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
- Holly Baxter — Director of Research & Development, Cognitive Performance Group
- Andreas Blumauer — SVP Growth, Graphwise
- Phaedra Boinodiris — Global Leader for Responsible AI, IBM Consulting, & 2026 Women in AI Honoree
- Lynda Braksiek — Principal Research Lead, Knowledge Management, APQC
- Philip Brittan — CEO, Bloomfire
- Dawn Brushammar — Senior Adviser & Consultant, Dawn Brushammar Consulting AB, Sweden
- Philip Budden — Senior Lecturer, MIT Management School, 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 — Knowledge Management Specialist, Department of Communications and Knowledge Management, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Gary Carlson — Co-Founder, Factor
- Jason Carre — Head of Sales, Ariglad
- 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
- Dave Clarke — CEO, Squirro
- Brian Corcoran — Regional Sales Manager 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
- Jane Dysart — Curator of Curiosity, Dysart & Jones Associates, Canada
- Seth Earley — CEO, Earley Information Science
- Heather Eisenbraun — Chief AI Knowledge Architect, Earley Information Science
- Jeff Evernham — Chief Product Officer, Sinequa by ChapsVision
- Mike Fandey — VP, Customer Support & Success, 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, Knowledge Management Encyclopedia (and 7 other books)
- Kim Glover — Former Director, KM, Employee Communications, Change Management, TechnipFMC
- Arvind Gopal — VP, Product Management & Product Strategy, eGain
- Annie Green — Digital Thought Leader, George Washington University, Author, Be SAVVY, Learning to Bake the Cake
- Michael Greenhow — SVP, Customer Growth & Success, Ondexx
- Aparna Gude — Advisor & Fractional CPO, Netri Partners LLC
- Srikanth Reddy Gudi — Software Engineer Senior Advisor, Cigna Evernorth Health Services
- 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
- Melissa Hubbard — Senior Copilot Solution Engineer, Microsoft
- Richard Huffine — Chief Records Officer & Chief, Library, Archives & Info Svcs, Business Operations Branch, Division of Administration, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- James Hunt — VP, Product Management & Solutions Strategy, eGain
- Sheila Jagannathan — Senior Advisor, Capacity Development & KM; AI Sherpa, African Development Bank (AfDB); World Bank, Saylor Academy, Education Non Profit
- 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 — President Emeritus, Cohere, Former CFO, YouTube
- Sandrine Krasnopolski — Senior Knowledge Management Director, Fragomen
- Fabrice Lacroix — CEO, Fluid Topics
- Erik Lee — Taxonomist / Information Architect, Factor
- Scott Leeb — Chief Knowledge Officer, Fragomen
- Stephanie Lemieux — President, Dovecot Studio
- Fleur Levitz — Principal Consultant, FDL Consulting NYC LLC, & former Data Governance executive on Wall Street, Senior Management Consultant & Data Governance Practice Lead, IBM
- 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 — Senior Information Architecture Leader, Factor
- Elena Loukoianova — Deputy Chief, Knowledge Management Unit, Institute for Capacity Development, 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, future of Accounting
- Sanjay Mehta — Principal Architect, Earley Information Science
- 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, Professional Services, Evalueserve
- Taylor Paschal — Manager, Knowledge Management & Communication, Blink Health
- David Patrick — Subject Matter Expert (SME), 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
- Pratyush Prabhat — Executive Vice President, Evalueserve
- 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 — CEO, Center for Practical AI
- 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 Rasmus — Founder & Principal Analyst, Serious Insights LLC, Resident Futurist
- Tom Reamy — CEO, KAPS Group
- Anthony Rhem — CEO/Principal Consultant, A. J. Rhem & Associates, Author, Essential Topics in Artificial Intelligence
- Elliott Risch — Semantic AI Solution Consultant, Semantic Engineering, Enterprise Knowledge
- Rebecca Rodgers — Principal Consultant & Forum Community Manager, Step Two, Digital Workplace Award Winner
- Lorena Rodriguez Bu — Chief, Knowledge & Learning Division, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Rebecca Roth — Senior Manager, Knowledge Management, 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
- Khabab Sessanga — Head of Data & Analytics, Digital & Technology Services (D&TS), 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 — Principle Consultant, The Cynefin Company
- Ross Smith — WW Support Leader, AI First, Microsoft, Author, The AI Revolution in Customer Service & Support & Podcast: AI & Creativity for the Future World
- Tiffany L. Smith — Chief Knowledge Officer & Director, Academy of Program/Project and Engineering Leadership, Office of the Chief Engineer, NASA
- 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, KMS Lighthouse
- Maggie Starkey — Knowledge Management Specialist, Kraton Corporation
- Seema Swamy — Senior Director, Research Insights, Data Analytics, & Data Science, Walmart
- Megan Taylor — Knowledge365 Program Owner, Worldpay
- Rachel Teague — VP KM & Organizational Learning, Emory Consulting Services
- Tom Triumph — CEO, Triumph Consulting, Author, Evolve or Die
- Marcus Tucson — Service Cloud Program Owner, Worldpay
- Kristen Tully — Knowledge Manager, Enterprise Support, United Way Worldwide
- Tamara Viles — KM & Social Learning Program Manager, TechnipFMC
- Rebecca Wyatt — Division Director, Advanced Content Solutions, Enterprise Knowledge
