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Featured Presenters:
Verna Allee
Juanita Brown
Harlan Cleveland
Leif Edvinsson
Denham Grey
David Isaacs
Bipin Junnarkar
Lisa Kimball
Jessica Lipnack
Yogesh Malhotra
David Marsing
Richard McDermott
Michael McMaster
Edna Pasher
George Pór
Michael Ray
Rob van der Spek
Jeffrey Stamps
Linda Stone
Karl-Erik Sveiby
Bill Veltrop
Arian Ward
Etienne Wenger
David Wick


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Verna Allee
Verna Allee is author of The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence and founder of Integral Performance Group, serving customers that include Motorola, Sun Microsystems, AT&T, Unisys, Chevron, Steelcase, The Mutual Group, The Alliance for Converging Technologies, Pacific Bell, Pacific Gas & Electric, and others. Her innovative approaches include the HoloMapping and Value Network Analysis processes for understanding complex systems.

Presents: Knowledge and Self-Organization

Juanita Brown
David Isaacs
Juanita Brown and David Isaacs serve as strategists and thinking partners with senior leaders, applying living systems principles to the development of knowledge based organizations and large scale change initiatives. They have jointly served as Senior Affiliates with the MIT Sloan School of Management's Center for Organizational Learning and as Associates with the Norwegian Center for Leadership Development. Juanita is a Fellow of the World Business Academy. Clients have included multi-national corporations in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and the Pacific Basin. Their latest joint article, "Conversation as a Core Business Process" has been published in The Systems Thinker.

Presents: The Heart of Knowledge Ecology

Harlan Cleveland
Harlan Cleveland is the President of the World Academy of Art and Science , former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, and the author of The Knowledge Executive: Leadership in an Information Society (1985) and several other books.
Leif Edvinsson
Leif Edvinsson, the world's leading expert on intellectual capital, VP of Skandia AFS of Stockholm, Sweden, and co-author of "Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower"

Presents: IC the Future: perspectives of increasing the prospects of the Future

Denham Grey
Denham Grey, President of GreyMatter Inc., is a knowledge management consultant to Eli Lilly and host of "The Knowledge Community of Practice", a family of virtual conferences on knowledge sharing. His interests include: knowledge dynamics, corporate memory, virtual teams & communities, concept extraction and psychographics.

Presents: Knowledge Sharing in Practice

Bipin Junnarkar
Bipin Junnarkar is currently Senior Director, Knowledge Management at Monsanto Company. Bipin heads up Monsanto Company's Knowledge Management Architecture (KMA) group as well as is on the leadership team of the Knowledge Management Core Capability Team. KMA was selected as one of the top five finalists in the 1996 Smithsonian Institute/Computerworld Award for "Innovative Use of Information Technology".

Presents: Jumping the Curve through Leveraging the Collective Intellect

Lisa Kimball
Lisa Kimball, author of Intranet Decisions and a principal in Metasystems Design Group, a company which has specialized since 1983 in helping organizations use network technologies to support virtual teams and learning communities
Jessica Lipnack
Jeffrey Stamps
Jessica Lipnack & Jeffrey Stamps are founders and principals of The Networking Institute, Inc., a consulting company that specializes in networked organizations -- those that cross organizational, geographic, and cultural boundaries. Together they have written five books on this subject, most recently Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Space, Time & Organizations withTechnology (Wiley, 1997). Over the past 20 years, theyıve worked with numerous private and public sector organizations around the world, including BankBoston, Digital Equipment Corporation, Shell Oil Company, NCR, Apple, AT&T Universal Card, Steelcase, and the United Nations. They are also experts in electronic communication. Frequent keynoters at conferences, they have written for many publications and appeared on numerous radio and TV shows. Currently, PBS Business Network is broadcasting their satellite program, "Virtual Teams," hosted by Professor Charles Snow of Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Co-presents: Virtual Teams and How They Learn

Yogesh Malhotra
Yogesh Malhotra, the Founder of the @BRINT Research Initiative, a Council Partner of the US Federal Government Inter-Agency Benchmarking & Best Practices Council, and Virtual Community Facilitator of the WWW Virtual Library on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Think Tank.

Presents: Toward a Knowledge Ecology for Organizational White-Waters

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David Marsing is a VP of Intel and the hero of the Fast Company story about "Killer Results Without Killing Yourself".

Presents: Cultivating and Developing the Potential of an Organization

Michael McMaster
Michael McMaster, a leading business thinker and expert on applications of chaos theory to organizations and management, and author of "The Intelligence Advantage: Organizing for Complexity" and "The Praxis Equation: Design Principles for Intelligent Organisation".

Presents: The "Source Document" Approach to Creating Shared Context

Edna Pasher
Edna Pasher is the founder of the "Knowledge in Action" series of international conferences. She introduced the concept of Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital into Israel. Edna and her partners have been supporting executive teams in Israel, Europe and the U.S.A in strategy making and organizational renewal for the last 20 years.

Presents: The New Role of Management

George Pór
George Pór, author of The Quest for Collective Intelligence, published in: Community Building Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business, and a regular speaker at conferences on knowledge management and intellectual capital

Presents: Knowledge Ecology and Communities of Practice

Michael Ray
Michael Ray is Professor of Creativity and Innovation, and of Marketing at the Stanford Business School. He is a social psychologist with over one hundred publications, nine books, including "Creativity in Business" and "The Path of the Everyday Hero" which are based on his Stanford course. His passion over the past decade toward the emerging new paradigm in business has led to the Stanford course "Dialogues on Business in a World Transition" and his co-edited books "The New Paradigm in Business: Emerging Strategies for Leadership and Organizational Change" and "The New Entrepreneurs: Visionaries for the 21st Century." In 1996 he co-founded InsightOut Collaborations, Incorporated, which develops electronic media/human interaction personal development courses for use in corporations.
Rob van der Spek
Rob van der Spek, co-founder of the International Knowledge Management Network, program chair of the knowledge management seminar of the European Union, and co-author of "Knowledge Management: Dealing Intelligently with Kowledge". Rob will facilitate the Knowledge Management Game, in which several self-organizing virtual teams will have to make decisions on critical knowledge management issues in a virtual company.
Linda Stone
Linda Stone is the HR Research Manager at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Oregon. The HR Research function provides ongoing data gathering and analysis of human resource trends worldwide. Linda has worked at Intel for the past 5 years in the capacity of a corporate organizational development specialist. Her areas of interest are human potential, knowledge capital and socially responsible business practices.

Presents: Building a New Community of Practice When Your Job Changes

Karl-Erik Sveiby
Karl-Erik Sveiby, sometimes referred to as the "father" of Knowledge Management and the one who intitated the lively Swedish community of Practice in the field. He is presently a visiting research fellow at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, and author of "The New Organizational Wealth: Managing and Measuring Knowledge-Based Assets" , and "The Invisible Balance Sheet".

Presents: The Invisible Balance Sheet

Bill Veltrop
Bill Veltrop is a seasoned explorer, student, innovator, leader and guide in the field of organizational learning and change. He is deeply committed to catalyzing an irreversible transformational shift both in this field and in the larger game of business. Bill authored "Discovering A Generative Path to Organizational Change" in the anthology "Community Building: Renewing Spirit and Learning in Business"

Presents: Growing Generative Leadership Capabilities: a Knowledge Ecology Strategy

Arian Ward
Arian Ward, who leads efforts to understand and manage the intellectual capital (IC) of his Fortune 100 company which was chosen in 1996 as exemplifying "best practices in knowledge management"

Presents: Futurizing -- Exploring What You Don't Know You Don't Know

Etienne Wenger
Richard McDermott
Etienne Wenger, principal architect of the theory of Communities of Practice, and author of "Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity" (Cambridge University Press, December, 1997)

Richard McDermott, President of McDermott & Co., advises companies on how to improve the way they apply knowledge, learning and expertise. For the last several years, he has been helping Shell Oil Company establish local and global communities of practice among scientific and engineering staff. Recently he also helped a division of Hewlett-Packard design a new factory that places the flow of knowledge at the heart of the structure, layout and jobs. His most recent articles, "Leveraging Professional Knowledge" and Learning Across Teams" are under review for publication.

Co-presents: Learning Communities: The Ecology of Knowing

David Wick
Wayne Reeves
David Wick is a Senior Training Project Manager at Sun Microsystems, and Consultant in Sun University's Workgroup Solutions Dept. He co-developed with George Pór the "Shared Learning @ Sun" workshop and leveraged this experience into the ground-breaking Java Migration Team Website.

Wayne Reeves is a knowledge and learning architect consultant. At Sun Microsystems he participated in a series of knowledge management projects focused on a cognitive approach to the use of intranets, including managing the automation of information delivery; co-leading the team that created SunWeb; intranet development for project management and knowledge creation. The continuing concern of his work is the use of technology in the communication of knowledge for applying it to problems big and small, independent of time or location: contributing to the production of a learning organization.

Co-presents: Knowledge Sharing in the Enterprise: the Ideal and the Real

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