Supported by the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) and the Euro-Lebanese Center for Industrial Modernisation (ELCIM), the Lebanon SoftShore Cluster has organised a seminar on Knowledge Management at the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires (ESA) in Beirut. Main speaker, Mrs Pascale Hatem, expert in Knowledge Management and its application in corporate settings, introduced the topic to IT companies and organisations who attended the event and participated in a brainstorming session. Mrs Hatem tackled the differences between data, information and knowledge and the management of all such entities in corporate environments stating that"making information available in not enough; getting people to use it is the most critical".

The Lebanon SoftShore (LSS) Cluster is being relaunched by IRI through ELCIM with the objective to promote the Lebanese Software Industry on a global level, creating new opportunities for Lebanese Software companies beyond Lebanese borders. With this perspective in mind, the LSS has jump-started a program of seminars and workshops aimed at exposing Lebanese software companies to key trends in management and IT.