Dear makers,
From the official announcement of Call 4 Makers of Solutions on June 30 through October 30, the pre-event exhibitor recruitment for the Greater Bay Area International Maker Summit & Maker Faire Shenzhen 2026 has successfully concluded; following a meticulous review by the organizing committee, we now officially present to you the final exhibitor list for this year’s Innovation Showcase!
Since the official announcement, the response has been immensely rewarding. As of now, all corporate booths have been fully booked, and we have received far more applications for individual, team, and university booths than expected. Thank you all for your tremendous support for the Summit. We are confident that this year we will once again present a maker summit that is both practical and engaging!
Notably, this year we received applications for a total of 350+ projects from Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Dongguan, Wuxi, Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, Chengdu, Kunshan, Ningbo, Zhengzhou, Xi’an, Zhongshan, Taiyuan, Suzhou, Wuhan, Sanya, Urumqi, Luoyang, Lianyungang, Taizhou, Guiyang, Luzhou, and Wuhai in China, as well as from the United States, Italy, Germany, Singapore, the Arab region, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, India, the United Kingdom, Poland, Denmark, France, and many other countries and regions overseas!
Without further ado, here’s the list! Below is this year’s final list of corporate exhibitors, universities, teams, and individuals—146 booths in total, including 37 corporate exhibitor booths, 12 university booths, and 97 individual/team booths (some organizations have multiple booths). Take a look at who’s joining!
Congratulations to all the exhibitors above! We will also notify all applicants of the final review results by email within the coming week. If you’ve submitted an application, be sure to check your inbox for the review results!
A huge thank you to every partner who applied to exhibit—it is your support that gives us the greatest motivation to make each Maker Faire Shenzhen a success!
December 12–13 at Vanke Cloud City Design Commune · Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China—see you there!
For the 2026 Greater Bay Area International Maker Summit, we have specially created a brand-new program segment—Alpha Camp. It is not a conventional exhibition, nor a workshop where you sit in the audience taking notes—it is an unscripted “making experiment ground”: there are no spectators here—either take the stage or get your hands on the tools.
Over the two days, around 40 hardcore skill workshops and sharing sessions will run back-to-back—laser cutting, advanced soldering, hands-on 3D printing, AI hardware deployment… 70%–80% of them are hands-on. Attendees are not judged by degrees or titles; the person sitting at the next table might be a veteran welder from the workshop floor whose skills run deep—or your future partner for all-night project builds.
What Is Included?
Priority workshop reservations and access to the ticket-holder community. Book your preferred sessions early, get program updates, and connect with other participants before the event.
Two days of ALPHA Camp access. Explore around 40 workshops and skill-sharing sessions across both days.
Your own NFC maker badge. Activate it at check-in, tap it for access, and use it to complete challenges and level up your virtual pet.
Practical workshops led by experienced makers. Work with people who have used these skills on real projects.
Lunch on both days. Your pass includes an on-site lunch each day.
A certificate of completion and a maker passport. Complete the workshop and challenge requirements to receive your certificate at the event. Use your passport to collect stamps at participating exhibitor booths.
Maker merchandise. Take home a sticker pack, a custom woven tote bag, and other event merchandise.
Over the past 13 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 theapossibilities 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.
- 2025: “AI Without Boundaries, Everything Reimagined”The summit brought together nearly 100 international innovation ambassadors and showcased almost 1,000 AI hardware projects.Technology leaders, pioneering makers, industry experts, and university teams from more than 30 countries gathered to create an international innovation event combining frontier thinking, technical exchange, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
