Born in Istanbul in 1969. Following his education at Istanbul Saint Michel High School, he graduated from the Mimar Sinan University Faculty of Architecture in 1992. He founded ‘Erginoğlu&Çalışlar Architects’ in 1993, together with Kerem Erginoğlu. He has been a jury member in Uludağ University, Istanbul Technical University, and Yıldız Technical University and has also been a guest lecturer at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul Technical University, and Yıldız Technical University. He is a member of the Chamber of Architects and Istanbul Architects Association. His projects and articles have been published in various architectural magazines.

Consultant and director of Degw Italia, Alessandro Adamo breathes life into the new ways of experiencing the office, by designing environments that aspire to the values of mobility, informal elegance and the need to share, which characterise the new spirit of the contemporary workplace. In 1999, Alessandro became manager of the DEGW Consultancy Area for Italy. After a short period of 2 years at AEDES, in January 2009 he returned to DEGW, becoming director of DEGW Italia. In 2015, at the end of the process designed to integrate DEGW into the Lombardini22 Group, which had been transformed into a joint stock company, he became a partner of the Group, taking the helm of the Business Unit dedicated to the workplace. Alessandro has clearly dedicated his career to managing change in various companies throughout Italy, actively experiencing all the different changes of scenery which have occurred in the last, crucial, three decades of evolution in the world of employment. Today Alessandro is one of the top experts in the field of international consultancy specialised in the integrated design of working environments.

Alessandro Mezzalira is FITT Group’s chairman. He boasts a ten-year experience as CEO of his family’s company Faraplan. When he was only 33- in 2007- he took control of the group founded by his father Rinaldo in 1969. In 2015, he adopted a vision aiming to consolidate the FITT brand and bring together under one name and identity all the companies of the group located in Europe. He is passionate and brilliant. He is also aware of the companies increasing social and environmental responsibility. He leads the main European pipes manufacturer by promoting the culture of collaboration and endless innovation. He came up with the internationalization projects on the American and Chinese markets. He also decided to add sustainability to the main values of the company vision. “the goal we have to achieve is this: contributing to make the world a better place for us and future generations”.   

Audun Opdal joined 3XN in 2008 upon graduating from the Aarhus School of Architecture, becoming Partner in 2015, and Senior Partner in 2018. Over the years, Audun has been an integral member of the Competition Department and contributes to the design development, detailed functionality, flow, conceptual analysis and presentation of large-scale competition projects. His work exemplifies the 3XN belief that Architecture Shapes Behaviour, and this is very much the red-thread throughout which has resulted in winning several international design competitions, including Circular Quay Tower in Sydney and the Royal Arena in Copenhagen.  His ability to work cross-culturally on highly complex projects has been a great part of 3XN’s success on International markets, particularly in North America and Australia. Audun is leading two projects on Toronto’s waterfront in Canada, as well as the world’s largest Fish Market on Blackwattle Bay in Sydney, Australia. At the moment, Audun is heading the design of a new tower scheme in Broadgate.

Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects and is leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in April 2016. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988, has been a co-author on most projects and was seminal in developing Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 400 strong global architecture and design brand. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association where he continues to teach. He is lecturing worldwide and recently held the John Portman Chair in Architecture at Harvard’s GSD. Over the last 20 years he has contributed over 100 articles to architectural journals and anthologies. In 2008 he coined the phrase Parametricism and has since published a series of manifestos promoting Parametricism as the new epochal style for the 21st century. In 2010/2012 he published his two-volume theoretical opus magnum “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”. He recently guest-edited the magazine AD - Parametricism 2.0 – setting architecture’s agenda for the 21st Century with a new emphasis on the societal relevance of parametricism.