Our member, prof. Meliha Handzic participated in an ongoing campaign “A Special Book for a Special Bookshelf” by the National Library of Latvia in Riga: https://lnb.lv/en/campaign-special-book-special-bookshelf.

She donated to the library the latest published volume of the IAKM/Springer book series entitled “Knowledge Management, Arts and Humanities: Interdisciplinary Approaches and the Benefits of Collaboration”: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030109219.

This donation was received by the library representative Anda Baklane in an informal ceremony held on 25th July 2019 in front of the magnificent wall of books.

IAKM Book Series on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning proceeds well and is now indexed in the Scopus database. The most recent issue is Volume 7 “Knowledge Management, Arts, and Humanities”, edited by Meliha Handzic and Daniela Carlucci.

Our members, Maurizio Massaro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy, Francesca Dal Mas, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy organize a minitrack during the ECIAIR 2019 (European Conference on the Impact of AI and Robotics), which is going to take place 31 October -1 November 2019 at EM-Normandie Business School, Oxford, UK. The mini track is called  “Artificial Intelligence for Strategy and Innovation”. All interested participants should submit 300 word abstract by 11th April 2019. More details are available here.

Our member, prof. Constantin Bratianu, from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania received the "Best Presentation Award" at the 6th Business Systems Laboratory International Symposium hosted by University of Pavia, 21-23 January 2019, Pavia, Italy. Congratulations!

Our members, prof. Meliha Handzic and prof. Ettore Bolisani, the Editors of the Springer IAKM Series on Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, proudly announce that the Series is now indexed in Scopus! This is an important achievement for the Association and the Editors would like to thank all those that contributed to the success of the Series. Congratulations!

More details about the series can be found here: https://www.springer.com/series/11850

On 11-12 October 2018 the Faculty of Management of the National University for Political Studies and Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania and the National Bank of Romania organizaed the 6th Edition of the International Conference STRATEGICA. Two our members: prof. Florina Pinzaru - the Dean of the Faculty of Management - and prof. Constantin Bratianu are Co-presidents of this conference, and this year two other members were Guest Speakers at this conference: prof. Aino Kianto and prof. Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro.

In the photo (from the left): Juan Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Elena Madalina Vatamanescu, Aino Kianto, Florina Pinzaru, Constantin Bratianu.

Our member Enrico Scarso reports on the ECKM (European Conference on Knowledge Management) which he co-chaired. ECKM 2018 has taken place on September 6-7 2018 in Padova (Italy). It was co-organized by Department of Economics and Management and the Department of Management and Engineering. There were more than 220 participants , 114 academic research papers, 18 PhD research presentations, and about 1,200 pages Proceedings. The papers represent truly global research on the field with contributions from more than 50 countries of all over the world. The first day was opened with a keynote presentation by prof. Simone Strambach of Philipps-University Marburg, Germany who spoke on “Combinatorial Knowledge Dynamics in Social and Sustainability Innovation - Context Matters”. Antonella Padova from EY, Italy, spoke on the second day about “From Knowledge Management to Community Management: Turning Challenges Into Opportunities”. More information is available at: https://www.academic-conferences.org/conferences/eckm/future-past-conferences/.

Our member, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Heisig announces the 10th Conference on Professional Knowledge Management:
Knowledge Management in Digital Work Environments - State of the Art and Outlook, which will be hosted by the University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam in March 2019. The conference will celebrate its 20-year anniversary, as  it was started in 1999 in Baden-Baden (Germany) and have been organized every two-years by the SIG Knowledge Management of the German Society for Computer Science (GI). 

Our member, Aino Kianto (LTU, Finland) and Dr. M. Langen (Siemens Corporate Technology) will deliver keynotes at the conference. 

More details can be found here.

The 9th International Conference on Innovation and Knowledge Management in the Asia Pacific (IKMAP) will be held in Hangzhou, China from 31st Oct to 2nd Nov 2018. The introductory video about the conference is available at https://youtu.be/IxfshS8oIJA
More details and call for papers are available at http://icme.zju.edu.cn/ikmap/

Our Member,  Dr. Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu will chair the Knowledge Management Systems track for the 2019 edition of the BSLab conference which will be held in Pavia, January 21-23, 2019. Details are available here.

​Additionally, Dr. Vătămănescu  will be GE for the Special Issue - Knowledge Management Systems and Organizational Dynamics - published by Kybernetes (indexed in WoS, IF 0.811) in November 2019, which is linked to the conference track. Details are available here.