International Conference 2025: Collision of Design Marketing Elites with the Asian Marketplace

International Conference 2025: Collision of Design Marketing Elites with the Asian Marketplace

The FIND - Global Summit 2025, taking place from September 11 to 13, 2025, at the Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre in Singapore, promises to be a stimulating event during the Singapore Design Week. This summit offers a comprehensive platform focused on innovation, sustainability, cultural identity, and intelligent urban futures through multidisciplinary discussions and collaboration with renowned international experts.

Key Pillars and Focus Areas

The summit is centred around three key pillars:

1. Urban resilience and sustainable urban transformation: This pillar explores strategies for creating resilient and sustainable cities, with a focus on high-density, transit-oriented development for sustainable urban growth.
2. Artificial intelligence innovation in design: This pillar delves into the ways AI is reshaping design practice, offering insights into how AI can be leveraged to create more intelligent, inclusive, and impactful built environments.
3. Interdisciplinary design practices rooted in cultural identity: This pillar examines the intersection of cultural identity and design, exploring how design can reflect and enhance cultural nuance, environmental care, and emotional depth.

Notable Sessions

The summit features over 60 speakers from 23 countries, including leaders from prestigious firms like Büro Ole Scheeren, Gensler, Henning Larsen, Marriot International, Ramboll, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG), and Zaha Hadid Architects. Notable sessions include:

• Bernd Michael Schernau of Henning Larsen leading the session "Beyond the Façade: Liveability Through Integration of Greenery into Buildings".
• The session "Public Architecture: Designing for the Next Civic Era" featuring Seah Chee Huang (DPA Architecture & Urban Planning), James Lu (Perkins & Will), and Yichen Lu (Studio Link-Arc).
• Guy Cooke of Wimberly Allison Tong & Goo (WATG) leading the conversation on "Design to Perform: Aligning Creativity with Commercial Goals".
• Erin Juhl of EDG Hospitality Design + Branding and Aldwin Ong of CCD examining how hospitality and branded residences are being reimagined to reflect cultural nuance, environmental care, and emotional depth.
• In the session "Pragmatic Sustainability: High Density Transit-Oriented Development in Asia", speakers Connie Wan of Büro Ole Scheeren, Angela Spathonis of Gensler, and Shumin Zheng of SOM will discuss the scalable strategy of high-density, transit-oriented development for sustainable urban growth.

Keynote Speeches

Although specific keynote speakers are not named explicitly in the available information, the presence of leading global design firms and visionary thinkers implies high-profile keynote addresses from influential design and business leaders in the architecture and design industries. Notable keynote speeches include:

• Simon Yu of Zaha Hadid Architects delivering the first Keynote Speech titled "Urban Transformation: Architecture as a Catalyst for Change".
• Keiji Ashizawa will open Day 2 of the summit with a keynote speech titled "Layering Volumes: A Holistic Approach to Space and Object".
• Mario Cucinella, founder of Mario Cucinella Architects, will join the summit as a keynote speaker.
• Hossein Rezai-Jorabi of Ramboll will present a keynote speech titled "One Past, Many Futures, Multiple Presents".

Access and Programme

Admission to the FIND-Global Summit at the FIND-Design Fair Asia is free before September 10, 2025. On-site, same-day entry is available at S$39 per person. The summit's program is structured around three key pillars: Architectural Frontiers, Asia-Pacific Blueprint, and Transforming Spaces.

The anchor event of the Singapore Design Week (organized by DesignSingapore Council) acts as a stimulating marketplace connecting leading suppliers across furniture, lighting, décor, textiles, design technology, home, kitchen, bathroom and surface materials with retail buyers, residential and commercial property developers, architects, hospitality professionals, interior designers, high-net-worth individuals, and Asia-based FF&E contractors.

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[1] For more information, visit the official website of the FIND - Global Summit 2025.

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