Geoff Erwin
Professor Geoff Erwin has worked in Australia, UK, USA and South Africa, in government (state and federal), private industry and higher education. He has been an ICT team member, project manager and senior manager/researcher for many years. He has written and co-authored several ICT books and textbooks, published and reviewed for international conferences and research journals and represented organizations in international projects and committees. In Universities he has recently been Dean of a large Business Faculty and is currently Director of an international research centre focusing on Information Society themes at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) in Cape Town, South Africa. CPUT has adopted the Information Society as a major theme and is positioning itself to approach e-service delivery and the social appropriation of ICT within the context of newly democratic South Africa. encouraging citizen participation following years of the majority of citizens being denied access to social and business facilities. He is a founding and institutional member of The Information Society Institute (TISI) established in South Africa as a multi-stakeholder partnership with three levels of government, using the Community Informatics discipline and membership of CIRN (Community Informatics Research Network) as platforms.

Geoff Erwin

Gerard Bredenoord

Gerard Bredenoord (CA (SA); MBA; CISA) is a Director in the Global practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). For the past 6 years he has been the program director for the PwC Global Knowledge Network (GKN). This group represents the KM interest within the various PwC constituents (territories, service lines and industries). He is tasked to find areas where Knowledge Management collaboration will add value to PwC. His team is mandated to act and deliver collaboratively on those projects. Under the rubric of: “Champion initiatives that can benefit from firm-wide collaboration”, Gerard’s main focus within PwC is within the area of social collaboration solutions. As the program director Gerard ensures the application of KMs competitive advantage into the team when and where required. Accountability is measured through improvement in: Connecting People to People; Connecting People to Information and Connecting People to Client.

Gerard Bredenoord

Göran Roos.

Göran Roos is a  Visiting Professor of Intangible Asset Management and Performance Measurement at the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield University, UK  as well as part-time visiting Intellectual Capital Adjunct at Melbourne Business School, Mt. Eliza Centre for Executive Education.  In addition he is also a Visiting Professor of Innovation Management and Business Model Innovation at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. He has been a Visiting Research Associate in Intellectual Capital at Henley Management College, Henley, UK. Göran is the founder of Intellectual Capital Services Ltd. (London, Sydney) [a leading think tank on methodologies for the identification, management and measurement of intangibles], and the co-founder of AssetEconomics Inc. (New York, London, Melbourne) [an organisation focused on measuring and managing intangibles for shareholder value] Professor Roos has worked as a consultant in most OECD countries and has served in management positions in several European and US-based corporations. He is the author and co-author of numerous books and articles on Intellectual Capital, Innovation Management and Strategy. Recognized is one of the founders of modern intellectual capital science he is a major contributor to the thinking and practice in the areas of strategy and innovation management. Göran was named one of the 13 most influential thinkers for the 21st Century by the Spanish business journal “Direccion y Progreso” No 167 in 1999.

Göran Roos

Bernard Marr
Bernard Marr is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management and a Visiting Professor at the University of Basilicata, Italy. Prior to joining Cranfield in 1999 he held a research position at the Judge Institute of Management Studies at Cambridge University. Currently, Bernard is chairman of the PMA intellectual capital group and heads various international research projects on strategic value creation and the measurement of intellectual capital. He has produced over 75 publications including books, reports, and articles on related topics such as balanced scorecards, strategy maps, intellectual capital, intangible assets, and performance management software applications. He is a member of editorial boards of many leading journals in the field and is a frequent keynote presenter at international conferences.

Bernard Marr

John Girard
Dr. John Girard is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Business Information Technology at Minot State University where he is lead professor for knowledge management, director of a graduate executive program, a faculty senator, and active in community affairs. John teaches graduate and undergraduate courses and is actively researching the relationships that exist between information anxiety, organizational memory loss, and contemporary knowledge management theories. John is a graduate of Touro University International, where he completed a PhD in Business Administration and an MBA with an Information Technology Management concentration and the University of Manitoba where he achieved a BSc with a Computer Science major. In addition, John is a graduate of Canadian Forces College, Toronto and the Royal Military College of Science in the United Kingdom. John speaks regularly on the subject of knowledge management and how enterprises may reap the benefits of creating and exchanging organizational knowledge. He has spoken in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East at such events as KM World, APQC’s Knowledge Management Conference, the World Congress on Intellectual Capital, and many others events. For more information, please see www.johngirard.net

John Girard

Ian Michael
Dr. Ian Michael is an Assistant Professor at the College of Business Sciences, Zayed University and has around sixteen years of industrial experience in India and Australia in senior positions in sectors such as Travel & Tourism Banking & Finance, Hospitality, Advertising & Marketing, Pharmaceutical, and Transportation & Logistics. Dr.Michael is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Marketing Institute and is a Certified Practicing Marketer. He has a number of refereed articles published in various leading journals and has authored two chapters n on Internet and Portal Marketing. He has presented at leading conferences around the world in Marketing and Tourism. His research interests include: Tourism, Internet Marketing, Cross-Cultural Marketing, Leadership and Management and Brand Marketing & Management. He holds a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) degree from Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. His thesis investigated the area of Electronic/Internet Marketing and the title is “Consumer Behaviour in a Computer Mediated Environment – Implications for Marketers”.

Ian Michael

Herman van Niekerk 
Dr. Herman van Niekerk is a director at Suritec (Pty) Ltd, a South African company specialising in knowledge management, organisational learning, information management, strategy and collaborative technologies. He holds a PhD from the University of Stellenbosch where his research focused how different theories of knowledge impact on the creation of organisational knowledge and competitiveness. He is a practicing consultant specialising in the strategic drivers which are shaping the knowledge society. These include how information and collaborative technology enable competitive strategic advantage. He serves as an external examiner and board member to a number of universities and private business schools. He is also a regular speaker at conferences on thought leadership issues related to the strategic development of organizations. He regularly conducts workshops and training sessions for corporate clients and private business schools. Herman’s research interests include the strategic and organizational development of organisations and their leadership and how emerging issues such as knowledge management, collaboration, and organizational learning will enable organizations to face the emerging challenges of the new world of work.

Herman van Niekerk

Shaun Pather

Dr Shaun Pather is based at the e-Innovation Academy (e-IA), Cape Peninsula University of Technology.  He has a keen interest in practical community engagement and Information Society issues, centered around societal upliftment facilitated by ICT’s.  Currently he plays a leading role in the management of a number of Community Informatics themed research projects at the e-IA which focus on the impact of ICT on everyday life and its social appropriation for local community benefit. Shaun has authored a number of refereed journal articles and has presented seminars and papers at several international conferences on E-Commerce, E-Business, IS management, Web-based teaching, and management of post-graduate programs.   He is also a member of several conference committees and review panels, and journal editorial boards.  Shaun has a rich history of association with civic, NGO bodies and the public sector and is currently the company secretary for Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) International. He is committed to supporting transformation goals within South Africa through his research activities.

Shaun Pather

Wallace Taylor
Professor Taylor is the foundation professor of Community Informatics and Information Society at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), Cape Town, South Africa. He has a PhD in Community Informatics, post graduate qualifications in management and public service management as well as undergraduate qualifications in science and agriculture. Professor Taylor’s current research interests are predominantly in the social appropriation of ICT for local benefit with a particular emphasis on its interface with public agency service delivery (e-governance, e-parliament, e-participation). He is author and co-editor of 3 books, 6 international conference proceedings, 13 book chapters and more than 50 papers on Community Informatics. He has more than 34 years public sector experience in rural and regional development. He is co-chair of Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) which involves researchers and practitioners from more than 30 countries and a research fellow on the Institute for the Study of Digital Inclusion. Dr Taylor is Honorary Professor at the University of the West Indies and a Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. He is a foundation director of The Information Society Institute (TISI), an NGO addressing issues of digital inclusion for local benefit.

Wallace Taylor

Roy Williams

Roy Williams
Roy Williams develops and manages e-learning and knowledge management for the University of Portsmouth, and for w.w associates in Reading, both in the U.K. His research includes the practical design development of knowledge and e-learning systems, the theory of knowledge and knowledge management, discourse analysis and semiotics, and the application of discourse analysis and complex adaptive systems theories to management and development issues. He is actively involved in the European Conferences on e-learning and Knowledge Management, and edits the Electronic Journal of e-learning. He has held posts of Visiting Professor of Education, Professor and Chair of Communication, and Executive Board Member and CEO of the South African Broadcast Regulator. He has also worked extensively in international development in literacy, distance education, media, HIV/AIDS, and national and international policy.

Roy Williams