Responsible for leading the team to develop designs for Volvo interiors globally, Lisa has held the position Head of Interior Design since 2020, In her previous role as Director Interior Program Design Lisa developed designs on the next generation SPA 2 platform. Prior to that she was Design Manger, leading the Interior design of Polstar 2 EV and the Volvo V60 and S60. She moved to Volvo Cars in Sweden with her family in 2014 from Bentley Motors, where she was an interior designer creating proposals and developing designs for Mulsanne, Continental GT, Flying Spur and special Mulliner projects. She also created proposals for Bugatti. Her success at Bentley saw her promoted to the role of Senior interior Designer. Prior to her time at Bentley Lisa worked at Jaguar and Land Rover as a computer design modeller, she joined the company in 2004 on a graduate scheme after gaining a first class maters degree at Coventry University.

An Automotive Design Leader with over 23 years’ experience working in vehicle design and graduate from Coventry University, UK. Carl has worked for multiple transportation brands across automotive, commercial, motorcycle and aircraft sectors. Today, he is the European Advanced Design Director for SAIC MOTOR, charged with leading an international team of creative designers at the SAIC DESIGN ADVANCED Studio in central London, UK. During his time at SAIC Carl has performed multiple roles including Interior Designer, Exterior Designer, Design Manager, Studio Chief, Advanced and Innovation Chief on many production and concept programmes. Key projects include Interior Designer of MG Zero Concept, Exterior Designer of MG5 and Concept 5 Showcar, Design Manager of MG GS, Chief Designer of MG CS Concept and MG HS. Since moving his focus to the London Design Studio, he has led his team to create concept cars such as ROEWE Vision-I and MG Cyberster as well as the next generation ROEWE RX5. His previous experiences include computer games design and art, rail, aircraft and motorcycles. Carl is a personable, passionate and strategic leader, focussed on pushing his creative team to explore and realise new ideas.

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.”

Konzepthaus group - an innovation consultancy that specialises in business transformation and finding the best pathways and people to fulfill their partners‘ visions through design & technological leaps. With over eight years of experience within the mobility design sector, Martin is positioned as an authority and design consultant who likes to challenge existing norms to create new ways of thinking about the design process. Highly networked with all leading global OEMs, Martin stays at the forefront of innovation helping to partner and drive new approaches throughout the industry. He works hard to elevate and innovate the industry, through his blogs, podcasts, community building events like Pistons & Pretzels and delivering new tools, such as Pathfinder to support new, upcoming designers into the industry. He’s also an avid Bayern München supporter, Aston Martin enthusiast and loves discovering the world.

Kripa’s love for all things mechanical; for machines, for materials and processes and the art of making it exemplary and inspiring has never ended. She completed her Mechanical Engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani). A class project for Toyota in the final semester during her Master of Design Programme at IIT Bombay got her interested in automotive design and progressed into a career choice at Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. Kripa started her career in 1997 as an interior designer. In 2005, she was appointed as Head of Design and in that role she designed the popular Mahindra XUV 500 SUV. Kripa was promoted to the role of Chief Designer in 2015 after which she recreated iconic award winning designs for three products - Thar, XUV 700, and Scorpio. With 25 years of expertise in working on a broad product portfolio that included SUVs, pickups, trucks, tractors, construction equipment, last mile mobility solutions she has now turned her focus on electric vehicles since joining Ola Electric in 2022. She is excited to have the opportunity for the first time to work on a motorcycle portfolio, a personal passion being a biker herself.

Professor Dale Harrow is Chair of the Intelligent Mobility Design Centre (IMDC) and Head of the Intelligent Mobility Design Programme recognised as a global centre of excellence in automotive and design education. As a former Dean of the School of Design at the RCA, he introduced new Programmes in Service Design and International Programmes in innovation design and championed multidisciplinary design methods through new curriculum development

Robin Page, British automotive designer, has 34 years of experience in the automotive industry of which he has spent over 20 years leading design teams. He is skilled in designing for high luxury brands such as Bentley, Rolls-Royce and Bugatti and more recently led Volvo Cars global design team to create an award-winning range of products. Prior to his 10 years at Volvo Cars, Robin led the Interior team at Bentley to create two generations of the Bentley Continental and Mulsanne range and the interior of the State Limousine for Queen Elizabeth II. He has now returned to Bentley to lead the team as Design Director.