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November 1, 2023 – 9:00 am – November 2, 2023 – 4:00 pm CET

Join us in person for conversations including:
- How do I know if I’m “doing KCS” in smaller or non-traditional settings? Explore work Members have done around the non-negotiables of KCS, and discuss various approaches.
- Cross-cultural KCS: what are the considerations and how do we address them?
- Attending to the Evolve Loop: Launching a KDA Program after 15 years of KCS
The meeting agenda offers time for Open Space discussions where participants can discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that European organizations face.
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Agenda
Wednesday 1 November: 09:00-16:00
- 09:00 Welcome and Introductions – Kelly Murray, Consortium
- 10:00 Break
- 10:15 Setting the Context: an Update on the Consortium’s Work – Matt Seaman, Consortium
- 11:00 Distilling the KCS Practices and Phases of Adoption – Kelly Murray, Consortium
- 12:00 Lunch (brought in)
- 13:00 KCS Adoption at proALPHA – Nicole Quarti, proALPHA
- 14:00 Break
- 14:15 KCS with No Staff, No Time, No Funding, and Bad Tools – Kai Altenfelder and Tamara Amlung, pro accessio
- 15:00 Cross-cultural KCS: thinking about the differences required for success – both intra-European and US/EU – group discussion
- 16:00 Adjourn
Thursday 2 November: 09:00-16:00
- 09:00 Open Space Setup – Matt Seaman, Consortium
Open Space is a facilitation technique that capitalizes on the collective experience and interests of those present. It is a very effective method for problem-solving or defining opportunities when the outcome is not known. - 09:30 Open Space Session I
- 10:15 Break
- 10:30 Open Space Session II
- 11:15 Open Space Debrief
- 12:00 Lunch (out)
- 13:30 Attending to the Evolve Loop: Launching a KDA Program – Mark Churchill, Rockwell
- 14:15 Break
- 14:30 Leveraging What We’ve Learned: Knowledge Domain Analysis and Beyond – group discussion
- 15:15 Summary and Wrap Up
- 16:00 Adjourn
Travel
Getting to the office (please note there is very little parking available):
- From the Hannover Airport Langenhagen (HAJ) (map)
- Public transport: Take the train S5 to main station, then change to tram lines U3 | 7 | 9 to
Noltemeyerbrücke (ca. 45min), 150m walking distance to the office. - Take a taxi, ca. 12km, 15-20min.
- Public transport: Take the train S5 to main station, then change to tram lines U3 | 7 | 9 to
- From the Hannover main train station
- Public transport: Take tram lines U3 | 7 | 9 to Noltemeyerbrücke (11min), 150m walking distance to the office.
- Take a taxi (Exit „Rundestraße“), ca. 6.5 km, 12-20min
- More transportation options including directions by car.
Hotels
- Hotel Finkenhof (9 minute walk)
- Hotel Viva Creativo (Take the Bus 631 (Noltemeyerbrücke – Gernstraße) 9 min)
- Sheraton Hanover Pelikan Hotel (Take Tram lines U 3|7|9 (Noltemeyerbrücke – Pelikanstraße) 9 min
- More hotel options
