Summer 2004 Agenda 

"Social Networks"
Friday, May 21, 2004, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Secure On-line Registration
Advance Online Registration Required
 

Fort Mason
Firehouse Conference Center
San Francisco, CA 94123-1382
phone: (415) 441-3400, fax: (415) 441-3405
e-mail: contact@fortmason.org

web: www.fortmason.org

Special Guests:
 

Eileen Clegg Strategic Visual Communication

Sean Everton, Stanford University SNA Tools and Applications

 

Time	Interaction	Speaker
07:30 - 08:15	Coffee, Breakfast and Registration	Staff
08:15 - 09:30	The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations	Rob Cross McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia
9:30 - 11:00	A Conversation with  Mark Granovetter	Mark Granovetter Stanford University
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break Vendor Conversations	All
11:30 - 1:00	Keynote Presentation	Stanley Wasserman VisiblePath Indiana University
1:00 - 2:30	Summer 2004 KM Cluster Bayside Cookout	All
2:30-3:30	ISNAE (is-NAY)	Don Steiny Institute for the Social Network Analysis of the Economy
3:30 - 5:00	Tapping the Networks of Innovation	Andrew Hargadon U.C. Davis
5:00	Summer 2004 KM Cluster Adjournment

Summer 2004

The World is Networked

We live in a world of networks, from networks of suppliers, to networks of computers; from networks of trading partners to networks of anti-globalization activists our connected world is linked like never before. Each instant more links are made through the Internet, cell phones, travel, trade pacts, markets and countless other ways. These networks can provide us with vital information and tremendous opportunities or they can become closed and stifle growth.

How do we know what the networks are? How do we know how they behave and interact with each other? When is a network a healthy beneficial one and when is it stifling and destructive? As networks have grown more complex, the tools job of analyzing them has grown more complex.

Social Networks and Social Network Analysis advance:

• More efficient organizations.
• Organizations that excel in the global marketplace.
• Greater innovation in society and business.
• Higher success rate for startup businesses.
• More successful mergers.
• Better multicultural integration.
• Better understanding of markets.
• Preservation and recovery of tacit knowledge.
• New ways of organizing information.
• Better health care.
• Disease control and prevention.
• More world trade.
• Improved transportation.
• More efficient energy.
• Economic growth.
• Reduced crime.
• Reduced poverty.
• Better education.
 

... and that's just the beginning.