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Industry experts and KM leaders share their ideas about the state of Knowledge Management in the world today and where it is going.

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Putting the ‘human’ in ‘human-in-the-loop’ at KM & AI Summit 2025

Kim Glover, Director, Communications Change Management, TechnipFMC, will lead two sessions at this year's KM & AI Summit—'Cooking With KM: Knowledge Sharing & Building Skills,'"and "Storytelling for Collaboration & Change"—exploring how "human-in-the-loop" concepts reflect and affirm the broader purpose of AI, technology, and KM itself.

Examining the ‘nature’ of KM: Learning from the environment and humanity at KM & AI Summit 2025

You may not realize it, but there's much to learn about KM from the world around us—both in the natural and interpersonal sense. Examining these systems, from the buzzing of bee hives to the way our personhood has always shaped knowledge sharing, bears compelling insights for KM.

Beth Rudden will explore the human element of AI at KM & AI Summit 2025

There's a lot of trepidation when dealing with AI, and for good reasons. However, the key to utilizing the tech is to work with it, not against it.

Moving beyond the illusion of ‘AI is magic’ at KM & AI Summit 2025

At this year's KM & AI Summit, Seth Earley, CEO of Earley Information Science and author of The AI Powered Enterprise, will break down what makes AI work—and work successfully—in his session, "Building a Knowledge Architecture for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)."

KM & AI Summit 2025 keynote to showcase knowledge management and AI as the backbone for customer service success

Ashu Roy, chairman and CEO of eGain, will share how leading clients are accelerating knowledge creation and curation, along with improving search success rates while driving down costs, during his KM & AI Summit keynote, "AI Knowledge for Customer Service Success"

Breaking down the realities of GenAI implementation at KM & AI Summit 2025

During his KM & AI Summit session, "Enterprises With AI Action: Industry Insights," John Chmaj, senior director, KM strategy, Verint, will explore how the new knowledgebase requires us to rethink how we add, access, and present content in the age of GenAI.

Unearth the importance of creativity in knowledge management at KM & AI Summit 2025

Unlock the future of innovation and knowledge management at the KM & AI Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona, March 17-19, 2025.

KMWorld 2024: Unlocking Powerful Knowledge-Sharing Solutions

This year's KMWorld 4-day event is filled with amazing practitioners, who share their enterprise knowledge and experiences, as well as experts in a number of fields, who relate their engaging stories of success with taxonomies, text analytics, search, and discovery to those in the KM community who want to learn from and network with these stellar performers.

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2022

Flexibility, agility, and the ability to pivot continue to be essential characteristics of winning companies. Organizations must have the right tools and products so they can break down information silos, better understand the experiences of their customers and employees, uncover trends, expand collaboration, deploy AI and machine learning appropriately, and take advantage of automation to lighten the burden of mundane, repetitive tasks.

KMWorld Readers' Choice Award 2021 Winners

The categories for the 2021 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards were wide-ranging. In all, there were 14 areas in which products and technologies could be nominated and ultimately voted upon. They include business process management, cognitive computing and AI, customer service and support, e-discovery, knowledge graphs, text analytics and NLP.

What’s ahead at KMWorld 2021

Jane Dysart, KMWorld conference chair, and founding partner and curator of curiosity, Dysart & Jones Associates, provides a look at what's ahead for KMWorld 2021 attendees. The conference will be held November 15-18, 2021 at the JW Marriott Washington, DC

KMWorld AI50 : The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management 2021

The importance of AI is underscored by forecasts for revenue growth. Worldwide revenues for the AI market, including software, hardware, and services, are forecast to grow 16.4% year over year in 2021 to $327.5 billion, according to the latest release of the IDC Worldwide Semiannual Artificial Intelligence Tracker. To help spotlight innovation in knowledge management, KMWorld presents the annual KMWorld AI 50, a list of vendors that are helping their customers excel in an increasingly competitive marketplace by imbuing products and services with intelligence and automation.

KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management 2021

Flexibility, agility, and the ability to pivot have always been critical to successful companies, no more so than now. Forward-thinking businesses don't want to merely survive; they want to dominate their market sectors. But to thrive, all organizations must have the right tools and products so they can break down information silos, better understand the experiences of their customers and employees, see hidden connections, expand collaboration, enable AI and machine learning where it is feasible, and take advantage of automation to streamline processes.

2020 Readers Choice Award - Best Enterprise Search: BA Insight Connectors

Developing enterprise search connectors is more challenging than it may seem. It requires a balance of high performance and light touch, along with rigorous security and easy administration across a wide range of sophisticated source systems.

2020 Readers Choice Award - Best Document Management: KnowledgeLake Platform

In our increasingly fast-paced, digital world, organizations can't afford to have their most critical business processes bogged down under the old way of doing things. KnowledgeLake makes it possible to achieve super-efficient automation without changing technology or people.

2020 Readers Choice Award - Best Content Management/Services: Northern Light SinglePoint

Market and competitive intelligence applications require large collections of relevant research to serve as a foundation for generating competitive and customer insights. For almost two decades Northern Light has delivered enterprise content aggregation for market intelligence.

AI 50 Spotlight: Identify experts. Access know-how. Solve skill-gaps. The #1 artificial intelligence platform for knowledge and skills.

By identifying experts, accessing know-how and solving skill gaps, Starmind's AI platform significantly enhances workplace productivity and increases employee engagement.

KMWorld Trend-Setting Products of 2019

The offerings on our list of 2019 KMWorld Trend-Setting Products result from both radical innovation and continuous evolution. Some solutions break new ground with inventive use of technology while others take existing capabilities and continue to refine them to meet emerging requirements.

KM trends for 2019 - KMW webcasts KMWorld Live

Using machine learning, search is now able to distinguish not just what is relevant to a search query but also what is important for the user to know; summarize the import­ant insights in the documents relevant to a user's interests; and learn what each user cares about and find the relevant material without being asked.

Content services and the future - KMW Webcasts KMWorld Live

Content management systems must smartly co-exist with Microsoft productivity tools to thrive, and intelligent automa­tion will be a major factor driving user acceptance while information gover­nance technologies (e.g., archiving) are setting the stage for knowledge discovery.