9:00 Chair’s Welcome

Robert Ward
Knowledge Management Advisor
Hess

9:15 Harnessing The True Power Of A Global Network: Creating Networks Of Excellence And Enabling Knowledge Transfer To Maximise Production

• Driving cultural change though rewards and recognition
• Promoting problem-solving discourse and creating knowledge that meets specific business needs
• Developing and maturing global knowledge networks to:
• Tap into a diverse, global work force to create and increase business value
• Eliminate lost production
• Drive savings from decreased capital and operating expenses
• Improve planning efficiencies
• Creating deep business integration with knowledge sharing systems
• Improving the technology and processes that enable knowledge sharing
• Approaching knowledge management in joint venture environments--

10:00 Social Computing: Is It Actually Anything New?

• Comparing and contrasting the so called "brave new world" of social computing with 20 years of modern knowledge sharing experiences in Royal Dutch Shell
• How Shell uses knowledge sharing processes to ease the crew change
• How wikis can breathe life into old fashioned but essential technologies like document management systems
• Why search when you can ask?: challenging the Google Generation
• Blogging: finding a home in the most revered of places

Andy Boyd
Knowledge Management Lead
Shell Projects and Technology

11:15 Maintaining The KM Old Guard, While Welcoming The New (but Culture Is The Still Key)

• A review of the ‘class of the 90s’ old guard KM solutions: why some are still going strong
• The new kids on the block: adjusting your KM tools to new trends and technological capabilities
• Why culture is still the key differentiator
• What people, process and technology challenges are we going to be facing

David Lecore
Principal Consultant: Knowledge & Information Management
Schlumberger

12:00 Making The Technology, People And Processes Work Together: Critical Considerations For An Effective (and Sustained) Cultural Transformation

• Creating a strategy: drafting a statement of principles; setting policies and IM standards; conducting an annual strategy review
• Applying the same management principles to KM and IM that are used to manage other corporate assets
• Identifying what you need: defining the information resource, drawing boundaries and prioritising and what can and should meaningfully be used
• Realising that knowledge and information and data are meaningful..and therefore useful
• Where should knowledge management sit in an organisation?

Colin Campbell
Director, Quality
Subsea 7

1:45 Measuring, Monitoring And Managing Your KM System: Using Metrics To Assess Usability And Improve Organisational Agility

• How to unlock the value of your km system
• Creating a monitoring process that will ensure you km system is being routinely applied
• Using metrics to assess how your km system is being used - and how it can be improved

Tom Young
Knowledge Management Consultant
Knoco Ltd

2:30 Managing An Information Governance Framework On A Global Scale: Maximizing Business Benefit, Minimizing Risk

• Identifying opportunities to improve productivity, enable high-quality decisions and mitigate risk
• Determining organisational requirements for effectively governing information on a global scale
• Attacking on multiple fronts: policies, roles & responsibilities, processes, technology
• Dealing with multiple stakeholders – business, legal, IT, etc
• Managing scope and maintaining momentum

Reid G. Smith
Ph.D., Enterprise Content Management Director
Marathon Oil Corporation

3:45 Improving Data Management And Reducing Costs With Data Exchange Standards: Removing Barriers To Adoption To Speed Up Results

• New Standards SEGY Rev 1.1 and SEGD 3.0: Who sets the standards and whose responsibility is it to adopt them?
• Embedded positioning, meta-data, increased granularity
• How SEGY can save money, deliver faster results and improve data management
• Why is a adoption not automatic?

Jill Lewis
Chair, Technical Standards Committee, SEG OGP Liaison Chair Europe, Global Affairs Committee, SEG
Troika International

4:30 Chair’s Closing Remarks And Conference Ends