Adham Nadim, CEO of NADIM Industries since 1999, has over 35 years in various capacities managing NADIM Industries. Starting his training at NADIM at the young age of 14, he received a B.A. in Islamic Art and Architecture from AUC in 1986. He has worked on several prestigious projects throughout the world. Given Nadim's passion for traditional arts and crafts, he participated in the six-year restoration and conservation of the Al Darb Al Asfar area, including the 16th-century Bayt el Suhaymi. Nadim is a co-founder and board member o f the NADIM Foundation for Heritage and Development. The foundation is documenting historic woodwork and working on the monumental Egyptian woodwork encyclopaedia, representing 5000 years of industry.
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Annabel Karim Kassar is a French-Lebanese architect and designer. She attended the School of Architecture (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris) and graduated DPLG. As the founder of AKK Architects, with offices in Beirut, Dubai, and London, she has developed masterplans, commercial, cultural, and historical residential buildings, and interiors for office spaces, bars, clubs, and restaurants using its unique furniture and lighting collections. Her career has been devoted to exploring the frontier between eastern and western design in a series of majo r building projects across North America, the Levant, and the Gulf.   Current projects include a four-story London townhouse renovation; hospitality projects including Ella Funt restaurant in New York; two restaurants for the Rixos 5-star hotel chain in Dubai and Abu Dhabi; and a golf club in Ajman, UAE.
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Brendan MacFarlane has taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Architectural Association in London; the Special School of Architecture in Paris; the Southern California Institute of Architecture (Sci-Arc) in Los Angeles, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA. In 1998, he and Dominique Jakob co-founded Jakob+MacFarlane, a multi-disciplinary practice focused on architecture, urban planning and design. Their projects and works have been exhibited in museums worldwide, including Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Architecture (Moscow), and Victoria & Albert Museum (London) SFMOMA (San Francisco), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), and Carnegie Mellon (USA).
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Eduardo Aires lives and works in Porto, Portugal. He graduated in Graphic Design at Porto University's Faculty of Fine Arts (FBAUP, 1987), where he is associate professor and was awarded his PhD (2006) with a thesis on Editorial Design. At FBAUP he would later be founder of the MA in Graphic Design and Editorial Projects. He is artistic director of Studio Eduardo Aires, a multidisciplinary design agency focusing on communication. Among the Studio's many internationally awarded projects is the identity of the city of Porto (2014). In addition to commissioned projects, he is dedicated to the creation of unique objects.
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At the forefront of the digital manufacturing revolution, Crédoz recognized it as a natural and tangible extension of his expertise. Following stints in various countries where he founded multiple architectural practices, he eventually established "Bits to Atoms," a distinctive venture dedicated to harnessing the potential of digital manufacturing to enhance craftsmanship in both architecture and design. In 2015, he founded the collective "BeirutMakers," and in 2020, he became part of Philip Beesley's "Living Architecture Systems Group" (LA SG) collective. Today, Crédoz's award-winning architectural firm, "Bits to Atoms," boasts a recent portfolio of projects includes the prestigious National Theater of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, contributing to the urban transformation of its port. Additionally, they've designed a pivotal third-place building for Tripoli in Lebanon and introduced "Ubic," an innovative system of modular prefabricated housing.
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Karim El Hayawan, cofounder and principal designer of Design Point Studios founded and based in Cairo, Egypt in 2001. Priding itself on its multidisciplinary nature, immersed in diverse aspects of design, art, culture, and social engagement. Design Point has collaborated and engaged with well-respected designers, artists, artisans, and institutions both regionally and internationally to produce an array of projects, products, and installations. For Design Point, expression through various mediums and domains serves as a tool for raising ques tions, shifting mindsets, and creating impactful change. The studios’ diverse design ethos stems from the diversity of the founder's interests.
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Michael Schneider, founder of designschneider, has shaped the design landscape since 1993 with his innovative approach to product, furniture, and exhibition design. Educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and with experience at Phoenix Design, Schneider's designs balance beauty with function. Over the years, he's been recognized with prestigious accolades including multiple red dot awards. Whether mentoring the next generation at institutions like the University of Arts in Berlin or traveling the globe for inspiration, Schneider remai ns a driving force in the design world.
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Mohamed Attia is an Egyptian award-winning art director and production designer who has established a prominent name in the industry across Egypt and the Arab region. He started his career in 2004, working on Klephty film by director Mohamed Khan. Following that, he collaborated with Mohamed Khan once more on Banat Wist El-balad and Fi Shaket Mar El Gedeeda. Throughout his career, Attia worked on key Egyptian films by prominent directors, including Marwan Hamed, whom he worked with in the horror film series The Blue Elephant, The Origi nals and Diamond Dust. Attia has also been one of the key artistic directors behind various public events, Including the execution process for The Pharaohs' Golden Parade, the World Youth Forum in 2018 and 2019, the latest three consecutive editions of the Cairo International Film Festival and the third edition of El Gouna FIlm Festival. In 2021, Attia became a jury member of Set Design Competition of Cairo Design Awards and took part in the parade celebrating the restoration of Luxor's Al-Kebash Road (Rams Road) as a production designer. Attia's 2021 works also include the design for Coco Chanel, which marks Sharihan's remarkable comeback, and Al Aref: Awdat Younis (The Knower), starring Ahmed Ezz, which grossed more than 50 million EGP.
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Lebanese-Dutch designer Tarek Atrissi is the founder of Tarek Atrissi Design, a design studio based in Barcelona and with offices in the Netherlands. The studio’s typographic and cross cultural design approach produced projects that left a significant influence on the contemporary graphic design landscape in the Middle East, and gained Atrissi international recognition.  Atrissi received the distinguished Alumni awards from both the American University of Beirut and the School of Visual Arts in New York, from where he holds an MFA in de sign entrepreneurship. His other awards include the prestigious D&AD award in London. The Type Directors Club award in New York; and a nomination to the German Design Awards. His clients include Apple, the V&A museum in London, BBC, Dubai Television and the Arab Museum of Modern Arts "Mathaf". Atrissi founded the Arabic Type Foundry, designing and distributing Arabic & multilingual typefaces for branding needs. Atrissi received a major grant for supporting the development of typographic practice in Egypt, from the highly esteemed " Creative Industries Fund NL": the biggest cultural funds in Holland supporting cultural design projects with funding from the Netherland’s ministries of culture and education. 
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