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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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Vote now for the 2025 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Awards

It's time again to choose the best of the best for the KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards—voting for the 2025 KMWorld Readers' Choice Awards is now open through August 29

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.

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Leaders predict AI to continue permeating all aspects of KM in 2026

AI continues to be the topic du jour for various aspects of knowledge management, and 2026 looks to be no exception as leaders in the industry look ahead

KM 101 in the Era of AI: An Interview With Stan Garfield

One of the things KM can do for AI is to empower learning communities to help people how AI applies to them and how to navigate through changes generated by it.

Experts predict AI will continue impacting KM in 2025

AI continues to disrupt the knowledge management space and experts in the field predict that it's a trend that still hasn't reached its full potential, yet. In 2025 there's more room for improvement.

KMWorld 2023 sees a sea change

Most of the papers presented at the 2023 conference did not report on what had changed. Instead, they assumed and predicted that there would be substantial change.

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Me and Mr. Tibbs

Enter Mr. Tibbs, the personal AI agent I imagine having in a year or so. If Mr. Tibbs went through that filing cabinet, it would learn plenty. Of course, I'm imagining Mr. Tibbs version 4.0, which is not only smarter, but also magically has the physical mechanisms required to go through a stack of folders.

Human Evolution in a Digital World

Human senses play a critical role in group interaction and collaboration, a key aspect of KM.

Will AI Ever Play in Peoria? The Enterprise Reality Check

The tech industry has a long history of overpromising and underdelivering, but AI has taken this to new heights. We're bombarded daily with headlines about AI writing novels, diagnosing diseases, and even replacing entire job functions. Yet, when you peel back the layers, you find a landscape littered with half-baked implementations, inflated claims, and solutions that work only in the most controlled environments.

Conversation With an AI About Knowledge

This type of dialogue with a non-conscious machine will become commonplace. This could profoundly change education, expertise, and knowledge itself. It doesn't relieve us of thinking, but helps us to think more clearly and originally to confront challenges to our ideas.

Knowledge Management Whitepapers

The Trend-Setting Products in Knowledge Management 2025

AI-Powered PLM in Manufacturing: Making PLM Content AI-Ready

How ENOVIA + Adlib turn CAD, BOMs, and SOPs into reliable knowledge for search, RAG, and compliance

Pharma Launches Don’t Fail Because of Strategy. They Fail Because of Documents.

Discover how Veeva + Adlib eliminate content bottlenecks, accelerate approvals, and make your launches AI-ready.

Managing Information Through Transition: The Merger and Acquisition Integration Playbook

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