A leading start-up, design and IT conference with an innovative approach was held in Beijing on Sunday.

IT specialists, social entrepreneurs and various designers mingled with hundreds of participants at the BarCamp conference.

BarCamp is an international, user-generated conference featuring short presentations, open discussions and demos by people from a diverse range of industries, backgrounds and walks of life. BarCamp Beijing caters to a network of start-ups, designers and technical specialists, as cutting-edge ideas are discussed.

The conference, the fourth in Beijing, was held at Tower 1 of Microsoft Asia Pacific R&C Group.

Speakers used slides, audio, video, or just addressed the crowd and chatted informally about the latest breakthroughs..

"The goal is to foster discussion and engagement between presenter and participants, to share and challenge different perspectives and ideas," one participant said.