Having entrepreneurial experience of 9 years, Syam Nair has’ been constantly involved in development and implementation of multiple STEM projects under state run colleges and schools in India. He was also one of the panel members of innovation oriented mentorship community developed for young entrepreneurs and college going students in India. Currently Syam is working as a research assistant at National University of Ireland, Galway.

The most critical aspect in learning, teaching and working environment is the sharing of knowledge. Knowledge café is by far the most effective way in sharing the knowledge between peers and students. In the teaching environment, I have used a modified form of knowledge café exercise. I encourage multiple teams to sit together and discuss the problems they are facing within their development scope, while I preside silently taking down notes of various conversations which might require a future intervention for proper guidance. The discussions took more time initially but it progressively gets shorter and becomes much more efficient to a point where my intervention as a teacher is not essentially required. The key observations I had made were that, initially the multiple project groups sitting together may have similar problems, which makes the meeting durations longer with less resolution of identified problems; but as the project progresses and the group meeting frequency increases, the groups have different identified problems which may have already solved by other groups and hence a faster problem resolution is observed and the multiple groups tend to act as one knowledge base even though there are multiple projects. In the work environment a similar structure was adopted along with an organized knowledge management process wherein every significant knowledge was recorded and was used to continuously improve the process.