Keynotes

Professor Alf Rehn - Business thinker, writer and speaker - Professor of management and organization, School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi University

Alf has been called an “enfant terrible of organization studies”, while the venerable The Times called him a “star of the future”. The 2009 Thinkers 50, the listing of the world’s top 50 business thinkers, included him on their “Guru Radar”, ranking him #13 among the “Up and Coming Business Thinkers”.

Alf has published a wide range of academic books and articles from a range of perspectives including philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, and Industrial Management. Besides academic writing Alf has published a series of books, articles, columns and thoughtpapers for a general audience with recent and coming books on an alternative take on creativity and business – and also on dealing with how we can learn management and leadership from the great chefs. He is a popular speaker with the ability to really engage his audience.

He currently lives in both Finland and Denmark, as well as in a range of hotel rooms and airport lounges around the world. He drinks too much coffee, not enough water, and is a devoted fan of Ethel Merman and the divine Patsy Cline. http://www.alfrehn.com/

Professor Carol Tenopir Professor at the School of Information Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Director of Research, College of Communication and Information Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies

Carol’s areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, and the impact of technology on reference librarians and scientists. She is the author of five books, including, Communication Patterns of Engineers, winner of the American Society for Engineering Education, Engineering Libraries Division 2005 Best Publication Award, (IEEE/Wiley InterScience, 2004) with Donald W. King. Carol has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She is the recipient of the 2009 Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), the 2002 ASIST Research Award, the 1993 ASIST Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award. In addition, Dr. Tenopir received the 2010 Outstanding Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois GSLIS, the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence, and the 2004 International Information Industry Lifetime Achievement Award.http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/index.html

Dr Hazel Hall Director, Centre for Social Informatics, School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University She is also leads the implementation of the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition. Hazel’s main research expertise and teaching interests lie in information sharing in online environments within the context of knowledge management. Other themes in which she maintains an active interest include social computing, online communities and collaboration, the education and training of information professionals, and online information services provision. She has published and presented in these areas for international refereed journals and conferences. Hazel has an extensive contact network that comprises information/knowledge management and social computing practitioners and researchers across academia and industry. She has completed research and consultancy with companies such as KPMG, Sun Microsystems, TFPL and Scottish Enterprise. Hazel was named IWR Information Professional of the Year in December 2009. http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~hazelh/esis/hazel.html