Lingyi Kong is an award-winning designer, educator, and creative technologist working at the intersection of branding, storytelling, and emerging technologies. They collaborate with cultural institutions and tech startups to define strategic positioning and build future-facing brand systems. Lingyi teaches interaction and UI/UX design at Parsons, digital design at RISD, where their work explores tool-making, systems thinking, and design-led entrepreneurship. Their focus is on the roles of designers in entrepreneurship and the commercial translation of design outcomes.