Rongbin W.B. Lee is the Emeritus Professor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the founding Director of the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre, and the former Head of the first State Key Laboratory in Hong Kong. Professor Lee and his team launched Asia’s first online Master of Science (M.Sc.) Programme in Knowledge Management and authored the first e-book in the Cyber University Programme on organizational learning. In 2000, he established the first Digital Factory and Microsoft Enterprise Systems Centre, pioneering research and practice in Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Management across various sectors, including manufacturing, public utilities, and government departments. He is also the author of the book Knowledge Risk and its Mitigation: Practices and Cases. The annual Global Most Admirable Knowledge Enterprise Award (MAKE) was established by Professor W.B. Lee in 2008.
Alex Bennet is Professor of Knowledge and Innovation at The Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Southeast Asia (IKI-SEA), Bangkok University, and Co-Founder/Director of the Mountain Quest Institute, a research and retreat center focused on quests for knowledge, consciousness, and meaning. Located in the Allegheny Mountains, their aggressive research takes a consilience approach engaging learning, knowledge, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, complexity, change, management, creativity, and innovation. Dr. Bennet is the former Chief Knowledge Officer, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Enterprise Integration, Acquisition Reform Executive, and Standards Improvement Executive of the U.S. Department of the Navy. She is a member of the Global Organizational Think Tank on Tacit Knowledge Management (GO-TKM) and in 2023 was named a leading world expert in tacit knowledge management. She serves on the distinguished expert reviewing committee for the Southeast Asia and Global MIKE awards. Dr. Bennet has authored or co-authored over 40 books.