Klaus Zyciora is Head of Volkswagen Group Design and in this capacity is responsible for the global design of the Group’s 10 brands. Previous milestones in his career include the Golf VI, Golf VII and Golf VIII, the Touareg, Tiguan and T-Roc SUV series and the vehicles in the ID. Family.

Nicholas David is an award-winning automotive designer with over 20 years of international experience and is the Senior Design Director at Karma Automotive. In his role, Nicholas oversees all aspects of design, including exterior, interior, CMF and UiUx at Karma. Nicholas graduated from the renowned Vehicle Design course at the Royal College of Art in London. Before joining Karma, Nicholas was the Chief Designer of Exteriors for GAC Advanced Design North America, where he was credited with developing the World Record-breaking aero EN0.146 EV Concept car and the more recent Enpulse EV sportscar. Prior to his time at GAC, Nicholas has held leadership roles at Aria Group, GM, Honda and Jaguar-LandRover. He was the lead/contributing designer on the Aria FXE Hyper car, Chevrolet TRU 140S, Jaguar XK-RS, Jaguar CX-75, Honda FC-Sport and Chevrolet Graphyte.

Sue Neuhauser is an entrepreneur and designer with more than 20 years of international experience in the automotive industry. In her current role as Senior Design Manager for CMF at Faraday Future, she leads a team that envisions, creates, and develops all colors, materials, and finishes for the brand’s vehicle lineup. As one of the first females in this segment, Sue graduated with a degree in Transportation Design at the University of Applied Science in Munich, Germany. Her career took her from the traditional European OEM worlds of Audi, Magna, BMW, and MAN Truck & Bus to California-based startups including Tesla and Neuron EV. As a member of the initial design teams at Tesla and Faraday Future, she was part of the creative teams that shaped the brand and product design language of both companies. On the Tesla Model X program, she set her mark on visionary and innovative show and prototype executions, including a successful production CMF design that set a new industry trend with her ultra white “vegan leather.” At Faraday Future, she received the German Design award in 2017 for the FFZER01 concept car. With her entrepreneurial spirit, Sue also founded her own business, NOVA Design Group, where she and her team worked on projects for DHL/ Dt Post, Streetscooter, FAW Group, and Hyzon Motors, and collaborated with ISIAH Thomas on a sustainable material project.

Pontus Fontaeus is a renowned Swedish Designer with more than 30 years of design experience in areas of Automotive, Transportation, Architecture, Product, and Graphic Design including Advertising & Illustration, as well as Art. Pontus holds an engineering diploma and a Bachelor of Science in Transportation from Art Center College of Design in Switzerland. He has lived and worked in more than 8 countries around the globe and speaks many languages. He loves taking on new challenges and says he is very comfortable being uncomfortable. But he believes action speaks louder than words. He is in this business for one thing and one thing only - to be a part of creating outstanding products and cutting-edge designs together with his peers. Pontus says it has been an absolute privilege to experience so many different cultures and inspirational people from all around the world. His long list of work experience includes companies such as Volkswagen Group, Renault, Kia, Volvo Cars, Ferrari, and Land Rover. Over the years, he also had a stint in various design opportunities, including Singapore Airlines New Business Class interior, Scania Next Gen truck interiors, Scuderia One Cabestan chronograph by Ferrari, watch for Tag Heuer, and the architectural development of the VW Design Studio in Berlin. In 2015, Pontus moved to the United States to serve as the Design Director for Faraday Future - responsible for the FFZERO1 and FF91 interiors as well as for creating the iconic FF logotype, and leading branding, UX/UI, CMF, Experiential Architecture, Industrial Design, Visualization, and the Movie teams. He was also responsible for the interior of the LeSee concept car. In 2017, Pontus took on a new challenge to establish GAC’s first international design studio and elevate the design and brand of GAC for the next generation and beyond, under the guidance of GAC VP of Design, Fan Zhang. He has overseen the development of award-winning concept cars such as the ENTRANZE, the EN0.146, and the ENPULSE. In addition, the team at GAC Advanced Design Los Angeles, under Pontus’s direction, has been a formidable member of GAC’s global design network, influencing GAC Design with visionary design strategies, design process as well as many production vehicle proposals. Pontus is currently the Executive Design Director for GAC Advanced Design Los Angeles and also serves as the Technical Director for GAC R&D in China. Pontus does not distinguish between work and play, and says everything is interlinked – outside of his daily duties, he is a passionate cook and a contemporary artist and often blurs the boundaries between his professional and personal life. “Because creativity has no boundaries.”

David graduated from College for Creative Studies in 1990 with a degree in Transportation Design. From there, he joined General Motors Design, where he served in several leadership positions- including Executive Director of Asia-Pacific Design and Executive Director of Interior Design for North America. While in Asia, David led the teams responsible for Chevrolet’s global fuel-efficient vehicles, including the Spark, Sonic, and Cruze. Upon return, he helped elevate Chevrolet, Buick, and Cadillac’s interiors to world-class executions, including the material choices, brand strategy, and infotainment and HMI design. He founded Pocketsquare Design in 2013 to address opportunities which improve vehicles and driving using UX design. In 2017, David joined new Vietnamese Electric Vehicle start-up Vinfast, where he is responsible for the design of its portfolio of electric cars, SUVs, city buses, and scooters.

Todd – the original ‘Farmboy’ – was raised on his family’s 6th generation farming and ranching homestead in Red Deer, Alberta. A Bachelor of Fine Arts student by day and hardworking farmhand by night, Todd started this eponymous company with pursuits to change lives with art by making art more accessible to others outside of gallery walls. Todd has received a number of accolades and industry recognition including on Top 40 Under 40 lists, sitting on Boards of art organizations across Canada, and exploring the future of art as CoFounder to ethos multiverse, an NFT platform that simplifies and facilitates rich experiences for brands. Todd serves as Farmboy's CEO, leading the vision and future direction for the company and contributing to the high-level strategy for Farmboy's robust client list including the global advisory work for Ford Motor Company and driving relationships with some of the world's top hospitality brands.

David Muyres is an experienced innovation and product development leader with a passion for creatively solving new mobility challenges. He has held functional and executive management positions in Europe, Asia and North America across the automotive industry. In addition to his broad corporate experience, he has also held leadership positions in academia, started non-profits, and partnered in a consulting office in Washington, DC. David Muyres is currently the Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder of Streetscope, a start-up focused on safety in the new mobility world. Previously he was responsible for Global Product Innovation, Consumer Research and Advanced Technology teams at Yanfeng Automotive, a Director at the Global Corporate Innovation Center at Johnson Controls in Milwaukee, WI and the Vice President, Educational Initiatives, for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. In December 2008, Mr. Muyres was asked to provide testimony on the future of the automotive industry to Rep. Ed Markey’s House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming in Washington, DC.

David Woodhouse is Vice President, Nissan Design America (NDA), responsible for leading all Nissan and Infiniti design activities in North America since 2019. David’s formative years were spent growing up around his parent’s automotive business, he attended Art School, studied Industrial Design and later graduated from the Royal College of Art in the UK, one of the world’s most influential postgraduate institutions of art and design. His automotive experience extends 30 years, across four employers in locations from Coventry and London UK, to Munich, Detroit and California. In addition to Nissan and Infiniti, David’s work spans nearly 20 brands, including - Lincoln, Ford, Cadillac, Mini, Range Rover and BMW. David is an award-winning designer with expertise in total vehicle concept innovation, brand, strategy and team building, and a great passion for automotive design.

Born in Coventry, England, Robin Page started his career as a Design Engineer Apprentice at Jaguar Cars Ltd. He studied both engineering and fine art and then completed a BA (hons) degree in Transport Design in order to fulfill his boyhood dream to be a car designer. In 1995 he started work at Rolls-Royce and Bentley as a designer mainly creating one-off designs for individual wealthy costumers around the world. After the takeover of Bentley by the VW Group in 1998, Mr. Page competed for the interior of the new Continental GT and won the design. By 2001 he had shown his talent as a designer and was promoted to Head of Interior Design for Bentley. He then penned the design of the Continental GTC, Flying Spur and the interior for the State Limousine for Queen Elizabeth II. Mr. Page design managed the interiors for the Bentley Mulsanne range and the 2nd generation Continental range. With the success of the design of the new Bentley Flying Spur, he was asked by VW group to work on a future Bugatti Interiors (2011-2012). In 2013 Mr. Page accepted a new challenge offered to him by Volvo Cars Corporation to help fulfil their future vision of the company to achieve a more premium feel in their interior design. He led the interior design team in the creation of the award winning trio of concept cars and the final creation of the New 90 cluster, 60 cluster and new XC40, which have already symbolized a large step forward for a more premium feel for the future range of Volvo interiors. In 2015, he received the Interior designer of the year award as a symbol of his success of the new design work for Volvo. In 2017, Mr Page was promoted to Head of Volvo design to lead the team to create the next generation of Volvo cars and support the Polestar range. Since that promotion he has introduced the future vision of the full autonomous 360c Concept, model year updates for the full Volvo range and an introduction of the XC40 full electric car, aswell as creating the next generation of cars yet to be unveiled.

Global Director of Exteriors at Magna, Larry Erickson has more than 25 years of experience in production car design, working on a broad range of vehicles from early advanced designs to final production releases. A graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Erickson began his career at General Motors as an exterior and interior designer. He joined Ford Motor Company in 1999 as a chief designer in Europe and North America, working on a number of programmes, including the 2005 Mustang. Erickson chaired the Transportation Department at the College for Creative Studies (CCS) from 2008 to 2011 and was Design Director at Rivian Automotive prior to joining Magna Exteriors in 2017.