Note: There will be no ICKM 2021 this year. The next conference is ICKM 2022. See details below: 

ICKM 2022

17th International Conference on Knowledge Management
March 10-12, 2022
University of Applied Sciences
Potsdam, Germany

Conference Theme: Knowledge and Risks: From an Individual to a Global Scale

The International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM) provides researchers and practitioners from all over the world a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas concerning theoretical and practical aspects of Knowledge Management.

ICKM 2022 will be held March 10-12 at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany organized by the

• International Council of Knowledge Management (ICKM)

and co-organized by the

• Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Management (SIG-KM)
• International Association for Knowledge Management (IAKM)
• Association of Knowledge Management e.V. (gfwm) Austria and Germany,
• SIG Knowledge Management of the Gesellschaft für Informatik, Germany,
• SKMF Swiss Knowledge Management Forum

and hosted by the Department of Information Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

At the time of writing this Call-for-Papers most of us are sitting at home in our home offices undertaking research projects and teaching our students with online tools. All stakeholders have had to adapt quickly and had to master changes which sometimes happened on a weekly basis. The global dimension of this pandemic and the fight undertaken by the different actors have evolved nearly in real-time given the global media coverage. While this pandemic came within days and weeks around the globe, another change is more subtle and even more hidden to direct human perception except those who are affected directly at the moment by the change of the climate in different regions.

From both developments we can see how the gathering of data, its transformation into information and the development of knowledge as well as the discussions about the ‘right’ actions are difficult processes with several iterations and setbacks on very different levels in society. From individual behavior towards organizational behavior national and international or global behaviors, all levels are interwoven and interdependent. Finally, this crisis shows us the risks we face as individuals, as organizations and as society if we don’t have the right information and knowledge or we don’t believe the information and knowledge provided by authorities and other stakeholders.

Therefore, the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference will be on “Knowledge and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency.

Contact persons:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Heisig
Department of Information Sciences
University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
Tel.: +49 331 580-1520
Email: heisig(at)fh-potsdam