Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025, themed “AI and More Things” invites scholars, tech leaders, maker pioneers, and industry practitioners from all fields to join the grand event. As in previous years, we have curated and recruited numerous exciting satellite events to provide more networking opportunities for all attendees. Today, we introduce one of this year’s satellite events:
| KiCon Asia 2025 Event Time: November 13–15, 2025 Event Form: Conference Series Organizer: KiCad Community & Huaqiu |
The annual KiCon Asia gathering is back! Whether you’re a seasoned electronics engineer, a budding maker, or a dedicated open-source hardware enthusiast, KiCon Asia 2025 offers the perfect platform for learning, sharing, and networking. Exciting technical talks, in-depth hands-on workshops, and opportunities to meet global KiCad experts face-to-face await you.
Event Schedule
November 13——KiCad Training Course
November 14–15——Main Agenda
Participation Method: Preregistration (Check info at the end of the article.)
Location: Atour Hotel, Vanke Cloud City, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
The main conference (ticket included) spans two days: November 14–15 (Friday and Saturday). The November 13 training session targets enterprise users interested in KiCad, featuring dedicated course materials and a completion certificate. Training availability is subject to registration numbers.
Keynote Speech
This year’s KiCon will feature not only our longtime friends Wayne Staubaugh, Seth Hillbrand, Alex, and Ethien, but also lead developers from the UK, Russia, and Japan. Additionally, we have invited Dr. Peter Dalmaris, author of KiCad Like a Pro.
We welcome more contributors to share your KiCad stories. We are seeking presentations on the following topics:
- Stories of switching from other EDA software to KiCad
- Library management
- Package design techniques
- KiCad promotion
- KiCad plugin development
- Project management
- Feature discussions
- Custom DRC use cases
Please submit your presentation proposals via the following link:
https://pretalx.kicad.org/kicon-asia-2025/cfp
Registration
Official Website: https://kicon.kicad.org/asia2025/en/
Domestic participants can register via the Elecfans website (invoices available):
https://bbs.elecfans.com/jishu_2495997_1_1.html
International participants can also purchase tickets via pretix (invoices not available):
https://pretix.eu/kicad/kiconasia2025
What does the ticket include?
The standard ticket is priced at 198 RMB, covering both days of the main conference activities from November 14th to 15th, and includes lunch and dinner for both days! Those who attended last year’s event know that the evening activities are the real highlight—a chance to freely exchange ideas with industry leaders from around the world.
We recommend purchasing the “Early Bird Ticket” in advance for just 99 RMB. It offers the same benefits as the standard ticket, but quantities are limited and may sell out at any time! Students can purchase the “Student Ticket” (student ID upload required).
Enterprise clients seeking personalized completion certificates can purchase the Business Ticket (298 RMB).
For those seeking KiCad training, the KiCad Training Course (¥598) is available. This one-day session will be personally led by KiCad Lead Developer Seth Hillbrand. If the training is confirmed, it will take place on November 13th.
Register for the training through: https://bbs.elecfans.com/jishu_2496955_1_1.html
Visitor Register for MFSZ25
Exhibition Tips
November 15-16, Vanke Design Commune, Nanshan, Shenzhen
Parking Limited, eco-friendly transportation are highly recommended!
Take Metro Line 5 to Liuxiandong Station, exit via Exit A, walk straight, then turn left to arrive.
Nearby bus stops: Zhongxing Talent Apartments East and Vanke Cloud City.
Go green, save energy, and join us for a sustainable journey!
Over the past 12 years, the development trajectory of Maker Faire Shenzhen can be seen as a microcosm of the development of maker culture in China.
- 2012: “Gathering Small Wisdom, Journeying through the Great Future” – This was the first Mini Maker Faire in China, with less than 1000 attendees, and was more like a gathering within a small circle. But we saw the infinite possibilities emerging from the maker community.
- 2013: The slogan was absent, and the maker community was still small. – In the OCT Creative Park, there were cross-disciplinary exchanges among different creative communities, silently laying the foundation for cultural output.
- 2014: “Innovate with China” – the event was upgraded to the Featured level for the first time, with a significant increase in scale compared to previous years, and the beginning of professional independent forums. This year, makers began to enter the public’s view.
- 2015: “Everyone is a Maker, what are you waiting for?” – This year’s Shenzhen International Maker Week became one of the largest Maker Faires in the world. This year, the concept of “maker” was elevated to a national level, and the trend of “mass innovation, mass entrepreneurship” swept across the country.
- 2016: “My World, My Creation” – As the sub-venue of the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week, the event was held for the first time in the commercial center area, experiencing unpredictable weather from typhoons to scorching heat. Many makers succeeded in your entrepreneurial endeavors this year, but it seemed like there were even more failures. The hype around entrepreneurship shifted towards rationality.
- 2017: “Makers, Go Pro” – The event took place at the university campus for the first time, focusing on Maker Pros and providing a platform for diverse innovators and makers to showcase themselves, presenting more possibilities for the growth path of makers to the entire community.
- 2018: “Co-making in the City” – The main venue of Shenzhen International Maker Week, where individuals and groups with shared visions and values gathered to showcase stories, projects, and explorations of collaboration among different communities and people.
- 2019: ” To the Heart of Community, To the Cluster of Industry” – The event was upgraded to the Maker Faire Shenzhen, attempting to attract professional audiences and focusing on pragmatic aspects such as solving the needs of industrial upgrading and co-developin. It aims to build a platform for innovation and industry dialogue and collaboration.
- 2023: “Where Are The Makers?”– Starting from our own mission and values, we aim to explore the future direction of makers and the possibilities for commercialization. Though this question does not have a definitive answer, we do hope that through this event, we can communicate and share with every one of you, finding more ideas and directions together.
2024: “Everything is AI” – This year, we brought together over 120 exhibitors from around the world, attracting nearly 1,500 professional attendees from nearly 20 countries and over 20 provinces across China. The exhibition showcased a wide range of AI application projects and hosted 10 AI hardware-themed satellite events, alongside various workshops.
