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Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025!
If you’ve also hit roadblocks and challenges on your creative journey, or if you’re curious about how makers from around the world achieved super-evolution and found success, don’t miss Maker Faire Shenzhen 2025’s major event this Sunday.
This Sunday (November 16), we’re joining forces with 15 Innovation Ambassadors for a special event at the Lecture Hall in Area B of Vanke Cloud City Design Commune —
Makers’ Mega Evolution Live!
They will personally share their maker journeys of growth and evolution, along with those magical moments encountered during creation. If you’re curious about where makers find their inspiration and how they turn wild ideas into reality, this event is one you won’t want to miss! Join us to experience the energy of the maker spirit firsthand and super-evolve together!
Speakers
01 Prof. Marcelo José Rovai(Brazil)
AI for Everyone, Everywhere: How Tiny Machine Learning is Democratizing Intelligence
Professor Rovai hails from the other side of the globe—Brazil, a resource-rich BRICS nation brimming with passion and vitality, as well as a fertile ground for innovation where creativity takes root and flourishes.
Teaching people to fish, Professor Rovai is now striving to empower more individuals with technology, extending its benefits to underserved regions.
Transitioning from multinational executive to AI education advocate, Professor Rovai will draw upon his extensive experience at MFSZ25 to share invaluable insights on AI implementation: how to move AI beyond energy-intensive, costly data centers and deploy it on devices costing just tens of dollars, empowering beekeepers, doctors, and engineers alike.
02 Simone Giertz(Sweden)
The Creative Benefits of Lowering the Bar
Simone will share her creative journey from pursuing perfection to learning to “lower the bar”. She’ll discuss how she overcame perfectionism, discovered the joy of creation, and ultimately became a full-time inventor. Sometimes, lowering the bar isn’t compromise—it’s the beginning of letting creativity truly flow.
03 Mat Zolnierczyk(UK/Poland）
From zero to engineering superhero!
A light-hearted cautionary tale of a graduate of fine art turned robotics engineer who solves the world’s problems with a pen, paper and 100 Chrome tabs filled with search results.
I’d like to share my personal experience about learning new skills on my own, building self-confidence to share my knowledge with the world and leveraging this to steer my professional career towards my passion. With 10 years of experience in failing & making (not necessarily in that order), overseeing my website and online presence, I have a hat full of tips, tricks and things to avoid to be a better maker.
In a nutshell, expect a “TED talk” from an artist turned robotics engineer thanks to the sheer power of stubbornness.
04. Marcello Tania(Indonesia）
The Fabricator: A Machine That Can Make (Almost) Anything
The story begins with a belief in the power of possibility — that we can make almost anything. From early projects to bold experiments, that belief took shape as The Fabricator, a machine built to turn imagination into reality. Today, the journey continues with BantuProduksi, empowering small and local businesses to produce what they sell and take ownership of what they create.
05.Nick Velasquez(Colombia)
Making Without Borders: My Journey from Colombian Tinkerer to Global Entrepreneur
In this talk, electronic engineer Nick Velásquez shares how his dual identity as both maker and entrepreneur has created a powerful synergy, propelling his journey from Colombia to Silicon Valley and now to Shenzhen. Through personal stories, key projects, and valuable lessons learned, Nick will demonstrate how the maker mindset enhances entrepreneurial thinking and vice versa, while highlighting how these complementary perspectives helped him navigate diverse maker communities across three continents. Despite language barriers and cultural differences, Nick’s experience illustrates how the universal languages of making, problem-solving, and innovation create connections that transcend borders—proving that in the global maker movement, creativity and collaboration know no boundaries.
06.Atara Collis(US)
Learning with Projects
In this speech I want to talk about my story, how I struggled with started many projects but never finished any of them! How I finally learned to finish the projects I started, while giving helpful tips and advice for other’s having a hard time finishing the projects they start. I also want to outline some useful techniques to help anyone gain new knowledge and learn effortlessly from the projects they work on by showing my process of and outline I created for my projects. By step-by-step guide to show when a project is perfect for learning and when a project might be too hard to finish, how to make stepping stone projects so you slowly gain the new skills to work on more advanced projects and most importantly how to organize everything, from the projects concepts, to ideas, to what you learned! So you can easily access it and get information you might’ve forgot.
07.Robert Bogs(German)
Why Makers will Matter？
Why Makers Will Matter is the story of a small German village fighting demographic decline with open data, LoRaWAN, and stubborn optimism. Robert Bogs, an open-source nerd and community builder, shares how citizens turned a shrinking, aging town into a living laboratory for the future. With no IT staff, no budget, and sometimes a mayor who denies climate change, they built their own digital infrastructure — from solar trailers to water sensors — entirely open source. The talk is both inspiring and practical: it shows how local knowledge, maker culture, and open collaboration can rebuild trust, resilience, and independence in rural life. Expect humor, real data, and a clear message: “If you can measure it, you can change it. If you can share it, you can multiply it. And if you can make it, you can own your future.”
08.Aniruddh Mali（India）
Experiential Learning: Makerspace IIT Gandhinagar (India)
At IIT Gandhinagar, our Makerspace pioneered an experiential learning ecosystem where students transform ideas into prototypes using cutting-edge tools like 3D printing, laser cutting, and electronics prototyping. Over 4,000 students have engaged in hands-on projects spanning biomedical devices, sustainable tech, robotics, and IoT. The space bridges academia, industry, and startups, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and entrepreneurial thinking. In this talk, I’ll share how “learning by doing” has transformed classroom teaching, built vibrant maker culture, and established our makerspace as an innovation model for India and beyond.
09. Adam Conway（Ireland）
The ESP32 Felt Impossible to Start with, but It Made Me Fall in Love with Embedded Hardware
The story of how I went from “I don’t know where to start” to building my own voice assistants, dashboards, and buying random sensors and figuring out how they work.
10.Rico Kanthatham(US)
The Fablab Network and How to Join the Fun
While the fablab network is growing, there are many who do not know what it is and why it might be valuable to them. The talk will describe the unique characteristics of the network, why it is distinctive from other maker collectives and how interested people might join the organization.
11.Tex Kang(Korean)
Prototyping: Using things the way they were not meant to be used
As makers, we are familiar with the Design Thinking process, where we use five phases of an iterative approach to creative problem solving. My favorite is Prototyping, where I’ve found out that it’s more cost-effective to prototype things out by using existing things, but purposefully using them in a way they were not originally meant to be used, like using an ultrasonic cleaner to make aged whisky, breaking a Guinness world record using kombucha, or hijacking a maker faire to create my own city-wide combat robotics league.
Creator Panel: “Why Everything Breaks and How to Fix It Better”
Things break. Code crashes. Robots catch on fire — But that’s kind of the point.
At this year’s MFSZ, four of YouTube’s most inventive minds — Allen Pan, Estefannie, Ruth Amos and Shay Rose — come together to explore the joy (and chaos) of things falling apart, and how every failed attempt can spark the next great idea. With a combined following of over 5 million fans, this all-star panel dives deep into why breaking things better might just be the smartest way to build something truly new.
If you’ve ever stared at your project at 2 AM and thought, “I have no idea what I’m doing,” you belong here.
Want to attend MFSZ25, listen to their insights, or connect in person? Don’t miss the Live!
Registration
Venue
Vanke Design Commune Lecture Hall, Area B, Nanshan District, Shenzhen
Agenda
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Exhibition Tips
November 15-16, Vanke Design Commune, Nanshan, Shenzhen
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.
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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 event
