RealKM’s Bruce Boyes wins Knowledge Management Award 2025!
Join the KM Award ceremony, online, 11 December 2025, 17:00-19:00 CET
The presidia of Knowledge Management Austria and the Knowledge for Development Partnership (K4DP) have announced that RealKM’s editor and lead writer Bruce Boyes has been selected as the winner in the individual category of the Knowledge Management Award 2025.
You’re invited to join the KM Award Ceremony!
Date: Thursday 11 December 2025
Time: 17:00-19:00 CET (UTC +1), for the time in your time zone, click here and add your location
Register in advance: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Los2o67lSr2xY99ECca9LA
KM Award Ceremony Programme
- Introduction and welcome by Prof. Dr. Andreas Brandner, ED
- Keynote Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg (Award Winner 2011) on
Knowledge Work 5.0 in the Era of AI - KM Award Ceremony
- Introduction Column of Knowledge
- Sound of Knowledge
- KM Award 2025 – Bruce Boyes
Laudation Sarah Cummings - KM Award 2025 – Inter-American Development Bank
Laudation Ian Thorpe (tbc) - Closing
About the award
Annually since 2009, the international Knowledge Management Award is bestowed upon an international organization as well as an outstanding personality. Anyone can nominate a person or an international organisation for the Award. After a review, the members of the Presidia of both Knowledge Management Austria and the Knowledge for Development Partnership select the winners.
Recognition
The prize is given in recognition of the winner’s outstanding accomplishments in research, implementation or innovation of successful management methods for knowledge politics and knowledge management. It is also meant to recognize the impact made on the development of a knowledge society in general and more specifically on knowledge creation, transformation, distribution and application.
Column of Knowledge
The physical instantiation of the Knowledge Management Award is the metallic sculpture created by the Austrian artist Prof. Helmut Margreiter, named the Column of Knowledge (picture above). The object depicts the dialogue between established and well-proven knowledge, represented by a glossy, cylindrical pillar, and the innovative pursuit of the unknown, the undefined and fragile, represented by a rough counterpart in a triangular shape. In this respect, knowledge is understood as an intangible, fluid condition between these two worlds where the appreciation of the well-known is combined with a yearning for novelty. The KM Award sculpture was presented for the first time in public in its tall version at the UNESCO World Day for Cultural Diversity on 21 May 2008.
Header image: Column of Knowledge. Source: Knowledge Management Austria.
