Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025 is counting down! 🎉
Have you started planning your trip to Shenzhen yet? As the event draws near, our organizing team is working full steam ahead, meticulously preparing every detail—from exhibitor setup to volunteer recruitment, from forum speakers to workshop experiences. We’re giving it our all to deliver an even more creative and inspiring gathering for everyone!
We are thrilled to reunite with makers, developers, educators, and tech enthusiasts from around the world in Shenzhen, where we will witness the boundless possibilities of innovation and technology.
If there are specific sections of this year’s event that particularly interest you, or if you’d like us to highlight certain exhibition areas, speakers, or topics, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section! Your feedback is invaluable to us—we’ll incorporate your suggestions to curate even more exciting and substantive content for everyone!
Today we bring you the 11th installment of our Innovation Ambassadors series! Why create? The five ambassadors featured this issue have each found their own answers within their respective fields and passions, blazing their own trails as makers. Without exception, this path has led them all to Shenzhen, where they took the stage at Maker Faire Shenzhen.
Crescent Shay
Shay isn’t just any maker—she’s the fashion queen of the maker community. With over 3 million subscribers on YouTube, she loves crafting diverse clothing designs using unconventional materials. Creative and skilled are words that define her.
Check via link ⚡https://www.youtube.com/@crescentshay/featured
Ricardo de Jesus Muñoz Macias
As a high-energy maker, Ricardo runs two YouTube channels—“Nada que Hacer” and “Dronepedia”—boasting over 2.6 million subscribers. He is also the co-founder of Polimata Maker Space, where he leads others in exploring DIY tech, drones, and maker culture through assembling, testing, building, and experimenting.
Check via link ⚡https://www.youtube.com/@nqueh
马伟霖 Ma Weilin
Master’s degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD candidate at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology—these are just a few of his credentials. In this era of everyone being a content creator, Ma Weilin stands out as a hardcore tech content creator. From capturing carbon atoms to hand-building microscopes, his expertise speaks for itself. Interested viewers can explore his channel to see for themselves.
Check via⚡ https://space.bilibili.com/5657589/upload/video
Alex Vong
Alex excels at solving technical challenges with AI, bringing his visions to life through electronics and 3D printing. By bridging aesthetics with user experience, his projects have garnered significant international attention. If you’re interested in smart interactive toys, you should definitely come meet Alex in person!
吴波 Bob Wu
As a mentor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China FabLab, Bob Wu holds a particular interest in professional engineering models and automotive scenario lab development. With extensive practical and teaching experience in related fields, he warmly welcomes you to engage in discussions with him on-site!
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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.
