Ndoto Conference Speaker List

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ndoto.con HKDate 23rd February, 2013 Phone 5125 0721

creativity. innovation. change. Where Hong Kong International Schools Black Box Theatre Email [email protected]

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Roy Horan

Founder of Innovea Ltd., was a key developer ofthe Multimedia Innovation Centre at HK PolyUs

School of Design. He specializes in enhancing and

assessing creativity/innovation potential and

achievement. Roy has conducted research into

the neuropsychology of creative thinking and is

published in the Encyclopedia of Creativity and the

Creativity Research Journal. He designed a unique

system for measuring creativity, based on the

concept of creative momentum. His neuroscientific

work on creative contemplation indicates that

complex creative problems are solved in a relaxed,

alert mental environment similar to meditation. Roy

developed new meditation techniques which

support creat ive endeavor through the

transcendence and integration of information.

Prior to the PolyU, Roy worked, for 20 years, in

Hong Kongs film/video/ television industries. He

has acted in both Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee

movies. In 2010, he was a Key-Speaker at the

TEDx Pearl River Delta Conference on THE

HEART OF CREATIVITY.

Stephen Chung

Secrettourhk

Stephen Chung graduated from the Chinese University

of Hong Kong, majoring in Journalism. During university,

he has been on exchange to Finland where he aroused

the keen interest of traveling and meeting new people.

Before starting up the organization, he worked in

advertising agencies. Their vocational background

fosters his new ideas generated towards tourism, which

brings clashes to this conventional industry.

Secret Tour HK

Secrettourhk was founded in 2011, based in Hong

Kong. It is an innovative and alternative organization,

which offers various tours or events to individuals,

schools, companies, and organizations. Target

participants include both locals and expats. The

services offered are aimed at showing secret spots and

hidden stories of Hong Kong, hoping to display

something non-stereotypical and essential of the

dwellers livelihood. Moreover, interactions between

people are especially highlighted as it is hoped to evoke

emotions for the city eventually.

Jami Gong

TakeOut Comedy

Founder of TakeOut Comedy and The TakeOut ComedyClub Hong Kong. From New York City, he has performedall over the USA and has appeared on Late Night withConan OBrien. After two years of research, he took theleap of faith and moved to HK to open The TakeOutComedy Club HK, The FIRST Fulltime Comedy Club in

Asia, where there are regular English and Chinesestandup comedy shows, Improv shows with PeoplesLiberation Improv (HKs ONLY regular performing Improv

Troupe), and regularly flies in professional Americancomedians.

Jami also conducts Standup Comedy workshops anddoes corporate training using standup comedy. Heproduces all the TakeOut Comedy events includingThe

Annual Hong Kong International Comedy Festival everyOctober.

Jami says its amazing to hit an untapped market, tocreate a whole new comedy scene from scratch and todiscover new talent bringing more laughter to HK andbeyond!
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Dr. Marty Schmidt and Mike Kersten

HKIS teachers Marty Schmidt and MikeKersten will take you behind the scenes to

understand the unique web of teacher and

student interactions with local issues andglobal connections that come together to

form the curriculum of Humanities I in

Action, a course which aims to developsocial conscience in students. Using

footage and interviews shot during the

course, this video will show the genesis,

planning, and implementation of innovativelessons that have inspired many students

in the course.

Anita Lam and Margaret LokWoof

Chiengora is a type of wool made out ofdog hair first used many centuries ago bythe Europeans and the Mayans. Socialenterprise Woof aims to raise humancompassion for and change attitudestowards animals through the sales ofchiengora accessories. Also, through itsWooferine canine animal welfare educationalprojects, Woof hopes to raise awarenessamong the public of the plight of animals aswell as the need to respect all life.

Woof! was founded by PolyU MDesStrategies student Anita Lam and graduateMargaret Lok. The Woof project took theHKSEC 2011 Championship as well as theAward for Best presentation.

Howard McCrary

Howard McCrary is a Grammy Nominee, recipient of The

ASCAP Duke Ellington Award, has recorded and worked with

such artist as Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, Nina Simone,

Ringo Starr, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan, and Julio Iglesias to

mention a few. He has also appeared in such movies as Tom

Hanks Lady Killers and composed and performed with Jose

Carreras and The Beijing Orchestra for China's Green Peace,

Hear My Plea.

He has also worked with Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer

on the film The Power Of One, and done production work with

teen idol Jennifer Love Hewitt, soul diva Sandra St. Victor,

gospel great Helen Baylor and successful R&B group ChangingFaces. As well as composed the first song in the world to be

sung by one million VStar Children called Change The World. He

has also performed consecutively for the past three years for the

United Nations Vesak World Peace Day from Hanoi, Vietnam toSydney, Australia. Along with his World Peace For Life Partner

Ms. Ivy Chan, they hope to inspire others through music and

sharing the many benefits of meditation on a daily basis and

how it can produce inner peace which can lead ultimately to

World Peace. He has now made his home in Hong Kong.
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Mike Hill and Jay Forster

Clockenflap

Jay Forster

As co-founder of Clockenflap Music & Arts Festival,

Jay curates the visual art installations and directs the

festival branding. In its sixth year, As the first annual

event at the West Kowloon Cultural District,

Clockenflap is the largest event of its kind in Hong

Kong, with 20,000 people attending in 2012. Robot

Magazine, founded by Jay, hit the streets of Hong

Kong in 2004 - providing a much needed dose of

alternative urban insight and off the wall fashion

photography - shot and directed by Jay. In responseto the URAs outdated plan to redevelop Hong

Kongs oldest outdoor street market, situated at

Graham Street and Peel Street, Jay conceived and

produced High&Dry, an exhibition celebrating this

significant aspect of Hong Kongs heritage. With

over 50 local artists taking part, the exhibition

attracted over 4,000 visitors over a two-month

period.

Jay is also a working artist.

Kacey Wong

Kacey Wong experimental art project investigates the poeticsof space between men and their living environment. Kaceywas born in Hong Kong in 1970. He was the winner of BestArtist Award in 2010, Rising Artist Award and OutstandingArts Education Award given by the Hong Kong ArtsDevelopment Council in 2003. Kacey studied architecture inCornell University and received his Master of Fine Arts degreefrom Chelsea School of Art and Design and Doctor of FineArts Degree from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Heis now an Assistant Professor at The Hong Kong PolytechnicUniversitys Environment and Interior Design Discipline. Kaceycurated many art exhibitions exploring issues of space andcity: Home (1999), Personal Skyscraper (2000), City Space

(2001), & Drift City (2001, 2002, 2010) and exhibited bothlocal and internationally.

Kacey started his Drift City photo series since year 2000,dressing up as a skyscraper traveling from cities to cities insearch for utopia and published the photo book Drift City 10Years (2010). His mobile home tricycle project WanderingHomes was selected to be feature at the 2008 VeniceArchitectural Biennale and his floating house PaddlingHome that performed on Victoria Harbour was the starfeature in 2010s Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale ofUrbanism/Architecture exhibition.

Kris Sawatzky

Party With A Purpose

Party With A Purpose, a non-profit society for all

conscious-minded party animals, was created inHong Kong, April 2011, to organize nightlife party

fundraisers that help stimulate awareness for non-

profit ocean conservation charities.

Founder and part-time DJ/Producer, Kris Sawatzky,

developed the concept from his love of the oceans

and of house music. "The inspiration came after

watching the documentaries The Cove, Sharkwater

and The End of The Line... I thought how cool it

would be to throw a fundraiser party where

everything from the venue through to the website is

provided by local businesses and artists who believe

that protecting ocean ecology is not just a

conservation issue, but a humanitarian one as well."

Party With A Purpose presented Oceans 12, its

second annual ocean awareness fundraiser event

June this year, shedding light on the plastic vortex,

unsustainable fishing, and cetacean slaughter.


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Nury Vittachi

When novelist Nury Vittachi was born onthe island of Ceylon in 1958, civil warbroke out. He claims the two facts arenot connected. But people who knowhim are not so sure. Nury is famed forstirring up trouble, and this led him tobecome one of Asias best known jour-nalists. He writes between four and sixcolumns a week, often provocative andfunny, printed in many countries. His

MrJam.org website is popular region-wide. He has written many books formajor publishers, which are available inmany languages around the world. Hislatest book, The Curious Diary of MrJam, relates his eye-opening experi-ences in travelling around Asia trying tomake people laugh.

Charlotte and Robin HwangFoodlink

Charlotte Hwang:Charlotte returned to Hong Kong from Boston University in 2008and started thinking of ways to help her mother with Foodlink Foun-dation, which has been dormant since the SARS epidemic in 2002.She started reheating leftover foods from banquets and buffets athome and delivering them door to door. Many improvements havehappened since, and she now has the job of Fundraising Director,helping Foodlink grow in its name, raise funding for our staff anddaily operations, and raise awareness of the food waste situation inHong Kong. At the same time Charlotte runs a jewelry and accesso-ries store based out of Central called The9thMuse, featuring localand international brands, some with proceeds that benefit Foodlink,WWF and self-sustainable communities in Colombia.

Robin Hwang:Robin joined Foodlink Foundation Limited in 2010. As ExecutiveDirector, she is responsible for overseeing the strategic mission andgrowth of Foodlink as well as seeking the support of sponsors anddonors in order to uphold Foodlink's charitable objectives. Asidefrom volunteering at Foodlink Foundation, Robin works in the realestate market after having received her B.A. from Williams Collegeand her M.Sc. in Real Estate Investment and Finance from The Uni-versity of Hong Kong.

Bobsy Gaia

Mana!Born Beirut, Lebanon. Social eco-entrepreneur,yogi, campaigner and public speakerbottomline is this: to be living a vocation that is sociallyresponsible, ecologically conscious and of serv-ice to humanity & the planet. Pioneering sociallyresponsible business in Hong Kong since 1992.Founded Gaia Eco fashion-design company1993...co-founded Able Charity 1994 ...co-founded the Bookworm Caf 1997...on goingplan t ing of the Lamma Forest s ince1997. . .co-founded Posi t ive News HK2004...co-founded Life Caf 2004...founder

Save the Human! Dont eat the planet! Cam-paign 2008. Founder of Mana! Fast Slow Food2012...currently working towards creating Baby-lon! The Gathering of the Tribe - An inspiredcaf. Lounge & community...Motto: Live thechange that is already happening in the worldtoday.

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