Dr. William Lin

Assistant Principal (College and Programme Development),

Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong, YMCA College of Careers

Dr. William Lin is currently the Assistant Principal of the YMCA College of Careers (COC). COC is a non-profit-making institution dedicated to nurturing professionals from different sectors. Dr. Lin has more than 20 years of marketing and professional training experience. He is particularly good at market development, e-marketing, brand strategy, administrative management and personnel training. He has worked and held important positions in many well-known businesses, colleges and universities.

Prof. Jonathan Wong

Director,

Hong Kong Organic Resource Centre

Prof. Jonathan Wong is not only the director of HKORC, the Institute of Bioresource and Agriculture and the Sino-Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment, he is also the Head and Professor of the Department of Biology at the Hong Kong Baptist University where he has taught since 1992.

Prof. Wong is very much in the area of research with added flavors of sustainability, low-carbon life style, contaminant-free food, bioenergy, biomass, to achieve “a cleaner environment for all”.

Mr. Herman Tam

Ms. Culsin Li

Founder & Managing Director,
Baobab Tree Event Management Company Limited

Culsin has over 20 years of experience in events & exhibitions, and marketing for multiple industries. Culsin runs Baobab Tree Event Management Co., Ltd. (BTE) in Hong Kong, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing, a leading agency in providing top quality consultation and management services for large scale events and tradeshows in the Greater China region, which she founded in 2011. 

BTE is also the co-organizer of LOHAS Expo and Vegetarian Food Asia, two of Asia’s foremost health and green living trade shows, as well as the “Taste of Veg” vegetarian & healthy lifestyle information & eCommerce platform.

Ms. Sonalie Figueiras

Founder & CEO at Green Queen, Ekowarehouse & SourceGreenPackaging.com

Serial social entrepreneur & trends forecaster Sonalie Figueiras is the founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change through inspiring & empowering original content and one of the world's leading outlets for alternative protein news.

She is also the founder & CEO of Ekowarehouse, the global sourcing platform for certified organic products, the co-founder & CEO of SourceGreenPackaging.com, the world's first global marketplace for sustainable packaging with a mission to fight single-use plastic waste. 

Mr. Ken Kwong

Executive Chef,

Soo Good Vegan Restaurant

Former Chef at Leisurely Veggie, Author and Columnist

Ms. Tracy Kwong

Director, HK BioTek Ltd

Tracy has been working in health and wellness in Greater China for more than 10 years. She is trained in functional medicine, nutrition and health promotion at the University of Hong Kong and the Institute of Functional Medicine. She is the co-author of ‘The Food Sensitivity Handbook’ that focus on allergen-free lifestyle.
 
On the more entrepreneurial side, Tracy is experienced in institutional food services and corporate catering, particularly on healthy free-from options. She currently consults a few health food businesses in Hong Kong, familiar with food concepts including paleo, ketogenic, gluten-free and whole food plant-based.

Ms. Grace Wong

Chairman, Hong Kong Veg Society

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Grace is a registered speech therapist and the Chairman of the Hong Kong Veg Society. She has been a vegetarian for 30 years with two children. She is also the author of the cook book 《純素．隨想Cook》and there are more than 50,000 followers on her Facebook page "Vegan Mama Kitchen".

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Grace is often invited to attend radio and television shows to share vegetarian recipes and cooking tips. She usually teaches cooking courses and organize vegetarian seminars in colleges, primary and secondary schools, and vegetarian kitchens.

Ms. Bonnie Lam

Founder & Gluten-free Chef,

Freefrom Foods International Association 

From Bonnie’s own experience and observation of the urgency of the market demand for freefrom foods, she established NutriAlley in 2015 and begin to offer more allergy-friendly and natural food products to people who has specialty diet.
 
To provide more educational support and solutions to families in need, Bonnie established the Freefrom Foods International Association in 2018 and launched the world' first allergy-friendly online cooking school, As One Cooking Academy.