Konstantin Grcic founded his design studio in 1991 after training as a cabinet maker and studying at the Royal College of Art, London. Now based in Berlin, he works across industrial design, exhibitions, and architectural collaborations, designing for leading brands including Flos, Magis, Vitra, Muji, and luxury houses like Louis Vuitton and Prada. His designs are held in permanent collections at major design museums worldwide. Named Royal Designer for Industry (2009) and member of both Berlin and Munich Academies of Arts, Grcic has received numerous international design honours. He combines rigorous research into design history with technological innovation, defining function in human terms through work characterized by formal precision, mental acuity, and humour.

Studio Hanne Willmann is a multidisciplinary design studio based in Berlin, focusing on industrial design, product design and design consultancy.
After studying at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Elisava in Barcelona, Hanne worked for the design studio Autoban in Istanbul and for Werner Aisslinger in Berlin, before founding her own studio in 2015. In the same year she was selected "Design Talent of the Year 2015" by A&W Magazine, followed by the German Design Award „Newcomer Finalist 2016“. From 2018 until 2021 Hanne was the Creative Director of the German furniture brand "Interlübke".
Today the studio works with many different brands from all over the world, revealing a profound fascination for details and emphasizing the high value Hanne places on aesthetic appeal. The ongoing search for sense and sensuality in design has given Studio Hanne Willmann a unique position within the design industry.

Tim Richter leads the Siemens Healthineers Industrial Design team, designing products across all modalities in close collaboration with the other design crafts of the Design & User Experience department. He is responsible for several guidelines such as Shui Industrial Design to ensure high value design across the product range.

Before he joined Siemens Healthineers, he was Head of Group Design at VAILLANT, where he shaped the future product design strategy for 3 brands including UI/UX, packaging design and design processes. His international experience is based on more than a decade of working with clients such as Siemens, Motorola, P&G, Nike, Fluke, Osram, Lenovo when he was VP at s.point design in Shanghai and later setting up the BSH China Industrial Design Department in Nanjing. During his time in China, he founded his own brand Naolab, where he spent two years experimenting around innovative design solutions from idea to market launch.

Clemens Poloczek is a Berlin-based interior and portrait photographer who captures the essence of simplicity and elegance through his lens. With a keen eye for clean lines, thoughtful compositions, and the play of light and shadow, he has mastered the art of showcasing the beauty of minimalism in interior design.

He is also the founder of Ignant, an award-winning online magazine dedicated to architecture, design, art, and photography. Since its launch in 2007, Ignant has become a widely recognized platform, celebrating creativity and visual culture on an international scale.

Stefan Daniel began his career at Ernst Leitz Wetzlar and has shaped Leica’s product vision for decades. After roles in customer service and international training, he moved into product management, first leading slide projectors and later the iconic Leica M-System. From 2000 he defined Leica’s Photo Product Management, creating cameras and lenses renowned for design and innovation. Today, as Vice President Photo & Design, he drives Leica’s future with passion and vision.

Farah Ebrahimi is the Art Director of premium interior brand e15. Born in Iran, she studied art and fashion at Otis/Parsons School of Art and Design in Los Angeles. This was followed by a career in teaching fashion design and dress history at her alma mater, in addition to establishing her own fashion label, Ef. Later, as Design Director of BCBG Max Azria she became a creative force behind the brand’s successful rise, before joining Donna Karan as Design Director for DKNY in New York. There she met her partner Philipp Mainzer architect, and co-founder of e15. Throughout her career, she has been recognized with numerous design awards, which underscores her significant influence in the industry.

Since 1995, e15 has developed original products and championed artistic expression, reflecting its open, cross-cultural philosophy through collaborations with designers, architects, and artists.

Matylda Krzykowski directs, designs, hosts, writes, and speaks in a globally active practice exploring how ideas, objects, and spatial contexts shape cultural meaning.

Her work takes form through exhibitions, installations, exhibits, talks, and experimental formats—such as Desktop Exhibition and Design Date—that investigate other ways of engaging audiences.
From 2011 to 2018, she co-founded and directed Depot Basel. Since 2021, she has been Artistic Lead of CIVIC at Basel Academy of Art & Design, and in 2025, she served as External Curator of the inaugural Conceptual Biennale in Berlin.
Her spatial and curatorial projects include Total Space (Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, 2020), Institution Building (CIVA Brussels, 2021), The Energy Show (Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, 2022), and Eleonore Peduzzi Riva (Kunstraum Riehen, 2024). She tutors at the Critical Inquiry Lab at Design Academy Eindhoven and in the MA Industrial Design program at ZHdK Zürich.

Alexandre Arnault has been the Deputy CEO of Moët Hennessy, LVMH's wines and spirits division since February 2025. Since April 2024, he has also been a member of the board of directors of LVMH.  He previously served as Executive Vice President of product, communications and industrial at Tiffany & Co.. Mr. Arnault assumed this position and joined Tiffany & Co. in January 2021. 

Mr. Arnault started his career in the United States in strategic consulting at McKinsey & Company, then in private equity at KKR in New York.  He then joined LVMH and Groupe Arnault to focus on digital innovation. In this capacity, Mr. Arnault participated in the definition and implementation of a strategy to address the challenges of the development of e-commerce in the high-quality products sector. More recently, Mr. Arnault served as chief executive officer of RIMOWA after initiating and leading its acquisition by LVMH in January 2017. Over the following four years, he successfully repositioned RIMOWA and elevated its brand image. At Tiffany & Co., Mr. Arnault has guided the repositioning of the brand through modern and innovative communications campaigns, as well as a focus on elevated and expanded product offerings.

Mr. Arnault graduated from École Telecom ParisTech and holds a master’s degree from École Polytechnique.

Hugues Bonnet-Masimbert is CEO of RIMOWA, a global leader in premium luggage. The historic German company was founded in Cologne in 1898 and has been part of LVMH since 2017. With more than 25 years at the LVMH Group, Hugues has held executive positions within five LVMH Maisons: Loewe, Celine, Louis Vuitton, Berluti, and RIMOWA. After joining RIMOWA as Executive Vice President Sales & Client Operations in 2018, he initiated and oversaw the repositioning of its distribution, along with the creation and rapid development of its e-commerce operations. He was appointed CEO in January, 2021.