ASQ Fellow Lunch 2016

Minda and I were invited to attend ASQ Fellow Lunch in 2016.  Before the lunch, we met Mr. Gregory Watson (Honorary member, IAQ; Past Chairman, ASQ) and Singapore Quality Institute (SQI) Friends.

(Left: I, Mr. Kenneth Liang (Chairman, SQI), Mr. Gregory Watson, Mr Tan Gheng Een (Vice-Chairman, SQI) and Mr Too Meng Ken (Vice-Chairman, SQI))

I took a photo in front of the new fellow introduction slide.

Then Minda and I took a photo with Ms. Patricia C. La Londe (ASQ Chair-Elect 2015).

All new ASQ Fellow took a photo together.

The ASQ Fellow Lunch ceremony started and each new fellows / last year fellows, who were missing to attend last year conference, would be invited to grant the Fellow bin.

Minda was elected as fellow last year.

I was new fellow and took photo with Ms. Patricia Londe.

The group photo for all fellows was took.  

During the fellow lunch, I met many ASQ friends and took some photos for memory below.

Photo with Dr. Milton Krivokuca (Program Coordinator at California State University)

Photo with Mr. Ha Dao (ASQ Board Member 2015-2016), Mr. Austin S. Lin (Google, Mountain View, Ca) and Mrs. Ling Lin.

Photo with Prof. Kenneth Case (Emeritus Member, IAQ)

Photo with Mr. Tracy L. Owens (LexisNexis, Dayton, OH), Mr. Roland K. Jahnke (Academician & Vice President IAQ; Chairman, QiETT; and IAQ Representative at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris) and I)

Photo with Mr. Denis Devos (Founder, Devos Associates Inc.)

Photo with Sunil Thawani (ASQ Country Councilor for United Arab Emirates (UAE)) and we met in Hong Kong in 2006 (http://www.hksq.org/HKSQ_Press_Release_200609_a_1.pdf)

I met Dr. Nicole Radziwill (Associate professor in the Department of Integrated Science and Technology at James Madison University) and she is ASQ Influential Voice (https://qualityandinnovation.com/).

After that we went to the venue and visited some booths.

First location we visited was ASQ Centre. We brought some souvenirs and books. 

In the beginning, we visit the Innovation Division which was newly formed ASQ division from Innovation Think Tank.  We took a photo with Dr. H. James Harrington (CEO, Harrington Institute), Mr. Doug Nelson (Lean master consultant of Harrington Institute, CSSMBB), I and Mr. Tracy L. Owens.

Then I took a photo with Mr. Peter Merrill (President, Quest Management System; Founding Chair of the ASQ Innovation Division) and Mr. Fred Zhang (General Manager, ASQ China) (Left 1).

Photo with Mr. Ian Meggarrey (Quality Manager, Camber Corporation; Chair of the ASQ Innovation Division)

Moreover, I brought Peter Merrill’s book named “Innovation Never Stop” and took a photo for memory after his signatory on the book.

I also took a photo with Denis in the front of Quality Management Division.

Outside the hall, I met Korea ANQ friends Prof. SHIN Wan-Seon (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea) and Mr. YOO Yun-Baek (Executive Director of Korean Standards Association (KSA)).

Then I was invited by Roland to participant IAQ Think Tank for Quality Education.  We were discussed the direction and also included the 5^th IAQ/ANQ Symposium 2016.

After the whole day activites, I met Mr. Roberto Saco (Past chairman, ASQ) outside the hotel and took a photo for memory.  I remembered we had a breakfast in Hong Kong in 2008. (http://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2008/03/roberto-saco-asq-president-elect.html)

Reference:

ASQ 24 new Fellows in 2016 – http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/03/prweb13288731.htm