Dr Jose M. Viedma
Jose M. Viedma is a Doctor of Industrial Engineering, a Graduate in Economics and Professor of Business Administration at the U.P.C., Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. He teaches on the subject of knowledge management, intellectual capital management and organisational learning.  He has held top executive positions in computer services and management consultancy firms.  He is the president of “Intellectual Capital Management Systems”, the founding partner of “ M & A Fusiones y Adquisiciones” and  the Independent Director of Interlace.  He is a regular speaker in International conferences and congresses on Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management such as World Congress on Intellectual Capital and Innovation and European Conference on Knowledge Management. His current field of research and interest is focused on knowledge management and intellectual capital management and he has consulted and developed management frameworks and systems world wide on those matters. More information is available in the web-sites: http://intellectualcapitalmanagementsystems.com

Jose Viedma

Professor Blanca Martins
Blanca Martins is a Public Accountant, Master in Managerial Sciences and Professor of Business Economics at the U.P.C., Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She has worked as a consultant for both the private and public sector, mainly involved in the analysis of economic and financial data for firms’ strategy formulation and investment projects in the industry and agriculture sector. Her links with the public sector (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Presidency in Uruguay) were through Inter-American Development Bank. Since 2001 she has worked as senior consultant at “Intellectual Capital Management Systems” and carried out in-depth research in the area of intellectual capital’s measurement and management as a main source of wealth creation and economic growth at both the firm’s and country/region’s level, and more recently with a strong focus on the latter. She has already finished her doctoral thesis in the field of intellectual capital valuation.

Blanca Martins

Prof. Dr. Daniel Andriessen

Dr. Daniel Andriessen is Professor of Intellectual Capital at INHOLLAND University of professional education, The Netherlands, and director of the INHOLLAND Centre for research in Intellectual Capital, a research group set up to study the impact of the intangible economy on people and organizations. Recently, his centre organized the very successful Intellectual Capital Congress 2007 in May in Haarlem (The Netherlands), a congress that will be repeated in May 2009 (www.iccongress.com). Through his Weightless Wealth Research Group he offers help to companies, governmental and educational organizations, academics, and students on the subject of knowledge management and intellectual capital valuation and measurement (www.weightlesswealth.com ). He is a popular speaker at conferences and likes to do guest lectures, presentations, and training sessions on a variety of subjects related to the growing importance of intangibles.

Daniel received his Ph.D. degree at Nyenrode University in The Netherlands and he holds a masters degree in political and administrative science at the Free University, Amsterdam. His publications include Value-Based Knowledge Management: Creating the 21st Century Company: Knowledge Intensive, People Rich (Addison-Wesley, 1998), with Prof. Dr. René Tissen and associate professor Frank Lekanne Deprez. Together with Prof. Dr. René Tissen he wrote Weightless Wealth: Find Your Real Value in a Future of Intangibles Assets (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000). His PhD thesis was published in 2004 by Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann and was entitled Making Sense of Intellectual Capital; Designing a Method for the Valuation of Intangibles. In his recent research Daniel explores the role of metaphor in knowledge construction and science. When he realized that the term Intellectual Capital is in fact based on specific metaphors for knowledge he decided to analyze the various metaphors we use for knowledge and their impact on knowledge management. An analysis of metaphors in the work of Stewart, Davenport & Prusak and Nonaka & Takeuchi was published in the Journal of Intellectual Capital: Andriessen, D. (2006) On the metaphorical nature of intellectual capital: a textual analysis, Journal of Intellectual Capital, vol. 7 (1). In his keynote Daniel will share with you the latest results of his research into metaphor and knowledge management.

Daniel Andriessen

Assistant Professor Maria do Rosário Cabrita
Maria do Rosário Cabrita is a researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and an Assistant Professor of banking management at the Instituto Superior de Gestão Bancária. She also works as consultant and has several years of experience in various management positions in international banks. Her major research interests are related to strategy, managing intellectual capital and human capital.

Maria do Rosário Cabrita

Professor Bernard Marr

Bernard Marr is one of the world’s leading experts on strategic performance management and balanced scorecards. He specializes in the identification, measurement and management of strategic performance drivers. In this capacity he has advised and worked with many leading organizations including Accenture, Astra Zeneca, Barclays, BP, DHL, Fujitsu, Gartner, HSBC, NovoNordisk, the Home Office, Mars, the Royal Air Force, and Royal Dutch Shell. He has extensive work experience in private companies, public sector organizations, and governments across North America, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Until recently, he was a Research Fellow at the renowned Centre for Business Performance at Cranfield School of Management and has just taken the position of chief executive and director of research for the Advanced Performance Institute. Bernard is also a visiting professor at various universities, chairman of the international PMA IC Group, Intangible Assets Editor of the journal Measuring Business Excellence, and member of the editorial board of The Handbook of Business Strategy. In addition, he serves on the editorial boards of many leading journals in the field and holds various non-executive directorships. The CEO Journal, in it’s article “Wise Guys”, recognized Bernard Marr as one of today’s leading business brains.

Bernard Marr