Days seem to drag on when you’re lost in anticipation, yet for us focused on preparations, they fly by in an instant. Before we knew it, mid-October arrived—less than a month until the stage unveils! The more sparks fly and ideas collide, the stronger the urge to create and transform grows. At Maker Faire 2025, we’ve crafted the perfect stage for every maker to shine brightly!
Today we present the 9th installment of our Innovation Ambassadors! This edition introduces five ambassadors active in maker communities worldwide. As torchbearers of the maker spirit, they ignite its flame across diverse fields, illuminating new horizons. This year, Maker Faire Shenzhen is their chosen destination—creative inspiration spanning thousands of miles is about to converge here!
1.Davide Gomba
Davide is a seasoned STEAM educator and IoT technology evangelist. With over fifteen years of experience in open-source hardware development, he has hosted diverse open-source workshops in classrooms, music festivals, and other innovative settings, enabling open-source hardware to deliver significant value across broader communities.
2.Marcello Tania
Marcello is an engineer and STEM educator with an equal passion for robotics and animals. Working across multiple fields, he uses digital fabrication tools to bring his wildest ideas to life.
3.Claire Chaikin-Bryan
Claire is the Director of the Lake Mac Libraries Fab Lab. She is also an accomplished urban planner and civil environmental engineer. She is dedicated to Fab Lab education, leveraging her extensive background and industry experience to inspire and empower makers.
4.Tex Kang
Tex manages the University of Pennsylvania’s Education Shared Makerspace and serves as an organizer for Philadelphia Maker Faire. He is currently focused on providing rich maker resources for the university and its community, offering diverse digital fabrication courses that integrate design, engineering, and art into educational practice for students.
5.Leong Seh Yong
Seh Yong is a STEM educator from the Singapore Science Centre. He was formerly an organic chemist specializing in antimalarial drug development. Currently based in the Centre’s digital fabrication space, he supports makers and is dedicated to helping secondary schools establish STEM programs.
They will soon join other Innovation Ambassadors at Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025. We look forward to you joining us to witness the boundless wonders unfolding on the stage of maker super-evolution!
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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.
