Following the resounding success of the CAF Summit in Ditchley Park, the Foundation created a complementary summit two years later in Hangzhou, China. Like its predecessor, this exclusive event, held in May 2010, was also privately held and attended by influential artists, academics, critics and curators from all over the world. Some of the most prominent figures at the event were:

• Hou Hanru, an international art curator and critic who was then the Director of Exhibitions, Public Programming and Museum Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. He is now the artistic director of MAXXI – the National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome.
• Michael Govan, a prolific curator who runs LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) and was previously the deputy director of The Guggenheim.
• Alfred Pacquement, an art historian and museum curator who is one of the most influential players in the Contemporary and modern art worlds. At the time of the CAF Summit, he was the director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne department of the Pompidou in Paris. He is currently an independent curator and cultural consultant.
• Professor Gao Shiming, an academic from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. He is now President of China Academy of Art where he is also founding chair of the first curatorial programme in China.
• The late Joseph Backstein, founder of Moscow Biennale who was widely regarded as the voice of Russian Contemporary art.
• Zhang Peili, the father of video art in China, who is dean of New Media department at China Academy of Hangzhou.
• Li Lei, an abstractionist artist who was the then director of Shanghai Art Museum and a professor at Tongji University. He is an expert on Chinese Abstract art.
• Maxwell K. (Mike) Hearn, the Douglas Dillon Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art who has taught seminars on Chinese painting at Yale, Princeton, Columbia and the New York Institute of Fine Arts.
• Tomas Vlcek, director of the collection of Modern and Contemporary art at Czech National Gallery in Prague.
• Chris Dercon, a Belgian museum veteran who was then at the Haus Der Kunst in Munich. He was previously a director of Tate Modern in London. He left his role as president of the Grand Palais in Paris and is currently the managing director of the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris.
• Joe Thompson, who was the founding director of MASS MoCA (Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Arts) and is currently special counsel to its Board of Trustees.
• Gary Tinterow, the former Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is now director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.