Knowledge Sciences Symposium Western NY 2015

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FYI We are in the very early stages of this and planning is still going on for the event 8-9 Oct. 2015.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

David Gurteen is well known as an advocate for more conversation in our organizational lives and is the creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Café - a powerful conversational tool for bringing people together to have meaningful conversations. He is the founder of the Gurteen Knowledge Community - a global network of over 22,000 people in over 160 countries whose purpose is to connect its members with like-minded people, new ideas, and alternative ways of working. Members receive his free monthly Knowledge-Letter that is now in its 15th year. http://www.gurteen.com

DATE: 8-9 OCTOBER 2015

PURPOSE:

You are invited to participate in the 2015 Knowledge Sciences Symposium WNY on the campus of St. Bonaventure University in Olean, New York. This program builds on the work of the 2013 Knowledge Sciences Symposiums where a blueprint for a regional Knowledge Sciences Center was envisioned. According to Bedford, Lewis & Moon (2014):
In the knowledge economy, there is as much or more knowledge being created outside of academia as there is within (Peters 2007). Knowledge economy challenges are chaotic, dynamic and "wicked". The knowledge economy is not as segmented or hierarchically structured as was an industrial economy - the transformation requires that all sectors and all stakeholders move together rather than move individually.
The following are the desired outcomes of the Symposium:

• Develop an action plan for the creation and implementation of a regional Knowledge Sciences Center.
• Provide a knowledge management learning, resource, and networking event.
• Engage the community of knowledge management professionals in Western New York with other business and community leaders as well as with KM professionals the world over.

"Break ground" for the nation’s first Knowledge Sciences Center (KSC). Proceeds from the Symposium will be designated toward the Knowledge Sciences Center.

HOST:

The Symposium is a program of Pioneer Knowledge Services, a nonprofit tax exempt corporation with the charitable purpose of nurturing knowledge cultures. http://www.pioneer-ks.org/programs

LOCATION:

The campus of St. Bonaventure University, the nation’s first Franciscan University, located near Olean, NY, just 75 miles from Niagara Falls. www.sbu.edu

Help needed as of right now (subject to development/change)

• public relations and social media support/relations
• sponsorship solicitation
• agenda review and finalization
• program development for print and virtual distribution
• web site (SharePoint)
• volunteer manager
• sponsorship management
• event director
• budget director
• Volunteers on site (team leader/facilitator)
• Networking connections- help us to connect to more folk regionally - be a PKS KM WNY Ambassador

Note: For onsite assistance registration event fee will be waived.

Yours in knowledge,

Edwin