Serial innovator John Kao is widely acknowledged as the world’s leading authority on the future of business. He explores the intersection of innovation and transformation to help define the landscape for enterprise—and knowledge workers—in the years ahead. Through his proven record of identifying circumstances long before they coalesce into trends, John Kao is the single most qualified voice to help us all set our course for the next decade. Join us and hear his predictions!

 Join Google at lunch to learnabout the exciting new features of the Google Search Appliance and hear how customers areusing Google technology to organize and access their information. You'll also have the chance to test your knowledge in our Enterprise Search Challenge - prizes will be awarded to the top participants!

Leading companies are creating and deploying an innovation capability to outperform industry rivals. Through case examples of leading companies such as Whirlpool, Best Buy, and W.R. Gore, this session illustrates how innovation is the only sustainable source of competitive advantage, focusing on how to build organizational capability in innovation and create an environment of entrepreneurism. You will learn how to identify enablers and obstacles to effective innovation in your organization and how to use a systemic approach to dramatically improve your organization’s innovation capability. Learn how to help your organization embrace open innovation, apply a disciplined approach to in-market experimentation, and manage a continuous pipeline of new growth platforms. Take away an action checklist that identifies and addresses the most critical steps for executing successful strategies involving anytime, anyplace collaboration among multiple parties throughout the world. Innovate at scale.

Search is among our most important and complex challenges.  As the choice of first resort for many users and tasks, search is a defining element of the user experience and a critical window into the taxonomies we build. However, it not only influences who we find and what we learn, but search also shapes how we create value and share knowledge. In this fast-paced session, Peter Morville highlights best practices and emerging technologies that transform enterprise social search into a vital tool for collaboration, knowledge management, and discovery.

IT projects are still locked into design and governance approaches that developed to handle the state of technology in the 1980s. Using insights from complex adaptive systems theory, our popular speaker Dave Snowden provides a framework for a co-evolutionary approach to the subject and looks at a range of pragmatic methods that have the potential to transform the field. These include the use of self-forming teams as a bridge between formal development and open-source, the use of social computing tools in design, and narrative based approaches to requirements capture. Join us for a stimulating close to KMWorld & Intranets 2008.