Welcome to Visual Collab

RSA House, London - 28 November 2018

KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ

Signals of change in the adoption of digital tools for visual collaboration and group decision-making

Agile business planning, visual facilitation, team performance & development, facilitative leadership, collaborative learning, collaborative innovation, and many other collaboration activities can be done without a large touchscreen team display or an ideation software. Why should we use them?

The Knowledge Café is a conversational method in which small groups of people come together to have open, creative conversations on a topic of mutual interest, to surface their collective knowledge, to share ideas and to gain a deeper understanding of the issues involved.

In this session we will be using LG Displays and the Nureva Span for the idea collection stage of the session and to create an industry "green paper" with all the knowledge contributors' signature.

Let's co-create the future

Our goal with this Thought Leadership session is to open a space for relevant stakeholders to be able to encounter and express themselves in meaningful conversations about the future of the digital workplace and visual collaboration tools.

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Agenda

(UTC Time)

10:00 - 13:00 Morning session

Colin Messenger (Senior Market Analyst at Futuresource Consulting) gives the Keynote address to kick-start the Café conversations.

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break

& one-on-one meetings

14:30 - 16:00 Afternoon session

David Martin (Nureva's Chairman) gives the Keynote address to kick-start the Café conversations.

There is an option to also attend remotely, please check the event registration page for more information.

Nearest London Underground Stations is Charing Cross (Northern Line, Bakerloo Line): 5 minutes walk.

Coffee-breaks will be served during the sessions but lunch is not included.

If you are a Gold Pass owner you will have access to exclusive networking opportunities.

The Café participants

Meet our knowledge contributors

Colin Messenger is a renowned industry expert in IFPD / Team Displays and related educational technologies. The market in figures and when the demand will eventually stall. Colin's kick-start presentation will precede the conversations.

David Gurteen advocates for improving the quality of conversation in our lives and the creator of the Gurteen Knowledge Café – a powerful conversational tool for bringing people together to have meaningful conversations. He will be hosting our conversations.

Paul Nunesdea is a collaboration architect who convenes this Café with David Gurteen to host relevant industry stakeholders in meaningful conversations with the purpose of building a circle of practice and knowledge exchange around visual interactive collaboration and group facilitation expertise.

Niina Halonen is the

EU Information Displays Business Development Manager at LG Electronics, M.Ed. & PhD Researcher. She has acquired a unique skill set in edtech and visual interactive collaboration from her past roles in leading companies. Niina focus on creating long-lasting customer relationships and believes that attitude is our most important tool.

Gary Beckett's wealth of experience in the industry ranges from the age of the interactive whiteboard revolution in education until the latest hi-tech Team Displays, from Prowise. This company is proud of an extensive experience in the education world and has a highly customer-oriented philosophy.

Steve Bather is an industry pioneer as a group decision-making software expert and MeetingSphere co-founder. Today, as Practice Lead at Realise, he ensures maximum participation, engagement and alignment in any type of group intervention with deeper levels of buy and commitment to the results.

Jon Knight is the Director of ascentae, and he loves to challenge conventions and to innovate with technology in order to foster a digital transformation in the collaborative workspace. As the Café sponsor he will be co-hosting with us an innovative technology layout for this Thought Leadership session in London.

Dermot Sweeney is an education software industry expert. He has succesfully designed and implemented Qwizdom's Global Strategy, bringing several leading products to the market, such as Oktopus, and more recently, Ximbus in both Google Suite and Microsoft Office versions.

Ana Neves is a knowledge management pioneer and the founder of SocialNow a unique conference that explores the tools and the processes to improve organisational communication, collaborative learning and knowledge sharing. As a partner and executive director of Knowman, Ana shares her experience, skills and passion with organisations keen to improve their performance through effective knowledge management, social networks and social tools. Ana is actively involved in the use of technology for civic participation and is the "owner" of KMOL.

John Hovell is the CEO and co-founder of STRATactical. As a leader in the convergence of Knowledge Management (KM) and Organization Development (OD), John has lead teams that have won awards from Chief Learning Officer magazine. In 2015, he was named the 8th most influential person in Knowledge Management. He published a chapter in a book titled "Making It Real: Sustaining Knowledge Management" and became a fellow with the Royal Society for Arts (RSA).

David Martin is a serial entrepreneur and the inventor of a new product category - the interactive whiteboard. He created the first web conference software for Windows, before Microsoft's own version. Currently with Nureva, his goal is to replicate and replace the experience of using physical paper or whiteboards with digital interfaces, that make it easier to work with people from all over the world.

Keith Warren-Price is the founder of Pinpoint Facilitation a firm renowned to supply and assist facilitators, trainers, coaches and other knowledge workers with the Neuland Moderation system and proudly serves customers in a range of government services, local authorities and varied industry and other sectors. As an ex-Procter & Gamble Keith has a blend of skills in international sales and marketing management that have granted him the Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1980.

James Brown is a member of the British Psychological Society, Division of Occupational Psychology, a Principal Practitioner with the Association of Business Psychology and a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is the founder of The Happy Workplace an organization dedicated to improving psychological well-being at work by helping people and organisations become better at being psychologically well at work.

Kevin Wheatly amasses an extensive background as knowledge manager with industry expertises in Oil & Gas, Automotive, Defense & Aerospace, Electronic and the Public Sector. As a Global Sector Knowledge Leader in Ernst & Young, Kevin specialises in Knowledge Management Strategy design and deployment, Communities of Practice, Social Collaboration, Change Management, Learning development, and Consulting.

Deb Seidman is the President of Green Silk Associates and has over 25 years experience both as a consultant and as an internal HR/Organization Effectiveness manager in global organizations. Deb brings extensive experience in change management, facilitation, and process improvement.

Ewout Vis is Managing Director at Inno Trading BV a company that has pioneered the notion of meeting room 3.0 where the requirements for collaboration - people, processes, technology and space - all need to be combined correctly, in order to lay the foundations for an effective collaboration. Ewout is an architect of collaboration that specializes in the technological and infrastructural dimensions required by the meeting rooms of the future, today.

Adam Kingshott is a global Brand Marketing Manager at Sahara Presentations Group in charge of Clevertouch a brand that connects people with touch technology since 2009. This company prides herself to strive for excellence and to be led by end user feedback to maintain the highest standards. An impressive multi award-winning by their products corroborates such consistent efforts since almost a decade. No wonder if their Team Displays will rapidly become central to your organization.

Obhi Chatterjee is the Head of Sector in Learning Technologies, in the DG HR of the European Commision. Obhi is exploring how best to apply technology to the learning and development of the European Commission's 35,000 (!) staff. He is also a film sector specialist and set up an independent film distribution company in the UK in the early 1990s, devoting is spare time to experimenting with the latest developments in digital filmmaking and music.

Ray Guyot is a visual communication strategist, consultant, and facilitator, specializing in collaborative group presentation methodologies. He owns and operates Outlook Presentations and Outlook Consulting and in co-authorship he has developed the Needs-Driven Communication and the Spherical Business Model. As a consultant, Ray engages groups in visual needs assessments, strategic planning, visioning and transformational change sessions.

Larisa Rusu is a seasoned consultant in learning technologies working for the European Commission with a mission to support the implementation of their learning and development strategy. Larisa has an interesting international background in journalism and communication with an European focus. She is actively involved in the management of a learning software platform and multi-tasks several internal communication projects to ensure a good flow of information.

Cristina Constandache is an IT E-Learning Project Manager at the European Commission with a robust background as a project finance manager in the European Environmental Bureau and previously in Ericsson, that testifies her proficiency in project management and financial reporting among other various skills such as customer support.

Jonathan Norman is a Knowledge Hub Manager at The Major Projects Association. Within a strong background in the publishing industry, he specializes in articulating strategy, authoring and editing, communication, communities of practice, design thinking, facilitation, innovation, knowledge sharing, project management and problem solving.

Deonie Botha is the Associate Director responsible for Knowledge Management at Deloitte in Africa. She proactively connects KM systems to business processes and resources, wearing a 'black belt' of 15 years experience. Deonie is also proficient in the design, development, and implementation of KM strategies across businesses and geographies, with a strong academic angle.

Helen Gillman is a Senior Knowledge Management Specialist at IFAD the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN. With 25 years of experience in the international development sector, she has worked in knowledge management both at the corporate, strategic level and in the field with rural development projects for the past decade. She is currently leading the development of a new KM Strategy for IFAD.

Interim report

For the purpose of our first industry Green Paper we will be focusing on exploring the signals of change that might lead to the wider adoption of digital tools for visual collaboration and group decision-making. Please find below an early interim report. A final paper will be published in the spring of 2019.

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