The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• Doctoral Degree Programme (Ph.D) in Information Systems and Management (Research area: Knowledge Management)

Conferences

• InfoVision – The Knowledge Summit**²⁾
  InfoVision is a premier annual global Summit in India for the Knowledge Industry and Knowledge Society. The Summit focuses on a chosen theme each year and congregates leaders and professionals across the ‘Information and Knowledge Spectrum’ to come together and analyze the transformational trends and deliberate on the challenges. Experts from the industry and the academia join the debate and share their views. Best practices and success stories are showcased. InfoVision is an intellectual confederation of all stakeholders – academia, industry, government and the user groups, to meet as partners and to develop a unified framework and formulate strategies for capitalizing knowledge for performance.
  • 6th InfoVision 2012: The Knowledge Summit, October 19-20, 2012, SAP Labs, Bangalore, India
    Summit Theme: SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics, Cloud) is smart
    Pre-conference Workshops:
    Big data: Theoretical Engineering and Analytics Perspective
    Big data: NoSQL Technologies
    BI: Product management 101 for BI platform and application developers

    …

  • 5th Infovision 2011: Information Excellence Summit, September 24–25, 2011, Infosys, Bangalore, India
    Summit Theme: The Data Differential or Data for Differentiation
    (Organizer: ISiM; Information Excellence Group)
    Sessions:
    Big Trends in IM – Opportunities and Challenges
    Transformational Challenges with Big Data and Cloud
    Government Data and Macro Data environment (India) – UID
    Data for Business Differentiation Insights and Experiences
    Fundamentals of Analytics under the hood peek for the uninitiated

    …

  • 4th InfoVision 2009: The Knowledge Summit, January 22-23, 2009, Bangalore, India
    Summit Theme: Content to Intent: Understanding user intent and context in multimodal, multilingual and mobile information access
    (Organizer: ISiM; Microsoft Research Bangalore)
    Sessions: (w. Keynote & Panel)
    Mobile Information Access
    Multimedia Information Access
    Multilingual Information Access
    Consumer Created Content
    eScience, eResearch and Cyber infrastructure
    Enterprise Content and Communication

    Keynotes:
    Intelligent Media: Promises and Challenges (Inaugural Session)
    …n.a
    Information Management: Challenges, Opportunities and Technology Trends (Vision Talk @ Wrap-up)

    Panel Presentations:
    n.a.

    Thomson Innovation Award 2009
    Keynote: The use of patent analytics in measuring innovation

  • 3rd Infovision 2007: The Knowledge Summit, December 17-18, 2007, Mumbai, India
    Summit Theme: Social Networks, Knowledge Discovery & Innovation
    (Organizer: ISiM; Rediff.com India)
    Sessions: (w. Keynote & Panel)
    Small World, Network Theories and Models
    Web 2.0 and Mashups
    Social Networking and the Semantic Web
    Weblogs and Wisdom of the Crowds
    Organizational Communication and Group Dynamics
    Networks, Creativity and Innovation
    Innovation and Knowledge Assets

    Panel Presentations:
    n.a.

    Keynotes:
    New Sciences for a New Web
    The Digital Ecosystem Framework & the Web 2.0 as a Knowledge Creation Process – What we learnt from the DEAL Project
    Web Search: Challenges, Directions Opportunities
    Weblogs and the Wisdom of the Crowds
    From Disasters to WoW: Understanding & Enabling Networks in 21st Century Organizational Forms
    Technology Support for Biomedical Hypotheses Generation
    Mapping Global Nanotechnology Innovations and Knoweldge

    Thomson Innovation Award Ceremony
    Keynote: Mapping Nanotechnology Innovations and Knowledge: Global, longitudinal, patent and literature analysis
    Thomson Innovation Award – Briefing

  • 2nd Infovision 2006: The Knowledge Summit, September 28–29, 2006, Bangalore, India
    Summit Theme: Knowledge, Content & Community: Methods and Models
    (Organizer: ISiM; CII Mission on Knowledge & Skills, Confederation of Indian Industry)
    Sessions: (w. Keynote & Panel)
    News and Media: Convergence and Disconnect
    Digital Libraries and Archiving Knowledge
    New Cyber Genres: Wikis, Blogs, Collaborative Tools and Models
    Enterprise Content Management
    Harnessing Business and Competitive Intelligence
    Innovation and Intellectual Property Management

    Keynotes:
    Managing Intellectual Capital (summit keynote)
    n.a.

    Panel Presentations:
    n.a.

    2006 India MAKE Award Ceremony
    Keynote: Becoming a Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise
    Panel Discussion (7 MAKE Award Winners)

  • 1st Infovision 2005: Information Industry-Academia Summit, September 15–16, 2005, Bangalore, India
    Summit Theme: Information landscape – Content, Technology and Stakeholders
    Sub-title: A Summit contouring the information landscape
    (Organizer: Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore; Informatics India)
    Sessions: (w. Keynote & Panel)
    IT & Information Management: Meeting and melding points
    Knowledge Management: Solutions & Practices
    E-Publishing: changing paradigms and shifting markets
    Search Engines & Data Mining
    E-Learning and Digital Libraries
    IPR: Ideologies, legalities and technologies

    Keynotes:
    Centripetal or Centrifugal Forces to Play? (Inaugural Session)
    Digital Neighborhoods in Everyday Lives
    Information & Expertise: The Fad and the Future of Knowledge Management
    Future of Search Experience
    Indian Intellectual Property – Proud Peacock and its clay feet
    Policy Framework for Information Society (Concluding Session)
    Towards Knowledge based India – Framework for Indian Society (Concluding Session)
    …n.a. (2)

    Panel Presentations:
    n.a.

    Launch of International School of Information Management (I-SIM)

Workshops

• Apr 2010: Social Network Analysis (SNA) Workshop
• Mar 2008: Machine Learning Workshop
• Mar 2007: Text Mining and Business Intelligence Workshop
• Jan 2007: Information and Knowledge Audit – A Practical Introduction

Conferences

• 12th International Society for Knowledge Organization – International Conference (ISKO 2012 International Conference), August 6-9, 2012, University of Mysore, Mysore, India
  Conference Theme: Categories, Contexts and Relations in Knowledge Organization (Dr. S. R. Ranganathans 120th birth anniversary event)
  (Host: University of Mysore, B. N. Bahadur Institute of Management Studies; Co-organizer: ISKO India Chapter, Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science)