Greater Sydney Area
"The world is my personal live theatre. Every talk I aim to deliver a soul-snatching presentation that hypnotizes the auidence!!!" "Curiosity arises your interest; passion takes you to cross the finishing line". Wait!!! What "finishing line?" "I never teach my students, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein "Students often forget the things you say, but they always remember the way you inspire them to learn & learn." I am one of the three original developers of the world renowned COLOSSUS Expert System for handling bodily injury & workers compensation claims back in 1990s. Between 2000 & 2005, I assumed the roles of Chief Research Officer, Asia Pacific for CSC, Innovation Manager at AMP & Maybank. My research areas are knowledge management technologies, Web 2.0, knowledge services, semantic technologies, & Blended Learning systems. My papers have twice won the Highly Commended category of the Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence in 2008 & 2011. At HKPolyU, I received the High Impact Award in 2008, finalist & winner of the Teaching & Learning Innovation Awards in 2009 & 2010 respectively, and a Merit Award in Teaching in 2013. I had chaired the Working Group on ELearning and lead the CoP on Technology-enhanced Teaching & Learning. I have received more than HK$9m funding on various Teaching and Learning related projects. I am an honorary advisor in the area of Knowledge Management for the Hong Kong Police and the Correctional Services Dept in the HKSAR government. Since 2005, I have supervised/completed more than 200 KM projects & examined more than a dozen theses. I twice received the Knowledge Management Leadership Award (2014 & 2018) and the Knowledge Management Excellence Award (2021). I have a member of the judging panel of China MIKE, SEA MIKE and the MENA MIKE Awards for various years in the past decade. Research areas: Cloud intelligence, Blended Learning, Knowledge-enabled BPM, Community of Practice, Personal Knowledge Management, Web 2.0, Platform ecosystems Teaching/Consulting: Innovation & Entrepreneurship, KM, Technology Management and Innovation, Taxonomy Creation & Maintenance, Knowledge Management technologies, Business Process Management, Service Innovation, Communications
Keynote Addresses • Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Technologies (APIET), 16-18th Jan, Bali, Indonesia • Konstelasi National IT Conference, 19-20th Jan, Bali, Indonesia • Tacit Knowledge Management (TKM) Davos Forum, Switzerland, 24th Jan, Online • Digital Education & IT (DEIT), Changsha, China, 23-25th Jan, Online • KIMPACT Forum, 18-20th Mar, Bangkok, Thailand • KM4AgD CoP & Partners, 26th Mar, Africa, Online • Intelligent Technologies for Educational Applications, 15-16th May, HK • Frontiers of Educational Technologies, 12-14th Jun, Tokyo, Japan • AI Technologies Summer School, LNU, Lviv, Ukraine, 22 Jun-3rd Jul, Online • AI's Impact on Higher Education Symposium, Swansea University, UK, 1-3 Jul, Online • Intelligent Technologies in Education, 20-22nd, Jul, Chengdu, China • Workshop on AI and Education, 26-28th Sep, Sapporo, Japan • Information Management & Management Science, 24-26th Oct, Kunming, China • Asian Educational Technology Symposium (AETS), 7-9th Nov, HK Invited Talks • Pre-AI Summit, 21st Jan, Fes, Morocco • 7 Tamkine International Talks, Rabat, Morocco, Jan to Nov, Online • Asian Knowledge and Innovation (AKIF) Forum, 28-29th Jan, HK • Correctional Services Academy, HKSARG, 30th Mar, HK • St Petersburg State University, Russia, 25th Apr, Online • HSE University, Moscow, Russia, 28th May, Online • HKU SPACE Community College AI & Education Conf, 5th Jun, HK • KMGN KM Course, 16th Jun,Global, Online • CPCE Seminar on G-AI impact on sustainable marketing research, 22nd Jun, HK • Symbiosis International University, Pune, India, 27th Jun, Online • AI tools to support research, University of Manchester, UK, 23rd Jul, Online
Expert Advisory Background research Joint delivery of seminars/workshops/materclasses
Contribute to the digital transformation of education in the African continent by 1. Developing Academic and Technological Partnerships 2. Promoting the Tamkine/Temtech Connect Platform 3. Contributing to the establishment of the Asia-African market 4. Supporting the Foundation's strategy for continuous learning and pedagogical transformation 5. Strengthing the multi-lingual and intercultural dimension
Principal instructor of ISE101x Knowledge Management and Big Data in Business and I4.0x Industry 4.0: How to revolutionise your business
2 years appointment; renewed in April 2024 for another 2 years