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SKMF Online | 16.06.2026

Lean Information: Building information quality cultures in AI-driven organizations

Quality information is essential for successful Knowledge Management (KM). Organizations invest significantly in managing their information but much less in optimizing the information itself – despite its intrinsic value for improving results.

Welcome to Lean Information! With roots in lean manufacturing and information science, information is “lean” when it is free of waste for its audience. Wasteful information costs time and money, and poses risk.

Join this session to learn how optimizing information from a waste vs. lean perspective offers advantages such as useful metrics, engaged managers, and motivated employees.

Through two customer case studies, you will see how Lean was used to improve information and data. See how this approach can support new employee competencies that build information quality cultures and improve AI data readiness.

After this session you will be able to:

• Understand lean information principles

• Recognize how they could be used in your KM work

• Apply a key process step to help build your information quality culture

 

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Bern | 10.06.2026

SKMF General Assembly and Focus discussion about: How AI is Changing the Role of KM

Wednesday, 10.06.2026 - General Assembly (GA) for members only at 5:30 pm - Focus Discussion at 6:30 pm  

The link to GA documents can be found in the member area after login.

You are warmly invited to participate at our special Focus Discussion after the annual SKMF General Assembly. 

Program

18:30 Focus Discussion – AI and KM: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Role of Knowledge Management

Many organizations are deploying AI tools, yet adoption and real business value often remain limited. At the same time, AI is exposing long-known information and knowledge management (KM) challenges such as fragmented knowledge, outdated content, unclear ownership and missing governance.

In this interactive focus discussion, we will explore how AI may reshape the role of KM: from content management toward knowledge flow, governance, trust, organizational learning and change enablement. Together, we will discuss what “AI-ready knowledge” could mean and which KM capabilities may become most important in the coming years.

The session is designed as an open peer exchange for KM professionals and will focus on practical experiences, questions, opportunities and concerns rather than technical deep dives or vendor solutions. The discussion will be held in English.

We look forward to seeing you on 10 June. Let’s share our knowledge in person. 

After login SKMF members can download the documentation of this discussion.

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Geneva | 24.04.2026

From Information Chaos to Curated Knowledge : Accelerating Impact via AI-assisted KM

For decades, a substantial part of KM has focused on capturing and organizing what we already know. The advent of sophisticated AI compels us to ask a more powerful question: How can our knowledge assets be used to anticipate what we need to know next and to mitigate the disruption of the unknown unknowns?

This round table moves beyond the operational efficiencies of AI in KM. It reframes the discipline as a core strategic intelligence function capable of generating foresight and driving competitive advantage. Drawing inspiration from the cognitive architecture pioneered by the GGKP, we will explore how to build a proactive knowledge ecosystem—one that doesn't just answer queries, but surfaces opportunities, identifies risks, and contextualizes emerging trends.

This is not a technical showcase. It is a strategic dialogue for leaders, culminating in a hands-on "Cognitive Lab" where participants will use AI as a cognitive partner to synthesize conflicting information and derive strategic insights. The goal is to equip attendees with a robust framework for evolving their KM function from a passive repository into the proactive, intelligent engine of their organization.

This event will be in English

 

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