Mr. Lin Chong-jie

Department of Economic Development, Taipei City Government
Commissioner

Prof. Dr. Peter Zec

Red Dot, Germany
Founder

Peter Zec, born in 1956, is an internationally acclaimed design expert and
author, who became known worldwide for initiating and leading the Red Dot
Design Award. Since 1991, he has been president of the Design Zentrum
Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.
From 1986 to 1988, Peter Zec was head of the specialist field “image” and was
highly involved in the planning of the Centre of Arts and Media
Technologies (ZKM) which had been established in Karlsruhe, Germany. Shortly
before he started working for the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, he
was president of both the Federation of German Graphic Designers (Bund
Deutscher Grafikdesigner) and the Association of German Industrial Designers
(Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer). In 1993, he accepted a professorship
of Business Communication at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin, where
he lectured for the following 17 years.
In April 1991, Peter Zec took over the lead of the Design Zentrum and its
design contest which was established in 1955. Until then, the competition
listed mostly participations of products from German designers and
manufacturers. Zec developed the award to an international platform for the
evaluation of design and established its global orientation, which is reflected
both in submissions from around the world and in the from then on
multinational jury.
Until 1991, the logo of the Design Zentrum contained a black dot. Peter Zec
believed that the dot should be red to work as a distinction: in galleries a red
dot indicates that a picture is sold – and characterises a symbolism that is also
conducive to a product. Moreover, in 2000, he re-named the competition to
“Red Dot Design Award” and thus created an entire brand world, consisting
among other things of a scientific institute, the publisher “Red Dot Edition”
and several Red Dot online portals. Red Dot GmbH & Co. KG is organising the
competition since 2018.

Dr. Amina Sambo-Magaji

ABUJA Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship
National Coordinator

Dr Amina Sambo-Magaji is the National Coordinator, Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE). In this role, she is responsible for coordinating the activities of the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystems through driving policy recommendations, initiatives and programs that will create a thriving and sustainable ecosystem. Under her stewardship at OIIE, NITDA has restructured the office to serve as an agile facilitator in the tech innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Prior to her joining NITDA, she started her career as a lecturer and later moved to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) where she spent over 14 years. As a pioneer staff, she had the opportunity to be part of the team that setup the entire IT infrastructure of the Commission through a 4 years project with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). There, she worked as a software development lead, IT project manager, network administrator and mail administrator. She also represented the commission at some public institution boards.
Dr Sambo-Magaji has an all distinction academic record. She holds a first class degree in Computer Science from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Bauchi (ATBU) and a Masters with Distinction in Information Engineering with Network Management from Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen. Her PhD, also from RGU, is in the field of Artificial Intelligence specifically on developing algorithms for optimizing distributed problems and data analytics. Her research work has been published in reputable national and international platforms with several outstanding awards.
Dr Sambo- Magaji is an active member of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) and British Computer Society (BCS). She is also an advocate for entrepreneurship, female and youth empowerment. She has represented Nigeria in several high level meetings in Artificial Intelligence, technology and innovation policy and women empowerment in Amsterdam, Portugal, Dubai, USA, Senegal, Kigali and so on. She is from Kaduna State and married with children.

Mr. Kirill Ilnitski

Moscow Agency of Innovations, Moscow, Russian
Head of Information and Coordination

Kirill Ilnitski - Head of International Affairs, Moscow Agency of Innovations

Strategic advisor and manager in Urban Innovation, Arts & Culture, Education.
Consultant of European and Russian companies, cities and associations, co-author of development programs for cultural, educational, technological centers. PhD in Anthropology (Germany) and Aesthetics (Italy).

Mr. Enric Castillo

Cámara de Innovación y Tecnología Ecuatoriana (CITEC), Ecuador
Revenue growth manager

I am a PKI Expert from Barcelona (Spain) currently based between Quito (Ecuador) and Barcelona. I love everything related with innovation of business procedures and I feel a true devotion for new technologies and his influence on people’s life. My career was focused on business development and product improvement.
I have 8 years of experience working in certification world in different positions, starting as a developer and now as a CEO in