KMI Grads and Instructors in the News

Meet our new Instructor! We are excited to add Barisa Abdifatah, CKM, MLIS to the KMI Instructor Team.

Barisa is the Director of Knowledge Management at STRATactical International, where she drives strategy, operations, and client solutions that deliver measurable impact. She applies proven KM practices—such as Knowledge Cafés, Communities of Practice, and Organizational Network Analysis—to drive collaboration, innovation, and better decision-making.

With over twenty years of global experience in academia and professional settings, Barisa has worked as an educator, administrator, translator (English/Arabic), and librarian. She is passionate about building people-centered KM frameworks that unite process and technology for sustainable value.

Barisa teaches CKM Certification training for KMI's Arab clients in the Gulf Region, as well as classes in North America.

KMI Grad Elizabeth McLean will be presenting: Local AI in Action - Evaluating Global Examples of Indigenous and Low-Resource Language LLMs.‍

The KM Triversary Forum 2025 has the very important theme of “Bridging the research-practice gap in knowledge management (KM)” and is taking place on 14-15 October 2025. It’s free (no fee) and fully online,
with sessions across the world’s time zones.

Click here for event details...

Elizabeth also earned her CKS (Specialist) in KM & Enterprise AI and CKS in Business Taxonomy and Ontology.

We are excited for another KMWorld show in November and KMI is represented well!  
The largest annual KM Conference worldwide is taking place in Washington DC at the JW Marriott, Nov 17-20. FYI: as a longtime Sponsor, KMI subscribers get a 30% discount on your registration!

Details and Registration...
Use Code: VIPKMI
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Speakers and Topics:
CKM Grad Dr. Rachel Teague: Enterprises, KM, and Agentic AI; User-Centric KM Systems

CKM Grad and Instructor Jess DeMay: Enterprises, KM, and Agentic AI.  
Jess co-teaches KMI's "KM & User Engagement" Certification.

KMI Instructor Stephanie Barnes: Creativity, Cooking, & Collaborating: Knowledge Sharing & Building Skills; plus: Radical KM: Adopting KM Strategy for the Future of Work. Stephanie teaches KMI's "Creative KM" Certification.

KMI Instructor Katrina Pugh: KM & AI Bring Collectivity, Nostalgia, & Selectivity.
‍Kathryn teaches KMI's "Knowledge Capture" Certification.

KMI Instructor Dr. John Lewis: Beyond Storytelling: Using Story Thinking for KM & AI Strategies. Dr. Lewis teaches KMI's "Innovation Management" Certification.

KMI Instructor Dr. Anthony Rhem: AI for Stakeholders.
‍Dr. Rhem teaches KMI's "Information Architecture" Certification.

[Left to right: Dr. Rachel Teague, Jess DeMay, Stephanie Barnes, Katrina Pugh, Dr. John Lewis, and Dr. Anthony Rhem]