Conference on measuring KM

There is a conference by the American Strategic Management Insitute on Performance Measures for Knowledge Management Initiatives , which seems to be a practicioner focused conference. It features sessions around innovation, measuring the effectiveness of blogging in business and linking KM directly to organisational growth. There is also workshops on how to get measures in place step by step. Very few organisations currently have measures in place specifically linking KM to organisational performance but the topic is certainly up and coming.

Another positive observation I made lately is that KM conferences tend to have more practicioner speakers from reputable companies and less of the same 5 - 10 guys who have been giving the same presentation over and over again for the last twenty years on conferences around the world (by same 5 - 10 guys I mean Leif Edvinsson, Dave Snowden, Robert Buckman and similar "founding fathers of KM". I have seen exactly the same presentation by Dave Snowden once in 2001 and in 2004)