From May 11-14, 2024 Zengqi Xie (Guangzhou) and Frank Würthner (Würzburg) organized the International Symposium on Supramolecular Dye and Materials Chemistry 2024 (ISSDMC 2024) at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou. At this occasion 25 former members of the Würthner group working in Asia and Europe presented research from their laboratories in the fields of synthetic organic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry and functional materials. We are grateful to Zengqi Xie and his team for their hospitality.