Knowledge Cast – Dawn Brushammar, Independent Knowledge Management Consultant & Programme Chair of KMWorld Europe

Enterprise Knowledge’s Lulit Tesfaye, VP of Knowledge & Data Services, speaks with Dawn Brushammar, currently an independent KM consultant, advisor, and frequent contributor at industry events. She has spent her 25+ year career connecting people to relevant knowledge and information. Her experience across industries and geographies includes leading an internal Knowledge Management team at McKinsey and Company, building databases for the Oprah Winfrey Show, running research services for a division of American Express, and managing academic librarianship at several universities and an environmental and sustainability research institute. In their conversation, Lulit and Dawn discuss the similarities between their early career paths and KM journeys, the evolving role of the modern librarian, and how KM and semantics support AI technologies. They also define what a “knowledge-first organization” should look like, and touch on Dawn’s upcoming talk at the Semantic Layer Symposium on the rising importance of library science to the Semantic Layer.