Geneva
Friday | 17.10.2025 | 17h30 - 20h00
From Creative Friction to Living Ecosystems
From Creative Friction to Living Ecosystems: Transforming Knowledge Management from Competition to Collaborative Innovation
This Round Table addresses the fundamental transformation occurring in knowledge management, drawing from the KMGN 2025 curriculum's most innovative concepts. The session provides Swiss organizations with practical frameworks for evolving from traditional knowledge repositories to dynamic, collaborative ecosystems that generate sustainable competitive advantage through knowledge positioning rather than resource competition.
Participants will explore how creative friction between different knowledge domains generates innovation, examine real-world cases of organizations that have successfully transformed their industries through knowledge assets, and develop actionable strategies for implementing these approaches within their own contexts. The session emphasizes practical application through structured exercises and provides tools that can be immediately deployed in organizational settings
Refreshments will be served in the location, 30 min before start.
Location
Foound, Rue Jean-Dassier 7, 1201 Geneva, room - Jean-Mich'
Online:
ZOOM available (registration obligatory)
SKMF Online
Tuesday | 21.10.2025 | 16:00h (UTC+2) - 18:00h (UTC+2)
KM Storytelling Canvas for Executive Buy-in
This roundtable introduces you to a tool for aligning Knowledge Management (KM) with your organisation's business strategy. Use the KM Storytelling Canvas as a practical approach to connect KM actions with the strategic and individual objectives of your executives, thus securing their buy-in.
Storytelling is a powerful method to introduce ideas. KM must demonstrate clear and measurable business value. This can be, for example, improving competitiveness, profitability, and sustainability. KM must align with these goals.
Learn how you can make them an important promoter of your KM programme.
After this roundtable you will:
- Understand what the KM Storytelling Canvas is and how best to use it
- Be able to apply guidelines to help you optimize your KM story
- Persuade management about the value of KM in your organization
Join us for this exciting roundtable. The discussion will be held in English.
Location
Online. All registered participants will receive the Zoom dial-in link by email shortly before the roundtable begins. No participation without registration.
moreBern
Wednesday | 26.11.2025 | 18:15 - 20:00h
"Thoughts on Knowledge Management" Discussion
This Roundtable is based on the bi-weekly published "Thoughts on Knowledge Management", which can be found on LinkedIn and here. We will randomly select appropriate statements from the following areas:
- Knowledge Management (KM)
- Definition of Knowledge
- Learning and Collaboration
- Change
For each selected "Thought" we will discuss various questions, e.g.: What is my opinion on this? What does this mean for my work? How can I make use of this "Thought"? What can I learn from it? Other questions that arise are also welcome.
This Roundtable is therefore 100% interactive and requires everyone to participate. It aims to provide all attendees (including the facilitator himself) with new insight. Depending on the audience, the discussions will be in German or English.
The discussions will help you see Knowledge Management and related disciplines from a different perspective and discover new aspects. Furthermore, you'll realize how some Knowledge Management principles apply not only to the professional context, but also to the everyday life.
Location
Bern University, room 115, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern
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Partner Events | 19.09.2025
Partner Event with SAQ Zentralschweiz: The Power of Knowledge Management
SKMF is partnering with the Swiss Association of Quality (SAQ) Zentralschweiz to co-host the event "The Power of Knowledge Management":
Many organisations face the challenge of providing employees with the knowledge they need in a timely manner. Here, a distinction must be made between tacit and explicit knowledge. Knowledge management not only encompasses strategies and practices for capturing, storing, sharing and utilising knowledge, but also aims to create the necessary framework conditions.
We will discuss the following questions in the lecture:
- What is knowledge? What is the difference between tacit and explicit knowledge?
- What is knowledge management and in what forms can we practise it?
- What added value can we all achieve if we share our knowledge within our organisation?
- What can each of us contribute?
- Which success factors are decisive?
- Which IT solutions does Siemens use to support company-wide knowledge management?
Agenda
14:15: Welcome by the Board
14:20: Presentation, Part 1: Data, information, knowledge, knowledge management
15:15: Coffee break
15:30: Presentation, Part 2: Tool-supported knowledge management at Siemens
16:30: Networking and exchange with apero
Participation in this hybrid event is possible both face-to-face and online (please specify when registering). Presentations and discussions will be held in German.
moreSKMF Online | 04.06.2025
Engaging AI to Leverage Your Tacit Knowledge
Every time you prompt your Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tool online, it is updating its profile about you.
What does it mean to be profiled by AI as an individual or as an organization? Imagine the social, economic, and political profiling differences among people. For example, a pharma scientist versus an environmental activist. As a society, we are just beginning to understand the implications of these biases.
At this roundtable, we will discuss how GenAI captures and structures tacit knowledge from individuals and organizations during prompting.
The speaker, Manfred Bornemann, is the former president of German Society for Knowledge Management (GfWM) and an expert on AI promoting. Manfred will begin with a brief overview of leading GenAI platforms and how they mine user prompting data. He will then explore the impact of GenAI on leadership and tacit knowledge.
Key takeaways:
- Impact of prompting on our GenAI outcomes and knowledge work
- Leveraging bias in the use of AI
- Improving the value of our GenAI outcomes
A use case will invite you to challenge these ideas and share your experiences. The roundtable will be held in English.
moreLausanne | 03.06.2025
Revealing the Invisible: Knowledge Culture in Action
This SKMF roundtable, hosted by University of Lausanne, offers a dynamic and participatory setting to explore how knowledge actually flows (or stalls) in real-world project contexts.
Drawing on reflections from students who attended the recent SMP Congrès convened at University of Lausanne (24 April 2025), this SKMF roundtable on June 3rd invites you to engage in World Café-style discussions, build models using LEGO, and share stories to reveal the often-overlooked practices shaping project outcomes.
Come ready to think differently about what your organisation knows—and what it needs to know next.
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The round table is a semi-structured discussion designed to informally gather people who share an interest in Knowledge Management, IT and life in organizations.
The languages of the roundtables are German, French or English depending on the location
Call for SKMF Roundtable Contributions
Would you like to initiate a SKMF Roundtable discussion?
SKMF members are a unique group in Switzerland. We come from a large variety of industries and meet via an inspiring program of Roundtable discussions on leading KM topics.
As a SKMF Member Benefit, you are invited to contribute to the SKMF Roundtable program:
- Receive useful feedback on your work
- Build your professional network
- Learn how different industries solve similar challenges
- Share your knowledge
- Enrich the SKMF Roundtable program
You only need to focus on your content. SKMF will take care of everything else. Simply send us your Roundtable discussion topic in a few sentences and we will get back to you: p.kraus@skmf.net.
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