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| Virtual Teams & Collaboration 2005 |
| Tools and Best Practices for Effective Virtual Work |
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| World-class presenters will share their perspectives on key trends and developments virtual teams and collaboration technologies and processes to achieve individual, group and organizational results. |
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Arie Baan
Consultant and Former Virtual Team Learning Program Manager at Royal Dutch Shell
Arie Baan (Dutch nationality; Dr. Inform. Sc., Eindhoven University,
1975) spent the first part of his career with Royal Dutch Shell in execution and management of research programmes (Operations Research & Logistics Support).
After a number of operational IT management positions in various countries, he then shifted his focus to co-ordinating Change Management associated with IT systems implementation. In his final years with Shell, he has managed the development, implementation and roll-out of learning programmes for virtual teams. Recently, he has left Shell to set up an independent consultancy that assists multinational organisations and teams and individuals in those organisations in creating high-performance virtual working environments.
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David Coleman
Managing Director, Collaborative Strategies
David Coleman, Founder and Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies (CS) has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, and knowledge management (KM) since 1989. He is a frequent public speaker, an industry analyst, and author of books and magazine articles on electronic collaboration and knowledge management. David has been the conference chairman for both groupware and KM conferences. Based in San Francisco, David leads the world’s foremost IT analyst and consulting firm focused on electronic collaboration. He is currently the editor of the CS Inside Collaboration newsletter and writes the Guru's corner column for that publication.
In the past David has helped to start two other computer industry publications, written two books on Groupware (published by Prentice Hall) and worked as a VP of Marketing at a Natural Language start-up. He was also formerly a product line manager at Oracle Corporation and helped to start the UNIX group there, growing his segment from $0- $20M in revenues in just one year. |
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Robin Good
Publisher and Chief Editor of MasterNewMedia.org, Kolabora.com and MasterViews.com
Robin Good is an independent publisher, scholar, technology explorer and full-time online entrepreneur who focuses on the effective use of new media technologies for learning and communication. His experience spans from work done with many UN organizations to research and writing assignments done for many technology companies.
Robin Good's mission is one of providing access, insight and best practices into the use and application digital communication and collaboration technologies. His customers are mainly professionals, small companies, non-profit organizations, schools and research organizations and to anyone wanting to leverage the disruptive potential of new media technologies to take back the ability to choose information, to search and learn independently, to question mainstream truths and to network and communicate with like-minded partners.
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Phil Montero
President, You Can Work From Anywhere
Phil is the founder and CEO of You Can Work From Anywhere (YCWFA), a workplace consulting firm. Their website, YouCanWorkFromAnywhere.com, provides articles, tips, strategies, and resources to help improve the productivity of telecommuters, mobile workers, entrepreneurs, and home based workers. YCWFA offers consulting and workshops on telecommuting, managing mobile workers, remote collaboration, virtual teams, work-life balance, and virtual offices. |
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Mark Neff
Senior Advisory Staff Member, Computer Sciences Corporation
Mark Neff is a member of the Office of Innovation at CSC, a company with over 76,000 employees worldwide. Mark nurtures the development of knowledge management practices in his role within the CSC Knowledge Program. Mark has extensive experience coaching global communities and teams at CSC. He has a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy and a M.A. from the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, CA. He has authored and co-authored a chapter in two books addressing knowledge management in corporations. |
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Marna Owen
Collaboration Strategy & Engagement Team, Cisco Systems
Marna Owen is an IT Project Manager with Cisco Systems Collaboration Strategy & Engagements Team. Marna's role for the past three and one half years has been to assist teams in meeting their collaboration technology adoption goals through communications, training, and continuous improvement of the technologies based on user feedback. Marna holds her M.A. in Educational Technology from San Francisco State University and has been in the field of education and training for over 20 years. |
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Michael Randel
Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness, The World Bank
Michael Randel works in the Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness Group (HRSLO) of the World Bank. He coaches and facilitates team learning practices with task teams from across the Bank, focusing on team learning practices to enhance effectiveness. He also facilitates peer learning for managers, trains staff in team leadership skills, and is involved in the development of e-learning products on teaming issues. Prior to joining the Bank, he worked in South Africa with NGOs and development agencies on issues of organizational development, project management and development management. Michael holds a graduate degree in Social and Organizational learning, and is very interested by virtual work for two reasons
- its influence on teams working on complex tasks and its potential for enabling new forms of peer learning.
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Rob J.H. Veersma MA
Shell Learning, Shell International B.V.
Rob J.H. Veersma works at Shell International B.V. He is focused on training issues at national, European and global level, with the business unit Shell Learning. Prior to this he was head of Training and Development with Randstad Nederland B.V.. Outside of his employment, he is a governor of the CEDEO foundation, examiner with the Learning Science / FCE Foundation, governor of the CINOP Foundation, and guest lecturer with the postdoctoral Training Advisor curriculum of the Academy for Management (University of Groningen). He has published often, and given many public readings over, among others, Performance Improvement, Just-in-time-learning, Training and Ethics, and ROI of Learning.
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Linda White
Business Innovation & Transformation Services, Hewlett-Packard
Linda White has 16 years of high tech experience and is currently working as a senior consultant and GarageWorks program manager at Hewlett-Packard. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Human Biology from Stanford University, a Master's Degree in Social Psychology from Stanford University, and a Master's Degree in Organizational Psychology from California School of Professional Psychology. She is also a PhD candidate working on her dissertation The Relation of Trust and Cross-boundary Collaboration. If she had any free time, she would spend it hiking the rainforests of Costa Rica. |
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Vivian Wright
Garage Works, Hewlett-Packard
Vivian Wright is an internal consultant at Hewlett-Packard who has been innovating practices for virtual consulting. A background in large group processes, communities, emotional intelligence techniques, and graphic facilitation informs her approach. She brings creative experimentation to virtual tools, taking them "off road" to explore approaches that bring a human touch to the challenges of collaborating virtually.
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| "I was surprised at how much enthusiasm
was generated by the participants in this on-line format, and impressed at both
the tools and techniques used to bring us into a community quickly and easily." |
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Barbara Densmore,
President, Working Smarter SP Ltd. |
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| "The iCohere Collaborative Learning conference
changed the way I think about conferences. It was easy, engaging and best of all,
collaborative!" |
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Greg Davis,
Director, eEngagement
American Express |
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