solutions • High-rise structural engineering

Design Director, JD Wuxing Appliance Group Co., Ltd. As an industry pioneer, Mr Cai Xueyu is one of the earliest members contributing to the establishment of retail design standards, with 17th retail design experiences related with consumer electronics, department store and commercial real estate. He could facilitate the success of projects with the fruitful methodology of retail design, industry awareness and the resource integration ability. As the industry benchmark, he and his group occupy the top positions of various commercial design competitions all over the word, with the distinguished contribution in the branding industry. In the recent years, he focusses on the user experience design for products and the recyclable design, with the forward research for the future retailing forms.