Dr Charles Despres obtained his doctorate from the University of Utah (USA) by working on the organising implications of large-scale information systems. His subsequent research has centred on the triad of information, organisation and culture, and since 1997 his academic and professional career has concentrated on the emerging field of Knowledge Management.

He joined IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) in 1991 as an ABD Research Fellow, completed his doctoral work and moved to the south of France four years later to assume research / professorial roles at the Institute d’Administration des Entreprises, Aix-en-Provence and the Theseus Institute (Sophia Antipolis). Charles was Professor of Organisation and Director of International Development at the Graduate School of Business, Marseille-Provence from 1997 - 2002. In 2003 he joined the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris as Director of Programs at its International Institute of Management.

He has authored around 75 articles, chapters, monographs, grants or proceedings, and co-authored two books, Leveraged Innovation (Macmillan, 1998, with F. Bidault & C. Butler) and Knowledge Horizons (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000, with D. Chauvel).

Dr Roger Gill is Director of the Research Centre for Leadership Studies at The Leadership Trust Foundation. He is also Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business in Glasgow and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Executive Center for Global Leadership, based in Bali, Indonesia. He is Programme Director for the MBA in Leadership Studies, run jointly by The Leadership Trust Foundation and Strathclyde

Dr Kevin Money is Director - The John Madejski Centre for Reputation at Henley Management Conference. His areas of expertise include Team Building, Executive Coaching, Mentoring, Relationships, Organisational Reputation, Corporate Social Responsibility , Sustainability and his current research centres on Building strong relationships with customers, employees, suppliers and other stakeholders. Reputation of Prisons and Prison alternatives. Reputation and commitment of corporate funders to charities. Corporate Social Responsibility in stakeholder relationships in Europe and Asia. Customer and CSR survey methodology.

Dr Dan Remenyi is a Visiting Professor in Information Systems Management at the School of Systems and Data Studies at Trinity College Dublin and an associated member of Faculty at Henley Management College in the United Kingdom. His original academic interests are in the field of information systems management and he has researched and been published widely in that area. In recent years he has taken a strong interest in research methodology and the sociology of research. He now works extensively with research candidates and their supervisors at both doctoral and masters level. He conducts a number of seminars to topics related to improving effective academic research and obtaining better results. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and some 50 academically refereed papers. He is published in all 4 of the A rated Journals in the United Kingdom in Information Systems Management. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Acta Commercii (a general management journal) and the Journal of Information Technology. He is the editor of the Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation and advisor to a number of other electronic journals.

Keynote speaker: John O’Brien has 30 years experience in the IT industry in the government, financial services and consumer products sectors. John is at present the Global Applications Architecture Director in Diageo PLC, responsible for the governance of all applications in use across this large multinational business. John graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1980 and has recently returned to complete a part time PhD. John’s particular area of interest is in the successful adoption of new applications, technologies and methodologies to drive sustainable business value.