1. Cloud Computing for Knowledge
Management, Learning & Innovation
12 April 2013, 9:30am – 5:30pm
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Cloud Computing has been gaining rapid adoption in the past few years and has started to
generate transformational effects to many businesses and industries. However, the fundamentals
of the Cloud are still not fully understood by many people. Indeed, many confined the Cloud to be
merely some kind of on-demand IT infrastructure and as such principally leveraged by many
organisations for cost savings, productivity enhancements, and applications consolidation. While it
is certainly true that many of the critical issues involved in Cloud deployment, for example,
deployment models, security of data, migration, service level agreements, cross border flow of
information etc., still remain to be resolved, the full power of the Cloud is increasingly being seen
as a revolutionary and disruptive business game changer. In particular, the Cloud’s impact on
Knowledge Work and Business Innovations have not been fully realised.
Abstract
Up to now, much of the focus on the Cloud is on its ability to deliver scalable IT infrastructure
thereby enabling an organisation to be more cost competitive and agile. There has been
insufficient research into how the Cloud, together with the users, the connections and the
embedded intelligence can deliver a paradigmatic shift to business model design, knowledge
work, risk reduction and service innovations. This workshop will cover the Adolescent Cloud, the
Knowledge Cloud, the Human Cloud, and the Intelligent Cloud and showcase how they can
support Knowledge Work (which includes communications, collaboration, learning) and Service
Innovations (which includes dynamic capabilities, co-creation of values, idea sourcing). Among
others, concept and systems for Cloud-based Sourcing, Open Innovations and Competitions will
be illustrated with examples. Participants will gain clear insights on how to leverage the Cloud for
productivity gains, delegation of work, expertise location, collaboration, learning, idea sourcing,
and to apply Cloudsourcing for risk reduction. This is not a technical workshop; it is business and
application oriented.
Programmme
This workshop will cover:  Cloud’s impact on KM Systems
 Fundamentals of Cloud Computing  Crowdsourcing and Cloudsourcing
 Differences between the Cloud and the Web  Cloud-based Knowledge Services & X-a-a-S
 The Adolescent Cloud, Knowledge Cloud  Community Building and Development
 The Intelligent Cloud, Human Cloud  Cloud-based Personal Learning Environment
 Connections in the Cloud
Who Should Attend
 Learning and Development Professionals
 Business Managers / Directors  Marketing Directors
 Knowledge/Innovation Managers  Researchers
 Human Resources Professionals  Librarians
 IT Directors / CIO  Recruitment Officers

2. Biography of the FACILITATOR
Facebook profile
https://www.facebook.com/eric.tsui.58
LinkedIn profile (Top 1% of most viewed profiles in 2012)
http://hk.linkedin.com/in/ericyhtsui
Academia.edu profile
http://polyu.academia.edu/EricTsui
Prof. Eric Tsui,
Professor & Associate Director ,
Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Eric Tsui was Chief Research Officer, Asia Pacific and Innovation Manager at Computer
Sciences Corporation (CSC) between 2000 and 2005 and currently a Professor at The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University. He practices and carries out research in, among others,
Knowledge Management technologies, taxonomy creation and maintenance, knowledge
communities, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing and Personal Knowledge Management (PKM). He
leads the teaching, supervision and delivery of consultancy services in all technology-related
subjects and projects in the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre
(KMIRC), and co-delivers the subject Knowledge-Based Service Innovation (KBSI). He was
for 5 years Innovation Manager at Australian Mutual Provident (AMP) and Maybank
(Malaysia). Professor Tsui is a member of the CIGREF Foundation (France) ISD programme
committee specialising on Web 2.0, a member of the AIIM (USA) advisory board on
Enterprise 2.0, a research advisor to the Artificial Intelligence Cluster at MIMOS Berhad
(Malaysia), an honorary advisor in KM for the HK Police College and a member of the
Technology Assessment Sub-Committee in the Hospital Authority. In the past 7 years, he has
custom designed and delivered numerous workshops on KM technologies, enterprise portals,
collaboration tools, Web/Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, and Personal KM. A member of both
the Australian and Hong Kong Computer Societies, he has B.Sc. (Hons.), PhD and MBA
qualifications.
Registration Fee
Regular Fee: HK$1,400 KMIRC member: HK$1,120
*Registration fee covers handout, refreshments and lunch
**Medium of instruction: English
Please fill in online registration form on KMIRC website http://kmirc.ise.polyu.edu.hk/events.php and
send a crossed cheque made payable to “The Hong Kong Polytechnic University” in HK dollars to:
Miss Cuby Chow
Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre,
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon
Enquiries: Miss Cuby Chow
(Tel: 3400 3158, Email: cuby.chow@polyu.edu.hk)