Principal Sponsors

@BRINT Research Initiative Council Partner of the US Federal Government Inter-Agency Benchmarking & Best Practices Council, and the most renowned resource on knowledge management, described by Wall Street Journal as a "Premier Collection of Contemporary Business, Management and Technology Issues".

Dow Chemical The Dow Chemical Company is the fifth largest chemical company in the world, with annual sales of more than $20 billion. The company operates 115 manufacturing sites in 37 countries and employs more than 40,000 people. Last Fall, Dow Chemical launched a revolutionary US $1 million on- line learning system to help its employees worldwide improve their job skills and advance their careers.

Fast Company Fast Company is the magazine about work and life in the new economy. It is "not just the handbook of the revolution, but a living breathing example of what it means to be a fast company." Fast Company was the first to report on the pioneering work of Intel's David Marsing, the Ehama Institute, and virtual events on the Web.

Hewlett-Packard The company's more than 25,000 products include computers and peripheral products, electronic test and measurement instruments and systems, networking products, medical electronic equipment, instruments and systems for chemical analysis, handheld calculators and electronic components. HP's basic business purpose is to accelerate the advancement of knowledge and improve the effectiveness of people and organizations.

Intel Over 80 percent of the personal computers in use around the world today are based on Intel Architecture microprocessors. Intel's 1996 Revenues totaled $20.8 billion and has over 50,000 employees worldwide. Intel products include such devices as ProShare® Personal Conferencing and the Intel Video Phone, which let PC users in different locations share documents or engage in a video conference via PC.

Knowledge Inc. A monthly executive newsletter that covers trends in information technology and knowledge strategy. Its "Leading Lights" column includes interviews with such unconventional thinkers of the knowledge movement as Leif Edvinsson, Dorothy Leonard-Barton, and Etienne Wenger.

Monsanto As a life sciences company, Monsanto is committed to finding sustainable solutions to the growing global needs for food and health by sharing common forms of science and technology among agriculture, nutrition and health. Monsanto's knowledge management program gained high reputation both inside and outside the company.

Paine & Associates One of the largest and most progressive marketing communications firms in the western US, Paine & Associates is the official PR agency of KEFair. Its wide range of services include knowledge management/ecology. P&A's measure of success is "the overall personal and professional satisfaction our work provides for ourselves, our clients, and all those who contribute to our organization."

Skandia An international insurance and financial services group based in Stockholm, Sweden. Skandia has developed methods to create a taxonomy for intellectual reporting - i.e. methods to measure a company's intellectual and structural capital which are invisible in today's balance sheets. Fortune magazine described Skandia's VP of Intellectual Capital, Leif Edvinsson as one of the pioneers of prime economic indicators which will prevail in the post-millennium period.

Society for Organizational Learning
The Society for Organizational Learning is a global learning community dedicated to building knowledge about fundamental institutional change through integrating:

• Research (disciplined pursuit of discovery and understanding)
• Capacity Building (developing new individual and collective capabilities)
• Practice (the application of concepts and tools in pursuit of specific ends)

Sponsors

Active Know!Edge
A producer of an intranet-based collaborative learning environment integrated with an electronic library of top business books.

The Bootstrap Institute
was founded by Doug Engelbart who invented the mouse, wordprocessing, windows, and built the first hypertext system. Many of the core ideas of knowledge ecology have been inspired by Engelbart's work. The Institute's project, the Bootstrap Alliances is aimed at dramatically improving organizations and society at large, through R&D projects, management seminars and expeditions, consulting, speaking, and publishing. Visit their site to get a deeper sense of the origins of knowledge ecology.

BrainPool
A people networking company specializing in helping people to make productive connections, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

David Skyrme Associates
DSA is a world-wide network of experts in the application of global networked information and communications technologies for innovation and sustainable growth.

Edna Pasher Associates
A management consulting firm, assisting international clients with knowledge management, knowledge ecology, and strategic renewal issues, based in Israel.

ICM Conferences
A conference organization structuring and marketing high level strategic conferences on topics that include: telecommunications, HR and business strategy.

International Knowledge Management Network
A world-wide forum for exchanging ideas and experiences, and managing knowledge about knowledge management.

Journal of Systemic Knowledge Management
An online journal that brings together theory and case studies to provide organizations with an holistic understanding and practical insight, in a bold new "open library" concept.

Pegasus Communications
Pegasus keeps organizations on the forefront of management innovation with leading-edge publications, conferences, and other materials about systems thinking and organizational learning.

Screenporch LLC
The publisher of the Caucus web-conferencing groupware ideal for hosting communities and establishing Web sites as focal points for effective teamwork.

The Leadership Alliance
TLA tailors the design of each knowledge management system to fit the requirements of the particular organization, identified by a performance audit targeting knowledge management.