Talks
Talks and lectures
Ling Fan is a frequent speaker at universities, forums and platforms on design, AI and agentic transformation. Recurring topics:
- Design AI: The Computability of Creativity
- Agentic Transformation for Business
- Subjective World Model: Simulating People's Preferences and Decisions
If you are interested in inviting Ling to speak, please contact lfan@tongji.edu.cn.
| 2026 | Invited speaker, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing Token Economy |
| 2026 | Invited speaker, Shanghai New York University, Shanghai The Subjective World Model |
| 2026 | Invited speaker, SuperAI, Singapore The Subjective World Model Watch ↗ |
| 2025 | L. C. Dillenback Lecture, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Design AI 2.0 Watch ↗ |
| 2025 | Livestream course, Hundun Academy (in Chinese) How to Make AI Work Quietly, Like a Team of Minions Course summary ↗ |
| 2024 | Panelist, Business of Design Week (BODW), Hong Kong Design Intelligence in Tech Ecosystems |
| 2024 | Keynote, D20 Global Design Deans Summit, Hangzhou Research and Practice in Design AI |
| 2024 | Brown University, Providence, RI The Computability of Design |
| 2024 | China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai Best Practices in AI and Business Innovation |
| 2023 | Opening keynote, AIGC Industry Forum, World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Shanghai AI and Industrial Imagination |
| 2023 | Keynote, Hong Kong Polytechnic University The Computability of Design and Possibilities of Generative Design Watch ↗ |
| 2023 | Course, Hundun Academy (in Chinese) Creativity Has Its Own Moore's Law Course summary ↗ |
| 2023 | Video interview, bilibili (in Chinese) Dialogue with Founder Watch ↗ |
| 2020 | Video interview, Jiemian (in Chinese) Never Let a Single Boundary Define You Watch ↗ |
| 2019 | Panel, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA AI and Innovation |
| 2019 | Keynote, X Design Conference, Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston, MA Design and AI |
| 2018 | Speaker, World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, Switzerland Digitalization and Consumer Technology |
| 2018 | Panelist, Gaidar Forum, Moscow, Russia Enterprise Digitalization and Intelligence |
| 2017 | Keynote, The Economist Innovation Summit The Era of Digital and Content Business |
| 2017 | Panelist, Boao Forum for Asia, Boao, China Design: More Than Aesthetics |
| 2017 | Conference of the Institute of Network Society, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (in Chinese) Design Creativity and Machine Intelligence Watch ↗ |
| 2016 | Keynote, Ant International Forum The Politics of Human-Machine Interaction |
| 2015 | TEDx Ningbo, China Can the Internet Rebuild Trust? |
| 2015 | Lecture, University of California, Los Angeles, CA The Formal Logic of Chinese Cities |
| 2014 | Keynote, Design Matters Conference, San Francisco, CA Designing Trust |
| 2014 | Lecture, China GSD Lecture Series, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Future in the Past |
| 2013 | Lecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Possibilities of Contemporary Architectural Practice |
| 2013 | Lecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA The Political Formation of Contemporary Chinese Urban Form |
| 2013 | Lecture, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ The Political Economy of Design Technology |
| 2013 | Panel chair, Princeton-Fung Global Forum The Future of the City |
| 2012 | Lecture, China GSD Lecture Series, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Architecture for the Multitude |
| 2012 | Watershed: 21st-Century Water Territories symposium, University of California, Los Angeles, CA A Case to Provide Clean Water in West China |
| 2012 | Panel co-chair, Asia Business Conference, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA Emerging Megacities and Urbanization |
| 2010 | Soft Energy workshop, Princeton Center for Architecture, Urbanism, and Infrastructure, Shanghai Soft Design Strategy to Increase Soft Power |
| 2010 | Emerging Architectural Practices and the City in Asia symposium, Columbia University GSAPP Studio-X Design for Impact |
| 2010 | Hard, Soft, Fast, Slow: Mobility in 21st-Century Cities symposium, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ Design for Impact |
| 2010 | Research in Flux symposium, CAFA Art Museum and Columbia University, Beijing Fat Flat Float: Three Social Tactics |
| 2010 | Winter School Lecture Series, Architectural Association School of Architecture, Beijing Being Beijing |
| 2008 | Keynote, Business of Design Week (BODW), Hong Kong Opportunities in Mixed Reality |