Gadi Amit is a San Francisco based technology designer behind some of the most innovative and market-winning products created over the last two decades. Founder of technology design studio NewDealDesign, Gadi leads a multidisciplinary team uniting people, culture and technology to build joyful experiences for the world’s top brands and disruptors alike. Select clients include Fitbit, Microsoft, Google, Herman Miller, Postmates, Comcast, and many more. Gadi and his team have won over one hundred international design awards, including Fast Company’s Most Innovative Design Company. Gadi was selected one of Surface Magazine’s ‘Power 100’ and Fast Company’s ‘1000 Most Creative People.’ In 2013 Michelle Obama presented Gadi with the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for an unrelenting commitment to crafting delightful design in everyday tech objects. Gadi regularly contributes to top media publications and speaks at conferences worldwide including Bloomberg in San Francisco, Wired in London, Vivid Ideas in Sydney, Kyoorius Designyatra in India, and Fortune Brainstorm Design in Singapore.

Digital Design executive with 20 years of experience across production, consulting, and corporate setups. Director of Digital Design at IKEA. Past leading roles at IDEO, Imagination, EF Education.

Michelle Cortese is a Canadian virtual reality designer, artist and futurist residing in Brooklyn. She splits her professional time between designing VR experiences for Oculus at Facebook and teaching creative technology at NYU. Most of her work investigates the transmutation of communication across new technologies and formats. Michelle was previously a Design Technologist at Refinery29; an Experiential Art Director at The New York Times' Fake Love; and has exhibited work at CES, Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Sundance Film Festival.

Satoshi Ohashi has worked and collaborated closely with Dame Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher since 1987 over the period of more than 30 years. Currently, Director China for Zaha Hadid Architects. He has worked globally, continuously pursuing the possibilities of architecture and design from large scale urban design to smaller scale furniture and product design. There are no boundaries. Born in Japan, grew up in New York City, he has lived and worked internationally in New York, London, Paris, Tokyo and now in Beijing, China. From 1987~1993 he was the director in charge and project architect for Zaha Hadid Tokyo office working on the design of the early works of the office. The works including the first interior design project, Moonsoon Restaurant. The endless pursuit of design excellence and that spirit from the ‘School of Zaha’ early days have never changed. In fact, it has just been pushed further ahead with the integration of new digital design tools and communication technologies. Satoshi has been Director in charge of ZHA China and Asia. Projects include the award winning projects, Galaxy SOHO, Wangjing SOHO, Sky SOHO, Lize SOHO, future city and TOD projects such as the New Beijing Daxing Airport, Unicorn Island, Xi’an Tencent Innovation City. His endless pursuit of integrating professional experiences and academic research has been influential to the architecture and design industry in China. He has been lecturer and guest studio instructor at AA School Programs, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tongji University, and Tsinghua University. The projects that he has led and his creative teamwork approach represent the highest global standards of the profession and have been awarded with numerous awards.