KMWorld NewsLinks - November 25, 2025

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2025 KM REALITY AWARD WINNER: Las Vegas Valley Water District

The KMWorld Reality Award recognizes an organization in which knowledge management is a positive reality, not just rhetoric. The award recipient has demonstrated leadership in the implementation of knowledge management practices and processes, realizing measurable business benefits

2025 KM PROMISE AWARD WINNER: Bloomfire

The KMWorld Promise Award is given to the organization that provides innovative technology solutions for customers by implementing and integrating knowledge management practices into their business processes

Using AI tools to become a better leader at KMWorld 2025

At KMWorld 2025, Don Markland, CEO, Accountability Now, co-CEO at Noomii.com, and head, Forbes AI Council, presented his session, "From Chaos to Clarity: Enterprise AI Reshaping Accountability & Execution."

Librarians are the stewards of knowledge management at KMWorld 2025

At KMWorld 2025, Dawn Brushammar, KM consultant, advisor and evangelist, Dawn Brushammar Consulting AB, Sweden, and Fleur Levitz, principal consultant, FDL Consulting NYC, held a session, "Knowledge Leaders: Integrating Library Science Into KM & AI," discussing the growing intersection of librarianship, KM, and AI. Librarianship is redefining its role in the digital age, seamlessly bridging the gap between traditional KM practices and cutting-edge AI applications.

Taking KM Centers of Excellence into the real world at KMWorld 2025

At KMWorld 2025, Danielle Henderson, chief knowledge officer, IGM Financial, in her session, "KM Centers of Excellence," discussed how IGM embarked on an enterprise-wide governance journey, leveraging structured centers of excellence (CoE) frameworks to enhance content integrity, optimize KM, and evolve the content ecosystem to support evolving digital platforms.

Celebrating 20 years of taxonomy at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2025

To celebrate 20 years of taxonomy, at Taxonomy Boot Camp 2025, a special co-located event with KMWorld 2025, several experts in the field held their session, "20 Years of Taxonomy: Language Shifts and Lessons Learned," to share insights and examine how language has evolved.

The low-down on AI and KM with Alan Pelz-Sharpe at KMWorld 2025

At KMWorld 2025, Alan Pelz-Sharpe, founder and principal analyst, Deep Analysis and Author, Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise AI Playbook, discussed how AI disrupts traditional KM—posing risks like misinformation and lost expertise—while offering transformative potential through dynamic knowledge synthesis during his session, "Role of KM in a World of Agentic AI."