Celebrating Innovation Excellence

Oguzhan Topcuoglu

Turkey (TR)

Oğuzhan Topcuoğlu was graduated from the department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University (METU) in 2015 as the first ranked student. He also gained his Master's Degree in METU, in 2018, by studying on "Exploring the Potentials of Virtual Reality Technology for User Evaluation of a Shunter Locomotive Driver Cabin". During the education of Master's Degree, he has started to work at Aselsan UGES Vice Presidency in March, 2016 and worked on the topics of transportation, security, energy, medical and automation systems. This is why he works on a wide scope of different product designs.

Immanuel Koh

Singapore (SG)

Immanuel Koh is the director of Artificial-Architecture and an Assistant Professor in Design & Artificial Intelligence (DAI) and Architecture & Sustainable Design (ASD) at the Singapore University of Technology & Design (SUTD). Graduated from the Architectural Association (AA) in London, he holds a PhD from the School of Computer Sciences and Institute of Architecture at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Immanuel is a pioneer in AI x Architecture and a Principal Investigator for several funded AI x Architecture research projects ranging from AI Singapore and DesignSingapore to Zaha Hadid Architects and MVRDV.

Lampo Leong

Macau (China) (MO)

Lampo Leong, PhD from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and MFA from California College of the Arts, is a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor, and Director of the Center for Arts and Design at the University of Macau, a Tenured Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia in the USA and a Visiting Professor at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. Leong has served as judge or curator for over 80 art and design competitions and exhibitions and delivered over 280 lectures at esteemed institutions such as Stanford University, UC Berkeley and China Academy of Art. Leong’s work has been featured in Christie’s and worldwide in more than 70 solo exhibits and over 460 juried or curated national or international group exhibitions. He has received over 120 awards, including Red Dot Award: Best of the Best in Germany, Gold Medal at American Good Design, and MUSE Award. Leong’s works are housed in more than ten museum collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. His public art and design commissions include paintings for Columbia City Hall and an 8-meter-diameter granite inset calligraphic medallion for a San Francisco city park. Leong’s achievements have been documented in over 1000 reviews and publications in magazines, art books, and on TV internationally, including the front cover of New Art International in New York, Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists in London, and Art Frontier in the USA.

Tiange Wang and I-Yang Huang

United States of America (US)

Tiange Wang is a multidisciplinary software designer at IDEO, where she creates human-centered and data-driven experiences through UI/UX, frontend development, XR prototyping, spatial design and data visualization. She has worked across various industries in North America and Japan, and crafted user-friendly and culturally-sensitive experiences for clients from worldwide trading conglomerate to large biotechnology company to small home care brand. As a designer-developer hybrid, she weaves interaction design, software development, storytelling and system thinking into a holistic, full-stack design process. Prior to IDEO, she was a design consultant to Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies in creating products that provide a seamless and accessible digital transformation experience for the world-renowned research institution, and collaborated with Harvard Innovation Labs in designing a venture around digital wellbeing. As a creative technologist and former architect, Tiange designs for experiences that bridge the digital and physical worlds, including novel phygital interfaces, smart homes, educational games, unmanned retail, and spatial storytelling with extended realities and generative AI. Tiange holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from UC Berkeley.

Ariane Cristina da Rosa

Brazil (BR)

• Furniture designer • Youtuber and digital influencer at architecture and interior design • production and social media content developer • Brazilian Senior architect with large experience in interior design, developping highly customized architectural, decoration and interior design projects; • work in the most diverse areas developing residential, institutional and corporate projects, carrying out reforms and providing consulting • Great organizational skills and aptitude to manage multiple projects simultaneously; • Competence to work together with other departments; • Working proactively and as a team is indispensable in the development of my daily professional activities • Proven ability to create targeted, innovative designs solutions within the deadline; • practical and assertive: with ability to work under pressure, ethical, self confident, with good communication and broad experience in the achitectural market; • Strong sense of composition; • look for the solution that best meets the immediate needs, predicting its future repercussions • Volunteer work as a member of Rotary (2022 - 2023 President)

Wen Liu

China (CN)