Archives: Speakers

andFred is co-founder of AlpVision and has served as CEO since June 2001. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and patents and co-inventor of Cryptoglyph and Fingerprint, AlpVision’s core technologies.
Dr. Jordan has work experience in the United States and in France. In 1999, he received his PhD from the Swiss Technology Institute (EPFL) – Signal Processing Institute (ITS) in Lausanne.

Bryant is currently Vice Chairman of Ronald Lu & Partners (RLP); a leading architectural practice housing over 600 staff across Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Shenzhen. He is a graduate of Cornell University and has over twenty years of experience in architectural design, management and business development. He joined RLP in 2000 after two years of practice at the renowned New York firm Fox & Fowle Architects. In 2011, Bryant was selected as a rising creative star in Asia in the “40 Under 40 Awards”, organized by the global magazine Perspective. He has been instrumental in leading development and driving change at RLP, and has delivered buildings that have reshaped the skylines and harbour fronts of cities around Asia.

Joyce heads up the sustainability research group of HOK London and a UK Chartered Architect, with more than twelve years’ experience of working on large scale complex projects from design to completion, as well as Post-Occupancy Engagement Programme that promote energy saving strategies in the post-build stage. She has applied sustainable design principles to several international projects, including Heathrow Terminal East, Palace of Westminster feasibility study, & Masdar Zero Carbon City.

Mike Hitchmough is an Architect Director at BDP.  Mike is an accomplished designer with proven commercial experience across the workplace, masterplanning, residential, hotel and interior sectors.   He has rich experience across the full spectrum of the construction and development industry and over both in the UK and internationally.

He has successfully combined a distinguished career working both in academia, architectural practice and commercial development as a client.  Mike is particularly interested in exploring concepts of resilience and adaptation within design and creating buildings and places that are able to flex and change in response to shifting climatic, social and technological structures.  His research team contributed towards the RIBA publication A Guide for Assisted Living in 2011 looking at how people with chronic health issues can support themselves for longer thorough adaptation of their homes and technology.

Céline Eyers has more than 15 years of work experience in the area of intellectual property, including complex worldwide IP litigation (trademark law, copyright, design and model and unfair competition). She works as General Counsel for ICE, a Belgian company renown for the Ice-Watch timepieces. She manages all the commercial agreements (distribution agreement, license agreement, loan agreement, agency agreement, settlement agreement, etc.) and the legal/administrative proceedings for the company ICE as well as the related entities.

She has been a member of the Brussels Bar (2002-2010), working a.o. for large law firms (Linklaters and Stibbe). Céline Eyers holds a law degree (magna cum laude), a Master degree in Intellectual Property (cum laude) and a Master in Management (cum laude). She has authored several articles in IP and spoken at various conferences.                          

Firas Hnoosh has over 17 years of professional design experience, and has held design director roles for the Abu Dhabi practices of two large international architectural firms.

Motivated by the desire to inspire and uplift the everyday lives of people, Andrew Bromberg strives for this goal through architecture.

Michael has been responsible for developing the urban regeneration and masterplanning sector within Aedas RHWL, undertaking large scale Regeneration, Masterplanning and Development Framework commissions across the UK, within Europe and the Middle East.

Crawford Partnership is an award winning London based architecture and interior design practice established 20 years ago by founding partner Alan Crawford.

Joining Zaha Hadid Architects in 2004, Michele specialises in mixed-use and high-rise development, whilst also working on a variety of exhibition schemes as well as selected furniture and interiors products. 

Michele recently served as project director for the Morpheus in Macau, China and is currently directing several largescale projects across Australia and eastern Asia, including residential towers in Melbourne, a memorial institute in Phnom Penh, a private penthouse apartment in Beijing, the Singapore New Science Centre, the Unicorn Island in Chengdu and the Shanghai campus of the China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP). 

Michele previously led the team on the d’Leedon Apartments, a masterplanned residential development in Singapore and his experience includes the CMA CGM Headquarters in Marseille and the Glasgow Riverside Museum. 

He has also collaborated with Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD) on products including the Flow vase, the Dune Formation furniture system and the Zaha Hadid exhibition in Padua, Italy. He also worked on ALIS, part of the ‘High-performing Urban Ecologies’ installation by Zaha Hadid Architects for the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021.