Dear IT/KM Practitioner:

On April 28-29 the tenth will meet the first; and it behooves anyone involved with IT in the public sector to be there.

Yes, this will be the tenth annual event in the series that has become the principal forum for government IT/KM practitioners. But it will be the first KM conference celebrated during the tenure of the first KM Administration.

This is the place where one comes to engage the future, and the future is here now. Knowledge management has well established itself as a key discipline that enterprises must practice if they are to survive in a time of uncertainty, complexity and change. For the first time ever we are seeing an administration that is seriously focused on utilizing the tools of KM. The new players coming into government under the Obama presidency are very internet savvy and speak a language that cannot be confused for anything else but KM. Their emphasis on "openness, transparency and collaboration" is generally followed with all the references to Web 2.0, wikis, blogs and microblogs, social networking sites and collaboration tools. This is truly gearing up to be the first KM Administration.

Our conference series has been the principal forum where these and many other relevant tools and techniques have been introduced, discussed, viewed and reviewed since the very early days. We started discussing collaboration tools, virtual communities, citizen-centric portals, capturing tacit knowledge, managing unstructured data and the importance of storytelling as far back as the year 2000. We started talking about social networks, knowledge organizations and advanced search tools in 2001. We were addressing the need for integrating KM and web services in 2003, as well as the need for new taxonomies (folksonomies) and the use of KM for measuring performance. We were presenting and exhibiting wikis, blogs and social networking sites half a decade ago.

We heard agency heads, CIOs, CKOs and even the Comptroller General explain how they we bringing the future nearer. Where else should you be in this first year of the first KM Presidential Administration than with us? This is the forum where we have been consistently unveiling the future, year by year, for a full decade.

Come join us at the Tenth Annual 1105 Knowledge Management Conference.

Dr. Ramon C. Barquin
Program Chair

Register now and find schedule information at www.KMconference.com.