Kim HUYNH-KIEU
Kim HUYNH-KIEU

Kim is a multi-potential Designer and an entrepreneur. He is coming from an eclectic academic background combining sciences, arts, economics, marketing and… hacker spaces where he fell in love with Design and software engineering in the 2000’s. He plays by many roles: recently leading Design for hydrogen infrastructures at Hopium, a french hydrogen vehicule startup, he has also co-founded the NGO OneHome with the mathematician and novelist Jean-Pierre Goux, which produces actual real Earth videos from NASA material, promoting planetary consciousness by bringing the Overview Effect to the greatest number. In 2020, he created Good Galaxy, a company designing new kind of tools for regenerative agriculture. From time to time, he is also teaching Design to school kids, engineering students, institutionals and business schools students (Telecom Paristech, Polytechnique Paris Institute, HEC, the Institute of Desirable Futures, Sup de Pub…). During his years at Air Liquide, Kim grew a taste for planetary challenges, pushing Design into the strategy of a non-Design compliant global industrial company. He started with innovation projects to disrupt the group itself, then embraced broader topics such as air quality, industry 4.0, the future of agriculture, digitalization of healthcare, hydrogen mobility, the future of cities in partnership with Vinci group and so on… His progress inside Air Liquide group, from designing at the i-Lab to the co-founding of the Digital Factory, led him to turn into an active advocate of Design for desirable futures, advising industrial leaders and entrepreneurs.