4th International Summer School in Knowledge Management New Ways of Learning in the 21st Century Innovation and Learning are among the two paramount areas knowledge workers must adopt and excel in order to stay ahead in the 21st Century. Building on the success of the previous years, this year’s Summer School in Knowledge Management (KM) offers two interactive and co-creation workshops for participants to experience New Ways of Learning (NWoL) – learning that is best-of-breed, proactive, personalised, social-based and enhances our skills in sensemaking, collaboration, storytelling, leadership and more. All working professionals are suitable especially those who are working in human resources, learning and development fields. Prior knowledge in KM is not required.

1. Enquiries
Miss Trista Lai
2766 6588
trista.lai@polyu.edu.hk
www.kmirc.com
REGISTRATION
Fee (10 July)*:
HKD 1,500 (Regular Fee)
HKD 1,200 (KMIRC members)
Application Deadline: 30 June 2019
* Fee covers lunch, handout and refreshments
** Enrolment is on a first-come-first-served basis
Innovation and Learning are among the two paramount areas knowledge workers must
adopt and excel in order to stay ahead in the 21st Century. Building on the success of the
previous years, this year’s Summer School in Knowledge Management (KM) offers two
interactive and co-creation workshops for participants to experience New Ways of Learning
(NWoL) – learning that is best-of-breed, proactive, personalised, social-based and enhances
our skills in sensemaking, collaboration, storytelling, leadership and more.
All working professionals are suitable especially those who are working in human
resources, learning and development fields. Prior knowledge in KM is not required.
*** KMIRC reserves the right to amend any part of the event format, agenda or programme if necessary at any time.
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10 July 2019
PolyU4th Summer School
in Knowledge Management
New Ways of Learning in the 21st Century
Date Time Activity Facilitator
10 July 09:30am-12:30pm Lego Serious Play Workshop Ms Debbie Hui
12:30pm-02:00pm Lunch
02:00pm-05:30pm Open Curriculum Workshop Prof. Eric Tsui
Dr Irene Fan
Dr Meina Cheng

2. Lego Serious Play
If people and innovation is the key to an organization’s success, how an organization can create an environment that
employees live innovation in their daily work? How we can use game to create group value and build collaborative working
style, and the most important is how to sustain new behavior to become an organization new culture and strategy?
The half day workshop will introduce Lego Serious Play and let you experience the tool, a new way of communication,
unlock players’ new knowledge through touching, looking and listening. It will be a fun and serious gamification journey
for everyone to reflect or apply the results on your work or self-development.
Helping people to help themselves is what Debbie did in the past 15
years in Asia market. She worked in media, property agency, testing
and certification industries on training and taught over 1000 people
mangers on leadership and soft skills topics. Debbie keens in exploring
and sharing new learning approaches, she graduated MSc in
Knowledge Management and a certified trainer of Everything DiSC and
Lego® Serious Play ®. She is now working in the Kuehne & Nagel
Limited as Training and Development Manager.
Ms Debbie Hui
Training and
Development Manager
Kuehne & Nagel Limited
Open Curriculum Workshop
Prof Tsui joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 1989 after years
of academic research in automated knowledge acquisition, natural
language processing, case-based reasoning and knowledge engineering
tools. His research strengths include cloud-based business innovation
and knowledge services. He has also consulted for many government
departments and private organizations in different countries. Prof Tsui is
an honorary advisor of KM to the Police College, Correctional Services
Department, and the Efficiency Office. He is a recipient of the KM
Leadership Award and KM and Intellectual Capital Excellence Award in
2014 and 2015 respectively.
Prof. Eric Tsui
Professor and Director
KMIRC of PolyU
Dr Irene Fan
Chief Knowledge
Scientist, SCALE
InnoTech & Visiting
Professor,
Bangkok University
Dr Meina Cheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
PolyU
In today's networked economy, how to ensure knowledge workers can continue to excel in a growing world of
VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity of general conditions and situations)? How can we enhance
one’s learn to learn capabilities and predict the future with confidence? Participants will gain hands on experience
with a new active learning pedagogy, draw on customized Open Educational Resources (OER) and develop a deeper
appreciation of some of the skills needed for 21st Century knowledge workers.
Dr Meina Cheng is Postdoctoral Fellow who is working Knowledge
Management and Innovation Research Centre, in the Department of
Industrial and Systems Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University and she obtained her Master of Philosophy and Doctor of
Philosophy in the same university. During the services in the university,
Dr Cheng had worked on over 10 projects for conducting consultancy,
research, teaching and learning, technology transfer and
commercialization activities. She also gained more than 10 years
research-based and project-based work experiences in areas of
Knowledge and Technology Management, Supply Chain Management
and Logistics Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Precision
Engineering.
Irene Fan has more than 25 years of innovation experience in the ICT
industry. She developed and managed mobile products and services in
Canada and was named DMTS (Distinguished Member of Technical
Staff) at Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs. She oversaw the innovation
strategy and the Digital Living Lab at the Hong Kong Applied Science
Technology and Research Institute. She is a researcher, lecturer, and
practitioner of knowledge and innovation management, focusing on the
ICT, education, NGO, and government sectors.