Theme
Session 2: News and Media: Convergence and Disconnect

                 
  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • McLuhan’s ‘Media is the message / massage’ - more true today than ever before?
  • The impact of media on society - in shaping governmental, social, and cultural norms and  processes
  • Media convergence and reality / perception disconnect
  • Key arguments and evidence for media's influence on content
  • Media and content type convergence (information, entertainment, education and learning)  
Session 3: Digital Libraries and Archiving Knowledge

  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Has digital technology wrought digital dark ages? What are the escape routes?
  • ‘Archiving Knowledge more a management issue than a technology issue’ - arguments and evidences
  • Best archiving practices and strategies for Digital Grey materials - websites, emails, and blogs 
  • Standards in digital preservation. What is the first line of defense?
  • Effective digital archiving policy. National Digital Repositories - a solution?
Session 4: New Cyber Genres: Wikis, Blogs, Collaborative Tools and Models
  
  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Transforming individual knowledge to collective intelligence
  • Role of Wiki and Open Source in building knowledge assets
  • From controlled taxonomies to folksonomies
  • Issues with accuracy and validity of knowledge
  • Future of collaborative technology and building social networks
Session 5: Summit Keynote on "Managing Intellectual Capital" by Leif Edvinssion
  
  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Relationship between Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital
  • Intellectual Capital in theory and practice
  • Role of organizational leadership in managing Intellectual Capital
  • The future of Intellectual Capital and impact on economics
  • The Intellectual Capital of Nations, Cities, Regions
MAKE Award Ceremony - Keynote Talk on "Becoming a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise" by Rory Chase
  
  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Overview of the MAKE framework
  • Performance dimensions of the knowledge-era organizations
  • Key processes needed for the knowledge enterprise
  • Competing in the Global Knowledge Economy
  • India as a hub of intellectual wealth
Session 6: Enterprise Content Management
  
  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Is Enterprise-level content management needed?
  • Distributed vs. Centralized content management: Benefits and downsides.
  • Current state of technology for ECM
  • Roles and Processes for managing content
  • Challenges in enabling ECM.
Session 7: Harnessing Business and Competitive Intelligence

 
Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Business intelligence - a software issue or a strategy issue?
  • Moving beyond tools to strategies – from data capturing, mining and farming to actionable information and competitive edge
  • Business Intelligence ethics - balancing privacy, security, market opportunities, customer relations, satisfaction and other issues.
  • Integrating and building business intelligence processes and tools
  • Challenges, opportunities, and the application areas of Business Intelligence
Session 8: Innovation and Intellectual Property Management

  Session focus - Issues / Questions 

  • Can Innovation be a systematic process? Challenges that are faced.
  • Role of networks: idea networks, social networks, collaborative networks
  • Does IP Protection help or hinder Innovation?
  • What organizations can do to build a culture of innovation.
  • What types of innovation are well-suited for India?