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1 CONFERENCE SPEAKERS PROFILES Filippo Gabbiani (Arkitekter MAA) is the Founder and Chief Architect of Kokaistudios. Born in Venice, Italy, from a famous family of artists and glass makers, Filippo Gabbiani developed very early a multidisciplinary interest for art and design. Starting to cooperate with his family in designing and producing artistic glass he completed his studies at University of Architecture of Venice were he graduated with an innovative research sponsored by European Community on usage of alternative energies in architecture. Following his instinctive curiosity for different disciplinary and other cultures he worked in several countries in Europe and in U.S.A. cooperating with prestigious firms of architecture, interior and industrial design before meeting Andrea Destefanis with who founded Kokaistudios in From the establishment of the firm in Shanghai he Filippo Gabbiani (Arkitekter MAA) Founder and Chief Architect, Kokaistudios move permanently to live in Asia where together with the mission of Kokaistudios he continue its personal research in artistic glass design and the cultural promotion of sustainable architecture and protection and preservation of heritage of Asia. Address: West Gate, 2/F, Anfu Road 201, Shanghai P.R.C. Phone: Fax: EDUCATION: Graduate at Architecture University Institute of Venice IUAV (Venice Italy) Website: info@kokaistudios.com

2 Ian is the prinicipal of McCartney Taylor Dimitroff(Qld). McCartney Taylor Dimitroff are one of the oldest kichen & laundry design consultancy companies in Australia and formed the MTD Group over 22 years ago. Ian Hopper, FCSI Ian's background in the hospitality/foodservice industry began in kitchen contracting for 11 years and consultancy for the past 22 years. His involvement as a foodservice consultant has taken him to work on a variety of projects in different parts of the world, including the GCC, East Asia, South East Asia, the Pacific and Australia. McCartney Taylor Dimitroff (Qld) Pty. Ltd. Address: PO Box 323 Kenmore Queensland, 4069 Australia Phone: Dealing with the diversity of cultures and people groups has provided Ian with an interesting life of challenges and opportunities. Ian has had the pleasure of being a Board Trustee on the FCSI APD Board, represented APD region on the worldwide Board of Directors, Secretary/Treasurer on the worldwide Board, and has commenced his two year term as FCSI worldwide President in September mtdqld@ihug.com.au

In 1978 Tim opened the industrial design office of Smallwood Liebert and Associates combining foodservices facilities and product design.

3 Tim has 45 years experience in the operation and design of commercial catering equipment and facilities. He trained as an Industrial Designer at RMIT and Catering Supervision at William Angliss College. In 1978 Tim opened the industrial design office of Smallwood Liebert and Associates combining foodservices facilities and product design. Foodservice Consultants Australia (FCA) was formed in 1984 as a consulting practice that integrated catering operations consulting with facilities planning and design in a single office, a concept unique at the time. Tim has over the years passed on his experience to those starting in the industry and Tim Smallwood, FFCSI Past Chair, FCSI Asia Pacific Division Founder and Principle Consultant of Foodservice Consultants Australia has lectured and given tutorials to Architects and Builders about Kitchens and Catering, and Caterers about Design and construction at Melbourne University, RMIT, VUT and William Angliss College as well as the industry CSFP program and Ergonomic Factors in Commercial Kitchens at Lincoln Institute. 40 years ago Tim introduced Gastronorm Standard into Australia, a radical approach at the time and since then he has continued to innovate including the development of the TAFE Integrated Teaching Kitchen concept Address: 123 King Street Melbourne Victoria 3000 Australia Phone: Fax: melb@fcaonline.com for cookery training and more recently the introduction of advanced kitchen technologies including variable demand ventilation systems, secondary refrigeration technology and vacuum waste transportation into foodservice facilities. He is currently working as an advisor to the Department of Sustainability Victoria on the energy efficiency labeling of catering equipment in Australia and on major healthcare projects in Australia, Hong Kong and the Middle East. Tim provides the guidance for the FCA team by encouraging an analytical approach to the development of both design and catering operations concepts. In this way he ensures that the approach to innovation is maintained by Foodservice Consultants as a continuous process. Tim is a professional member of Foodservice Consultants Society International (FCSI) and served on the World Wide board of the Society in He is Past Chair of the Asia Pacific Division of FCSI after 6 years as Chair and on the world wide board of directors for 2 years.

Rajat Rialch, FCSI Principle consultant of HPG Consulting Address: 2nd Floor, Plot No-5, Tokas Complex Amber-Hai, Sector -19, Dwarka New Delhi-110075, India Phone: 91-11-28042143/ 44 Fax:

4 Rajat Rialch, FCSI Principle consultant of HPG Consulting Address: 2nd Floor, Plot No-5, Tokas Complex Amber-Hai, Sector -19, Dwarka New Delhi , India Phone: / 44 Fax: Website: Rajat Rialch, FCSI, Principle Consultant of HGP Consulting. He is a Professional Member of FCSI and Trustee for FSCI APD. He obtained his M.B.A from I.M.I - Delhi with majors in Finance and Operation. He is an Alumni of Hotel Management College - New Delhi, India. He has also done a Specialized Course in Management from Harvard Business School. After graduating from Institute of Hotel Management, Bhopal in 1994, he joined renowned Ambassador Group of hotels, Trainee Management Chef and gradually he was heading the Sky Chef division as Master Chef. Later on he moved to Suman Motels into Corporate Planning and was instrumental in the opening of resorts and motels. After a successful tenure in hotels, he then joined a consulting firm specializing in food service design and was instrumental as a part of the team in designing foodservice areas for projects for International Brands. He promoted HPG consulting in 1999, today it s a well known Consulting House specializing in food service design, laundry design and facility planning for hospitality projects. HPG Consulting has already associated with projects for international brands like Hilton, Marriott, IHG, Accor, Starwood, Langam Hotels, Dusit International, Millennium Group,, Taj Hotels, beside local hotel groups in India. HPG Consulting also specializes in hospital food service design and institutional food service design and has completed projects for IBM, FRANLIN TEMPLETON, HSBC, MICROSOFT, CISCO, ADOBE etc in India. Presently HPG consulting is doing projects in India, Sri-Lanka, Maldives, Dubai, Central Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Europe etc.

5 Clara obtained her B.Sc. in Food Science (McGill) with First Class Honors and M.Sc. in Human Nutrition from UBC. She worked in Canada as a Registered Dietitian (RD) for 20 years before moving to Hong Kong in Clara is a professional member of FCSI, Chair of FCSI Asia Pacific Division and director on the FCSI worldwide board, she has been an invited speaker at various international conferences/workshops and has published numerous articles. As a visionary leader, she pioneered the design of foodservice computer systems, successfully piloting and implementing cook-chill and endpoint retherm systems both in Clara Ming Pi, MSc. RD. FCSI Chair, FCSI Asia Pacific Division, Canada and Hong Kong. She also built the first cook-chill Central Production Unit in China. FCSI World Wide Borad Director Adjunct Associate Professor, HKU School of Professional & Continuing Education Lead author of 1st Carbon footprint cook book: Saving Our Planet One Carbon Bite at a Time" As a keen "go-green" advocate, in 2003 she installed the first environmental friendly Electrolyzed Water System (outside of Japan) and in 2006 she pioneered the "Save our planet one bite at a time" meat replacement program in Hong Kong Hospitals to safeguard nutrition and earth resources. As a volunteer, Clara provided much needed foodservice support in Sichuan, China during the earthquake relief effort in May Clara spear- headed the Inner Mongolia Tree Planting program, and was awarded the prestigious 2008 FCSI Service Award. Clara.pi@me.com Website: In 2009 Clara was recognized y as Leader in International Nutrition by the Dietitians of Canada. She recieved the 2009 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Chief Executive Community Service Award for her voluntary rescue effort in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. In Jan 2010, Clara co-authored the first bilingual Low Carbon Cookbook with carbon footprints, entitled: Save Our Planet One Carbon Bite at a Time. In April 2010, she initiated Monday Meatless program at one hospital in Hong Kong to further promote low carbon eating in the Hong Kong Society. This program is now spreading to other hospitals in the region.

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