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:
| Fab Lab Asia 2025 Event Time: November 15-16, 2025，concurrent with Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025 Event Venue: Shenzhen · Vanke Design Commune Event Form: Conference Series Organizer: KiCad Community & Huaqiu |
In a world where digital fabrication and open innovation are reshaping how we create, the Fab Lab Asia Network (FAN) has become a vital platform connecting makers across the Asia–Pacific region and beyond. In 2025, the Fab Lab Asia Network Annual Meeting (FAN2025) will take place in Shenzhen alongside Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025 (MFSZ25), bringing together FabLab leaders, educators, engineers, and creative minds from the APAC region.
What is the Fab Asia Network?
The Fab Lab concept was born at MIT as a “fabrication laboratory,” a public space where anyone can turn ideas into reality using digital tools such as 3D printers, CNC machines, and laser cutters. The Fab Lab Asia Network (FAN) connects Fab Labs across Asia–Pacific region, spanning universities, makerspaces, corporate labs, and grassroots community hubs. Its mission is to foster knowledge sharing, strengthen regional collaboration, and make digital fabrication accessible to everyone—from students and hobbyists to engineers and entrepreneurs.
Event Highlights
FAN2025 will run concurrently with Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025 at the Vanke Design Commune, offering a full program that blends professional exchange with hands-on public experiences, featuring:
1. Asia-Pacific FabLab Leaders’ Close Door Discussion
FabLab managers, educators, and innovation leaders from across Asia will gather for in-depth discussions on the latest trends in digital fabrication, sustainable development, and community operation, to share best practices and spark new cross-border projects.
2. Innovation Showcase
A dedicated FAN2025 exhibition booth will feature cool projects from FabLabs across the region. Expect everything from AIoT-based projects and hardware to social impact design and experimental materials. Visitors can explore each lab’s unique creations and see how digital fabrication is driving change in education, community building, and industry. community building, and industrial innovation.
3. Hands-on Workshops
Don’t just watch—make! Throughout the event, participating FabLabs will host interactive workshops right at their booth. Whether you’re a first-time maker or an experienced fabricator looking to learn new tricks, these sessions invite everyone to experiment and create.
4. Public Talks
FAN2025 will also feature open talks where FabLab representatives share stories from their labs, and highlight how digital fabrication can transcend disciplines, borders, and cultures to create real social impact.
Event Details
- Dates: November 15-16, 2025 (concurrent with Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025)
- Venue: Vanke Design Commune, Shenzhen, China
- Access: FAN2025 exhibitions and public talks are open to all MFSZ25 visitors. Workshops may require pre-registration.
Don’t miss the chance to see—and take part in—the ideas that are building the next generation of makers!
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.
