Here are some of the most significant images from Mengqi Liangzhu Town of Designers of Hangzhou in the Chinese Zheijiang region where from 30 November 2016 to 4 December 2016 it held the first edition of WIDC (World Industrial Design Conference). The global event dedicated to the development of the design industry, saw the participation of over 500 guest from designers, chinese authorities, VIPs, design entrepreneurs, industrials and professors of the most important chinese universities, also 60 guests of honor from more than 20 countries worldwide, and more than 100 national and international news media who have followed the entire event. To represent the Italian Design, the President of ADI Luciano Galimberti, Marinella Ferrara professor at the Milan Polytechnic and ADI board committee and Davide Conti General Manager of ADI China have attended the event. Following is the guest list of honor and the most significant images.

David Grossman – President, International Council of Design
Mark Breitenberg – Senator/Former President,International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
Soon-in Lee – Senator/Former President, International Council of Societies of Industrial Design and Chair, ADN
John Mathers – Vice President, The Bureau of European Design Associations and CEO, British Design Council
Birgit Mager – President, Service Design Network
Wang Guosheng – President of Greater China, Service Design Network
Günther Marten – Minister Counselor/IP Attaché , European Union Intellectual Property Office
Marc Hottenroth – Director of Industrial Design, General Electric Appliance
Do Yi-luen – Professor, the School of Industrial Design and Co-Director, NUS Cute Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mark D. Gross – Director of ATLAS Institute, University of Colorado Boulder
Leticia Castro – Executive Director, Brazil Design Center
Juliana Buso – Project Manager, Brazil Design Center
Bulelwa Ngewana – CEO, Cape Town Partnership
Pradyumna Vyas – Member Secretary of India Design Council and Director, National Institute of Design
Shricant Nivasarkar – Governing Board Director, National Institute of Design
Sudhir Sharma – Founder & CEO,POOL Magazine
Liu Ning – President, China Industrial Design Association
Alan Yip – President, Hong Kong Design Trade Association
Zhang Zhiqing – Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology
Huang Guanghui – Program Director, Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology
Makoto Watanabe – Vice President, Chiba University
Kazuo Tanaka – President, Japan Industrial Designers’ Association
Shiro Aoki – Executive Director & COO, Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Xue Meng – Director of Greater China, Japan Institute of Design Promotion
Masa Inakage – Dean, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University
and Co-Director, Keio NUS Cute Center
Moung Keon Lee – CEO, Asia Design Network
Maing Eunjoo – Director, Audit & Innovation, Korea Institute of Design Promotion
Yun Nari – Manager of Global Business Division, Korea Institute of Design Promotion
Yen Ching Chiuan – Co-Director of Cute Center, National University of Singapore
Habip Asan – President, Turkish Patent Institute
Cemil Baspinar – Vice President, Turkish Patent Institute
Alethea Blackler – Head of Discipline for Industrial Design, School of Design, Queensland University of Technology
Martin Foessleitner – President, designaustria
Severin Filek – Managing Director, designaustria
Casper Freddie – Commercial Consul, Danish Consulate General, Shanghai
Leo Lu – Commercial Officer, Danish Consulate General, Shanghai
Henrik Weiglin – COO, Design Denmark
Troels Seidenfaden – Chairman of International Board, Design Denmark
Timothy Jacob Jensen – CDO, Jacob Jensen Design
Gérard Caron – President, Agence pour la promotion de la cration industrielle
Andrej Kupetz – CEO, German Design Council
Mathis Heller – Master of Automobile and Industrial Design, Mathis Heller DetaoDesign Studio
Ren Jun – CEO of TUV NORD Asia Pacific & Chairman of the Board, TUV NORD
Robert Baggen – Master of User Experience, TUV NORD
Luciano Galimberti – President, ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale
Marinella Ferrara – Board Member, ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale and Professor of Politecnico di Milano
Davide Conti – General Manager, ADI China, Associazione per il Disegno Industriale
Cristina Bigliatti – Journalist, Platform Magazine
Timo de Rijk – President, Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers
Jeroen Verbrugge – Managing director, Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers
Bart Ahsmann – Managing Director, CLICKNL
Laurent Nelissen – Vice President, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Hu Jun – Head of Designed Intelligence, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Gracia Cardona – President, Associacio De Disseny Industrial
Paola Calvet – Coordinator, Associacio De Disseny Industrial
Sofia He – Managing Director, Sino-Sweden Sustainable Design Association
Florin Pierre Baeriswyl – Detao Master of Brand Strategy & Design, Studio Baeriswyl, Detao Group
Martijn ten Bhomer – Professor of Industrial Department, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University
Ron Nabarro – CEO , Chairman of the Red dot Jury, Ageinnovation