Renowned speakers include Eric Pan, a Forbes China’s “30 Under 30” entrepreneur; Tsu-Hsien Tung, Chairman of Pegatron; and George Arriola, Founder and COO of Monohm Inc.
Taipei, Wednesday, November 25, 2014 - ASIATODAY.COM - Taiwan’s leading knowledge sharing platform, TEDxTaipei, and the Golden Pin Design Award, Taiwan’s premier international design award, announce speakers and moderators for the December 11 TEDxTaipei Salon: Design Transformed. Attendees of the event will have the rare opportunity to hear the stories behind the success of eight locally and globally renowned design industry and business leaders, some whom are speaking in Taiwan for the very first time.
Talks will take place in two sessions–named Session I: Design for Future Chinese and Session II: Design x Entrepreneurship–with four 18-minute talks and a panel discussion in each session. FOCA, a Taiwan-based dance troupe, will open the event with a six-minute-long performance that features Golden Pin Design Award-winning chairs.
Session 1: Design for Future Chinese runs from 10.00am–12.30pm. The four speakers in this session are Magnus Aspegren–Director, Creative Consulting, Shanghai Studio, BMW Group DesignworksUSA; Marisa Santamaría–Director of the International Trend Unit at Istituto Europeo di Design; Franz Chen–Founder and CEO of Franz Porcelain; and Ray Chen–Founder of Ray Chen International and Ray Chen + Partners Architects, the company behind the groundbreaking interior design of China Airlines’ 777-300ER. Jordan Chao-Tung Wen–Professor, Graduate Institute of Technology, Innovation and Intellectual Property Management, National Cheng-chi University, will moderate the 40-minute-long panel discussion with four speakers that closes this session.
Session II: Design x Entrepreneurship runs from 2pm-4pm. The four speakers in this session are Jung-Ya Hsieh–Founder, GIXIA Group, which includes the newly founded, highly innovative THAT Inventions Co.; Eric Pan–Founder and CEO of Seeed Studio, a driver of “maker culture” in China; Japan and San Francisco-based George Arriola–Founder and COO of Monohm Inc.; and Tsu-Hsien Tung–Chairman of leading Taiwan-based technology company, Pegatron. The moderator for the “Design x Entrepreneurship” panel discussion, which is 40-minutes-long and is attended by all four session speakers, is Eric Chuang–Managing Director of Chenco Holding Company, a US-based venture investment company with branch operations in the USA, China, and Taiwan.
Refer to attachment for detailed session schedules in English, including the times of individual talks.
“We’re very excited to bring the ideas and stories of these eight industry innovators to the Taipei and the world. For TEDxTaipei Salon: Design Transformed, we have invited pioneers in the emerging huaren (Chinese-speaking) market to enter into a dialogue with leaders from the global design industry to ensure that we present a cross-cultural perspective,” says Jason Hsu, Curator, TEDxTaipei. “The theme of this salon focuses on how design is transformed and changed to meet the rapidly growing demand of the huaren market. In a world of uncertainty, design must be different. Design must disrupt and transform. We need to reinvent the way it is practiced, taught, and communicated. Design Transformed brings you a comparative view of how design impacts our lives.”
Limited registration for the event opened on November 21 for people working at companies that have entered the Golden Pin Design Award this year or in past years and for members of Taiwan Design BOCO (boco.com.tw/en/). To register, visit accupass.com/go/2014tedxgp.
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About TEDxTaipei
TEDxTaipei is part of a global movement of TEDx events that has sprung up in more than 100 cities since 2009. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share ideas worth spreading under the TED license. At TEDxTaipei we intend to share stories that inspire creativity, stimulate imagination, and provoke knowledge across the Chinese-speaking regions.
About the Golden Pin Design Award
This year, for the first time in its 33-year history, the Golden Pin Design Award opened its doors to companies designing products and projects in and for the huaren (Chinese-speaking) market. In June 2014, a record number of entries were received from across the world in four award categories: Product Design, Visual Communication Design, Packaging Design, and Interior Design. Golden Pin Design Award “Best Design” winners, who were selected from over 400 finalists, will be announced in an award ceremony held in Taipei, Taiwan on December 11, 2014. The Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition, a free, open-to-the-public display of this year’s Golden Pin Design Award winning products, will be held at the Taiwan Design Museum in Taipei’s Songshan Creative and Cultural Park from December 11-31, 2014.
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