Women in KM Panel: Learnings and Insights from KM Exchange 2021

 This panel comprised some of the region's most experienced knowledge management women professionals, who facilitated discussion and sharing insights from the week in their personal capacities, and from their broad experience in KM:

• Murni Bt. Shariff, PETRONAS
• Azlinayati Manaf, Securities Commission Malaysia
• Geeta Albert, Knowledge Connections, Malaysia
• Eileen Tan, Monetary Authority of Singapore

The panel was facilitated by Kim Martins. Many KM forums privilege men's voices, so we wanted to redress that balance. However, this was not intended to be a women-only event.. all  our colleagues were also welcome to participate!

This panel was the closing session of KM Exchange Virtual Conference 2021. It was open to any participants,  who had attended any of the week's sessions, and it was intended to help us bring together and consolidate the key insights and learnings from the week's events. Breakouts facilitated networking with fellow KM professionals from all over the world as well as with our panellists, and we shared our insights and questions gathered from the week's events.

Here is the edited summary of the discussions, including group discussion debriefs on KM skills, and a poll on which skills are the most important - download here.

About Murni Bt. Shariff

Murni Shariff is Head of Change Management Strategy at PETRONAS New Energy Malaysia. She has previously worked in Compliance and in Knowledge Management at PETRONAS. While working as a Senior Manager in charge of Knowledge Management & Institutional Capability at  PMU, the E&P Division of PETRONAS,  her team was responsible for creating a workplace where staff competently and innovatively captured, shared, reused and created knowledge through pervasive KM practices and efficient systems/tools. She also drove the design and implementation of conditioning and intervention programs to promote mindset change/behaviour transformation within her organization. Murni has been actively involved in initiating and driving KM implementation since 2006. She is an active KM resource person, not only within PETRONAS, but more broadly in Malaysia, being a founding member of MY KM Roundtable. She has spoken at international KM conferences including APQC and KM World. Murni has shared and hosted plenty of KM visits from the industry and has participated as resource person in a few KM theses for PhD and Masters programmes. She holds a double degree in Accounting Information System and Computer Information Systems from the United States and has over 15 years of experience in ICT implementation and support (mainly SAP systems).

About Azlinayati Manaf

Azlinayati Manaf is Senior Manager for Knowledge Management at the Securities Commission Malaysia. She has a distinguished background in data science, data analytics, knowledge organisation and knowledge management, and she is Malaysia's first successful candidate for CILIP's KM Chartership, with her award announced in April 2021. Azlinayati previously worked as Knowledge Manager at the International Centre for Islamic Finance (INCEIF) in Kuala Lumpur, and as Team Lead for the Knowledge Engineering team at MIMOS Berhad, conducting requirements gathering, analysing clients' requirements and data, designing prototype systems and managing the implementation of knowledge base applications in several commercial projects and pilots/ proofs of concept in data and text analytics. She has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Manchester University.

About Geeta Albert

Geeta is currently attached as a consultant to the National Bank of Malaysia. Her specialisation over the past 20 years has been in product conceptualization, systems and database design in Information Management solutions with successful implementations in over 60 organisations in Malaysia. Over the past 10 years, she has turned her attention to Knowledge Management (KM), and her interest in KM has shifted her focus onto facilitating individuals and teams to develop competencies in implementing KM tools and knowledge sharing techniques.

In 2013, Geeta was engaged as the KM Consultant in the Public Works Department, focusing on cultivating their knowledge sharing environment via the Communities of Practice (CoP) technique. She has since performed consulting work in other leading organisations and being a fervent advocate of knowledge acquisition, Geeta continues to champion the practice of knowledge management through her involvement in KCONNECT, the annual knowledge enrichment conference for KM practitioners in Malaysia.
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Geeta has regularly presented her KM research at international knowledge management conferences, collaborating with world renowned KM practitioners from South East Asia, USA, Europe and Australia. In 2019, her on-going collaborative efforts with the Public Works Department paved the way for showcasing a work-in-progress research project titled “Adopting a maturity model for communities of practice in an engineering industry”. This KM initiative made joint winner of best poster presentation at the International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning, Sydney, Australia.

About Eileen Tan

Eileen Tan is currently senior manager for Knowledge Management in the Enterprise Knowledge Department of the  Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). She is a professional Communications and Knowledge Management specialist with over 20 years’ experience in multinational corporations, public-listed companies, government agencies and global non profits. She has strong domain knowledge in internal communications, employee engagement and knowledge management strategies and implementation as well as project and event management.

In her work for a global non profit, Eileen spearheaded the development, management and implementation of regional knowledge management strategies and plans to optimally create, store, use and reuse critical organisational knowledge assets. She devised systems and processes to make connecting people, sharing ideas, collaborating and co-creating between geographically dispersed teams easy and effective, and facilitated quicker decision-making and improved productivity. Most recently, she has been leading the development of a COVID-19 KM resource for her organisation.

About Kim Martins (Facilitator)

Kim is based in New Zealand and is one of Asia Pacific's most experienced knowledge management and learning professionals. She has held a number of senior positions in the KM field in Australia from Chief Knowledge Officer for Ernst and Young, Australia to Director, Knowledge Networks, Australian Securities and Investments Commission. Most recently, she was a Senior Consultant working on KM strategy for IFAD (Water sector) in Rome, Italy. 

​Kim was the Chair for Standards Australia KM Committee from 2005-2010 - the Committee responsible for the Australian KM Standard. Kim speaks regularly at conferences and conducts workshops and masterclasses in the areas of communities of practice; leadership; information & knowledge audits; KM strategy development. She is the editor of Rethinking Knowledge (2002).  Kim is also  an author, poet and freelance writer, with specialization in history and mythology. ​

EVENT DETAILS

Date/Time
9 July 2021, 10am-12 Midday (KL/SGT)

Venue
This session was held on Zoom. Only pre-registered participants were admitted. Registration is now closed.

Type of Event
​Case Discussion | Networking | Panel​ | Site Visit | Talk & Discussion | Workshop

Fee
This event was free of charge and
participation was by registration only.

Registration
Registration is now closed

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