Mr. Allen Brown

Interim CEO

Association of Enterprise Architects

Allen Brown is Interim CEO of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA), a professional association of more than 50,000 members world-wide, that works to grow the capabilities of and increase demand for Business Architects, Solution Architects and all other disciplines of Enterprise Architecture by advancing professional excellence. After 17 years as President and CEO of The Open Group, Allen has recently stepped down to pursue other interests. Prior to his time with The Open Group, Allen consulted with organisations in the start-up, turn-around or growth phases of their lives.

Allen is TOGAF®9 Certified, a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants and holds an MBA from London Business School.

Mr. Nick Laqua

Enterprise Architecture Lead

Cathay Pacific Airways

Nick Laqua is Enterprise Architecture Lead at Cathay Pacific Airways driving the technology strategy and ensuring that it meets the evolving needs of the company’s customers and employees. His focus is the transformation of Cathay Pacific into a digital enterprise, fueled by technology disruptions such as Cloud, Big Data, Mobile as well as new “ways of working” such as Agile and DevOps and its impact on culture and organization.

Mr. Laqua holds a Master in Information Systems from Dresden University of Technology and has worked in IT strategy, transformation and enterprise architecture roles in Europe, US and Australia before coming to Asia.

Dr. Bob Chu

Senior Consultant

Huawei

Dr. Chu is currently working as an Enterprise Architecture consultant of a global fortune 500 Information and Communication Technology（ICT）company. The work assignment is to integrate and govern the business architecture and the IT architecture of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) related business processes such as Integrated Product Development (IPD) and Marketing to Lead (MTL).

He previously worked as the Chief Enterprise Architect of Kingdee Research Institute and was also the secretary general of the Kingdee International Software Group Architecture Review Board. His duty includes Product Architecture Review for all Kingdee product lines like SOA and Cloud middleware, Accounting and Inventory SaaS (Software as a Service), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) SaaS, and traditional ERP products for small, medium and large companies, and social relationship management software.

Mr. Joe Lee

Senior Lead Solution Architect

HSBC

Joe Lee, Senior Lead Solution Architect, HSBC, has 18 years of experience in the IT industry. He has led many initiatives to apply emerging technologies to help deliver changes in multiple lines of businesses. He will share how changes in the banking industry translate to IT challenges and how the enterprise architecture team has helped transforming the bank.

Mr. Mark Carr

Chief Architect

The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Mark is the Chief Architect of the Hong Kong Jockey Club.  In this role he is the author and custodian of the HKJC Reference Architecture; responsible for overseeing the Club’s transformation road-maps and provides innovation to assist the Club to realize its vision; to be a world leader in the provision of horse racing, sporting and betting entertainment, and Hong Kong's premier charity and community benefactor.

To realize the vision, Mark collaborates closely with stakeholders (leadership and subject matter experts) across both organization and technology "silos", to provide a holistic view.  The holistic view describes the Architecture in the terms of processes, information, application and technology domains, and the inter-relationships between them.  Thus enabling Business and IT strategies to align; drive each other; and manage the evolvement of the Architecture in a strategic manner.

Mark is an IT veteran with over 25 years’ experience, 18 of which in an architectural role. His diverse experience covers business verticals such as: football; law enforcement; utility provision; aircraft design; and finance, usually in a global lead capacity.

Mr. Francis Chui

Application Strategy and Architecture Manager

CLP Power Hong Kong Ltd

Francis Chui is the Application Strategy and Architecture Manager at CLP, responsible for business technology research and innovation, strategic planning for business applications, and the development of Enterprise Architecture practices within the organization.

With his experience in the utility industry as well as Enterprise Architecture knowledge, Francis provides thought leadership to help guide business and IT to invest in solutions that meet their needs whilst balancing the broader organization obligations of IT governance as well as leveraging strategic technologies to extract the greatest value from investments already made.

Francis has more than 25 years of IT experience and of those, 14 years were in the Utility industry. Moreover, being an IT consultant for 10 years, Francis provided consultation to various corporations in USA, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Dr. C K Wong, MH

Advisor of EASIG

Hong Kong Computer Society

Dr. Wong is the founders of the iASPEC Technologies Group. The Group operates a number of software companies in Hong Kong, Mainland China and the United States since 1988.

Dr. Wong is committed to the development of a strong information industry in the region. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Hong Kong Computer Society. He has served as members of the University Grants Counsel, the Research Grants Council, the Advisory Committee on Technologies for the Hong Kong Commissioner of Privacy and Personal Data; member of Vetting Committee on ICT projects for the Innovation and Technology Commission; members in the Advisory Committees of various faculties and departments of the Chinese University, the University of Science and Technology, the Hong Kong University, the City University and the Polytechnic University.

Ms. Yuki Hon

Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Hong Kong

Yuki Hon has over 13 years IT experience with software development and enterprise architecture design.  She is Senior Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Hong Kong. She has been active in the area of application development and DevOps for over 10 years and speaks about topics such as Platform Openness, IoT, DevOps, Application Life Management and xPlatform Development. Her experience includes application design & architecture, ALM for enterprise, DevOps, mobile apps development, etc. Prior to joining Microsoft, she worked for CA Technologies and Hutchison Global Communications as Senior Technical Consultant and Architecture Manager respectively, thus having strong technical skills on Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, and Cloud Technologies.

Ms. Teresa Leung

System Architect

MTR Corporation Limited

Teresa has been a Systems Architect for Information Technology Services Department with focus in IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture in MTR Corporation since 2010. She has over 20 years working experience in the IT industry, specializes not only in enterprise architecture, but has extensive experience across mobile application development, web application development using Java and Microsoft .NET technologies, as well as legacy systems across a wide spectrum of business areas including railway asset management, treasury, projects management, and automatic fare collection ticketing. She has been the principal architect in establishing the common frameworks for mobile application development, Java and .NET web application development in MTR Corporation.

Teresa has a post-graduate degree of Master of e-Commerce and Internet Computing. She is also a professional member of Hong Kong Computer Society and Certified TOGAF professional.

Through the practice of enterprise architecting, Teresa was part of the Corporate EA team to establish a series of IT strategies and goals which had been executed to support Corporation’s vision and business objectives. Through close partnering with business departments, IT projects have been formulated, developed and successfully delivered as an integral part of the business services in MTR.