COMMUNITY OF KNOWLEDGE - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Member of the Project
• Student

Ani Hayka is a student of computer science, specialising in business computer science and complex and distributed IT systems. Through her studies and many years of practical experience with Typo3 and open source communities she oversees the technical administration of the platform.

Daphne Gross is a member of the knowledge management and business development team at Pumacy Technologies. Daphne has been involved in the development of knowledge management platforms and has scientific experience in the field of organisational knowledge management. She manages the communication strategy and develops the concept of the community.

In addition to his job as Senior Advisor of the Chairman of IBM in Europe, Middle East and Africa, Dr. Richard Straub actively participates in numerous networks for providers and users of learning solutions. He is General Secretary of the European Learning Industry Group (ELIG), and Board Member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). Straub, who is also Founding President of the Peter Drucker Society Europe, is keynote speaker at major international conferences such as the European Union eLearning Conference 2006 in Dipoli, the 2006 EDEN Conference in Vienna and Online Educa, Berlin 2005.

Dr. Sören Auer leads the research group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) at Universität Leipzig. His research interests include semantic data web technologies, knowledge representation, engineering & management, usability, agile methodologies as well as databases and information systems. He aims to combine strong theoretical results with high-impact practical applications. Sören is author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting in a Hirsch index of 15. Sören is leading the large-scale integrated EU-FP7-ICT research project "LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data". Sören is founder (respectively co-founder) of several high-impact research and community projects such as the Wikipedia semantification project DBpedia or the social Semantic Web toolkit OntoWiki. He is co-organiser of several workshops, programme chair of I-Semantics 2008, OKCON 2010, ESWC 2010 and ICWE 2011, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal, serves as an expert for industry, the European Commission, the W3C and is member of the advisory board of the Open Knowledge Foundation.

Job Titles:

• International Project Manager

International Project Manager: Ines Kaps is a persistent and highly structured international project manager, driving passion into practice. By holistically managing expectations, stakeholders and project teams she develops solid relationships and delivers innovative business solutions in time and in budget. She has a sound network and constantly wins long-term customers. She has a sound network and constantly wins long-term customers. Ines has been working as a Management Consultant the fields of Knowledge and Performance Management as well as Business Intelligence since 2002. Across Europe, she has successfully delivered projects using Business Intelligence tools such as Professional Planner, Cubeware Cockpit, SAP BW - Reporting, Microsoft SharePoint. Ines Kaps has further experience with tools such as SAP BW IP, SAP HCM; Cognos, SAS, SPSS and ECM Documentum. Ines Kaps is highly valued for her translation skills between business departments and IT as well as intercultural teams. The industry focus of Ines Kaps is automotive, chemical and life-science, industrial automation, plant engineering and renewable energies. As her first entrepreneurial experience she set up a SAP Consulting Company for a Business Partner in 2000. Since then, she developed various businesses such as a sales and software consulting office in Paris, a company in the field of industrial automation near Munich and a business in the area of renewable energies in the UK. Today Ines supports young entrepreneurs as Coach and Juror at the MBPW in Munich.

Ingo Frost is a member of the knowledge management team at Pumacy Technologies AG. Ingo has technical expertise and scientific experience in the area of online collaboration. With his conceptual knowledge of the community structure he has the general overview of the whole project. As a software engineer at Pumacy Technologies AG Steffen Müller was responsible for administration and development of the community portal. Steffen has been a member of the TYPO3 Community for years and gained considerable expertise with the use of content management systems. Additionally, he supported the Community of Knowledge with his knowledge as a communication scientist and open source community expert.

Job Titles:

• Assistant at the Institute of Business Studies

Job Titles:

• Member of the Project
• Software Engineer at Intakt Internet Services GmbH & Co KG

Ludger Wagner is software engineer at Intakt Internet Services GmbH & Co KG. Ludger acquired valuable skills in the integration and development of several web-based learning communities. He is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the portal.

Melanie Welker studied at the University Of Applied Sciences Of Zwickau. In the course of her diploma thesis she compared global web based knowledge management networks and derived efficient procedures.

Job Titles:

• Data Processing Specialist

Robert Wander is data processing specialist. He oversees technical administration and development of the Typo3 system. As a freelancer he works for Pumacy Technologies AG and has many years of experience with Typo3 specialisation.

Shaked is Project Assistent in Pumacy Technologies' Knowledge Management division and supports the Community of Knowledge as member of the editorial staff, communications and PR.

Job Titles:

• Editor - in - Chief
• Member of the Project

Steffen Doberstein is editor-in-chief of the Community of Knowledge since 2004. Due to his commitment the Community of Knowledge has grown and is now widely known in German-speaking knowledge management community. Steffen has done voluntary work for the GfWM (Gesellschaft für Wissensmanagement e.V.) for years. He acquired valuable skills in knowledge management and created enormous benefit to the community.