Keynotes

By exploring play, innovation, and the cultivation of the imagination as cornerstones of learning, Brown creates a vision of learning for the future that is achievable, scalable, and one that grows along with the technology that fosters it and the people who engage with it. The result is a new form of culture in which knowledge is seen as fluid and evolving, the personal is both enhanced and refined in relation to the collective, and the ability to manage, negotiate, and participate in the world is governed by the play of the imagination. Gain insights from our experienced speaker to apply in your organization for better communication, collaboration, innovation, and knowledge-sharing.

“Knowledge is becoming inextricable from — literally unthinkable without — the network that enables it. In fact, knowledge is now a property of the network, and the network embraces businesses, governments, media, museums, curated collections, and minds in communication. But, because the properties of the Net include overwhelming abundance, unmasterable messiness, and unending disagreements, the challenge of building networked knowledge is not simple.” So says Weinberger, who shares his insights on how the concept of knowledge is changing and how we can facilitate its sharing for organizational learning, collaboration, innovation, and more.

This keynote panel, interviewed by Patrick Lambe, explores the idea, through military, healthcare, and emergency response contexts, that KM is not just a backroom support function but can have significant impact on people’s lives and organizational performance. The panel shares how lessons from KM practices in these contexts can raise the stakes for, and impact of KM in, other organizational contexts.

Making KM strategic means looking harder at knowledge flows naturally occurring in human society and using technology to augment that process rather than trying to force humans to conform to the needs of technology. It means drawing boundaries around the limits of technology, including the lure of social media, as not all things that work in public work within an organization. How do we balance between the excessive order and structure of traditional KM and the near anarchy of social computing? Gain insights and ideas from our popular speaker.