Gurteen Knowledge Community

Communities

Regional Gurteen Community Cafés

Asia: various locations
Australia: Adelaide** ¹⁾
Switzerland: Zurich** ²⁾
United Kingdom: Bristol**, Liverpool**, London, Manchester**
United States of America: New York City**, Jacksonville**
Worldwide: Zoom – Online Knowledge Café

Meetings

Gatherings of the regional Gurteen Community Cafés

Adelaide Knowledge Café (2006-2009)

Jun 2009: Leadership and the Collaborative Climate… Does Anyone Care?
Apr 2009: Wiki Software: Confluence vs Sharepoint
Mar 2009: Developing a Knowledge Company
Feb 2009: Gurteen Knowledge Cafe – Adelaide: Review and Preview
Nov 2008: The Gang of Four Returns! We came, we saw, we talked, we collaborated, we cabareted…: Reflections on learnings from the ACTKM08 conference
Oct 2008: Knowledge Management – Building Critical Resources Within the Company
Sep 2008: Lessons Learned from Lessons Learned: Report on an Experiment
Jul 2008: Using Communities of Practice to realise value from collaboration
May 2008: What Frame Control is YOUR Knowledge Management Game?
Mar 2008: Web 2.0 and Knowledge Management
Feb 2008: The Relationship between Time and Knowledge
Dec 2007: Adelaide Knowledge Cafe: Christmas Meeting
Oct 2007: Dealing with Complexity: Complex Acts of Knowing – Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness
Sep 2007: Knowledge Management Methodology: How to implement Knowledge Management within an organisation
Aug 2007: Review of Sydney Knowledge Management Conference
Jul 2007: What is Knowledge Management?
May 2007: Knowledge Management Tips for building The Profile and Reputation of Your Team
Mar 2007 (K-Café): The Knowledge Management approach of the South Australian Government: What’s driving it? What can we learn?’
Nov 2006 (K-Café): Writing as Inquiry
Sep 2006 (K-Café): What is the obligation for individuals and communities to entrust cultural knowledge for the future?
Jul 2006 (K-Café): The Knowledge Spiral – Explicit to Tacit Transfer. Does it work for you?
May 2006 (K-Café): How Can Knowledge Management Improve Actions In An Organisation?
Apr 2006: Knowledge Policy
Mar 2006: The Launch of the Adelaide Gurteen Knowledge Cafe: What Would you like to see the Community and the Knowledge Cafes provide?
Feb 2006: (POSTPONED) Inaugural K-Café – Adelaide Australia meeting

Asia Knowledge Cafés (2008/2012)

Feb 2012: An introduction to the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe (Jakarta); Storytelling (Singapore)
Jan 2008: How do we create enthusiasm and buy-in for Knowledge Management in our organizations and motivate ourselves as Knowledge Management practitioners? (Kuala Lumpur; in partnership with the Multimedia University (KM Centre) and KM Talk)
Apr 2007: An introduction to the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe & What are the barriers to knowledge sharing and innovation within organizations and how do we overcome them? (Jakarta; Host: KM Plus)

Bristol Knowledge Café (2006-2010)

Feb 2010: Ethics
Nov 2009: Language and leadership
Sep 2009: Resilience – dealing with an uncertain future
Jun 2009: The Purpose and Limits of Knowledge Management
Feb 2009: Generoisity
Nov 2008: Storytelling
Jul 2008: Relationships are the New Bottom Line
Jun 2008: UnLearning
Dec 2007: Bristol Knowledge Cafe: Meeting
Jul 2006: How does trust impact knowledge sharing?
May 2006: Are Learning and Knowledge Sharing the same thing?
Feb 2006: Launch of the Bristol Gurteen Knowledge Cafe

London Knowledge Café (2002-present)

Jun 2024: Demography Is Destiny: Population Decline – What Does it Mean for the World? @ Ipsos
May 2024: Conversational Collective Intelligence: A New Kind of Democracy @ House of Commons Library
Mar 2024: What Will Be the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Knowledge Management? @ Oliver Wyman
Feb 2024: What are the strongest motives for creative endeavour in your life? @ Regent’s University London
Aug 2020: Topic tba @ CILIP (CANCELLED)
Jul 2020: Topic tba @ Westminster Business School (CANCELLED)
Jun 2020: Topic tba @ Ernst & Young (CANCELLED)
May 2020: Topic tba @ Deloitte (CANCELLED)
Apr 2020: Topic tba @ The British Library (CANCELLED)
Feb 2020: The University of the Future: What knowledge, skills and/or capabilities should be prioritised for learners at universities in the 21st Century? @ Regent’s University London
Jul 2019: Why is conversation so damned important? (5 year topic celebration; with John Hovell) @ Westminster Business School
Feb 2019: How do you feel about fear? @ Fieldfisher
Jun 2018: What can you do to make your Workplace Happier? @ Portcullis House
May 2018: Paying attention to attentiveness @ NHS London Leadership Academy
Oct 2017: What does ‘working out loud’ look like in successful, collaborative, organisations? @ Arup
Sep 2017: How is service transformation possible, and what would it mean? @ RedQuadrant
Jun 2017: Applying the discipline of Behavioural Science to Knowledge Management @ Ipsos MORI
May 2017: Collaboration in the construction industry: What advice would you give to ensure that major built environment projects are collaborative enough to reflect the needs of all stakeholders? @ Argent
Mar 2017: Knowledge Management 2.0: Generative Conversation @ Westminster Business School
Nov 2016: How do we become better teachers of our knowledge? @ Fluor, Farnborough
Oct 2016: World Values Day 2016: Putting our values into action – why is it so hard? @ Greencoat Place Meeting and Conference Centre
Jul 2016: Conversare Café @ The Lamb Bloomsbury
Jul 2016: Serendipitous Conversations @ British Dental Association
May 2016: Multiple perspectives: electrons and people in an energy system @ RedQuadrant
Feb 2016: This Café believes that one day soon businesses will become truly social @ BAE Systems, Farnborough
Nov 2015: What can we do to increase the passion, learning and interaction in Communities of Practice? @ Fluor, Farnborough
Nov 2015: What should I do with the rest of my life? @ Regent’s University London
Oct 2015: Do your little bit of good – David Gurteen attending @ St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation and Peace
Jul 2015: Accelerating change by inspiring people to reflect on the foundations of their beliefs, attitudes and behaviours @ Westminster Business School
Jun 2015: Changing the world with empathy @ ProFinda
Jun 2015: How can we transform our corporate culture to empower people to be entrepreneurial and adventurous? @ Fluor, Farnborough
Apr 2015: How can we improve our business conversations? @ BAE Systems, Farnborough
Apr 2015: Cloud Computing: What are the implications for the future? @ The Rubens at the Palace
Feb 2015: Mobile Working – Friend or Foe? @ Hoborn Bars
Oct 2014: Transparency and Open Data Agenda @ Department for Business Innovation & Skills
Sep 2014: Digital Democracy @ House of Commons Library
Jul 2014: What life experience has influenced you the most? @ BAE Systems, Farnborough
Jul 2014: Intimate Converstions @ Department for Business Innovation & Skills
Jun 2014: What does Gamification mean in a Knowledge Management environment? @ Westminster Business School
Mar 2014: What does Conversational Leadership mean to you? @ Westminster Business School
Nov 2013: Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Future Forum: Are employers looking for skills and behaviours more than knowledge from today’s graduates? @ HTC, Slough
Oct 2013: What steps do libraries and information services need to take to survive in the Google age? @ The British Library
Oct 2013: Are skills and behaviours more important than knowledge for modern day graduates? @ University of Greenwich Business School (By Invitation Only)
Sep 2013: How can we more actively share knowledge within the workplace? @ The Treasury Building
Jul 2013: Knowledge by Walking About @ Cass Business School
Jul 2013: How Does The Pace Of Innovation Affect The Quality Of Creativity? @ Westminster Business School
Mar 2013: What could we do individually to encourage greater collaboration and sharing in our organisations? @ Westminster Business School
Dec 2012: Are charities doing more harm than good by using images and stories of vulnerable children? @ Plan International
Oct 2012: Connectivity. Can being connected make us more successful and can tools help? @ Capco
Jul 2012: The Passion Cafe: Discovering your Passion @ Regent College London
Jul 2012: Behavioural characteristics of conversations @ Local Government Association
March 2012: Sustainability Cafe @ PricewaterhouseCoopers
Aug 2011: How does conversation change the way we see the world, and can it help change the world for the better? @ PricewaterhouseCoopers
Jun 2011: An introduction to the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe @ EC Harris
Feb 2011: Knowledge Cafe with Richard McDermott: What about thinking? @ Deloitte
Jul 2010: No More Consultants. Can we do without them? @ Arup
Feb 2010: The 10 year impact of communities, now and in the future @ Deloitte
May 2009: How can the Knowledge Cafe be used for business purpose within organizations? @ British Dental Association
Apr 2009: Imagining the knowledge technologies of the future @ BCS London
Mar 2009: Human will and human won’t @ HM Treasury
Feb 2009 How can we best keep employees engaged in their work, in the current economic climate? @ BT Tower
Jan 2009: An evening exploring Quality Conversation. @ London Development Agency (LDA)
Dec 2008: How do I know if my Knowledge Management programme is effective? @ Deloitte
Oct 2008: Could you stop using e-mail? @ MWB Business Exchange Centre – Victoria
Mar 2008: Knowledge Management 2.0: What will be the impact of Social Tools on Knowledge Management? @ Unicom Seminars Social Tools conference
Jul 2007: The Video Knowledge Cafe! @ Unicom Seminars Social Tools conference
Jun 2007: The Fifth Gurteen Knowledge Barbecue @ University of Greenwich Business School
Nov 2006 Moving from traditional Knowledge Management to Personal Knowledge Management (PKM): How do we get there? @ Ernst & Young
Oct 2006: Visit to the SMARTlab at the University of East London @ the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute
Aug 2006: What is the obligation for individuals and communities to entrust cultural knowledge for the future? Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust
Jun 2006: The fourth Gurteen Knowledge Barbecue (15 June 2006) @ University of Greenwich Business School
May 2006: Knowledge management: on a quest for a new simplicity! @ CILIP
Apr 2006: Double loop learning & Knowledge Management: Breaking Through Performance Boundaries? @ Westminster Business School
Mar 2006: Will accountants have any role in accounting information in the future? @ ACCA
Jan 2006: Knowledge Management: What has Wisdom got to do with it? @ London South Bank University
Dec 2005: Knowledge managers ignore records management at their peril! @ TFPL
Nov 2005: Intimate Conversation @ Royal Institute of British Architects
Oct 2005: Why should employees share their knowledge? @ Universites UK
Sep 2005: What role does Knowledge Sharing play in the Employee Life Cycle? @ Bramah Tea Museum
Jun 2005: Gurteen Knowledge BBQ @ University of Greenwich Business School
Apr 2005: Personal Networking – Shared or Selfish Success @ Westminster Business School
Mar 2005: Innovation Cafes: Where Practitioners make their own rules @ CILIP
Jan 2005: Universities as businesses: the retail challenge @ London South Bank University
Dec 2004: Communities and Networks: knowledge mobilizers or alternative silos? @ TFPL
Nov 2004: Intuition Management @ RIBA Library
Sep 2004: What is the meaning of value? @ London South Bank University
Jul 2004: Gurteen Knowledge BBQ (27 July 2004) @ University of Greenwich Business School
Mar 2004: Are you a techno-fetishist or a fluffy-bunny? @ Universites UK
Feb 2004: Creating Value from your Knowledge (jointly with the Intellectual Capital Network) @ CILIP
Dec 2003: Skills fit for purpose: working with knowledge and information @ TFPL
Oct 2003: The Gurteen Knowledge Community @ Kensington Close Hotel
Jun 2003: Gurteen Knowledge Barbecue @ University of Greenwich Business School
May 2003: Does Knowledge have a Shelf-Life? @ Kensington Close Hotel
Apr 2003: Delivering Knowledge Management in the Higher Education Curriculum @ University of Westminister
Mar 2003: What sort of problems can Knowledge Management solve? @ Kensington Close Hotel (Host: Unicom Seminars, co-located with “Managing Knowledge” Conference)
Feb 2003: Knowledge Management and Creation of Intellectual Capital @ TFPL
Dec 2002: Flexible Working @ IBM Southbank
Oct 2002: The role of conversation in knowledge management @ Strand Palace Hotel
Sep 2002: Initial meeting @ Strand Palace Hotel

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New York Knowledge Café (2005-2010; 2016-2017)

Jun 2017: Intelligent Communities
Apr 2017: Fake News Shaking Knowledge Management
Feb 2017: Together, We Will Create a Knowledge Management Experience
Dec 2016: Crossing Silos in Practice
Nov 2016: Breaking Down Silos through Working Out Loud
Oct 2016: Intelligent Machines and Network Analysis
Sep 2016: Graph-based Databases
Aug 2016: Mind Mapping as a Type of Knowledge Management
Jul 2016: Casual Knowledge Management Outing
Jun 2016: Meet & Greet: “Re-boot” of the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe NY
Jun 2010: What is the role of Psychology in Assessing, Increasing and Managing 21st Century Wealth for Individuals, Organizations, and the World?
Apr 2009: How can the Science of Human Behavior (Psychology) Meet the Needs of 21st Century Organizations and Worklife?
Nov 2008: The Impact of Social Networking Tools in Organizations
Apr 2008: What’s so great about Openness and Transparency?
Jan 2008: Social Network Services across Generations
Nov 2007: Knowledge Transfer through Informal Networks: to See the (W)hole
Jan 2007: (with Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy)
Nov 2006:
Apr 2006: The “how and the what” of the best ways to engage, adapt, and invent new thinking to stay competitive, innovative and revitalized in today’s fast-paced business environment (with The Change Forum (Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy))
Dec 2005: (CANCELLED)
Nov 2005: (CANCELLED) What’s new and innovative in Knowledge Management? How can Gureen K-Cafe New York contribute to innovation in Knowledge Management?
Oct 2005: (CANCELLED)
Jul 2005: Inaugural Meeting
Jun 2005: Inaugural Meeting (postponed)

North West England and New Wales Knowledge Cafés (Liverpool, Manchester) (2005-2012)

Dec 2012 (Manchester): The Power of Graphics
Apr 2012 (Manchester): Storytelling
Feb 2012 (Manchester): Change
Jun 2011 (Manchester): Manchester Knowledge Cafe Launch
Apr 2011 (Liverpool): The Power of Storytelling
Mar 2011 (Liverpool): Building networks, communities and markets
May 2010 (Liverpool): Enterprise 2.0, A business revolution?
Sep 2009 (Liverpool): The Emergence of Style
Jan 2009 (Liverpool): Objects are not neutral: Exploring the power of symbolic objects in the management of change
Sep 2007 (Liverpool): A Knowledge Perspective of Enterprise Formation and Growth
Jul 2007 (Liverpool): What can KMers learn from artists ?
Jun 2007 (Liverpool): Inaugural meeting of Gurteen Knowledge Cafe – Liverpool
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Apr 2006 (Widnes): The Challenge of Working in Virtual Teams
Dec 2005 (Liverpool): Knowledge Management and the Public Sector in the North West
Jul 2005 (Manchester): Data, Information and Knowledge – why knowing the difference makes a difference
May 2005 (Cheshire): Inaugural Meeting of Gurteen Knowledge Cafe, North West – England

Various England Knowledge Café locations (2011-2013)

Sep 2013: Collaborate to Innovate: but do we need to change our attitudes and behaviours first? @ Cisco (Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce), Reading
Oct 2012: What is the role of conversation in business and science? An Introduction to the Gurteen Knowledge Cafe @ Harwell Innovation Centre, Oxford
May 2011: An Open Knowledge Cafe with David Gurteen in Winchester @ Ell Court (Hampshire County Council), Winchester
Feb 2011: An Open Knowledge Cafe with David Gurteen in Edinburgh @ Edinburgh University, Edinburgh

Zoom - Online Conversational Leadership Café (2017-present)

Note: Was Knowledge Café until 2021

Jan 2024: What are we prepared to take responsibility for?
Oct 2023: Intergenerational Knowledge Café – an intergenerational dialogue about values between young people and elders (2x World Values Day 2023 Virtual Knowledge Café; Part of the KMGN Global Knowledge Week)
May 2023: The Great Unheard: Where do the silences in your life exist, and what significance do they hold for you? (2x EMEA & APAC time)
Oct 2022: What is the role of values in communityship? (World Values Day 2022 Virtual Knowledge Café; 2x EMEA & APAC time)
Aug 2022: Constructive Disagreement @ We Are Here Canada
Jul 2022: What is Communityship?
May 2022: Is this our Gutenberg Moment?
Apr 2022: Why is respect important in society?
Mar 2022: Disagree Constructively
Feb 2022: The Knowledge Delusion
Oct 2021: Reconnecting: Shifting from “Values” to “Valuing” (World Values Day 2021 Virtual Knowledge Café2)
Jan 2021: An Introduction to Conversational Leadership IV
Oct 2020: We are not enemies, but friends II; Values in Action (World Values Day 2020 Virtual Knowledge Café)
Sep 2020: We are not enimies
(eighth (?) in a series of online Knowledge Cafés on Conversational Leadership)
Jul 2020: An Introduction to Conversational Leadership III
Jul 2020: An Introduction to Conversational Leadership II
Jun 2020: An Introdroduction to Conversational Leadership
May 2020: Catalysing Mass Commitment to Transformational Change; How to conduct conversations for transformative change; Leadership as practice
Apr 2020: Leadership as practice
Mar 2020: Leadership as practice
Oct 2019: Wellbeing (World Values Day 2019 Virtual Knowledge Café)
Oct 2018: How we put our values into action in the community? (World Values Day 2018 Virtual Knowledge Café)
Oct 2017: Closing the gap between the values we see in the world around us, and the values we want to see (World Values Day 2017 Virtual Knowledge Café)
Jul 2017: How can I put the Knowledge Café to good use?
Aug 2017: Zoom Café Singapore: An Introduction to Zoom Virtual Knowledge Cafés; Zoom Café Sydney: An Introduction to Zoom Virtual Knowledge Cafés

Zurich Knowledge Café (2006-2008)

(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich)

Apr 2008 (Basel): Knowledge & Collaboration (with KM Institute CKM class and SKMF Basel chapter)
Feb 2008: Managing Information Overload (with SKMF Zurich chapter)
Jun 2007: What are the special requirements for the procurement, selection and development of personnel in the knowledge society (with SKMF Zurich chapter)
April 2007 (Basel): Knowledge & Leadership (with KM Institute CKM class and SKMF Basel chapter)
Nov 2006 (Basel): Knowledge Management Training and Learning Solutions (with KM Institute CKM class and SKMF Basel chapter)
Oct 2006: How the Swiss community of thought leaders, knowledge management practitioners and others can work with, and learn from, one another to achieve common results
Jun 2006: What are the barriers to knowledge sharing and how do we overcome them?

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Notes:

1) Adelaide Knowledge Café metamorphosed into the Adelaide KM Group in 2009.
2) Since 2007 the Knowledge Cafés in Zurich are held together with the roundtables of the Swiss Knowledge Management Forum (SKMF).

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