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Management Track: A Manager's View of Technology
Track Chair: Dianne Kennedy,
Chief Strategy Officer, InfoLoom, Inc.
RDF
and the Semantic Web: What Managers Need to Know
Speaker: Joel
Sachs, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center,
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Description: Massively improved search; knowledge
sharing; corporate memory - these are some of the promises
held forth by the impending semantic web. In this session,
we will give a manager's introduction to RDF, the foundation
on which the semantic web is being built. We will look
at representative scenarios/architectures showing how
RDF can be used today, and at tentative architectures
showing how RDF will be used tomorrow.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
An Introduction to Service Architectures
Speaker: David
Turner, XML Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Description: Web services are fast becoming the
programmatic backbone for electronic commerce. A Web Service
describes specific business functionality exposed by a
company for the purpose of providing a way for another
company to use the service. Integrating web services into
service frameworks and providing mechanisms to facilitate
web service discovery remain challenges. In this presentation,
David Turner will explain what a service architecture
is and discuss leading service architectures including
.net, ebXML, BizTalk, and UDDI.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Ontologies
and Taxonomies: A Manager's Overview
Speaker: Dr.
Joseph Williamson, Vice President Knowledge Services,
EDS - Federal
Description: As we struggle to implement intuitive
intranet navigation, seek to leverage shared meaning and
language and as we place more emphasis on intangibles,
collaboration, innovation, virtual communication the use
of taxonomies and ontologies increase in visibility and
importance. In fact we find the applications of these
technologies surfacing in eCommerce, in portals, in object
orientated and RDMS, in informal group work, in B2b exchanges,
in large global enterprises and even in mom and pop shops.
In this presentation learn more about taxonomies and ontologies
and how they can be employed.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Topic Maps and XTM; A Manager's
Overview
Speakers: Michel
Biezunski, CEO/Founder, InfoLoom, Inc. and Steven
R. Newcomb, CoolHeads Consulting
Description: This session will provide a non-technical
introduction to Topic Maps (ISO 13250) and XML Topic Maps
(XTM, GPS for the Web). The speakers for this session,
co-editors of the ISO/IEC Topic Maps specification and
founding co-chairs for the XTM Activity, will provide
managers with a basic conceptual understanding of Topic
Maps and explain how this technology can be applied in
a business environment.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Management
Track: The Business of Knowledge
Track Chair: B. Tommie
Usdin, Mulberry Technologies
The
Laws of (New) Media: Marshall McLuhan and Knowledge
Technologies
Speaker: Dale
Hunscher, CEO, South Wind Design, Inc.
Description: Marshall McLuhan foresaw the effects
of the Internet more than 30 years ahead of his time.
His "Global Village" concept is now a household word,
as well as a virtual reality. In this presentation,
we'll look at McLuhan's Laws of Media to see how they
help us make sense of the features of the markup language
standards world.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Best Practices & Approaches
for Using IT to Support KM
Speaker: Cindy
Hubert, Manager, Knowledge Management, APQC, Custom
Solutions
Description: It is no coincidence that information
technology (IT) has blossomed at the same time that
knowledge is becoming recognized as the most valuable
of a firm's assets. There is a powerful synergistic
relationship between KM and technology; that relationship
drives increasing returns and increasing sophistication
on both fronts. In this presentation Ms. Hubert will
provide guidance in how IT can be used toward KM efforts.
Presentation
Materials: Power Point
Slides
Getting
on the Knowledge Bus: Objects, Links, and Asset Management
Strategies
Speaker: Chris
W. Higgins , Attorney at Law
Description: This presentation will discuss how
the Knowledge Bus is a channel over which knowledge
flows between two or more knowledge processing devices
to provide a common medium for the explicit representation
and exchange of knowledge assets. By unifying the infrastructures
for data integration, security policies and knowledge
personalization, the Bus exploits generic addressing
and linking to create a new world of fungible knowledge
objects.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Managing
the Intellectual Property Lifecycle
Speaker: Bryan
Bell, President/Founder, Synth-Bank LLC
Presenation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Creating
Standards-Based Knowledge Systems using NewsML and Topic
Maps
Speaker: Daniel
Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies, RivCom
Description: This presentation will provide an overview
of the NewsML and Topic Maps standards. It will show how,
because of their powerful synergy, Topic Maps and NewsML
can combine to make a newsfeed into a knowledge engine,
and a news archive into a navigable knowledge repository.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
What's Required in Knowledge
Technologies - A Practical View
Speaker: Reid
Smith, Vice President Knowledge Management, Schlumberger
Description: Reid Smith is responsible for
leading the effort to improve organizational performance
through processes and technology to capture, share,
and apply the overall experience and know-how of people
in the company. Learn about the requirements for knowledge
technologies from a practicing knowledge manager.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
eCommerce
Powered by Knowledge Technologies
Speaker: Dr.
H. Holger Rath, Business Segment Manager,
empolis Content Management GmbH
Description: Discussed during the session
will be how a B2C eCommerce Web site require
excellent sales support (assistance) to attract
the customers and to be successful. Ordinary
database and fulltext queries as well as simple
profiles do not provide the expected level of
service. Knowledge technologies can fuel intelligent
searching, personalized feedback dialogs, and
sophisticated knowledge navigation giving the
customer the kind of help and comfort she is
looking for. The results are higher traffic,
turnovers, and increased customer satisfaction.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Intelligent Document Content
for e-Business
Speaker: Dan
Z. Sokol, President, Cohesia Corporation
Description: This presentation will discuss
the requirements for enriching XML to enable
more automated document interpretation in support
of e-business activities. The presentation will
discuss real world applications in a trade exchange
and a manufacturing enterprise.
Presentation Materials: PDF
Slides
Management
Track: Case Studies
Track
Chair: Sam Hunting
Case
Study - Siemens Automation and Drive Help Desk: A Knowledge
Work-Place with Self-Service
Speaker: Norman
Zimmer, Business Development Manager, empolis NA
Inc.
Description: The presentation will outline an
approach to knowledge management using case based reasoning
(CBR), a discipline within Artificial Intelligence.
The technical aspects of CBR will be explained and this
will be followed by a case study of an application developed
for Siemens Automation & Drives in their worldwide after-sales
service department.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Creating a Dynamic Knowledge Management
System for Increased Enterprise Performance and Innovation
Speaker: Dr.
Charles H. Bixler, Director of Knowledge Management,
Keane Federal Systems, Inc.
Description: The purpose of this presentation
will be to present formal research conducted to identify
the value of Knowledge Management to an enterprise in
terms of its ability to solve enterprise-wide problems,
determine the resources and conditions necessary for
initiating a Knowledge Management System (KMS), and
determine the expected benefits of a KMS. This will
provide a "validated" foundation for developing a process
model that will be used to design and implement an enterprise
Knowledge Management System.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Personalized
KM for eLearning
Speaker: Nick
Carr, CEO, Allette Systems
Description: Delivering distance education can provide
numerous benefits in terms of quality and cost, but it
can also presents a number of challenges. Private and
public questions, persistent but growing FAQs, the maintenance
of course curriculum and messaging are all problems in
the delivery of remote instruction. This presentation
discusses the issue of personalised knowledge management
for distant students from a knowledge mangement perspective.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides
Case
Study - Portfolio Tracking and Competitive Intelligence
Speaker: Sam
Knox, Director of Analyst Services, Inxight Software
(Replaced by Christopher Cho, Inxight Software)
Description: Q: How can a venture capital compan find
new opportunities within its portfolio and competitive
environment? A: By consulting a next-generation portal
built atop a dynamic industry model, fed by core information
extracted from unstructured text documents. On behalf
of the Deutsche Bank eVentures group, Inxight Software
built a prototype portfolio tracking and competitive intelligence
tool that uses Inxight's unique and powerful visualization
technology to generate a highly visual and interactive
view of the industry model. Entity extraction and categorization
are used to organize documents within that industry model,
while intelligent summarization brings key information
to the surface for easy absorption. In addition, the portal
employs sophisticated linguistic processing to extract
new facts about industry structure and participation from
the incoming content stream, thereby automatically keeping
the model up-to-date. The result is a powerful, easy-to-use,
and easy-to-maintain solution for portfolio monitoring,
research and prospecting by VC analysts.
Presentation Materials: Power
Point Slides