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Anies R. Baswedan

Academician - Indonesia

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Vignesh Kaushik

Design Technology Director, Principal
Gensler

Based in Singapore, Vignesh is the Design Technology Director for Gensler’s Asia Pacific, Middle East and Greater China regions. He leverages his passion for people enablement, process development, and technology innovation to lead digital transformation in the firm’s practice that spans complex mixed-use, retail, hospitality, sports and workplace projects of various scales across the region.

The core mission of the high-powered community he leads is to create an advanced and sophisticated experience for our designers and clients through infinite computing possibilities in generative design, computational systems, design visualization, and software development.

A recognized thought leader, he has published multiple original research papers in various technology conferences and journals and is a frequent speaker at national and international forums related to A.I., Machine Learning, Design Computation, and BIM.
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Peter Brannan

Asia Pacific Practice Leader
SOM

As Asia Pacific Practice Leader, Peter is an accomplished architectural and business development leader with over 35 years of experience and an extensive portfolio of architectural and planning projects spanning Asia and the Middle East.

He has extensive experience in managing and delivering large-scale mixed-use, commercial office, hotel, residential, sports, retail, planning, and transit-oriented-design projects in Asia. 



A good listener and easy communicator, Peter works directly with clients, partners, designers, and consultants in managing complex challenges. A keen environmentalist, his current focus involves delivering sustainable and zero-carbon developments.
  • Guoco Tower (Courtesy of Studio Periphery)
  • One City Center (Courtesy Raimon Land Public Company Limited)
  • One Bangkok (Courtesy of Frasers)
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Chris Panfil

Managing Principal for Planning & Landscape
WATG - Singapore

Chris is a master planner with architecture and urban planning degrees from MIT and Princeton University.

During more than 25 years of experience his work has focused on tourism projects for new resort communities, towns and villages; on development strategies for cultural tourism destinations; and on regional tourism development initiatives.

He has worked in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, as well as in North & East Africa. Chris’ planning and design philosophy embraces financially viable developments that respond to the history, culture and environment of their settings. His research interests include the history of urban development and the impacts of tourism on local communities.
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Troy Donovan

Façade Designer
Prism Facades - Australia

Troy has a broad range of industry experience, he has worked in Australia, New Zealand, New York and is a principal at Prism Façades. As a façade designer, he has developed specialist skills in the design of components and custom fabrication, which he applies to the development of new facades.

Troy is also an accomplished illustrator and is active in the architectural community as a mentor, blogger, speaker and through his daily posts to @the_donnies on Instagram. His enthusiasm and willingness to share has encouraged a sketching and model making culture amongst the architect’s he works.
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Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto

Principal
RUR Architecture - USA

Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture is an internationally recognized architecture office and design atelier founded in 1986 by Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto. The firm works across continents and scales with projects ranging from large scale cultural and infrastructural projects to detailed object, furniture, and exhibition designs.

Reiser+Umemoto, RUR is widely published, most recently in their sweeping monograph Projects and Their Consequences which traces thirty years of multidisciplinary investigations into form, structure, techniques and planning. Awards and honors include the Chrysler Award for Excellence in Design, the Academy Award in Architecture by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Citation and John Hejduk Award from the Cooper Union, and the USA Booth Fellowship from United States Artists for Architecture & Design.

Jesse Reiser is a Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and co-founder of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture.

Nanako Umemoto is a Professor of Practice at Washington University, a visiting Professor at Kent State University and co-founder of Reiser+Umemoto, RUR Architecture.
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Saul Kim

Saul Kim Studio
South Korea

Saul Kim, the founder of Saul Kim Studio, focuses on challenging the preconceived notion of architecture design. Growing up in Singapore, Saul began his architectural studies at Singapore Polytechnic. His academic journey continued when he transferred to the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), where he graduated with distinction, earning a Bachelor of Architecture. He later completed his Master of Architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, which further solidified his forward-thinking approach to design.

Experiences across different cities and academic environments shaped Saul’s unique design approach, fueling his desire to create distinct architectural works. This ambition led to the founding of his design research series, Architecture Anomaly, an architectural autobiography that dives deep into formal experiments rooted in Object-Oriented Ontology. His work challenges traditional architectural boundaries by treating architectural forms as autonomous entities, interacting both independently and in relation to external elements. This methodology extends to envisioning space and time as autonomous objects, reframing architecture within exaggerated contexts of gravity and antigravity, and leading to thought-provoking compositions that go beyond conventional functionality. Recognized across platforms, Architecture Anomaly has been featured in numerous publications and exhibited in galleries, amplifying its impact within the architectural community.