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• BrainTrust International 1999: Knowledge Management World Summit, January 11-13, 1999, San Francisco, CA
  Conference Theme: Leverage the Best Practices and Technologies to Maximize Business Value
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• Braintrust International 2000: Knowledge Management World Summit, January 23-25, 2000, Scottsdale, AZ
  Conference Theme: Advancing Your Knowledge Management Practice for Measurable Business Impact
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• Braintrust International 2001: Knowledge Management World Summit – A Practitioner’s Forum, February 11-14, 2001, San Francisco, CA
  Conference Theme: Strategies for Knowledge Creation
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• Braintrust International 2002: Knowledge Management World Summit – A Practioner’s Forum, February 10-13, 2002, San Francisco, CA
  Conference Theme: Putting Knowledge to Work
  Conference Workshops: Getting Started with Knowledge Management; Solving the knowledge value equation in the new customer economy; Boundary-Crossing Teams; Ignite Organizational Change Through Storytelling; How To Manage a Company-Wide Community Development Initiative; Personal Knowledge Management – Optimizing Your Personal Capital
• Braintrust International 2003: Knowledge Management World Summit – A Practioner’s Forum, February 9-12, 2003, San Francisco, CA
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  Conference Workshops: High Performance Knowledge Management for Advanced Practitioners; Getting Started With Knowledge Management; The Tangible Value of Valuing Intangibles: Measuring Intangible Corporate Assets, The Value of Organizational Knowledge: Results of a Study on Learning Curvves; Collaborative Knowledge Sharing Across Global Distributed Workforces; Integrating Knowledge, Learning and Strategy for High Impact Action and Solutions; Critical Success Factors for a Company-wide Community Development Initiative; Knowledge Dynamics and Value Creation
• Braintrust International 2004: Knowledge Management World Summit – A Practitioner’s Forum, February 8-11, 2004, Scottsdale, AZ
  Conference Theme: High-Impact Knowledge Management for the Entire Enterprise
  Conference Workshops: High Performance Knowledge Management for Advanced Practitioners; Getting Started With Knowledge Management; Human Capital: The Rules of Engagement are Changing; Mapping Knowledge for Business Impact; Improving Business Performance by Increasing the Productivity, Innovation and Customer Value of Knowledge Work
• Braintrust International 2005: , February 28 – March 2, 2005, San Francisco, CA
  Conference Theme: Empowerment through Knowledge
  Pre-Conference Symposium: The Changing Role of Communities of Practice
  Conference Workshops: Getting Started with Knowledge Management; Increasing Knowledge Work Productivity: Integrating KM and Six-Sigma to Enhance Overall Results
• Braintrust International 2006: Knowledge Management Summit, February 20-22, 2006, San Francisco, CA
  Conference Theme: Knowledge Performance – Driving Value Throughout Your Business
  Pre-Conference Symposium: Communities Of Practice – Organizational Impact And Community Value: What’s Worked And Hasn’t Worked
  Conference Workshops: Getting Started with Knowledge Management; Corporate Learning, Creativity and Innovation: introducing iCafes where practitioners get to make their own rules!
• Braintrust International 2007: Knowledge Sharing Summit, February 26-28, 2007, Cambridge, MD
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  Pre-Conference Symposium: Social Network Analysis Symposium
  Conference Workshops: The Knowledge Café: An Open Conversation to Gain a Deeper Understanding of a Subject That Matters; Knowledge Retention: Keeping Critical Knowledge from Walking Out the Door
• Braintrust International 2008: Knowledge Sharing Summit, November 18-20, 2008, Orlando, FL
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  Conference Workshops: Knowledge Enabled Innovation: Different Processes and Different Techniques for Different Purposes; Knowledge Retention
• Braintrust Knowledge Management Summit, June 24-26, 2009, Baltimore, MD
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At IIR’s Annual Communities of Practice Conference, you will learn: Practical skills for implementing and improving communities in your organization How leading organizations use communities for knowledge sharing and business improvement How to legitimize a community of practice Skills for measuring and managing communities Incentives to increase community participation How to lead a vibrant, living community How to develop distributed communities What leaders in the field of communities are doing to advance them. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from and with your peers and experts in the field.

Conference history:

• Communities of Practice Conference , October 24 – 26, 1999, Mayfair House Coconut Grove, FL
  Conference Theme: Techniques to Leverage Knowledge for Competitive Advantage
  Conference Workshops: Build On-Line Communities – Practical Methods for Technology and Information Alignment; Designing CoP Constellations for Robust Strategy Advantages
• Communities of Practice Conference, San Diego, CA, 10-13 April 2000, San Diego, CA
  Conference Theme: Synergistic Relationships to Leverage Knowledge
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• Communities of Practice Conference, May 7-9, 2001, Royal Sonesta, Cambridge, MA
  Conference Theme: Developing, Implementing and Profiting from Learning Communities
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• Communities of Practice Conference, September 24 – 26, 2001, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero Center San Francisco
  Conference Theme: Developing, Implementing and Profiting from Learning Communities
  Conference Workshops: How to Manage a Company-Wide Community Development Initiative; Launching and Supporting Effective Corporate Communities
• Communities of Practice Conference, September 23 – 25 2002 Tremont Boston Hotel Boston
  Conference Theme: The Next Step in Communities of Practice: Communities as a Strategic Organizational Resource
  Conference Workshops: Community Value Workshop: Understanding the Costs and Benefits of Communities of Practice; Tips on Managing a Company-Wide Community Development Initiative
• Communities of Practice Conference, June 18 – 20 2003, The Fairmont Washington
  Conference Theme: Communities at the Cutting Edge
  Conference Workshops: Community Value Workshop: Understanding the Benefits & Costs of Communities of Practice; How to Implement a Community-Based Knowledge Management Strategy: Tips on Managing a Company-Wide Community Development Initiative

Capturing, transferring and sharing your company’s intellectual assets are quickly becoming pressing issues for companies who want to stay ahead of the competition and achieve business excellence. Corporate practitioners will present a cross-industry assessment of leading edge, cost-effective initiatives to manage your company’s intellectual assets.

• Tacit Knowledge Roundtable, September 27 – 28, 1999, Atlanta, GA
  Conference Theme: Managing Your Company’s Intellectual Capital
  Conference Workshops: Tacit Knowledge: Where is it? What is its “look and feel”? How can you share it?; The Economics of Knowledge Management
• Tacit Knowledge Roundtable, 27-28 March 2000, Atlanta, GA
  Conference Theme: Developing, Capturing, and Leveraging Your Employee’s Expertise to Drive Profit
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• Tacit Knowledge Roundtable, April 23 – 24th, 2001
  Swissôtel, Chicago, IL
  Conference Theme: Developing, Capturing and Leveraging Your Employees’ Knowledge
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