Jens Martin Skibsted, Global Partner at Manyone, is a multiple award-winning designer, entrepreneur, and design philosopher. Best known for his bike designs for Biomega, and collaborations with design superstars such as Marc Newson and Bjarke Ingels. He is the founder of Biomega and has helped found several design consultancies including Skibsted Ideation, KiBiSi, and Manyone. His designs live in the collections at the MoMA, Le Cnap, Designmuseum Danmark, SFMOMA, etc. He is on the board of the Danfoss Foundation, Biomega and Manyone. He is formerly the Chairman of the Danish Design Council, the Vice Chair of World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation and Co-Chair of World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Entrepreneurship. Jens Martin is also a Young Global Leader alumnus who has spoken at Davos, DLD, TED, and more. He is an expert blogger and has written for the Huffington Post, Harvard Business Review, Forbes and Fast Company.

Juergen Mayer H., born in 1965, is a German architect and artist. He studied at Stuttgart University, The Cooper Union and Princeton University. His work has been published and exhibited worldwide in museums and biennales and is part of numerous collections including MoMA New York, SF MoMA, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Vitra Design Museum, Kunstbibliothek Berlin, State of Berlin Museum Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Berlinische Galerie State Museum of Berlin, Architecture Museum of TU Munich, Architecture Museum Berlin as well as numerous private collections.

Juergen Mayer H. founded his office in 1996. Andre Santer and Hans Schneider joined as partners in 2014. J. MAYER H. and Partners is an international award-winning architecture office with projects at the intersection of architecture, communication, and new technology. It has a wide array of completed national and international projects and has been honored with many international awards, i.e. the Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction, designer of the year 2020 Sao Paulo Design Week and the Audi Urban Future Award.

The most prominent project is the internationally renowned Metropol Parasol, the re-design of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville, Spain with its expansive sculptural wooden construction.

A large number of projects are currently being realized, such as the revitalization and expansion of an Innovation Campus in Berlin Potsdam, Elements, a mixed-use iconic headquarters project on the banks of the Spree River in Berlin, the Cultural Center for a new urban development in Munich and the 5-Zero Cheongdam Tower in Seoul.