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Ana Neves Ana is the founder and managing director of Knowman, a consulting company focused on knowledge management and enterprise social networks. Prior to this, she has worked with public and private sector companies in different countries. In the UK, she was Knowledge Network Manager at the NHS Modernization Agency and Cultural Change Manager at Abbey National. She is the organizer of the Social Now conference, responsible for portal KMOL, coauthor of the Social Collaboration Maturity Benchmark and author of the biannual study on Knowledge Management in Portugal and Spain. She is passionate about people and is always seeking better ways for people to learn and interact with each other, building better organizations and a better society. Jaap Linssen Jaap is founder and owner of OrangeTrail and coauthor of the Social Collaboration Maturity Benchmark. He shows organizations, teams, and individuals the benefits of social collaboration and communication. He assists multinational organizations such as Nestlé, Heineken, Booking.com, or ING bank. He specializes in large scale change programs and driving employee engagement. #DigitalLeadership #DigitalWorkplace #ESN #intranets #KM #KMers #KM4dev #KM4good #Leadership #Communities #Collaboration #internalcomms #ArtofKM #BYNTK

   Mary Jane CarangalSan Jose Senior Knowledge Management Officer,   Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank Since 2013, Jane has been working with the Knowledge Advisory Services Center (SDCC-KC) on creating a database of knowledge partnerships and related policies, enhancing country knowledge plans, and preparing ADB’s Knowledge Management Action Plan for 2021 to 2025.  Jane also leads the work on measuring the results of ADB’s knowledge work. She holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of the Philippines and a master’s degree in Advanced Marketing from the University of New South Wales.     Vivek RamanPrincipal Knowledge Management Specialist (Innovation and Knowledge), Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, Asian Development Bank Vivek works in the Knowledge Advisor Services Center of ADB and provides advice on knowledge management and innovation best practices to support ADBs teams. This includes streamlining knowledge programs at the country level and engagements with knowledge partners for ADB projects. "Asian Development Bank (ADB) has focused on knowledge management processes since its establishment in 1966. While ADB was founded as a bank to provide development funding, we are also a valued knowledge advisor to our member countries." - ADB Vice-President for Knowledge Management Bambang SusantonoToday we have proudly launched the book and microsite— Asian Development Bank’s Knowledge Management in Action: Vision, Learning, and CollaborationIn his opening speech, Bambang Susantono explains how this book shows how ADB has walked-the-talk on spearheading operations with adapted knowledge through many initiatives. According to him, this means that ADB’s operations and knowledge-focus evolved—from project to sector, from country to more regional approaches. It led to an increase in knowledge-supported operations.🔴 DOWNLOAD PUBLICATION: https://lnkd.in/gRNtQJKb🔵 VIEW MICROSITE: https://lnkd.in/gja6vDMj#knowledgemanagement #knowledgesolutions #booklaunch #collaboratetoinnovate

Coverart of Brian Pollack Because You Need To Know. For over two decades Brian Pollack has led the way in Internet Technology Innovation.Brian is a published science fiction author, and has published articles in dozens of programming languages and technologies including Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, PHP, Azure, AWS, Cloud Computing, Collaboration Technology, Unity, C#, C, C++, Perl, PHP, Objective-C and a host of other languages.Brian’s work has been nationally reviewed by major publications and has been interviewed for numerous journals for his opinion on technology. Millions of people all over the world interact with one or more of Brian’s software solutions daily and have for years.Over a billion people a day touch code Brian created when they surf the web and countless people touch mobile code he has written or been part of. Ask me about it.

Coverart BYNTK Dr. Candice Borgstein is a Knowledge and Communication Design Specialist, with over 15 years of experience managing and designing strategic communications for digital finance solutions, financial inclusion, and various private and not-for-profit stakeholder projects. These projects are located across Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. At the most intrinsic level, the goal of Candice’s work is to leverage her skills and expertise to demonstrate that communications is an instrumental function in any organization, and contributes to market information, poverty reduction, and knowledge sharing that is data-driven, evidence-based, and responsive to the needs of different audiences. Candice envisages this will ultimately facilitate appropriate information, promote advocacy, build brand reputation, and develop resilient, productive, and well-positioned organizations to attract investment and realize their goals through teamwork and innovation. #myKMjourney She is currently the Communications Manager at FinMark Trust. In her time at FinMark Trust, Candice has worked on communication and business strategy alignment, event planning with content and collateral support, stakeholder engagement and negotiations with regulators and regional hubs, and content creation and curation. Candice holds a PhD in approaches to the interpretation and visualization of data in a dynamic digital world, an MBA from Steinbeis University in Germany, and a degree in Information Design. She participated in the first AI-KM certification from the KMGN. Candice sits on Knowledge Management South Africa (KMSA) board and is the KMSA AI Committee chair. #myKMjourney

Dr. Hanlie Smuts is an associate professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria since 2017. During her tenure in industry, she delivered consistent customer relevance across all digital touch points by empowering customers through convenient and effective self-service, and by driving growth through personalized digital offerings and adjacent ecosystems. Her lecturing and research role focuses on IT and the organization, with particular emphasis on Society 5.0, digital transformation, big data management, artificial intelligence and knowledge management. Dr Smuts is the deputy chair of the Knowledge Management South Africa (KMSA) board and has published several papers and book chapters in her field of study.

Maria-Rosa (Mia) Moroso is the Head of Information and Knowledge Management at the NATO Communications and Information Agency, and leads this effort since 2014. She is passionate about exploring ways for people to share their knowledge and expertise to become the best versions of themselves while growing their business or organization. Mia has a MSc in International Marketing Management with a major in new media marketing, yet her foundation lies in a MA in Linguistics which allowed her to transition from an Italian Foreign Affairs career to NATO in 1998 where her previous roles have spanned from Executive Support and Officer roles to Communications, Protocol, and Information Assurance and in various NATO Bodies. KCO #NCIAgency OSCAR

I came to work at Chautauqua in 2004 as the chief executive officer of the Chautauqua Foundation and as the vice president of development for Chautauqua Institution. Sixteen years later, I gave up my role at the Foundation and currently focus on leading the advancement program of the Institution as senior vice president and chief advancement officer. In the latter role, I am responsible for the talented team that works with our philanthropic donor community to support the mission of the Institution. We build relationships with members of the community to assist them in fulfilling their ambitions for Chautauqua. It is incredibly rewarding to see how the community has responded to revitalize facilities, provide scholarships to young artists for study here, and bring the best thought leaders to our platform. Gift by gift, our donors ensure Chautauqua flourishes.Before coming to the Institution, I practiced law for nine years. For two years, I served as the assistant dean of development at William & Mary Law School. I served ten years as director of development, and then as assistant head for development at the Williston Northampton School in Easthampton, Massachusetts. I came to the Institution after serving three years as the assistant dean for development at the University of Michigan Law School.

Dr. Kraus has a boutique consultancy www.aht.ch with targeted business innovation solutions for department leaders. Over 30 years of experience as project manager in pharma and med tech industries with focus on team collaboration and ICT data analysis in research and development. Coach of agile methods, innovation culture and mindset. Knowledge management consultant and lecturer. Certified project manager IPMA. President of Swiss Knowledge Management Forum (SKMF). Creator of various knowledge management tools. The KM model explained in the podcast.

Photo by Sarah Berndt Hampton Sarah Hampton is a Learning and Knowledge Management Program Manager who works to apply attributes of Information and Data Governance and Management, Library Science and Knowledge Management into the realm of Learning & Development.  This fusion has resulted in an expanded scope of effectiveness for which she is grateful to have the opportunity to develop.   Collaborating and co-creating with global colleagues Sarah designs, develops and implements solution sets that meet and exceed business needs with a continuous improvement methodology that strives to optimize human resources and technology.

Nadia is a senior manager at TechnologyValley. TechnologyValley is specialized in Conversational Artificial Intelligence for businesses which offers highly customizable products in the field. TechnologyValley’s proprietary AI technology provides many unique capabilities such as understanding multiple meanings per message, interacting with users via innovative Conversational User Interfaces and many others.