As a KMSA member, you are invited at R500 per person to attend the KMSA dinner event, where Prof Eric Tsui will share his knowledge about 'knowledge management and big data'.
Who is Professor Eric Tsui?
Professor Tsui had spent 16 years in industry with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), in Australia, taking on various capacities including Chief Research Officer and Innovation Manager. During this period, he has made significant contributions to the company's expert systems products, applied research and innovation programmes.
In 2002, he was appointed Professor of Knowledge Management at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the President's Distinguished Professionals Scheme; he joined the university full-time in 2005. His speciality areas are knowledge technologies, including search engines, portals, personal knowledge management, personal learning environments, and knowledge cloud services.
A Vice-President of the Hong Kong Knowledge Management Society, Professor Tsui is also an honorary advisor of KM to three Hong Kong government departments. In the past decade, he has supervised or been involved in more than 200 KM projects in Hong Kong, Asia and Australia.
In 2014 and 2018, he twice received the Global Knowledge Management Leadership Award. He also has a strong passion in teaching and learning and has received many awards in his career.
Since August 2015, he has designed and launched two MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses): "Knowledge Management and Big Data in Business" and "Industry 4.0: How to revolutionalise your business" on the MIT edX platform. Together, they have attracted more than 75 000 enrolments and one of them is rated as a Top 7 Business MOOCs (Source: Canadian Business, April 2018).
The event will be held at on Wednesday, 25 July 2018, at 6pm at CSIR Knowledge Commons, in Pretoria. To register, please click here (limited space available).
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