Assistant Professor Debbie Ding

Digital Arts, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS), Singapore University of Technology and Design

Debbie Ding is an artist-scholar working across the intersection of artistic research, technology and game studies – with professional experience as design educator, interaction designer, and game designer-developer. Her ongoing research explores psychogeography in virtual worlds, and games in contemporary art practice. Her work was shortlisted for President’s Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020 and is collected by the Australian War Memorial and Singapore Art Museum. Selected exhibitions include Ars Electronica, “Radical Gaming” (HeK Basel), “Worldbuilding” (Julia Stoschek Foundation Dusseldorf), “Wikicliki” (Singapore Art Museum), “Radio Malaya” (NUS Museum), “Construction in Every Corner” (NTU Museum), Kochi Biennale, and Singapore Biennale.

Bow Wasinondh

Senior Director of Arts & Culture, Wonderfruit

Bow Wasinondh is Senior Director of Arts & Culture at Wonderfruit, Thailand’s pioneering cultural festival blending art, music, sustainability, and community. With a background in contemporary art, performance, and cultural programming, she curates immersive, site-specific art, architecture, and interdisciplinary experiences that bridge art, nature, and human connection. Her work champions experimental practices while amplifying regional and international voices, transforming Wonderfruit into a living platform for dialogue and collaboration. Guided by a belief in art as a catalyst for social and environmental change, Bow fosters creative practices deeply rooted in place and responsive to evolving communities.

Hunn Wai

Design Director & Co-Founder, Lanzavecchia + Wai Design Studio

Hunn Wai is the Director and Co-founder of Lanzavecchia + Wai (L+W), an acclaimed Milan–Singapore design studio working across industrial design, spatial narrative, and luxury craft for brands like Zanotta, Cappellini, Hermès, and Vacheron Constantin. Their intelligent, inquisitive work has earned honours including the President*s Design Award (2023) and Red Dot. Hunn is the first Singaporean co-curator of Future Impact 3: DESIGN NATION at Milan Design Week 2025 and speaks at global forums such as SVA and RISD. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor and Senior Fellow at SUTD, teaching Architecture, Sustainable Design, and Design & AI.

Associate Professor Jawn Lim

Business, Communication and Design, Singapore Institute of Technology

Assoc Prof Jawn Lim is a design futurist and innovation consultant. His clients range from financial services to food technology. He serves as a judge for awards in branding, design, and technology. Currently, he serves as Chair of the Advisory Committee at Singapore Polytechnic’s MAD School, Emerging Fellows Programme Director at the Association of Professional Futurists, and Board Member of Teach The Future. Previously, Jawn worked as an architectural designer with Arquitectonica and Pritzker Prize Laureate, Frank Gehry. He holds the Doctor of Design from Harvard, and the Advanced Certificate for Executives in Management, Innovation and Technology from MIT.

Associate Professor Mohan Rajesh Elara

Engineering Product Development (EPD), Singapore University of Technology and Design

Assoc Prof Mohan received his PhD and MSc degrees from the Nanyang Technological University. His research interests are in robotics with an emphasis on reconfigurable platforms as well as research problems related to robot ergonomics and autonomous systems. He has published more than 300 papers in leading journals, books, and conferences. Assoc Prof Mohan is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Letters and IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine. He is the recipient of the SG Mark Design, ASEE Best of Design in Engineering Award, Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Award and A’ Design award. He is the co-founder of Lionsbot, a Singapore-headquartered robotics company which designs and manufactures autonomous cleaning robots for global deployments. Also, he is the co-founder of Wefaa Robotics, an edutech startup that offers transformative educational robotic products for the global markets. Assoc Prof Mohan has served in various positions of organising and technical committees of several international competitions and conferences

Ar Belinda Huang

Co-Founder, ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism

Belinda Huang co-founded ARC Studio Architecture + Urbanism with her husband Khoo Peng Beng. They are recipients of the prestigious President*s Design Award for the Designers of the year in 2021 and are currently working on projects in Singapore, Malaysia, China, India, Myanmar, Cambodia and Rwanda. Belinda believes that good architecture can inspire and transform human lives. She shares her humanistic approach with her studio at the National University of Singapore, with a focus on emotions and architecture. Her most celebrated work to date, the Pinnacle@Duxton demonstrates how her keen sense of detail and meticulous process with seemingly effortless ease.

Shanice Stanislaus

Director and Founder, Creatives Inspirit

Shanice Stanislaus is an award-winning actor and theatrical clown known for her internationally acclaimed comedy-clown work. Her solo show Mail Ordered won three Canadian awards—Pick of the Fringe (Vancouver), Patron’s Pick (Toronto), and the Jester’s Cap Emerging Artist Award (Calgary)—and was nominated for Artistic Risk at the Vancouver Fringe. She debuted at the 2024 New York Comedy Festival with her latest comedy-clown show. She has trained with the French master Clown Philippe Gaulier (France) and clown contemporary company Spymonkey (UK). She founded Creatives Inspirit and teaches clown and play-based movement worldwide, including with Clown Gym(NYC), ISTA (UK), Esplanade (Singapore)

Jeffrey Jehwan Kim

Adjunct Professor, College of Art & Design, Konkuk University 

Head of AESCA Design

Jeffrey Jehwan Kim is a spatial artist based in Seoul, Korea. Grounded in architecture, his multidisciplinary practice explores the evolving role of analog space within today’s digital era. His recent work focuses on a series of pavilion-scale projects that employ AI-driven generative design as a physical and spatial method, investigating how computational systems can be translated into material structures. Through this approach, Kim examines new forms of interaction between technology, space, and human perception.