YC
Yvonne Cheung
Principal Producer
Founded Conclave after eight years running partner programmes in a Magic Circle firm. Leads multi-day conferences and complex bilingual agendas.
Section 01 — Studio Note
How Conclave came to be
Conclave began in Hong Kong in 2017, after our founding producer spent the better part of a decade running annual law firm partner retreats and chambers programmes in-house. The same patterns kept showing up: brilliant speakers under-briefed, agendas that ran twenty minutes long by the lunch break, recap decks written hastily in the days after the event when memory was already softening.
The work since has been narrow on purpose. We produce events for the legal industry — law firms, in-house legal departments, regulatory bodies, bar associations, and academic institutions in this region. We do not chase tech launches, fashion previews, or trade-show floor shows. The audience we serve is one we know how to read.
Our office sits on the 27th floor at Pacific Place, two minutes from the High Court complex and a short walk from most of the Central conference floors we use most often. Clients come to us in two main ways: in-house legal teams hosting a focused roundtable without an internal events function, and larger organisations producing a multi-day conference that need an outside hand on programme design.
What hasn't changed across a hundred-odd programmes is the central artefact. Every Conclave engagement produces an agenda — printed, dated, with named tracks and named speakers — and a run-of-show that mirrors it minute by minute. The first artefact tells your attendees what to expect. The second tells the production crew what to do. Both are honest. That is the whole method.
Section 02 — Studio Roster
The producers behind the agenda
A deliberately small team. Each programme is led by a named producer who owns it from scoping through recap pack.
RT
Raymond Tang
Senior Producer · Roundtables
Specialises in half-day and one-day roundtables for in-house legal teams. Background in chambers events and academic legal symposia.
AL
Anna Lai
Speaker Liaison Lead
Runs briefing-pack production and rehearsal calls. Past experience covers regulatory and arbitration-focused events across the region.
DK
Daniel Ko
Operations & Venues
Handles venue scouting, AV contracting, and on-site logistics. Knows the Pacific Place, Central, and IFC conference floors by heart.
Section 03 — House Standards
How we hold ourselves to the agenda
A short list of operating standards we apply on every programme, regardless of scale.
Confidentiality undertakings
Producers sign confidentiality agreements before reviewing any speaker materials or attendee lists. Standard for legal industry work.
PDPO-aligned data handling
Attendee data is collected, stored, and disposed of in line with Hong Kong's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance principles.
Written run-of-show
Every event ships with a minute-by-minute production document, reviewed with the client before the programme date.
Speaker briefing protocol
Each speaker receives a written brief, a calendar rehearsal, and a same-day on-site walkthrough before they take the floor.
Memberships
Affiliations with the Hong Kong Bar Association events programme, MPI Hong Kong chapter, and the Asia-Pacific Legal Programmes Forum.
Recap pack delivery
Within seven working days of every event, clients receive a written recap including attendance, session highlights, and producer notes.
Section 04 — Studio Values
What a Conclave-produced event feels like
The first thing attendees notice is usually the quiet. A well-produced legal industry programme does not announce itself with stage flourishes or motivational keynote energy. It opens on time. The host introduces the morning. The first session begins. The room settles into a rhythm that the printed agenda has already prepared everyone for.
We hold to plain language in every artefact a delegate touches. Session titles are descriptive rather than clever. Track names point at the conversation, not at the producer's vocabulary. The session codes printed in monospace on the lanyard correspond, character for character, to the run-of-show document the AV crew is reading from. Attendees and crew are working from the same plan.
Our work in Hong Kong has taught us that the legal community here is genuinely cross-jurisdictional. A morning track on Hong Kong-listed company governance might run alongside an afternoon discussion on Singapore arbitration, with delegates moving between the two and conducting at least one conversation at lunch in three languages. We design for that movement. Tracks share floors. Coffee stations are placed where the natural cross-traffic happens. Translation booths are sited so they do not split the room.
Above all, the studio's bias is hospitable. Hospitality, in our reading, is the work of valuing the attendee's time and the host's reputation in equal measure. A delegate who travelled in from Beijing or Sydney for a half-day session deserves a programme that respects the journey. A general counsel who put their name on the host line deserves an event that arrives at every checkpoint the agenda promised. That is the contract Conclave keeps.
Section 05 — Open a File
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