Knowledge Cast by Enterprise Knowledge

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Lucy Hall, a knowledge management (KM) expert in the financial services industry. With 25+ years in the space, Lucy is experienced in driving enterprise-scale change and delivering measurable business outcomes in projects spanning technology transformation, AI readiness and adoption, knowledge and content management, and collaborative community engage...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Jonathan Gordon-Till, Global Knowledge Management Lead of R&D at Mondelēz International. Jonathan has spent almost 4 decades in the KM profession, witnessing acquisitions, demergers, and the emergence of new information technologies through roles at Cadbury and Kraft Foods. He currently serves as a KM leader focused on global knowledge retention s...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Wael Taha, VP of Enterprise Architecture at Brown Brothers Harriman. Over the past 12 years, Wael has dedicated his career to architecting D&A solutions and directing D&A professionals in building and evolving modern D&A platforms, delivering significant business benefits and solving problems tha...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Dave Boland, Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer (CKIO) at Ogletree Deakins. With 25+ years of experience in the field, Dave is a people-first leader in KM and digital transformation with the proven ability to drive digital and organizational change programs that result in revenue growth and real cost efficiencies. In this conversation, Zach and...

In this special episode of Knowledge Cast, Zach, Joe, and Lulit pass the mic to Senzing 's Paco Nathan, who interviews them about their new book Bridging Knowledge, Data, and AI: Harnessing the Semantic Layer Framework to Drive Intelligence. Paco guides the conversation with Zach, Joe, and Lulit from introducing the book and the term "knowledge assets," to sharing stories about imple...

Enterprise Knowledge COO Joe Hilger speaks with Lasse Andresen, founder and CEO of IndyKite Inc., the first system of intelligence built on a live context graph. The result is agentic AI that can operate across platforms with precision and deliver an entirely new class of intelligent services. In this conversation, Joe and Lasse discuss the IndyKite tool, the importance of the security of the cont...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Aman Bhatnagar, Director of Global Knowledge Management at JLL. With over 18 years of leadership in KM, strategic planning, and content strategy, Aman leverages data analytics to optimize processes and implement innovative solutions for enhanced knowledge sharing and organizational performance. In this conversation, Zach and Aman discuss selling KM to...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Ashish Kanal, a founder and independent advisor currently working at the intersection of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. Over 24 years across life sciences, chemicals, oil & gas, IT, and more, Ashish has led KM and L&D initiatives to create ecosystems from strategy and governance to platforms, adoption, and behavioral change....

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Melanie Adams, Global Talent Development & Training Operations Lead, Digital Manufacturing Operations, at MSD. With a deep background in science, leading analytical testing teams, and ensuring quality in regulated pharma environments, Melanie blends people development with systems thinking to use data to spot gaps and create KM approaches that cap...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with TJ Hsu, Director of R&D Knowledge Management at Amgen. With over a decade of experience in artificial intelligence and knowledge services, TJ currently leads a team dedicated to enhancing Amgen's research, development, and medical capabilities through innovative KM strategies. In this conversation, Zach and TJ discuss the impact TJ has made at...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Mike Ferguson, CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies and Conference Chair of Big Data LDN, the largest data and analytics conference in Europe. With over 40 years of experience in the data space, Mike aims to help companies transition to become data- and AI-driven "intelligent" businesses. In thei...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Ole Olesen-Bagneux, Vice President & Chief Evangelist at Actian. He is a twice-published author with a BA, MA, and PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Copenhagen, and consults for many large, European companies as an established thought leader on data catalogs and enterprise dat...

Enterprise Knowledge COO Joe Hilger speaks with Michal Bachman, CEO at GraphAware. GraphAware provides technology and expertise for mission-critical graph analytics, and its graph-powered intelligence analysis platform -- Hume -- is used by democratic government agencies (law enforcement, intelligence, cybersecurity, defense) and Fortune 500 companies across the world. In their conversation, Joe a...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Daan Hannessen, Global Head of Knowledge Management at Shell. He has over 20 years experience in Knowledge Management for large knowledge-intensive organizations in Europe, Australia, and the USA, ranging from continuous improvement programs, KM transformations, lessons learned solutions, digital workplaces,...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Ben Clinch, Chief Data Officer and Partner at Ortecha and Regional Lead Trainer for the EDM Council (EMEA/India). He is a sought-after public speaker and thought leader in data and AI, having held numerous senior roles in architecture and business in some of the world’s largest financial and telecommunicatio...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Dawn Brushammar, currently an independent KM consultant, advisor, and frequent contributor at industry events. She has spent her 25+ year career connecting people to relevant knowledge and information. Her experience across industries and geographies includes leading an internal Knowledge Management team at...

Enterprise Knowledge's Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Paco Nathan, Developer Relations (DevRel) Leader for the Entity Resolved Knowledge Graph Practice at Senzing. He is a computer scientist with over 40 years of tech industry experience and core expertise in data science, natural language, graph technologies, and cloud computing. He’s the author of numerous bo...

Enterprise Knowledge COO Joe Hilger speaks with Amy Hodler, Founder and Executive Director of GraphGeeks. GraphGeeks is a global community for data enthusiasts, researchers, and professionals passionate about graph technology. In their conversation, Joe and Amy discuss interesting use cases for graph and graph product innovations, how a graph is like a fungus ("The Last of Us" fans, watc...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Jeff Vargas, former Director of Knowledge Management at Paramount. In this conversation, Zach and Jeff discuss being KM evangelists and the trick to selling KM programs to executives. They get into "invisible KM," talking about how everyone is doing KM but may not realize it, and how to find and boost those pockets of success. Jeff also shar...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Sierra Woods, Public Servant in the Canadian Government. In this conversation, Zach and Sierra discuss how to facilitate and "design" KM conversations to ask the right questions and reach the "a-ha" moment, developing durable skills in a hybrid work environment, what KM can do to help organizations thrive during periods of turbulent change, and what S...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Gianni Giacomelli, Head of Design Innovation for the Collective Intelligence Design Lab at MIT and founder of Supermind. Design. In this conversation, Zach and Gianni discuss how KM goes beyond simple document management or SharePoint, how powering AI with a knowledge graph naturally mirrors how human brains work, Gianni's work in the innovation s...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl again speaks with Barry Byrne, Global Head of Knowledge Management at Novartis and founder and organizer of the Knowledge Summit Dublin conference. In this conversation, Zach and Barry discuss Barry's growing knowledge management team at Novartis, how to measure KM success, and best practices for conducting (and scaling!) knowledge capture before valuable tea...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Liam Fahey, Partner and Co-Founder at Leadership Forum LLC. In this conversation, Zach and Liam discuss Liam's claim to fame as co-host of the first Knowledge Management conference in 1994, the importance of nomenclature and terminology in securing buy-in for KM initiatives, and why having a KM charter is critical to long-term sustainment. The two...

Enterprise Knowledge CEO Zach Wahl speaks with Ahren Lehnert, Principal Taxonomist at Nike. In this conversation, Zach and Ahren discuss the future of taxonomy and artificial intelligence (AI), emphasizing both the augmentation of traditional roles and growth to include new ones, and how to demonstrate the value of a taxonomy initiative for your organization more tangibly. They walk through highs...

Enterprise Knowledge COO Joe Hilger speaks with Naso Kiryakov and Andreas Blumauer, who discuss the recent merger of two prominent companies in the semantic web space, Semantic Web Company and Ontotext, now operating as Graphwise. They highlight the strategic reasons for the merger and its implications for knowledge management and data integration. The conversation also touches on the challenges a...