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Donald Clark is an EdTech Entrepreneur, CEO, Professor, Researcher, Blogger and Speaker. He was CEO and one of the original founders of Epic Group plc, which established itself as the leading company in the UK online learning market, floated on the Stock Market in 1996 and sold in 2005. As well as being the CEO of Wildfire, an AI-driven learning company, he also invests in, and advises Learning technology and EdTech companies. Describing himself as ‘free from the tyranny of employment’. He has been on the Boards of many private and public organisations; CogBooks, City&Guilds, University for Industry, LearnDirect and BHDF.and currently a board member of AI focussed company Learning Pool. He has worked in schools, vocational, higher, corporate and adult learning, delivering real projects to real learners. Donald has over 30 years experience in online learning, games, simulations, semantic, adaptive, chatbot, social media, mobile learning, virtual reality and AI projects. He has designed, delivered and advised on online learning for many global, public and private organisations. He is an evangelist for the use of technology in learning and has won many awards, including the first ‘Outstanding Achievement in E-learning Award’ and ‘Best AIM Stock Market Company’, ‘Most Innovative Online Product’ (for WildFire), ‘Best Online Learning Project (for WildFire)’ and ‘JISC EdTech Award’ (for WildFire). An award winning speaker at national and international conferences, he has delivered keynotes in Europe. US, Africa, Australia, Middle and Far East. …… also a regular blogger (10 years+) on learning technology, His series on learning theorists, as well as 500 researched, online design tips, are valuable open resources. His book ‘AI for Learning’ and ‘Learning eXperience Design’ are both available on Amazon.

Tony Rhem is a recognized thought leader in AI, KM, Big Data, Information Architecture and Innovation. Since 1990 I have served as CEO/Principal Consultant of A.J. Rhem & Associates (AJRA). AJRA is a consulting, training & research firm focusing on knowledge management, AI and system integration with offices located in Chicago IL, and Charlotte NC. As a consultant, strategist and advisor, Tony has worked with U.S. fortune 500 corporations, in retail, communications, financial, insurance, legal, logistics, education, healthcare, as well as US Federal, State and local government, and the military. Tony is actively working with emerging technology firms as both an advisor and early stage investor. As a speaker and author he engages the audience to demystify technology to enable its understanding, implementation and practical use. Tony particularly enjoys working as a technologist in the areas of Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence.

April Buckland April currently serves as a Driving Adoption Program Analyst for the Internal Revenue Services’ Knowledge Management and Transfer (KMT) team.  She began her career with the agency in 2008 and has served in several HR positions within the Agency. In 2014, April first began her Knowledge Management journey as a KM cadre and later had the opportunity to detail within KM. In 2019 she began working permanently within the IRS Knowledge Management and Transfer group, she has specialized in developing the KM tools in SharePoint, leading our key stakeholder groups and continuing to obtain sponsorship within all levels of the agency. Clara Prather Clara graduated from Texas Woman’s University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. She began her career with the Internal Revenue Service in 2007. Clara currently serves as a Driving Adoption Program Analyst for Knowledge Management and Transfer (KMT) and is a Certified Knowledge Practitioner. She has held various positions within the IRS. Clara is married and has two children. Her son Duece will be entering ninth grade for this upcoming school year and plays football and runs track and her daughter, Sariah will be going to third grade and runs track.

Guests on the KM Lobby Ian Rodwell Ian works with Linklaters’ key clients on a range of knowledge and learning initiatives. He delivers guidance, workshops and masterclasses globally on knowledge exploitation, collaboration, high-performing teams, creativity, the role of trust, virtual working and motivational leadership. He is also an experienced coach and a member of the Linklaters training faculty. Ian joined Linklaters in 1992, originally working in their Real Estate Department where he helped set-up the group's first knowhow system. He then ran an Information Unit providing research and analysis services to 260 lawyers and business development practitioners in the firm's mainstream corporate practice. A regular speaker at conferences and events, Ian is a doctoral researcher at City University, London and has supported the Guildhall School of Music and Drama on a workshop that looks at business collaboration via the lens of a jazz ensemble. He also authored Knowledge to Action – a report that looks at how effective KM practices can help in-house legal teams add value to the wider business.  Vishal Agnihotri Vishal Agnihotri has held operational, consulting and leadership roles for over 20 years in enterprise Knowledge Management spanning business research, knowledge technology implementation, training and adoption, and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO).  Prior to joining Hinshaw as its first Chief Knowledge Officer, she was the Chief Knowledge Officer at Akerman LLP. Earlier, she led Knowledge Management groups at two Big 4 consulting firms, KPMG and E&Y. Her focus is to equip practitioners with enabling services, tools and insights. Vishal started her career in Knowledge Management at a boutique research and advisory firm which supported Fortune 500 clients with market perspective that informed and provoked their new product development, new market entry, strategic growth and innovation efforts.  Vishal holds an MBA from the University of Leicester (UK). She frequently speaks on Knowledge Management in the professional services firm, and her audiences have included podcast listeners of Technically Legal, The Geek in Review and the Modern Lawyer and conference attendees at  ILTA, AALL, the World Bank KM Forum, the Lex Mundi Roundtables, the Ark Group Knowledge Management in the Legal Profession Conferences, Ark Group Law Libraries Conferences, APQC, E2, IABC's Intranet Global Forum, Digital Workplace Group, and the EY Human Capital Conference. Evan Shenkman Evan Shenkman is the Chief Knowledge and Innovation Officer at Fisher Phillips, an AMLAW 200 labor and employment law firm with 36 offices across the United States, where he leads the firm’s Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Library functions. Constantly at the forefront of change in the legal profession, Evan was named to the 2021 Fastcase 50 List, recognizing “50 of the smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law,” and he received the 2020 Legal Innovator of the Year Award, recognizing his team’s numerous innovations during the coronavirus pandemic. At Fisher Phillips, Evan’s responsibilities include harnessing the power of knowledge, A.I., and data analytics to the benefit of firm attorneys and clients; creating processes, practices, and software to allow firm attorneys to work smarter, faster, and more in sync; creating internal and client-facing collaborative tools; and introducing innovative technologies and approaches to help firm attorneys and clients thrive in the modern workplace. A frequent author, presenter, and podcast guest in the KM and Innovation space, Evan has been featured in The American Lawyer, the ABA Journal, Law.com, the AALL Spectrum, The Modern Lawyer Podcast, LiteraTV, and the Reinventing Professionals podcast, among others. Before entering the KM field in 2011, Evan was an AV-rated employment litigator for a decade. 

Ali Allage is a dedicated husband and proud dad to 3 amazing kids. With twenty years of experience leading technology companies – from tech-focused problem-solving to the creation of consumer and business applications and platforms, Ali is great at taking what a small, specialized group understands and communicating that to the mass market. Ali serves as the CEO for BlueSteel Cybersecurity. As CEO for BlueSteel Cybersecurity, the mission is to deliver a new approach in intelligent cybersecurity protection, certification, engineering, and strategy services for small to mid-sized organizations. With twenty years of experience leading technology companies – from tech-focused problem-solving to the creation of consumer and business applications and platforms, Ali is great at taking what a small, specialized group understands and communicating that to the mass market. Read more here https://www.bluesteelcyber.com/post/breaking-down-president-biden-s-cyber-executive-order

To engage a group of teammates consider how engaged they are in the meeting. Are you leading a session that includes everyone? Are they listening? Are the participating? Do they care? Have you created space for playful engagement? Well here is Richard Gold to give a juicy way to add value for all next time you bring people together. It all starts with a safe environment. Here is a little about Richard; I am an experienced business consultant and manager with a blue-chip international background, working at senior levels in strategy, digital transformation, proposition development, innovation, customer experience and marketing in media, healthcare, heritage, leisure, financial services and public sectors - among others. I started out as a journalist and magazine editor in the media trade press before completing an MBA at INSEAD, and switching to consulting. In 25 years as a consultant, I have worked as principal in KPMG’s strategy consulting practice; as head of interactive media at world leading brand consultancy Wolff Olins; and as an associate director at digital transformation consultancy Transform; in addition to several years working independently. I am now an independent consultant with a focus on helping organisations and teams to release the hidden potential of their people though emergent approaches to strategy, systems thinking and building psychological safety within teams. A certified facilitator in the LEGO® Serious Play® technique, I have founded Bulbb which uses playful techniques such as LSP and Applied Improv to support clients in strategy, change, team development, leadership development and project management. Bulbb’s clients have included Novartis, Kier, Mencap, 02, eon, London School of Paediatrics and the MoD, among others. In a world that is that is changing at an accelerating pace, I use purposeful play to help organisations and teams solve some of their biggest issues. Check out this fantastic resource for teams https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ https://rework.withgoogle.com/print/guides/5721312655835136/ https://www.lego.com/en-us/seriousplay LEGO® Serious Play®

Lloyd has been a knowledge management practitioner for seven years, after discovering it in 2014. Prior to this Lloyd had a solid background in IT support, spanning over 20 years in a wide range of industries and multi-national organizations. Having experienced the success that knowledge management brought to an IT support team in Airbus Australia Pacific, Lloyd found his new passion! He took up an opportunity to perform knowledge management at an organizational level for Airbus in Australia when they upgraded their ISO9001 standard to the 2015 version. This involved his first foray into developing a Knowledge Management framework. This framework included tools that help an organization preserve knowledge when staff exit, prevent costly re-work, reduce organizational risk, fast track projects and unblock tasks holding staff up. In Lloyd’s current capacity working for a state government agency in Australia, he continues to hone his knowledge management skills while coordinating knowledge flows and facilitating sessions to improve support outcomes, build working relationships across teams and geographies, unblock tasks and preserve organizational knowledge. In this time, he has also been called upon in a consulting capacity by other Australian State Government agencies and even Auckland Police in New Zealand. Outside of work, Lloyd likes to contribute to global knowledge management sessions and initiatives and is very passionate about permaculture and traditional food preparation methods such as dehydrating, fermenting, sprouting and sourdough…though perhaps not so successful at times!

Eudald Camprubí, is the CEO and co-founder at Flaps (getflaps.com), an easy-to-use to use API to build AI-powered search engines, from Barcelona (Catalonia, Europe).  I have more than 12 years of experience building digital products mainly related to document management,  knowledge management, intranets, content management systems, and e-discovery tools used by some top global companies worldwide. With all this accumulated knowledge, I have built, together with my co-founder and CTO Ramon Navarro, Flaps, with the mission to change how people access their non-structured data.  I love trail running. I have participated in some long-distance trail running races. I truly believe that running and being a deep tech entrepreneur have a lot of common points. 

Hélène Russell of TheKnowledgeBusiness is a lawyer (non-practicing) and expert in KM.  After working in litigation defense work for 8 years, Hélène worked in-house as a Knowledge Lawyer (this is an in-house subject matter expert & KM support for a department). She has worked as a self-employed KM consultant since 2008.  Hélène specializes in translating complex academic thought leadership and cross-boundary theories into practical tools to improve the efficiency and profitability of real-life law firms and has a particular interest in encouraging the sharing of more complex forms of knowledge and the people-challenges of KM.  As part of her executive MBA, Hélène studied antecedents to knowledge sharing within UK law firms for her dissertation.  Hélène runs regular open KM training online and a global online KM training group under the Knowledge Network brand, and bespoke in-house training.   Hélène is the author of “Knowledge Management Handbook” published by the Law Society of England and Wales, “Practical Projects in Legal KM” published by Legal Monitor and a contributor to five books by Ark. “Practical Projects in Legal KM” was declared “clear, succinct, jargon-free and one of the most pragmatic KM texts I have come across … Anyone dealing with legal KM should have a copy of this book. It’s as simple as that” by Head of Client Knowledge and Learning at Linklaters, Ian Rodwell.  Hélène has spoken at various events: Ark’s KM Legal, Butterworth’s PSL conference, and for UWE, BLS and Allice.  http://www.theknowledgebusiness.co.uk/aboutus.html   Hélène Russell Author, Trainer & Consultant  Social media links Twitter - https://twitter.com/heleneadbyLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenerussell/ plus my blog (which has ended up being my main website) - Knowledge for Lawyers | A blog about KM in the legal sector. (knowledge4lawyers.com) https://twitter.com/heleneadby