• Increasing digitalisation as a driver for the networked economy
• Creating value by exchange of data and information leveraging from network effects
• Digitalisation will impact knowledge management: data, cloud and people

• Moving beyond the hype
• From empty promises to an evidence-based approach

Bruce Boyes, Editor & Lead Writer, RealKM Magazine and Consultant & Project Manager

• The increasing value of data
• Contemporary issues for the knowledge manager: big data, data ownership and data protection
• The Knowledge Manager vs the Data Manager

Janice Record, Head of International Knowledge, DLA Piper

• Focusing on the concepts and practicalities
• Making sense of KM as part of the organisation’s mission and desired outcomes
• Integrating KM strategy and implementation

Bill Kaplan, Knowledge Management Consultant, Working KnowledgeCSP

• Three stage approach to the KM programme with Digital India Theme
• Promoting the use of digital technologies to government services
• Driving up speed of service delivery, reducing costs
• Using tacit knowledge, developing communities of practice and overcoming challenges in e-governance.

Shilohu Rao, General Manager, NeGD, Digital India Corporation, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India

• Using a piloting approach to enable long-term KM capability development
• Generating value to win senior management support and maintain momentum
• Testing, adapting and innovating – based on immediate experience
• KM training and creating success stories for the wider communications effort

Rupert Lescott, Knowledge Management Specialist, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority Rawdha Almansoori, Dubai Electricity & Water Authority

• Assessing certification programmes
• Measuring the scope and breadth of certification programmes

Moderator - Paul Corney, Knowledge Et Al Panelists:

• Bruce Boyes, Consultant, CILIP
• John Hovell, CEO & Co-founder, STRATactical
• Rajesh Dhillon, Head of Regional & Head of Strategy, Advisors Alliance Group
• Bill Kaplan, Founder and Principal Consultant, Working KnowledgeCSP

• Branding and public recognition
• Raising organisation-level awareness and engagement in Knowledge Management
• Collaboration and learning opportunities with other organisations

Rajesh Dhillon, Head of Regional & Head of Strategy, Advisors Alliance Group

Rudolf D’Souza, Chief Knowledge Officer, AFCONS Infrastructure Limited 

• Understanding the ISO 30401 requirements 
• A process for addressing the requirements through: 
  • Systematic knowledge audit 
  • A KM planning exercise: designing KM pilots, putting measures in place 

Patrick Lambe, Partner, Straits Knowledge  

• Establishing the strategic business need for KM 
• Building the strategy, enterprise governance and operating framework model 
• Project delivery lessons learned embedded into processes – demonstrating real benefits 
• KM dashboard – achievements to date 
• Developing the KM skills capabilities of our people 
• KM supporting Oman ‘in country value’ and the knowledge-based economy 

Hank Malik, Knowledge Management Programme Lead, Sultanate of Oman 

• Uncover some of the kitchen magic stirred up by leading organisations as they seek to develop and satisfy the appetite for knowledge and ready themselves for the new ISO KM standards.
• Examples and reflections from leaders who have applied KM practice in very different contexts, sectors and countries, celebrates their approaches and ingredients - and relates it to the recently released international KM standard. Food for thought!.

Paul Corney, Managing Partner, Knowledge et al 

• A panel discussion answering your questions about ISO standards.

• Hank Malik, Knowledge Management Programme Lead, Sultanate of Oman 
• Patrick Lambe, Partner, Straits Knowledge 
• Paul Corney, Managing Partner, Knowledge et al 

• Human traits, empathy and storytelling 

Tas Tasgal, Trainer & Author 

• The driver: KM and big data 
• Who and what are the disrupters?  
• Show me the money - when to invest, how much to invest? 

Eric Hunter, Bradford & Barthel  
Les Hales, Managing Director, CIO Connect  
Tas Tasgal, Trainer & Author 

John Dumay, Associate Professor, Macquarie University, Australia 

Rudolf D’Souza, Chief Knowledge Officer, AFCONS Infrastructure Limited