Conference Day One: 28 April 2010

8:30 Registration And Coffee

9:00 Chair’s Opening Remarks

Robert Ward
Knowledge Management Advisor
Hess

9:15 From KM Guidelines To KM Environment: Defining, Implementing And Sustaining Knowledge Management Standards

  • How BP moved beyond KM guidelines to realise the cultural, technical and business gains of KM
  • Moving from KM strategy to reality: Supplying answers and establishing expectations of KM standard behaviour
  • Raising awareness around the benefits of KM planning and the competitive advantage of a KM culture
  • Tying knowledge sharing and knowledge use to daily business activities and behaviours
  • Gaining trust, support and buy-in: Supplying proof that KM works
  • Recognising – and rewarding – knowledge sharing successes to drive compliance

Wendy Valot
Knowledge Management Consultant to BP

10:00 Realising Knowledge, Information And Data As A Corporate Asset: Moving From Raw Data To Real Value

  • Applying the same management principles to data 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
  • Information and data value chains: finding and resolving breaks in the chain
  • Integrating data, knowledge and information management systems
  • Creating a strategy: drafting a statement of principles; setting policies and standards; conducting an annual strategy review

Maurice Tayeh
Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
Technip

10:45 Morning Refreshment And Networking Break

11:15 Knowledge Is Petrobras' Energy: Enhancing Knowledge Sharing To Expand Learning Opportunities And Grow The Business Faster
  • Current KM Challenges For E&P
  • Enhancing Knowledge Sharing To Expand Learning Opportunities And Grow The Business Faster
  • Designing A Sustainable Strategy For KM
  • Expanding KM Boundaries
  • Developing Knowledge Along The Value Chain
Ruben Caligari
E&P KM Specialist
Petrobras

12:00 Integrating Knowledge Management Into The Enterprise: Maximising The Value Of People To Drive KM Value

  • Driving change to the corporate environment - and anticipating and dealing with the consequences
  • Understanding the need to move from adaptation to expectation
  • Making a cultural change: what does it mean?

Luigi Salvador
former Chief Knowledge Officer, E&P
ENi

12:45 Networking Lunch

1:45 Increase Knowledge Management Performance Through Social Network Analysis

  • Identifying de-facto Communities of Practice, with relevant moderators/members, leveraging on their actual behaviour and attitude
  • Mapping and increasing the interaction between the E&P Division and another company, identifying the bridge-people and starting up transversal communities
  • Identifying high-profile junior staff and engaging them in KM activities to accelerate their professional growth
  • Monitoring existing communities, finding out key players, opinion leaders and knowledge owners
  • Conducting retirement simulations, to foresee how the professional network will look like after the retirement of most senior people

Fillippo Capriotti
Knowledge Management Specialist
ENiE&P

2:30 Information Management In An Object Oriented Project Execution

  • Quality and control in data
  • New data quality management processes
  • Modern information sharing
  • Emerging international standards on data exchange

Jann-Kaare Slettebakk
CIO
AkerSolutions

3:15 Afternoon Refreshment And Networking Break

3:45 No More Consultants? Using Knowledge Management To Harness What You Already Know

  • Discovering how a knowledge-sharing technique which originated in BP has been adopted around the world, including its use to tackle the spread of HIV/AIDS
  • Identifying how to overcome barriers to knowledge-sharing, such as “not invented here” and “tall poppy syndrome”
  • Learning how to make better use of the knowledge in your organisation (so that you can beat the consultants at their own game)

Chris Collison
former Director of Change and Knowledge Management at Centrica and bestselling author of “Learning to Fly” and “No More Consultants”

4:30 Chair’s Closing Remarks And Conference Adjourns