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Dennis L Thomas, CoFounder, CEO - has 40 years of business operations, marketing, corporate sales, and technical expertise. Thomas has more than 18 years of direct experience with knowledge system research, design, and development. He is the conceptual designer of IQxCloud, a published author, and speaker at innovation and Knowledge Management conferences.  











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Neil Wagner graduated with a B.Comm in 1976 and an MBA in Finance from Concordia University in 1978, and went to work at Bell Canada in Ottawa, where he quickly applied his financial and quantitative skills to write the first financial plan for the Computer Communications Group of Bell. After 2 years, Neil was recruited by an old professor from Concordia to teach Finance at the University of Calgary and spent four years as a full-time faculty member at the university before switching back to business.















Neil made the switch from Finance to Technology in 1985 when he joined Keyword, an early technology startup funded by TransAlta Utilities. He quickly established himself as the leader of their Technology Advancement Centre, developing business relationships with military and commercial companies interested in custom application of Keyword technology. It was in this time frame that Neil gained early and powerful experience in Document Management Systems, and he extended that expertise after he left Keyword and continued to sell his expertise in this area.







Neil’s consulting experiences have led him to many substantial and successful engagements. He has been responsible for guiding the design and implementation of highly sophisticated and complex budgeting and consolidation systems at Wawa Food Markets in Pennsylvania, and Hancock Insurance in Boston. He has implemented document management / knowledge management, Engineering Information Systems and budgeting and consolidation systems in such diverse industries as Oil & Gas, Health Care, and others. Neil also enjoys leading IT groups, where he can help guide the organization through a re-focusing of efforts so that they become a serious and reliable service provider to the business.







In several of his engagements, Neil has been an award-winning designer of complex systems, recognized for his creativity and abilities to deliver complex programs on time and budget. In the Non-Profit world, Neil is a recognized ‘go-to resource’ in Calgary and has held several senior strategic engagements advising a variety of agencies on technology change and advancement!







As a believer in giving back to the community Neil is the Volunteer CIO for the Calgary Counselling Centre, a world leading not-for-profit counselling and educational institution, where he has guided the implementation and adoption of a highly sophisticated technological footprint designed to tightly support the organization’s business & research goals. Neil was also long-serving member of the Deans Advisory Committee for the Computing in Business program at Mount Royal University in Calgary.







Neil has been married to Robbie for 44 years. Robbie is the CEO of the Calgary Counselling Centre and a PhD graduate from the University of Calgary School of Social Work. Neil & Robbie have two sons – Steven, who is a PhD in History & Military Intelligence from Oxford University, currently teaching at Brunel University, and Daniel, who recently completed a PhD in Health Economics at University of Calgary.

With a broad background in the Oil, Water, Healthcare, Finance and Emergency Management industries, Stuart French is author of the www.DeltaKnowledge.net blog, and currently the Head of Knowledge Management at Country Fire Authority in Melbourne, Australia and Chair of the AFAC Knowledge, Innovation & Research Utilisation Network (KIRUN). 







Stuart combines 25 years of professional experience with a Masters of Knowledge Management (KM) to help companies with expertise identification & management, collaboration, organizational learning and knowledge systems to improve their performance and resilience to change. His research on wikis and knowledge cultures led to a fascination with complexity theory which he now enjoys teaching to various organizations and universities so they can bridge the gap between corporate strategy and service excellence.







He continues to serve the KM community as co-host of the Knowledge Management Leadership forum in Melbourne Victoria and is honored to be the Australia delegate at the KM Global Network.

Kurt drove away from New College of Florida for the last time with the phrase “organizational therapy” rolling around in his head. He left in his wake; many Rancid City Improvisational theater shows and an accidental college food-service boycott. He returned to DOE's Richland Laboratory to continue his work starting up the Fast Flux Test Facility, a sodium-cooled research reactor. When he drove away from the nuclear reactor for the last time, the personnel airlock was not breaking down every few weeks. The Camrol bearings rolled much-more smoothly.



















Kurt has started up training programs, support organizations, planning groups, and many of the organizational and technology-development projects that flowed from them. These projects have synthesized lessons learned across the energy, high-tech, transportation, pharmaceutical, education, publishing, and political sectors. His current focus is on: ­Values-based decision making ­Infrastructures for collaborative, bottom-up conversations and negotiations ­Nurturing grassroot organizations, communication networks, and publishing pipelines ­Facilitating policy and knowledge architecture discussions ­Building operational solutions to speed intelligent behaviors ­Contributing his cello/ piccolo-bass hybrid to improvisational musical ensembles















From research reactors to research documentation, Kurt gets people on the same page and gets things rolling. The reviews tell the story. “Anyone could learn from you.” “It was like we worked together for years” “I should be talking with you more.” “You always come up with something” “It's never the same way twice.” “They play better when you're here.”

Arshad has been involved in Knowledge Management and learning for 20 years in the areas of professional services, financial services, legal, the third sector and more recently oil and gas. He currently is working in the Middle East. Arshad is the founder of Intoto Knowledge Intoto Knowledge – Intoto Knowledge, a consultancy focused on Knowledge and Information Management.

























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Yadi Caro has been working with teams of developers and engineers for over a decade with US military organizations. Her expertise is to work with teams and customers solving organizational business processes and creating technical solutions. Her certifications include Organizational Behavior (Harvard), Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Product Owner, Certified Knowledge Manager, Lean Six Sigma, and Business Analytics (MIT). 







She has worked with hundreds of customers across the world as she fluent in Spanish and Portuguese. While she continues her work as a consultant in the Defense industry, Yadi also provides training and coaching to help teams and individuals master the "soft" skills they need to succeed. She also recently completed an ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and Life Coach Certification Program, which enriches her experience to coach neurodiverse individuals. 







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