TEDxSuzhou

Speakers

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• Chong Fu

  Founder of Yangtze River Delta ESG and Zero Carbon Research Institute

  She is a long-term practitioner, researcher, promoter, and ecosystem builder in the field of sustainable development, with over 20 years of dedication to this field. Upholding the core philosophy of "symbiosis and win-win between business and sustainability," she has led multiple multinational corporate sustainable development management projects. Her authored works, including "ESG Theory and Practice" and "Understanding ESG in One Hour," have been collected by the libraries of many prestigious universities and have received honors such as the "ESG Academic Research Award." In 2025, she personally received the IPC China "ESG Outstanding Individual Award." Today, she is actively building a sustainable development innovation ecosystem by bringing together partners from different fields, continuously empowering the symbiosis of business and sustainable development.

• Chong Xia

  She has been crafting wool felt for 9 years. Her studio is called Helga Village, and the place where she grew up is also called Helga Village. Xia Chong excels at transforming her original designs into vivid, emotionally resonant wool felt works. Warmth, softness, and fluidity are her favorite creative themes. She is also an illustrator and toy designer, having created many lively and engaging works.

• Ge San

  His life can be summarized in three journeys. The first was building a business with his wife, creating **Zhanfang**—China's first literary-casual travel women's wear brand. While designing and crafting garments that captured the heart's excitement of travel, he spent 17 years journeying through over 50 countries alongside his customers. The second began after leaving Zhanfang, when he spent four years accompanying strangers for a day, producing a 100-episode documentary that shared a paradigm of companionship and human connection. The third was founding **Zhanfang Ancient Tea**, a tea brand through which he seeks out and accompanies the curators in each city, tracing the origins of Chinese tea, and using ancient tea, tea scholarship, and tea commerce to create and share an ancient tea lifestyle with the Chinese people.

• Hanwen Zhang

  Ecosystem General Manager, Robotics Division, iMotion Technology

  Leveraging his deep technical and engineering expertise in autonomous driving, he is responsible for the market promotion and ecosystem development of universal robot controllers, multimodal perception models, and unmanned charging robotic arms. He graduated from the University of Adelaide in Australia with a degree in Political Economy. Before joining iMotion Technology, he had cross-industry experience: he led the localization project for gallium arsenide thin-film chips in the United States and spearheaded the promotion of high-efficiency space solar cells applied in low-orbit micro-satellites and high-altitude long-endurance drones. His early career began at the National Australia Bank.

• Lina Zhao

  General Manager of Dazhihui Technology

  With over 20 years of deep experience in manufacturing operations management, she proposed the evolutionary path of future factories featuring "autonomous intelligence, embodied intelligence, and spatial intelligence." She drives the deep integration of AI with industrial scenarios and has led Dazhihui in providing industrial AI and digital transformation solutions to over 1,000 enterprises. She was named to the Fortune China "Most Influential Businesswomen - Future List" and participated in drafting the first batch of national standards for "Metaverse Reference Architecture." She also serves as an industry mentor at several universities including Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and as a board member of industry associations, continuously leading industrial transformation through innovative concepts.

• Yajuan Li

  Former conductor of the Xinghai Conservatory of Music Symphony Wind Orchestra and the Guangdong Wind Music Association Symphony Wind Orchestra. As a music educator, she has cultivated a group of performers active on domestic and international music stages, as well as educational talents at universities worldwide. As a conductor and performer, she has organized and participated in nearly 100 large-scale concerts and music events, making outstanding contributions to the popularization of music culture. In her practice of "Mother Philosophy" within families and communities, Yajuan and the self-organized Dodo Bird Ecological Community of Shanghai mothers have supported many families and children.

• Yanli Kang

  Director of Heran Organic Division, Shinho Group

  With 16 years of deep experience in the organic condiment industry, she participated in creating China's first full-kitchen organic condiment series. Ms. Kang has always upheld the philosophy of being a "dietary ecology activist," systematically driving practices in organic product R&D, sustainable agriculture partnerships, eco-friendly packaging, and healthy food education. She co-initiated industry initiatives such as "China Organic Day." She works closely with organic farmers, industry organizations, and partners both domestically and internationally to jointly promote the popularization of organic concepts and the high-quality, sustainable development of the industry.

• Yingying Lan

  In 2012, she gained widespread attention for her role as Huanbi in the TV drama "Empresses in the Palace." She later participated in the variety shows "Sisters Who Make Waves" and "The Birth of an Actor," sparking extensive public discussion. In 2024, her portrayal of Su Zhenzhen in "Misplacement" broke iQiyi's heat record for short dramas within 20 episodes. She also made audiences remember the bold and passionate Guan Zhizhi in the hit drama "The Tale of Rose." In 2025, her character Yinzi in the popular drama "All Things Born"—stubborn and resilient—once again broke through and successfully captured public attention.

• Yue Cao

  Her experiences across China and Australia have nurtured a cross-cultural perspective. As a landscape architect, her work ranges from national-level urban planning to street renovation and public terraces. As a curator at 333Lab, she presented a phenomenal exhibition at Tianmuli, using flames to explore the interweaving of carbon-based and silicon-based civilizations. As the founder of AlmosTea, she is dedicated to fusing Chinese tea culture with Western mixology art, pioneering a new lifestyle. Behind her diverse practices, the core remains consistent—a sustained curiosity and exploration of people, things, environments, and self.