IKO 2019 Singapore - Digital Transformation and Digital Workplace: Knowledge Organisation a​s a Core Capability

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Programme Highlights Include:
PROGRAMME AND FORMAT

IKO 2019 will continue its focus on in-depth explorations of innovative knowledge organisation practices and applications in a case study format. The programme for the day will be as follows:

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8.50am     Welcome to IKO 2019 - Dave Clarke

9.00am     IKO 2019 Opening Keynote (plenary - followed by table discussions)

Digital Transformation and Innovation at Amazon: Methodology and Culture       
​Eric Tachibana, Amazon Web Services

Eric Tachibana is Professional Services Area Practice Manager APAC, China, and Japan for Amazon Web Services, focusing on digital transformation and innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur with four successful exits in Silicon Valley and Asia, an angel investor with six successful trade sales, a graduate level educator on entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, and an author on technology strategy and software development. Eric has also worked as COO for Bank of America Merrill Lynch and UBS, and won the IDG Top 10 Bankers of Asia Award in 2013. Eric is a well-known evangelist for Amazon's unique innovation and transformation culture.

9.40am      Table discussions on the keynote and debrief, facilitated by Patrick Lambe

10.15am   Networking Break

10.30am    Knowledge Organisation Tutorials in Pecha Kucha format - our speakers will give rapid fire tutorials on key topics in knowledge organisation and digital transformation - each topic, 20 slides x 20 seconds each! 

Tutorial Topics:
1. Why should Records Management be part of your KM Strategy? Bill Proudfit, Knowledge Management Services
2. How should you Prepare for Digital Transformation? Maish Nichani, PebbleRoad
3. What is Information Governance? Cecilie Rask, Danish National Police
4. What are the Differences Between Taxonomy, Ontology, and Knowledge Graphs? Dave Clarke, Synaptica
5. How Taxonomy Improves Search Agnes Molnar, Search Explained
6. Why are Linked Data and Standards Important for Knowledge Discovery? Gene Loh, Stronium
7. What is an Enterprise Knowledge Graph and How Can it Make an Enterprise Smarter? Dr Dickson Lukose, GCS Agile

11.30am     Knowledge Organisation and Digital Transformation Case Study Café - Case Pitches - our case presenters will give 5 minute pitches for the eight selected case studies - listen and decide which three case discussions you want to attend.

Case studies:

1. Megan Stokes, Director, Collaboration & Enterprise Knowledge Management, Singtel:
  • Lessons Learned in Implementing Knowledge Governance at Singtel

2. Jasmin Suministrado, Knowledge Manager, Private Fundraising and Partnership Division, UNICEF:
  • Organising an Intranet to Enable Tacit and Explicit Knowledge Flows at UNICEF PFP

3. Cecilie Rask, Intranet Manager, Danish National Police:
  • Danish National Police: Improving Search and Findability Through Information Architecture, Governance and Taxonomy

4. Dave Clarke, CEO, Synaptica, and Agnes Molnar, Principal, Search Explained:  
  • Overcoming the Taxonomy Limitations of SharePoint Managed Metadata Term Store - lessons learned in integrating a taxonomy management system with SharePoint Search, for a European government agency

5. Wolfgang Maehr and Vasu Kolla, Project Leads, PebbleRoad:
  • Using a Graph Database to Structure Data for a "Management Cockpit" at an Indonesian Conglomerate

6. Dr Dickson Lukose, Chief Data Scientist, GCS Agile:
  • Building a Semantic Data Lake and Analytics Engine for the Recruitment Sector

7. Phyllis Wee, Deputy Head, Resource Discovery, National Library Board:
  • Why Standards are Important in Modelling Bibliographic and Authority Data - lessons from the National Library Board Experience​
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8. Sammy Fung, President, Open Source Hong Kong:
  • A Citizen-led Approach to Accelerate the Availability of Public Data in Machine Readable Format in Hong Kong


The following case study was accepted, but Olga Bogomolova has not been able to travel to Singapore to attend the event. Her case study will be available in the IKO Conference Guide.

​Olga Bogomolova, Head of Knowledge Management, Moscow Domodedovo Airport 
  • Building an Aviation Thesaurus and Ontology to Support Search and Discovery for Knowledge Management at Moscow Airport

12.30pm Lunch

1.30pm     Case Study Café Round 1 - in-depth table discussions of 8 cases (30 minutes) - choose your first case

2.00pm    Case Study Café Round 2 - in-depth table discussions of 8 cases (30 minutes) - choose your second case

2.30pm     Case Study Café Round 3 - in-depth table discussions of 8 cases (35 minutes) - choose your third case

3.00pm    Networking Break


3.30pm    IKO 2019 Keynote 2 (plenary, followed by Stand Up Panel)

What does a Digital Workplace Look Like? Themes from the Day and Examples from the Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards
James Robertson, Step Two

​James Robertson is recognised as one of the global thought-leaders on intranets. He is the author of Essential intranets: inspiring sites that deliver value, Designing intranets: creating sites that work and What every intranet team should know, the key books for all intranet professionals. As founder and managing director of Step Two (headquartered in Sydney, Australia), James has worked with many high-profile organisations in the public and private sectors, and founded the annual Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards. James has keynoted conferences and workshops across the globe, including in the USA, UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Australia and New Zealand.

4.15pm     Insights from IKO 2019 - Stand Up Panel - Building Capabilities for Digital Transformation - facilitated by Patrick Lambe

4.45pm     Summary of the Day and Conference Close - Maish Nichani


To preserve interaction, places are limited to 100 participants for IKO Singapore 2019, on a first-come first-served basis.

ISKO Singapore members will receive 20% discount on the conference fees.

Conference Fee

Normal Rate

3+ Pax Rate
Non Member
​(SGD/pax)
565

​443
Member*
​(SGD/pax)
452

​396
* Members of ISKO or MY KM Roundtable

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