DS Lecture | Design Reborn

Time：Octobor 15, 2026 (Thursday)
Location：Lecture hall, 11th FL Zhiyuan C1
Working Language：Chinese

Speaker：
Guang Yang (Qingyun)
Vice President, Alibaba Group Chairman, Alibaba Design Committee

Abstract：

• The AI Odyssey: Some Facts

• Beyond Anxiety and Excitement, How Can We Identify AI-Native Design Needs

• Designer Growth Across Cycles

Speaker Biography：

China's first-generation e-commerce designers, China's Ten Outstanding Young Designers, and selected for the WDCC World Design Top 100 Think Tank.

Yang joined Alibaba in 2005. With more than 20 years of experience in digital design and management, he has led design teams serving tens of millions of merchants and hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. His work focuses on frontier exploration and best practices in experience design, intelligent design, and creative design, continuously supporting platform growth and creating business value through initiatives including Juhuasuan, Tmall Double 11, Mobile Taobao, and Luban AI.

He has led and championed multiple industry-level innovations, including Alibaba PuHuiTi, the Design for Good platform, U Design Week, and the D20 Global Design Deans Summit, fostering the design ecosystem and advancing the digital transformation of China's design.