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From: K-Community of Bangalore
Date: Sep 7, 2006 9:08 PM
Subject: InfoVision2006 - The Knowledge Summit on September 28th &
29th, Bangalore - India
To: coordinator@k-community.org
Dear K-Community Blr Member,
We would like to inform you of the Knowledge Summit taking place here
in Bangalore with many globally admired speakers. We are also pleased to
inform you that all K-Community members can avail a 10% discount if you
register before September 15. Please find the details below.
InfoVision2006 - The Knowledge Summit on September 28th & 29th,
Bangalore - India
Dates: 28 September 2006 - 29 September 2006
Place: Le Meridien Hotel, Bangalore
InfoVision is a premier annual global Summit in India for the
Knowledge Industry and Society. The Summit focuses on a chosen theme each
year and congregates leaders and professionals across the `Information and
Knowledge Spectrum' to come together and analyze the transformational trends
and deliberate on the challenges. Experts from the industry and the academia
join the debate and share their views. Best practices and success stories
are showcased. InfoVision is an intellectual confederation of all
stakeholders - academia, industry, government and the user groups, to meet
as partners and to develop a unified framework for and formulate strategies
for capitalizing knowledge for performance.
InfoVision Summit Sessions:
On September 28th and 29th, InfoVision 2006 brings the following
sessions and speakers to help organizations to transit towards a Knowledge
Enterprise.
Innovation and Intellectual Property Management │ Enterprise
Content Management │ Harnessing Business and Competitive Intelligence
│News and Media: Convergence and Disconnect │Digital Libraries
and Archiving
Knowledge│ New Cyber Genres: Wikis, Blogs, collaborative tools
and models │ Managing Intellectual Capital
There will be over 30 speakers at the Summit including the following
luminaries:
1. Leif Edvinsson - Professor of Intellectual Capital, at Lund
University, Sweden, Edvinsson is inspirator and CEO of Universal Networking
Intellectual Capital, Winner of the prestigious Brain of the Year
award for 1998. A key contributor to the theory of IC and recognized with
awards from the American Productivity and Quality Centre, USA and Business
Intelligence, UK, he is the author of the books - Corporate Longitude and
Intellectual Capital for Communities ( with Ahmed Bounfour )
2. Rory L. Chase - Founder of Teleos - the company that conducts the
internationally recognized Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) program.
Advisor, author and researcher in the development and implementation of
knowledge management strategies and approaches, he is the Founding Editor of
the Journal of Knowledge Management and the Journal of Intellectual Capital.
Chase has also authored the `Creating a Knowledge Management Business
Strategy'
3. Jimmy Wales - named one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential
eople in the world in the year 2006, Wales has translated the utopian
concept of universal access to knowledge a reality through his Wikipedia the
largest freely available online encyclopedia . Wikipedia is also available
in more than 100 languages. Wales is the fellow of the Berkman Center for
Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School and member of the Board of
Directors of Socialtext, a provider of wiki technology to businesses.
4. Sam Pitroda -- chairman of India's National Knowledge Commission,
he is also largely considered to have been responsible for India's
communications revolution. He is the Chairman and CEO of World-Tel
Limited, an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) initiative. He holds
many key technology patents, has been involved in several startups, and
lectures extensively around the world on the implications of communications
and information technology. He is also the founder and CEO of C-SAM, Inc,
Inc, and serves as a director on the board of Jet Airways. He has served as
an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992, his biography was published,
and became a bestseller.
And many many more thought leaders and speakers......
2006 Indian MAKE Award Ceremony and panel discussion
For the first time in India, an Indian MAKE ceremony will be conducted
to recognize those Indian organizations that stand out in building their
knowledge and intellectual capital. There will be an interactive panel
discussion with the award winners during a gala dinner event. This will
cover best practices, do's and don'ts on KM from the very best in India.
For registration and contact information, please visit the website:
www.infovision.org.in
Summit Chair:Mr. Ashok Soota, Chairman and Managing Director, MindTree
Consulting Pvt. Ltd., Chair, CII Mission on Knowledge and Skills
Programme Co-Chairs:
Prof. S. Sadagopan, Director, IIIT-B
Prof. Shalini R. Urs, Executive Director, iSIM, University of Mysore
Mr. Raj Datta, General Manager, KM, MindTree Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
regards
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Lata Suresh
Librarian
Institute of Health Management Research
1, Prabhu Dayal Marg, Sanganer Airport
Jaipur 302033, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
Tel : 91-0141-2791431-34
Fax: 91-0141-2792138
Email : lata@iihmr.org
