Meet Our Speakers
KMWorld 2025 provides attendees with opportunities to meet and learn from the leading experts in knowledge and information management. Click on the links below to find out more about our speakers and when they'll be speaking!
- Steve Aguirre — Founder & CEO, Real Fun Growth
- Arup Banerji — Director, Knowledge and Learning, World Bank Group
- Stephanie A Barnes — Chief Chaos Organizer, Entelechy, Maximus Canada
- Adela Barrio — Knowledge & Learning Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Holly Baxter — Chief Scientist, Cognitive Performance Group
- Andreas Blumauer — SVP Growth, Graphwise
- Phaedra Boinodiris — Global Leader for Responsible AI, IBM Consulting, Author, AI for the Rest of Us
- Lynda Braksiek — Principal Research Lead, Knowledge Management, APQC
- Philip Brittan — CEO, Bloomfire
- Nate Brown — Head of Education & Enablement, Metric Sherpa
- Dawn Brushammar — KM Consultant, Advisor & Evangelist, Dawn Brushammar Consulting AB, Sweden
- Philip Budden — Senior Lecturer, MIT Management, Co-Author, Accelerating Innovation Competitive Advantage through Ecosystem Engagement
- Fernanda Camera — Knowledge & Learning Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Mary Jane Carangal-San Jose — KM Specialist, IFI KM CoP Secretariat, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Gary Carlson — Founder, Factor
- Trisha Chakraborty — Engagement Lead, Office of Evaluation, Performance, and Reporting, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Snehit Cherian — CTO, Global Nexis Solutions, LexisNexis
- John Chmaj — Senior Director, KM Strategy, Verint
- Azeem Choudhury — Director, PwC
- Brian Corcoran — KCS Certified Expert and Global Support Evangelist, SearchUnify
- Benjamin Cross — Technical Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge
- Stephen Dau — Manager, Knowledge Management, DAFgiving360
- Jess DeMay — Knowledge Management Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC
- Meredith Duggar — Information Management Systems Business Analyst, IT Operations & Governance, Harvest Midstream Company
- Jane Dysart — Curator of Curiosity, Dysart & Jones Associates, Canada
- Seth Earley — CEO & Founder, Earley Information Science, Author, The AI Powered Enterprise
- Heather Eisenbraun — Chief Knowledge Architect, Earley Information Science
- Jeff Evernham — Chief Product Officer, Sinequa by ChapsVision
- Mike Fandey — VP, Operations, United Way Worldwide
- Luis Fernandez — Executive Director, VML
- Nelson Fredrick — IT Director, W&B Service Company
- Vincent Garcia — Lead Product Marketing Manager, LumApps
- Stan Garfield — Founder, SIKM Leaders Community, Author, 12 Steps to KM Success (and 6 other books)
- Melinda Geist — Experience Capabilities Manager, Intel
- Kim Glover — Director, Employee Communications & Change Management, TechnipFMC
- Arvind Gopal — VP of Product Management and Strategy, eGain
- Michael Greenhow — SVP, Customer Growth & Success, Ondexx
- Tony Grout — CPO, M-Files
- Aparna Gude — Founder & Fractional Chief Product Officer, Netri Partners LLC
- Srikanth Reddy Gudi — Software Engineer Senior Advisor, Healthcare, Cigna Evernorth Health Services Real-Time Drug Delivery via OCR-Based Fax Prescription Processing
- Gwen Hall — CEO, Factor
- Susan Hanley — President, Susan Hanley LLC
- Lauren Hays — Research Manager, Knowledge Management, APQC
- Danielle Henderson — Chief Knowledge Officer, IGM Financial
- Tim Hill — Director, Product Management, NiCE
- Marjorie Hlava — Chief Scientist, Access Innovations, Data Harmony
- Melissa Hubbard — Senior Copilot Solution Engineer, Microsoft
- Richard Huffine — Assistant Director, Enterprise Information & Records, Corporate Services Branch, Division of Administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Sheila Jagannathan — Senior Advisor, World Bank & African Development Bank (AfDB); Saylor Academy, Education Non Profit, Senior Advisor, Capacity Development & KM; Independent Consultant
- Derek Johnson — CEO, Aurora WDC, Co-Author, The Missionary and The Mercenary: Right Questions, Better Future
- Comfort Kai — Scientific Program Analyst, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Martin Kon — Board of Directors, Cohere, Former CFO, YouTube
- Fabrice Lacroix — CEO, Fluid Topics
- Erik Lee — Taxonomist / Information Architect, Factor
- Scott Leeb — Chief Knowledge Officer, Fragomen
- Stephanie Lemieux — President & Principal Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Fleur Levitz — Principal Consultant, FDL Consulting NYC
- John Lewis — CKO, Explanation Age LLC, Author, Story Thinking: Transforming Organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Ana Libisch — Knowledge & Learning Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Alexa Lindberg — Head of Product, Model Monster
- Michael Lissack — Executive Director, Second Order Science Foundation, Author, Augmenting Intelligence
- Paula Little — Information Architecture Leader, Factor
- Elena Loukoianova — Deputy Chief, Knowledge Management Unit, Office of Transformation Management, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- Don Markland — CEO, Accountability Now, Accountability Now & Noomii.com, Head, Forbes AI Council
- Charquelle Mattox — KM Manager, DSA, Inc., 2025 Northeastern Maryland Technology Council Rising Start Award
- Iasia McCabe — Head of Support Operations Learning and Knowledge Management ยท, Global Operations, Meta
- Dave McComb — CEO, Semantic Arts, Author, Software Wasteland, Data-Centric Revolution
- Rachel Miller — Product Manager, Reddit
- Sandra Montanino — Founder & Principal, Navig8 PD
- Art Murray — CEO, Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc.
- Marydee Ojala — Editor-in-Chief, KMWorld Magazine, & Editor, Enterprise AI World
- Parind Oza — Managing Director, Evalueserve
- Taylor Paschal — Manager, Knowledge Management & Communication, Blink Health
- David Patrick — Subject Matter Expert, DSA Inc., MCT, MVP, MCSE, MCSD
- Sarah Patrick — Solutions Architect, AWS Cloud
- Alan Pelz-Sharpe — Founder & Principal Analyst, Deep Analysis, Author, Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise AI Playbook
- Joe Perez — Senior Systems Specialist/Team Leader, North Carolina Dept. of Health & Human Services, Author, From Numbers to Narratives That Transform Business
- Brian Pichman — Director, Strategic Innovation, Evolve Project
- Terry Pollard — Knowledge Management Specialist, Stanford Health Care
- Georges Potworowski — Senior Scientist, Cognitive Performance Group
- Ryan Priem — VP Sales, US Enterprise, Glean
- Katrina B Pugh — Partner, Weaving Futures, & Co-Author, Knowledge Managers Bring Collectivity, Nostalgia, and Selectivity to the AI Ecosystem
- Todd Quartiere — Executive Director, Foundation for AI & Health
- Jonathan Ralton — Professional Services Strategy & Process Leader, Member/Core Team, SIKM Boston, & Co-Author, Knowledge Managers Bring Collectivity, Nostalgia, and Selectivity to the AI Ecosystem
- Daniel W. Rasmus — Principal Analyst, Serious Insights, Resident Futurist
- Tom Reamy — Chief Knowledge Architect & Founder, KAPS Group, LLC
- Anthony Rhem — CEO/Principal Consultant, A. J. Rhem & Associates, Author, Essential Topics in Artificial Intelligence
- Rebecca Rodgers — Principal Consultant & Forum Community Manger, Step Two, Digital Workplace Award Winner
- Lorena Rodriguez Bu — Chief, Knowledge & Learning Division, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Rebecca Roth — Senior Manager, Amgen
- Susann Roth — Advisor, Innovation & KM, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Marc Rouhana — Head of DAP, Learning Pool
- Beth Rudden — CEO and Chairwoman, Bast AI, Author, AI for the Rest of Us
- Dorian Selz — CEO & Co-Founder, Squirro
- Khabab Sessanga — SVP, Knowledge & Data Governance, Mubadala
- David Seuss — Founder & CEO, Northern Light
- Priyanshi Shah — Head of AI & Product Strategy, Ziva Health
- Kari Simonsen — Knowledge Management AI & Innovation Lead, Amgen
- Beth Smith — Senior Research Consultant, The Cynefin Company
- Ross Smith — WW Support Leader, AI First, Microsoft, Author, The AI Revolution in Customer Service & Support
- Tiffany L. Smith — Chief Knowledge Officer & Director, Office of the Chief Engineer, Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters
- Dave Snowden — Founder & Chief Scientist, The Cynefin Company
- Marc Solomon — Sustainability Automation Manager, Corporate IT Digital Marketing, The Hartford, PwC, Avid Technology, PRTM, Hyperion Solutions, Find/SVP; Co-Author, Knowledge Managers Bring Collectivity, Nostalgia, and Selectivity to the AI Ecosystem
- Ville Somppi — SVP, Industry Solutions, M-Files
- Simon Sorrell — CBO
- Maggie Starkey — Knowledge Management Specialist, Kraton Corporation
- Seema Swamy — Senior Director, Research Insights, Data Analytics, & Data Science, Walmart
- Rachel Teague — KM & Learning Organization Consultant, Emory Consulting
- Tom Triumph — CEO, Triumph Consulting, Author, Evolve or Die
- Kristen Tully — Enterprise Support Knowledge Specialist, United Way Worldwide
- Rebecca Wyatt — Division Director, Advanced Content Solutions, Enterprise Knowledge
