Ambjörn Naeve, PhD, is an internationally leading expert within the fields of Knowledge Management and Technology Enhanced Learning. He presently heads the Knowledge Management Research group at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, which specializes in Communicative Modeling and Disagreement Management. He is a recognized thought leader in preparing society and enterprises for the “Big Switch” that will require enterprises to transform their perspectives, practices, and competences be successful in the post-recession economy. Dr. Naeve’s research group is providing the technology platform and intellectual support and for the Competence 2.0 Community of Practice.

He was a keynote speaker at the First World Summit on the Knowledge Society that took place in Athens in September 2008, where he addressed the topic of "Collaborative Survival through Open Research and Asynchronous Public Service: Increasing the Organizational Performance of Humanity Inc."

Ambjörn Naeve (www.nada.kth.se/~amb) has a background in mathematics and computer science and received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 1993. He is presently the head of the Knowledge Management Research (KMR) group (http://kmr.nada.kth.se) at KTH, which specializes in developing conceptual methods and open source tools (based on Semantic Web technology) for Communicative Modeling and Disagreement Management.

Ambjörn Naeve is also scientific advisor for the Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH (www.csc.kth.se/sustain/index.php.en), member of the KTH virtual campus development team (www.math.se/index.php?tab=0&lang=en), and scientific director and coordinator of research at (www.ull.uu.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=211&Itemid=175) the Uppsala Learning Lab at Uppsala University.

Since 2001 Dr. Naeve has published widely for international conferences and journals within the fields of Knowledge Management, Semantic Web, and Technology Enhanced Learning. He has co-authored 5 book chapters, and co-edited 4 books and 5 special issues of international journals within these fields.

Dr. Naeve is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning (www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijtel) and the International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing (www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijshc), he is on the editorial board of The International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijkl) and the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (www.ijswis.org) , and he is Honorary Editor of the International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijass).

Since 2003 Dr. Naeve has been a member of the program committee for more than 30 international workshops and conferences, including WWW, ECIS, PragWeb, and I-Know. Ambjörn Naeve is co-chair of the World Summit of the Knowledge Society (www.open-knowledge-society.org/summit.htm) and co-leader of the Open Research Society (www.open-knowledge-society.org) . His research group (the KMR group) are participating in several leading European projects and networks within the fields of Technology Enhanced Learning, Knowledge Management, and Semantic Web, notably PROLEARN (www.prolearn-project.org), LUISA (www.luisa-project.eu), Organic.Edunet (www.organic-edunet.eu) and H-net.

Dr. Naeve is also a well-known industry consultant with extensive experience in various forms of modeling for software engineering and business applications. He has invented the concept browser Conzilla (www.conzilla.org) and has developed a communicative modeling technique - based on UML - called Unified Language Modeling that has been designed in order to "draw how we talk about things", that is, to depict conceptual relationships in a linguistically coherent way.

Dr. Naeve is also a long-term advocate of mathematics education reform, aiming to create a technology enhanced “mathematics rehabilitation clinic” on the Internet. In his electronic portfolio he has an archive of over 500 interactive math programs with corresponding videos. 230 of these videos are available (www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=MathRehab) on YouTube where his user name is MathRehab.