Infovision 2006

Event Type	Summit-Conference
Organizer	Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); International School of Information Management (iSIM)
Event Link	http://www.infovision.org.in
Dates	28 - 29 Sep 2006
Venue	Hotel Le Meridien
Location	Bangalore, India
Who can Attend	Public
Admission	See event website
Categories	Information Technology; Knowledge Management
Industry Sectors	Information
Internal Links	Infovision
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InfoVision2006 – The Knowledge Summit on September 28th & 29th, in Bangalore, India

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. Jimmy Wales – named one of the Time magazine's 100 most influential people 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.

2. 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 )

3. 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’

And many more thought leaders….

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 more 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.

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