Li Jianye
Alibaba Cloud Design Department
General Manager
He is the design director of Alibaba Cloud and the design director of Tongyi. He led the Alibaba Cloud Design Department to become a national-level industrial design center, practicing and promoting professional development in the fields of artificial intelligence design and cloud computing design.
Li Jianye is a renowned industrial designer in China. His designs have always been a dialogue between tradition and modernity, local and global, Eastern and Western cultures. He is also the designer and chief engineer of the "Flying" torch for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and a member of the Expert Committee of the China Industrial Design Association. Awarded the title of Outstanding Design Talent in Beijing's Industrial Design in 2023 and Senior Engineer of WGDO Green Design. Served as a judge for the iF Design Award for Industrial Design and was among the first batch of experts in the Digital Culture and Art Think Tank of the China Media Group's Central Museum.
During his over 20-year design career, he has created many design works with practical significance and won market recognition at the same time. The "Flying" torch of the Winter Olympics is his most representative and influential design work. His representative work, the "Love You for 500 Years" ring, features a symbolic design with profound and rich implications, which is deeply loved by the Chinese people and even inspired a new wave of local aesthetics. Li Jianye has achieved remarkable success in the field of commercial design. For instance, his highly innovative design language and brand design for smartphones during the Smartisan Technology era, as well as the first-class Fidelio product series in terms of texture and experience during the Philips period.
How AI is Reshaping the Design Landscape. As human-AI collaboration becomes central to our work, how will design paradigms evolve? And what will define the role of designers in this new era?
Key Focus Areas:
1. The New Paradigm of Intelligent Design:
Delve into Tongyi Lab’s breakthroughs in experience enhancement, evolvable AI design frameworks, and fusion-modal design for the age of intelligent product creation.
2. Global Case Studies in Practice:
Discover how deploys AI-augmented tools across worldwide projects—from the Paris Olympics to CCTV’s 2025 Spring Festival Gala—showcasing real-world impact and scalable methodologies.
3. Cultural Confidence in the Digital Intelligence Era:
Explore how Chinese designers are progressing from cultural awareness to cultural confidence, leading a new chapter where technology serves everything from cosmic exploration to the poetry of everyday life.
1、Master core trends and innovative thinking in design systems, evolvable paradigms, and fusion-modal approaches for the intelligent design era.
2、Learn proven methodologies and success stories from Alibaba Cloud's Design Department in applying intelligent design to global flagship projects.
3、Understand how Chinese design can seize opportunities, build cultural confidence, and chart pathways to shape a better future within the AI wave.