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IMCHK Asia Pacific Conference & ICMCI Asia Pacific Hub Meeting 2025
IMCHK ASIA PACIFIC 2025
Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speakers
IMCHK ASIA PACIFIC 2025
Proud to bring inspirational speakers from across the globe
Prof. Dave Snowden
Director & Founder - The Cynefin Centre
Chief Scientific Officer - The Cynefin Company
Dave Snowden is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Co. and Director of the Cynefin Centre for Applied Complexity. His international work covers government and industry, looking at complex strategic, organisational, and decision-making issues. He has pioneered a science-based approach, drawing on anthropology, the cognitive sciences, and complex adaptive systems theory. This approach, known as naturalising sense-making, has been acknowledged as one of five distinct schools of sense-making.
He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on various subjects and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style. He is a passionate advocate for recognising the value of human capabilities in decision-making, particularly the differences between the embodied, extended, and enacted capabilities of human communities to make sense of the world and the inference models used by machine processing.
He is the principal author of a joint publication between the Cynefin Centre and the Future Systems Directorate of the European Union: Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis - a field guide for decision-makers. A review by Durham University identified him as one of the leaders in applying complexity science or organisations.
He is a visiting Professor at the University of Hull and has previously held similar posts at the University of Bangor, Hong Kong PolyU, Warwick, Pretoria and Stellenbosch. He held the position of senior fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore during a sabbatical period at Nanyang University.
He has created many methods and frameworks, including the Cynefin Framework. His paper with Boone on Cynefin and Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007. He also won the Academy of Management award for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He had previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge management. He is an editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in knowledge management. He was an Editor-in-chief of E:CO, one of the first journals to cover applied complexity science. In 2006, he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and, in 2007, was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research. In 2023, he received an award from Hull University for his "Outstanding Contribution to Systems Thinking".
He is the principal designer of the SenseMaker® software suite, developed initially in counter-terrorism and now actively deployed in both Government and Industry to handle issues of impact measurement, citizen engagement, attitudinal measurement, customer/employee insight, narrative-based knowledge management, strategic foresight and risk management. That work has created a radically new approach to patient engagement. The work is now developing into integrated health care, measuring the placebo effect, and creating new approaches to distributed decision-making to reduce bureaucracy and increase clinical engagement - work that has broader implications outside the health sector.
He co-led the Genoa II project in DARPA before and after 911 and was one of the principal designers of the Singapore Government’s Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning system.
Following graduation, he spent four years in international programmes for the World Council of Churches student wing. Moving into Industry, he focused on organisational design, financial management and the introduction of computer systems. He then moved on to decision support system design before entering various strategic and management roles in the software service sector. Following IBM's acquisition of Data Sciences in 1996, he moved into a research and development role and was a Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management. He then founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity. IBM selected him as one of six on-demand thinkers for a worldwide advertising campaign.
He left IBM in 2004 to create Cognitive Edge, now known as Cynefin, which integrates academic thinking with practice in organisations worldwide and operates on a network model that works with academics, governments, commercial organisations, NGOs, and independent consultants.
Keynote Speech
Navigating Uncharted Waters: Strategies for managing Sustainable Innovation in a World of Inherent Uncertainty
In a world of inherent uncertainty, in which the unimaginable becomes tomorrow’s reality, the role of consultancy in both public and private sectors is undergoing radical change. The Industrial models that drive the growth around large scale change programmes (BPR, Agile etc. etc.) lack the dynamic responsiveness required in the modern world.
We are now called on to help our clients create resilient organisations that can respond to the unknowable, and unimaginable unknowns. This presentation will use the Cynefin Framework to create an understanding of the differences between complex and complicated systems and will identify five key actions that all organisations need to make to establish resilience and sustainability.
Based on modern insights from Complexity and Cognitive Science as well as Anthropology the presentation will use the European Union’s Field Guide on Complexity (and Chaos) of which the presenter is the lead author,
Chief Scientific Officer - The Cynefin Company
Dave Snowden is the Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Co. and Director of the Cynefin Centre for Applied Complexity. His international work covers government and industry, looking at complex strategic, organisational, and decision-making issues. He has pioneered a science-based approach, drawing on anthropology, the cognitive sciences, and complex adaptive systems theory. This approach, known as naturalising sense-making, has been acknowledged as one of five distinct schools of sense-making.
He is a popular and passionate keynote speaker on various subjects and is well known for his pragmatic cynicism and iconoclastic style. He is a passionate advocate for recognising the value of human capabilities in decision-making, particularly the differences between the embodied, extended, and enacted capabilities of human communities to make sense of the world and the inference models used by machine processing.
He is the principal author of a joint publication between the Cynefin Centre and the Future Systems Directorate of the European Union: Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis - a field guide for decision-makers. A review by Durham University identified him as one of the leaders in applying complexity science or organisations.
He is a visiting Professor at the University of Hull and has previously held similar posts at the University of Bangor, Hong Kong PolyU, Warwick, Pretoria and Stellenbosch. He held the position of senior fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at Nanyang University and the Civil Service College in Singapore during a sabbatical period at Nanyang University.
He has created many methods and frameworks, including the Cynefin Framework. His paper with Boone on Cynefin and Leadership was the cover article for the Harvard Business Review in November 2007. He also won the Academy of Management award for the best practitioner paper in the same year. He had previously won a special award from the Academy for originality in his work on knowledge management. He is an editorial board member of several academic and practitioner journals in knowledge management. He was an Editor-in-chief of E:CO, one of the first journals to cover applied complexity science. In 2006, he was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence and, in 2007, was appointed to an NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research. In 2023, he received an award from Hull University for his "Outstanding Contribution to Systems Thinking".
He is the principal designer of the SenseMaker® software suite, developed initially in counter-terrorism and now actively deployed in both Government and Industry to handle issues of impact measurement, citizen engagement, attitudinal measurement, customer/employee insight, narrative-based knowledge management, strategic foresight and risk management. That work has created a radically new approach to patient engagement. The work is now developing into integrated health care, measuring the placebo effect, and creating new approaches to distributed decision-making to reduce bureaucracy and increase clinical engagement - work that has broader implications outside the health sector.
He co-led the Genoa II project in DARPA before and after 911 and was one of the principal designers of the Singapore Government’s Risk Assessment and Horizon Scanning system.
Following graduation, he spent four years in international programmes for the World Council of Churches student wing. Moving into Industry, he focused on organisational design, financial management and the introduction of computer systems. He then moved on to decision support system design before entering various strategic and management roles in the software service sector. Following IBM's acquisition of Data Sciences in 1996, he moved into a research and development role and was a Director of the Institute for Knowledge Management. He then founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity. IBM selected him as one of six on-demand thinkers for a worldwide advertising campaign.
He left IBM in 2004 to create Cognitive Edge, now known as Cynefin, which integrates academic thinking with practice in organisations worldwide and operates on a network model that works with academics, governments, commercial organisations, NGOs, and independent consultants.
Keynote Speech
Navigating Uncharted Waters: Strategies for managing Sustainable Innovation in a World of Inherent Uncertainty
In a world of inherent uncertainty, in which the unimaginable becomes tomorrow’s reality, the role of consultancy in both public and private sectors is undergoing radical change. The Industrial models that drive the growth around large scale change programmes (BPR, Agile etc. etc.) lack the dynamic responsiveness required in the modern world.
We are now called on to help our clients create resilient organisations that can respond to the unknowable, and unimaginable unknowns. This presentation will use the Cynefin Framework to create an understanding of the differences between complex and complicated systems and will identify five key actions that all organisations need to make to establish resilience and sustainability.
Based on modern insights from Complexity and Cognitive Science as well as Anthropology the presentation will use the European Union’s Field Guide on Complexity (and Chaos) of which the presenter is the lead author,
Professor Gregg Li, FCMC
Management Consultant, Astropreneur, and Comprador of NewSpace
From a summer engineering intern at Pearl Harbor in 1976 to a stint as ICMCI’s ambassador into China, when China opened its doors and invited professional management consulting as an industry in 2002, Gregg has been a bridge builder and a connector. Fixing wicked problems has been his life and forte. He’s been an Internal Consultant at American Express, an External Consultant with Coopers (aka PWC), Consulting Principal of the Management Think Tank at the University of Hong Kong, Member of the HKSAR Government Central Policy Unit, the founder of his regional consulting firm in Family Business Governance and lastly headed up the Global Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance Practice at Aon. Gregg has never turned down any 1,500-plus wicked challenges his clients wanted resolution. What he couldn’t solve alone, he would invite other professionals from ICMCI, IBM, the World Bank, Protiviti, Citibank, and IMC members to join forces. Educated as a systems engineer and governance architect, Gregg has had over four decades of professional consulting experience helping disparate parties find common grounds for mutual gains, navigate hyper-growth, and install resilient governance architectures.
Time permitting, he has shared his know-how as an Adjunct and Visiting professor at local and overseas universities, including the inquisitive ones at universities in Beijing, Bombay, Chicago, Clayton, Haidian, Helsinki, Hong hum, Manoa, Palo Alto, Shatin, and Yangpu. He has enjoyed sharing and researching esoteric subjects like International Corporate Governance, Systems Engineering, Family Business Governance, and Space Entrepreneurship. He has been proud to claim that scores of his students and mentees are now partners at leading consulting firms, global heads at MNCs and family business empires, and founders of disruptive startups (none is in jail so far). They have been co travellers on his journey of discovery, and many are now changing the world for the better. Many have joined him hitchhiking the galaxy at the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy he founded in Hong Kong, where he is a also voluntary researcher and Ambassador at the Lab for Space Research at HKU.
Gregg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (BA), HKU (MPhil), UCLA (MBA), Hawaii (MA), and Warwick University in the UK (Eng. D); and looking to graduate as a Space Global Mentor before 2030. As an “Astropreneur” and a Comprador of NewSpace, he is now connecting entrepreneurs, governments, universities, engineers, and venture capitalists to prepare their livelihood for the arrival of the NewSpace and Digital economy.
From a summer engineering intern at Pearl Harbor in 1976 to a stint as ICMCI’s ambassador into China, when China opened its doors and invited professional management consulting as an industry in 2002, Gregg has been a bridge builder and a connector. Fixing wicked problems has been his life and forte. He’s been an Internal Consultant at American Express, an External Consultant with Coopers (aka PWC), Consulting Principal of the Management Think Tank at the University of Hong Kong, Member of the HKSAR Government Central Policy Unit, the founder of his regional consulting firm in Family Business Governance and lastly headed up the Global Enterprise Risk Management and Corporate Governance Practice at Aon. Gregg has never turned down any 1,500-plus wicked challenges his clients wanted resolution. What he couldn’t solve alone, he would invite other professionals from ICMCI, IBM, the World Bank, Protiviti, Citibank, and IMC members to join forces. Educated as a systems engineer and governance architect, Gregg has had over four decades of professional consulting experience helping disparate parties find common grounds for mutual gains, navigate hyper-growth, and install resilient governance architectures.
Time permitting, he has shared his know-how as an Adjunct and Visiting professor at local and overseas universities, including the inquisitive ones at universities in Beijing, Bombay, Chicago, Clayton, Haidian, Helsinki, Hong hum, Manoa, Palo Alto, Shatin, and Yangpu. He has enjoyed sharing and researching esoteric subjects like International Corporate Governance, Systems Engineering, Family Business Governance, and Space Entrepreneurship. He has been proud to claim that scores of his students and mentees are now partners at leading consulting firms, global heads at MNCs and family business empires, and founders of disruptive startups (none is in jail so far). They have been co travellers on his journey of discovery, and many are now changing the world for the better. Many have joined him hitchhiking the galaxy at the Orion Astropreneur Space Academy he founded in Hong Kong, where he is a also voluntary researcher and Ambassador at the Lab for Space Research at HKU.
Gregg is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis (BA), HKU (MPhil), UCLA (MBA), Hawaii (MA), and Warwick University in the UK (Eng. D); and looking to graduate as a Space Global Mentor before 2030. As an “Astropreneur” and a Comprador of NewSpace, he is now connecting entrepreneurs, governments, universities, engineers, and venture capitalists to prepare their livelihood for the arrival of the NewSpace and Digital economy.
Mr. Walter Vieira
President, Marketing Advisory Services Group
Mumbai, India
Walter Vieira graduated from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, and later from L M College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad and still later, did Dip. Marketing at Bhavans College Mumbai. He was the first Management trainee selected from colleges in India, by Glaxo, in 1961. He later worked with Warner Hindustan and Boots Pharma, India as Head of Marketing, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He started the first Marketing Consulting company - Marketing Advisory Services (MAS) Group in India in 1975 and never looked back until he closed operations in 2015. MAS Group operated in India, Africa and the Far East.
Walter was visiting professor in Marketing for many years in India, USA (Kellogg, Cornell, Drexel etc); wrote a column on Marketing in BusinessWorld for 20 years and later, for long periods in Times of India and other media; and featured on the list of Speakers Academy in UK.
He was the first President of Institute of Management Consultants of India and later, the first Asian elected Chairman of the 45-nation world apex body ICMCI. He now spends time writing more books (has published 16 already) and is active in NGOs. Presently Chairman, Consumer Education and Research Society, Ahmedabad. Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award for Consulting (2005) and for Marketing (2009).
Mumbai, India
Walter Vieira graduated from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, and later from L M College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad and still later, did Dip. Marketing at Bhavans College Mumbai. He was the first Management trainee selected from colleges in India, by Glaxo, in 1961. He later worked with Warner Hindustan and Boots Pharma, India as Head of Marketing, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He started the first Marketing Consulting company - Marketing Advisory Services (MAS) Group in India in 1975 and never looked back until he closed operations in 2015. MAS Group operated in India, Africa and the Far East.
Walter was visiting professor in Marketing for many years in India, USA (Kellogg, Cornell, Drexel etc); wrote a column on Marketing in BusinessWorld for 20 years and later, for long periods in Times of India and other media; and featured on the list of Speakers Academy in UK.
He was the first President of Institute of Management Consultants of India and later, the first Asian elected Chairman of the 45-nation world apex body ICMCI. He now spends time writing more books (has published 16 already) and is active in NGOs. Presently Chairman, Consumer Education and Research Society, Ahmedabad. Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award for Consulting (2005) and for Marketing (2009).
Prof. Simon Ho
President
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Prof. Simon S.M. HO is President of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong since 2014. He is a certified public accountant in the UK, Australia and Canada. Previously, he was Vice Rector (Academic Affairs) of the University of Macau, Dean of the School of Business and Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance of the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Director of the School of Accountancy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Currently he is Chairman of the Citizen Advisory Committee on Community Relations and Member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong. He is Editor of the Asian Journal of Business Ethics (by Springer) and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Business Ethics (by Springer).
In recognition of his contribution to business ethics and stakeholder-based corporate governance, he was the first Chinese awarded the Faculty Pioneer Award (described as Oscar of the business school world by the Financial Times) by the Aspen Institute, USA. He was elected as one of the
100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere, one of the world's most recognized bodies in business ethics and anti-corruption. In recognition of his distinguished contribution to the CSR of Chinese family businesses, he was granted the Chinese Family Business Research Pioneer Award by the China Private Enterprise Economic Research Association, China.
He was granted three times the sectional Best Paper Award by the Annual Meetings of American Accounting Association. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Gordon College, U.S.A. His co-authored book (with P.K. Ip) Founders’ Values and Corporate Culture Construction: Ho Sin Hang and Hang Seng Bank’s Early Culture was granted the “Publishing Award” by the Hong Kong Publishing Professionals Society in 2021. In 2021, he was conferred the Outstanding Achievement Award by The Professional Validation Council of Hong Kong Industries. In 2024, he was granted the Global Outstanding Chinese Award by the Global Outstanding Chinese Association.
The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Prof. Simon S.M. HO is President of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong since 2014. He is a certified public accountant in the UK, Australia and Canada. Previously, he was Vice Rector (Academic Affairs) of the University of Macau, Dean of the School of Business and Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance of the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Director of the School of Accountancy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Currently he is Chairman of the Citizen Advisory Committee on Community Relations and Member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong. He is Editor of the Asian Journal of Business Ethics (by Springer) and Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Business Ethics (by Springer).
In recognition of his contribution to business ethics and stakeholder-based corporate governance, he was the first Chinese awarded the Faculty Pioneer Award (described as Oscar of the business school world by the Financial Times) by the Aspen Institute, USA. He was elected as one of the
100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere, one of the world's most recognized bodies in business ethics and anti-corruption. In recognition of his distinguished contribution to the CSR of Chinese family businesses, he was granted the Chinese Family Business Research Pioneer Award by the China Private Enterprise Economic Research Association, China.
He was granted three times the sectional Best Paper Award by the Annual Meetings of American Accounting Association. In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Gordon College, U.S.A. His co-authored book (with P.K. Ip) Founders’ Values and Corporate Culture Construction: Ho Sin Hang and Hang Seng Bank’s Early Culture was granted the “Publishing Award” by the Hong Kong Publishing Professionals Society in 2021. In 2021, he was conferred the Outstanding Achievement Award by The Professional Validation Council of Hong Kong Industries. In 2024, he was granted the Global Outstanding Chinese Award by the Global Outstanding Chinese Association.
Mr. Tony Rinaudo
Principal Climate Action Advisor
World Vision Australia
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration - A sustainability game-changer
Tony Rinaudo served as an agriculturalist and missionary with ‘Serving in Mission’ in Niger Republic from 1981 to 1999. There, he oversaw long-term rural development and periodic, large-scale relief programs. Through these, he contributed to a transformation in how Nigeriens farm, and the reforesting of over six million hectares of land, which still inspires re-greening movements globally. For his 18 years of service to humanity and the environment, the government of Niger awarded him its highest honour for an expatriate “The Order of Agriculture with Merit” (Merite Agricole du Niger).
Since joining World Vision Australia in 1999, Tony initiated and/or oversaw important land regeneration projects, worldwide. Serving now as Principal Climate Action Advisor, he promotes forestry and agro-forestry initiatives globally within the World Vision partnership, and beyond.
He is widely recognized for his influential contribution to heightened international awareness of the impact, efficacy, and uptake of simple, low-cost, scalable methods of reforestation known as FMNR (Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration). Among major awards Tony and FMNR have recently received are the 2018 Right Livelihood Award “for demonstrating on a large scale how drylands can be greened at minimal cost, improving the livelihoods of millions of people”, and the World Future Council Agroecology Award. In 2019, Tony was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division).
World Vision Australia
Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration - A sustainability game-changer
Tony Rinaudo served as an agriculturalist and missionary with ‘Serving in Mission’ in Niger Republic from 1981 to 1999. There, he oversaw long-term rural development and periodic, large-scale relief programs. Through these, he contributed to a transformation in how Nigeriens farm, and the reforesting of over six million hectares of land, which still inspires re-greening movements globally. For his 18 years of service to humanity and the environment, the government of Niger awarded him its highest honour for an expatriate “The Order of Agriculture with Merit” (Merite Agricole du Niger).
Since joining World Vision Australia in 1999, Tony initiated and/or oversaw important land regeneration projects, worldwide. Serving now as Principal Climate Action Advisor, he promotes forestry and agro-forestry initiatives globally within the World Vision partnership, and beyond.
He is widely recognized for his influential contribution to heightened international awareness of the impact, efficacy, and uptake of simple, low-cost, scalable methods of reforestation known as FMNR (Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration). Among major awards Tony and FMNR have recently received are the 2018 Right Livelihood Award “for demonstrating on a large scale how drylands can be greened at minimal cost, improving the livelihoods of millions of people”, and the World Future Council Agroecology Award. In 2019, Tony was appointed as a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (General Division).
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