Angel is the former CEO & Founder of Leaders Working, an EdTech company acquired by Bloomberg.Following Leaders Working's acquisition, Angel worked in Venture Capital, investing and scaling SaaS, NextGen commerce, and AI companies before heading west to build and take to market products in analytics at Facebook and Google. Today, Angel works at IBM Watson where he leverages AI technology to develop products that will deliver empathy at scale.

Carrie Leung is a native of San Francisco and has called Shenzhen, China home for the past six years.

Lifelong maker, mentor, thinker and tinkerer, she always strives to kindle curiosity and imagination that flames into something tangible.

A Silicon Valley veteran, Carrie made the shift from her tech and finance career into education, focusing on making relevant education accessible.

She empowers young minds and enables communities through making, sharing, and collaboration by executing project based learning methods, creating open source platforms, and encouraging grassroots movements in communities, as well as leveraging maker culture to positively progress communities internationally.

Christian has been a Git developer for more than 12 years giving many presentations and trainings about it around the world. He works as a Git expert and developer for GitLab, and is among the top 15 Git developers when counting the number of commits.

Frank Karlitschek started the Nextcloud project to enable decentralized and secure cloud hosting. He has been involved with a variety of Free Software projects including having been a board member for the KDE community. Frank has spoken at MIT, CERN and ETH and keynoted LinuxCon, Latinoware, Akademy, FOSSASIA, openSUSE Con and many other conferences. Frank is the founder and CEO of Nextcloud Gmbh. Frank is a fellow of Open Forum Europe. 

I'm Luke a Maker from Manchester, UK. I've been living in Shenzhen for almost 6 years.

From a young age I loved making you could always find me in the shed making some toy or new invention from a few pieces of wood. When I was in high school I started to teach myself programming and 3D design. Despite the fact that I love making, I also love to learn new languages, which led me to start traveling around Asia, eventually settling on Shenzhen as my new home.I realised Shenzhen was a paradise for makers, which took me into setting up my own 3d printing business teaching 3D design to kids.

After a short while I designed my own maker curriculum which covered all kinds of topics, everything from woodwork to programming.

in 2016 I was tasked with setting up and running a maker space within a co-working space and charged with the event management, which I gained a wealth of experience about startup businesses from.

After that I was in a few startups of varying success. In 2017 I joined M5 which is a modular prototyping device designed to be easy to create any of your ideas. At M5 I wear many hats as is expected in the startup world. I write curriculum for the M5 stem program, I work on R&D with the engineering team and also create content for our social media channels. 

Martin has been using Free Software for more than 20 years. He has lived and was active in the local Free Software community on four continents.

He eventually settled in China where he now lives with his family, running a small Web Development Shop. He continues to be active in the Free Software community. He was running the Beijing GNU/Linux User Group for four years and now mentors his successors and other groups. He founded the Free Software Community Leadership Roundtable, a forum where community leaders can share and support each other.

Through his career, his interest has always been Free Software that facilitates communication and collaboration and brings the world closer together.

His main focus is to work with chinese students and fresh graduates to give them work experience on international projects.

Long-time Hacker around GNU, Linux and Debian.

Since 2010, he started Gnuk Project to build a USB cryptographic token, which is fully free, including PCB design, firmware, host side driver and its development environment.

He spends his half of working time for the maintenance of GnuPG and libgcrypt, and rest is used to maintain his thread library named Chopstx, TRNG implementation named NeuG, and the USB firmware named Gnuk.

Violet Su is the Community Manager at Seeed, and x.factory, she is also one of the core organizers of Maker Faire Shenzhen. Having joined Seeed in 2012, Violet currently serves as Community Manager, in charge of creating partnerships and programs for hardware development. She has been very actively spreading maker culture and building the maker community in China, as well as acting as a liaison between Chinese and international maker communities. Violet has a passion for language, culture, education and initiating collaborations across sectors.