APQC's 13th Annual KM Conference: 2008 Chicago

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UPDATE: APQC's 14th annual KM conference and training, The Knowledge Transfer Revolution: New Paradigms, New Payoffs, will occur May 11-15, 2009, at the Houstonian Hotel, Club & Spa in Houston. For more information about this upcoming event, visit www.apqc.org/kmconf09.


2008 Keynote Presentations:

"The New Edge in KM"
-- Carla O'Dell, Ph.D., president, APQC

at_a_glance_ch.jpg"The Future of Knowledge" -- Laurence Prusak, researcher, consultant, and founder and executive director, Institute for Knowledge Management (IKM)

"From OJT to DVD: Knowledge Management and the Emerging Generations"
-- Robert Wendover, managing director, Center for Generational Studies

"Unlocking Cool"
-- Jeremy Gutsche, founder, TrendHunter.com


"The Secret Language of Leadership: How Leaders Inspire Action through Narrative" -- Steven Denning, author and organizational storyteller extraordinaire

Panel Presentation: "APQC's Stages of Knowledge Management Maturity"
-- Cindy Hubert, Director, APQC, with Navy, SAP,
State Farm, Baker Hughes, Marathon, and Petrobras

Breakout Sessions
1: "Learning and Knowledge Meets Web 2.0"  -- IBM

2: "Making It Happen: KM at the Working Level (and Up)"  -- U.S. Dept. of State

3:
"RELAY Structured Mentoring/Knowledge Transfer Process"   -- Baker Hughes
4: "Using the Baldrige Framework to Understand Your Knowledge Management Needs"    -- University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
5:
"Driving Process Enhancement Through Knowledge Management" 
-- Ernst & Young

6:
 "Integrating Knowledge Management into Business Strategy"  -- MetLife
7: "Knowledge Transfer--What's Tired and Typical, What's Wired and New, What's Superwired and Next?"  -- Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
8:
 "Three 'Ba' Based Japanese KM Approaches--How Successful Japanese KM Companies Share Context to Create Their Unique Value"  -- Fuji Xerox

9: "Multi-Generational Knowledge Sharing: Courses, Wikis, Gaming, and Virtual Words -- Oh My!"  -- NASA 
10:
 "Initiating Communities of Practice--A Case Study of Contagious Enthusiasm" -- Wyeth Biotech
 
11:
 "A New Way to Work"  -- Google

12:
 "The Effectiveness of Communities of Practice; From Anecdotes to Evidence" -- State Farm Insurance
 
13:
 "Driving Business Excellence with Formal Global Networks"  -- ConocoPhillips
14: "Developing a Shadow Organization to 'Make the Market' for Knowledge"  -- Vodafone
15:
 "How Do You Measure the Value of KM? Accenture's Story"  -- Accenture

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