Organizing Committee

• Prof. Suliman Hawamdeh (General Chair): Provide consultations to the Conference Co-Chairs to help ensure the conference will run in a similar manner carrying the good traditions from past ICKM conferences.
• Dr. Samuel K. W. Chu (Conference Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference will be participated actively by high quality academics from around the world.
• Ms. Waltraut Ritter (Conference Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference will be participated actively by high quality professionals from the industry.
• Prof. Patrick Y. K. Chau (Program Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference contains relevant papers that are of academic excellence.
• Prof. Eric Tsui (Program Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference contains relevant papers that are of academic excellence.
• Prof. Christian Wagner (Program Co-Chair in Academic): Ensure that the conference contains relevant papers that are of academic excellence.
• Mr. Eric Chan (Program Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference contains presentations that carry themes and topics that are of interests to non-academic practitioners.
• Mr. Geoff Trotter (Program Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference contains presentations that carry themes and topics that are of interests to non-academic practitioners.
• Mr. Sanjiv Varma (Program Co-Chair in Business): Ensure that the conference contains presentations that carry themes and topics that are of interests to non-academic practitioners.
• Mr. Trevor Lui (Workshop Co-Chair): Help create creative workshops in KM.

Possible Tracks

Tracks cover both academic papers and presentations from practitioners

• Industry Track
• Technical
• Behavioral
• Knowledge Management Systems
• KM education
• Others

Possible Track chairs (by regions)

• Australia & New Zealand
• China
  • Tsing Hua, IS Dept
  • Fu Dan
• Europe
• Hong Kong
  • Maggie Wang, HKU, Faculty of Education (E-learning)
• Japan
• Korea
• Singapore
• Taiwan
• U.K.
  • University of Sheffield –Dr. Miguel Nunes (E-learning) {Sam has sent an invitation to him}
  • University of Greenwich
• USA 

Program Committee Members---Reviewers

• The following people have agreed to be members
  • Doug Vogel (City University of Hong Kong, Department of Information Systems -" I could help out on Collaborative Technologies and Cultures, Collaboration 2.0")
  • Matthew K o Lee (City University of Hong Kong, Chair Professor of Information Systems and Electronic Commerce - "I will be glad to chair a track for the conference around the theme of "Knowledge Management in the context

    of Web 2.0".)

  • Jiangning Wu (Dalian University of Technology, Institute of Systems and Engineering - "It's my pleasure to do something for this conference.")
  • John Yearwood (University of Ballarat, Professor of informatics and director - "Knowledge Management and Collaboration, Knowledge Networks and Ecologies") 
• Has sent out an invitation:
  • Brian J Garner (Deakin University, School of Engineering and Information Technology)
  • Uwe Wilkesmann(University of Dortmund, Professor of Continuing Education, Scoial and Organizational Management
  • Takahira Yamaguchi (Keio University, School of Science for Open and Environmental Systems)
  • Chien Sing Lee (Multimedia university, Faculty of Information Technology)
  • Frada Burstein (Monash University, School of Information Management & Systems)
  • H.W. Cheung (University of Macau, Director, Centre for Continuing Education )
  • Johann Kinghorn (Stellenbosch University, Chair: Information Science Centre for Knowledge Dynamics and Decision Making)
  • David J Pauleen (Victoria University of Wellington, School of Information Management)
• Will Invite the following:
  • Robert Davison
  • Atreyi Kankanhalli (NUS)
  • NTU---5 names (Waltraut)
  • SMU (Thomas Menkhoff--Waltraut)
  • India (Waltraut)
  • Taiwan
  • Korea
  • Ivy Chan
  • Karen Lee
  • UST
  • China