Agenda

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  • Monday Nov 18
  • Tuesday Nov 19
  • Wednesday Nov 20
  • Thursday Nov 21
 
Development
Applications
8:00 AM
Continental Breakfast
Length: 30 Minutes
8:30 AM
Keynotes
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Founder & CEO, Pontefract Group
Description: Today’s business landscape is changing faster than ever before in history. The power of inclusive engagement and collaborative curiosity cannot be overstated. Join leadership strategist and award-winning author Dan Pontefract as he unveils essential techniques to cultivate a culture where every voice is valued and heard. Drawing on global primary research and more than 25 years of experience with leading organizations, he shares actionable insights and transformative strategies that empower KM teams to work better together. Gain expert tips on creating an environment where collaboration prospers, every team member feels genuinely valued, and the opportunity to bloom is open to all.

9:15 AM
Keynotes
Length: 15 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Senior Director, KM Strategy, Verint
Description: As organizations integrate AI into their product ecosystems, innovative KM practices are essential to keep information relevant and useful. In the age of GenAI and LLMs, the principle of “garbage in, garbage out” remains true—AI systems are only as effective as the data they process. Chmaj discusses emerging content models, new competencies, advanced authoring techniques, and governance practices that are transforming the KM landscape. It’s vital that companies evolve their technology, resources, and strategies to unlock the full potential of AI-driven KM capabilities. In this dynamic and complex AI landscape, content remains king! Get lots of insights and ideas from our experienced KM leader.

9:30 AM
Keynotes
Length: 15 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Principal, Chief Technology Officer, NEPC, LLC
, CMO, M-Files
Description: The productivity of knowledge workers is critically important to the growth and profitability of businesses. However, they remain weighted down, spending nearly half their time on mundane tasks, leaving less time for the work that matters most. An organization’s information is the lifeline that provides the insights required to gain collective intelligence. Speakers discuss how organizations can gain a strategic, competitive advantage by leveraging knowledge work automation. They share actionable insights on harnessing the power of automation and AI to eliminate information chaos, improve productivity, and reduce business risk to enable knowledge workers to thrive. 

9:45 AM
Keynotes
Length: 15 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief Strategist & Evangelist, Sinequa
Description: Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are reshaping the landscape of corporate knowledge management, heralding a new era where technology speaks our language and enhances our work. Over the past year, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as the premier method for applying LLMs to corporate content, proving its value in real-world applications. However, the journey doesn't end with RAG; in fact, it’s just the beginning. Evernham shows how AI is transforming KM with real-world examples of organizations' use of RAG to unlock the full potential of their knowledge; introduce our new digital colleagues, AI-powered assistants that work alongside knowledge workers, to enhance productivity and decision making; and peeks into the future with a look at multimodal AI and agents poised to perform complex tasks and accelerate innovation.

10:00 AM
Coffee & Networking Break in the Enterprise Solutions Showcase
Length: 45 Minutes
10:45 AM
Keynotes
Length: 30 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief Knowledge Architect & Founder, KAPS Group
Description: What are the current and future trends for the field of text analytics? Join program chair Tom Reamy for an overview of the conference themes and highlights and a look at what is driving the field forward. The theme this year is New Synergies, New Solutions. As the hype around GenAI subsides somewhat, people are asking about how to build solutions that deliver real business value. Join us as we explore how text analytics is an essential tool for adding accuracy and depth to GenAI and opening up new possibilities. We are also bringing back our popular Ask the Experts panel.

11:15 AM
Keynotes
Length: 15 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief Product Officer, Squirro
Description: This presentation explores the transformative potential of GenAI in business decision-making. It highlights the shift from traditional, chat-based interfaces to more autonomous, AI-driven systems, demonstrating how businesses can leverage this technology to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and strategic insight.

11:45 AM
Development
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Director, Synaptica Client Solutions, Synaptica, part of Squirro AG, UK
Description: Which algorithm is right for you? The one that gets the job done. Technologies are only as good as their results, and this requires fitting the right approach for your problem. Downs demonstrates the ways in which you can assemble a diversity of human-curated and machine learning tools at your fingertips, selecting the right tool for your task. Use cases explored include assembling enterprise taxonomies, NLP-driven text analytics, and LLMs to create associations between concepts and content, including novel entity extraction; marrying enterprise ontologies and knowledge graphs with LLMs to power retrieval augmented generation (RAG) to support business process automation; and storing outputs of machine tagging on content-aware knowledge graphs for further functionality and insight.

Applications
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Senior Analytics Manager, Genentech
, Lead Knowledge Management Specialist and Head of Library, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
, Knowledge & Learning Senior Associate, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Title: Effective Integration and Responsible Use of AI Platforms Into Day-to-Day Text Analytics
Time: 11:45 AM - 12:05 PM
Description:

With the revolution and continuous introduction of AI technologies (e.g., ChatGPT, LLM), how should one consider an effective integration and responsible use in day-to-day effort for text analysis? What are some of the synergies and watchouts that one should consider to deliver greater value and efficiencies for effective decision making. This session talks about how best to adopt the hybrid text analytics (the intelligent interplay of human and software) and mindset to achieve the optimal outcome in a responsible way.


Title: Even LLMs Need Metadata …
Time: 12:05 PM - 12:25 PM
Description: This presentation focuses on the application of LLM-powered GenAI in improving knowledge discovery within our open access publications catalog. The integration of this technology facilitates more intuitive and effective interactions with our extensive corpus of over 13,000 publications. The LLM plays a role similar to that of a generalist, providing broad overviews and insights across a wide array of topics. However, achieving precision and accuracy necessitates the detailed contextualization that metadata and knowledge graphs provide. These elements provide context akin to that of specialists, ensuring each piece of information is accurately contextualized and enhancing the overall reliability of the discovery process. We use a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approach, leveraging advanced metadata and knowledge graphs to enrich AI-generated responses with relevant context to make sure users receive appropriate insights that reflect the nuances and complexities inherent in our publication corpus. We highlight specific examples of how this approach underscores the complementary roles of the LLM and metadata, exemplified in the specific case of our publications catalog. The LLM’s broad capabilities work together with the detailed, contextual expertise provided by metadata and knowledge graphs to deliver a more precise, accurate, and “truthful” discovery experience.

12:30 PM
Attendee Lunch in the Enterprise Solutions Showcase
Length: 1 Hour
1:30 PM
Development
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc.
Description: As GenAI continues its rapid evolution, the extent of its impact and the number of industries disrupted are increasing at an equally rapid pace. Whether the disruption represents a crisis or opportunity is up to us. But first, we need to step away from the hype, take a look under the hood, and see what’s really going on inside. Only then can we rationally think about how it might fit into the big picture. That picture includes not only generative and extractive AI, but also text and data analytics, graph databases and knowledge graphs, layered ontology, and the all-important but often-neglected incorporation of human intuition, sense-making and expertise. By carefully stitching all of these components together, major leaps in performance can be achieved. This session presents a pilot configuration along with the data and knowledge flows among these various components, test results showing problems encountered and how AI can learn from humans and vice versa, and plans for future enhancements.

Applications
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Advisory Solutions Architect, SAS
, Technical Consultant, SAS
Description: Government organizations are responsible for reviewing public commentary to proposed regulations and responding to all comments, which can take thousands of hours. This presentation offers a solution to address this challenge by automating the process with text analytics and GenAI. It highlights how text analytics serves as a method to calibrate the data which is fed into GenAI models to enhance accuracy and time to value and provides a layer of traceability to summaries. It also highlights how the process can apply to any number of commercial and public sector use cases.

2:30 PM
Development
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, CEO, Northern Light
Description: Text analytics has been around a lot longer than GenAI, and the technologies serve different purposes. But the combination of the two offers exciting potential for businesses. For instance, consider the possibilities of marrying the trend analysis and insight extraction capabilities of text analytics to GenAI's text summarization capabilities. The result might be thought of as a "consultant in a box"—a powerful fusion that promises to dramatically enhance productivity in functions like strategic analysis and planning. In this session, Seuss paints a picture of a future in which GenAI reports on the insights that text analytics generates.

Applications
Length: 45 Minutes
Speaker(s):
, Chief GenAI Consultant, GenIQ Advisors
Description: GenAI is poised to revolutionize industries, but are you ready to harness its potential? This session goes beyond the hype, equipping you with a practical framework to assess your organization's GenAI readiness. In this interactive session, attendees discover why a thorough readiness assessment is the secret weapon of successful GenAI adopters; gain crucial insights into the data management, AI capabilities, and technological infrastructure needed for a smooth transition; unveil a structured framework to evaluate their organization’s preparedness across these key metrics; identify strengths to build on and weaknesses to address before GenAI implementation; turn challenges into opportunities; and learn how to bridge identified gaps and set your organization on a path to leverage GenAI for a sustainable competitive advantage. Attendees walk away with the tools and knowledge to confidently assess their GenAI readiness and propel their organization toward a data-driven, AI-powered future.

3:15 PM
Coffee & Networking Break in the Enterprise Solutions Showcase
Length: 45 Minutes
4:00 PM
General Session
Length: 1 Hour
Speaker(s):
, Progress Software Corporation
, CTO, Zeta Alpha
, CEO, Megaputer Intelligence
, Associate Director, Semantic Web Company
Description: A panel of four text analytics experts answer questions that have been gathered before the conference, during the conference, and some additional questions from the program chair. This has always been one of our most popular features, so come prepared with your favorite questions and be ready to learn.

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