An early announcement on the Chinese Consumer Electronics Show (done in conjunction with the US CES counterparts). The web site is http://www.sinoces.com/ and you can click English in the upper right hand corner.
It will be held on July 10-13 at the Qingdao International Convention Center
I am am working with the Quingdao Industrial Designers Association. There will be 4,000 square meters devoted to Design.
The design forum will be opened freely to all design professionals (they do not need to pay any registration fees). Adjacent to and outside of the design forum, there are some spaces refurbished into meeting and negotiation rooms, which are also free to use for design professionals.
I received a schedule. Of course I do not know how much it will change this week.
The “Design Innovation Enhances Company Competitiveness” summit is on July 11th. It starts at 9AM and ends at 5:30PM. There are 11 speakers. There are 6 Chinese speakers (industry, government and education), 4 Western speakers, and one speaker for Korea but with a Chinese name.
Location is 5301 Conference Room, No. 5 Hall, Qingdao International Exhibition Center.
There are also supposed to be design topics on July 10th in the Crystal Ballroom, No. 6 Hall, Qingdao International Exhibition Center. I have no details on this.
I can’t thank you enough for your graciousness, insight, and awesome conversation we had today - your networking is top-notch.
I haven’t had such a meaningful and timely discussion in awhile; and all this in China!
My first trip to China was an eye opener, and you made my first impressions of China, especially as they relate to design, so worthwhile with your great understanding of how the government and its people are embracing design albeit supreficially at the moment. Still it makes feel excited about the design profession, again. And, you are doing an important work in China!
I hope any of you who are planning to go to China are as fortunate as I was with meeting Tim.
I have to say the Design Conference at the SinoCES was excellent. Compared to other trade shows the Design area was quite large and had a mix of excellent design firms from China and around the world. Also the design organizations of china were well represented as well as the design press.
I would like to thank Wang Haining, Vice Secretary-General of the Qingdao Industrial Design Association for his hospitality. Haining did a great job with limited government resources. Also the IDSA booth was very helpful in making connections in China.
Tim , thank you for review my another post.My name is Fanpeng,is a diesgn media reporter
i am sorry that didnt go to the event in qingdao,hope next time listen your speech.
and my friend Song Weizu and Jia Wei went to there
and a foto in qingdao from (in Hisense or Haier )BIDC