KM Conference 2025, 25 - 28 June 2025

Hosted by the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy.


Themes: Knowledge Management, Cybersecurity, Learning, and Information Technology

Join us also for an exciting Pre-Conference Industry Day on 25 June 2025
with the theme "Innovation and Knowledge Management in the Motorsport Industry"



KM Conf Header Figure

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Important Dates/Deadlines

  • Submission deadline of complete papers or extended abstracts: March 1, 2025 March 7, 2025 (Updated)
  • Reviews and responses to authors: April 14, 2025
  • Submission of the final version of accepted papers or extended abstracts: May 10, 2025

What to Submit

  • Full research papers (including work-in-progress)
  • Extended abstracts or short papers
  • Industry or practitioners presentations/papers
  • Panels presentations/papers

All submissions are double-blind refereed. See submission requirements here.

High-marked papers from the conference will be fast-tracked for publication in the Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management (OJAKM - ISSN 2325-4688), the official publication of the International Institute for Applied Knowledge Management. Additionally, high-marked papers in the context of information security and cybersecurity will be considered for further review for publication in the Emerald's journal of Information and Computer Security (ICS - ISSN 2056-4961). Other papers and abstracts will be published in the Conference Proceedings.

Registration Fees:

Pre-Conference Industry Day Registration (Free)

Conference (In-Person) Early Registration (on or before April 30, 2025), €450

Conference (In-Person) Late Registration (after April 30, 2025), €495

Suggested Topics

KM Conference invites empirical and conceptual papers dealing with theoretical and practical aspects of applied knowledge management, cybersecurity learning, and information technology including, but not limited to:

  • Adaptive systems
  • Architectures and design of KM systems
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) in KM
  • Cybersecurity and Information Security
  • Cybersecurity Management
  • e-Learning, m-Learning, Experiential Learning, and Gamification
  • Ethical and Privacy Concerns, Risk Management, and System Auditing
  • Global and Cross-Cultural Aspects of KM
  • Healthcare and Health Informatics
  • Human Computer Interaction, Generative AI, Multimedia, and Knowledge Visualization
  • Human, Intellectual, Social, and Structural Capital
  • Information Society and Social Networks
  • Integration of Knowledge
  • KM - Analytics, Intelligence and Problem Solving
  • KM - Conceptual Paradigms, System Theory and Development
  • KM – Innovation, Future Applications and Technology
  • KM - Health and Medicine
  • KM - Project and Risk Management
  • KM - System Initiation, Implementation, and Continuance
  • Knowledge Acquisition, Creation, Discovery, and Sharing Mechanisms
  • Knowledge Economy, Evaluating, and Sourcing Knowledge
  • Knowledge Innovation
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Knowledge Services and Sharing – Applications in Business, Education, Government, Healthcare, and More
  • Learning Organization and Organizational Learning
  • Managing Higher Education, Training, and Lifelong Learning
  • Mobile and Ubiquitous Communications
  • Organizational and Interorganizational KM
  • Research Methods and Advanced Statistics in KM
  • Search, Semantics, and Content Management
  • Strategic Aspects of KM
  • Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (GRC)
  • Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR)


KM2025 Leadership Team


Conference Co-Chairs

Alessandro Mecocci Sandro Bartolini Joanna Krywalski-Santiago
University of Siena,
Italy		 University of Siena,
Italy		 ISEG - Lisbon School of
Economics & Management,
Portugal
mecocci@unisi.it bartolini@dii.unisi.it joannas@iseg.ulisboa.pt


Program Co-Chairs

Melissa Carlton Meir Russ Molly Cooper
Lindsey Wilson College,
USA		 University of Wisconsin
- Green Bay, USA		 Ferris State University,
USA
carltonm@lindsey.edu russm@uwgb.edu MollyCooper@ferris.edu


Industry Day Chair and Local Organizers

Riccardo Paterni Stefano Scapecchi Riccardo Salvini
RPM Motorsport Industry Network,
Italy		 ISACA Milan Chapter
– Member, Italy		 ISACA Milan Chapter
– Board Member, Italy
riccardo.paterni@rpm-italia.org stefano.scapecchi@aiea.it riccardo.salvini@mps.it


General Conference Organizers and Coordinators

Yair Levy Shonda Brown Michelle Ramim
Nova Southeastern University,
USA		 IIAKM, USA Nova Southeastern University,
USA
levyy@nova.edu contact@iiakm.org ramim@nova.edu


Conference Workshop Co-Chairs

Christiaan Maasdorp Julita Haber
Stellenbosch University,
South Africa		 Fordham University,
USA
chm2@sun.ac.za jhaber7@fordham.edu

KM2025 Program Committee


Program Committee Chairs
Melissa Carlton Lindsey Wilson College, USA
Meir Russ University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA
Molly Cooper Ferris State University, USA

Program Committee Members
Paul Alpar Philipps University at Marburg, Germany
Ramila Amirikas Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau, Germany
Amy Antonucci Western Governors University, USA
Graziano Aretusi OpenStat, Italy
Gunnar Auth HSF Meissen University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Patricia Baker CoreLogic Inc, USA
Dafna Bar-On The Open University of Israel, Israel
Zohar Barnett-Itzhaki Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Filipe Barbosa Petrobras SA, Brazil
Sandro Bartolini University of Siena, Italy
Michael Bartolacci Penn State University, USA
Orly Barzilai The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
Dizza Beimel Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Ofir Ben Assuli Ono Academic College, Israel
Igor Bernik University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, Slovenia
Neelima Bhatnagar University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg, USA
Brian Bisceglia Nova Southeastern University, USA
Carlene Blackwood-Brown Seneca Polytechnic, Canada
Rico Blei Meissen University (UAS) and Center of Further Education, Germany
Ina Blau The Open University of Israel, Israel
Alan Rafael Boesing Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Marko Bohanec Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Carole Bonanni Rennes School of Business, France
Benny Bornfeld Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Michal Borowy Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Jennifer Breese The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Steve Bronsburg Nova Southeastern University - Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA
Shonda Brown IIAKM, USA
Brian Buckles National Defense University, USA
Kom Campiranon Thammasat University, Thailand
Melissa Carlton Lindsey Wilson College, USA
Dimitar Christozov American University of Bulgaria, Bulgaria
Małgorzata Cieciora Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland
Christopher Collins Nova Southeastern University, USA
Molly Cooper Ferris State University, USA
Carla Curado ISEG - Ulisboa, Portugal
Beata Czarnacka-Chrobot Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Dipankar Dasgupta The University of Memphis, USA
Matteo Deana ISACA, Switzerland
Boštjan Delak Faculty of Information Studies, Slovenia
John Del Vecchio Nova Southeastern University, USA
Hermano Jorge De Queiroz Lindsey Wilson College, USA
Sandra Dettmer Swansea University, UK
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo University of Geneva, Switzerland
Gianluca Dini University of Pisa, Italy
Horatiu Dragomirescu Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Patryk Dziurski Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Monika Eisenbardt Univeristy of Economics Katowice, Poland
Tomasz Eisenbardt University of Warsaw, Poland
Justyna Fijałkowska University of Social Sciences, Poland
Steven Furnell University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Ruti Gafni Tel-Aviv Yaffo Academic College, Israel
Nitza Geri The Open University of Israel, Israel
Tiago Goncalves ADVANCE/CSG, ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Julita Haber Fordham University, USA
Robert Hambly Nova Southeastern University, USA
Steven Harmon Ferris State University, USA
Wilnelia Hernandez WH-Consulting, Puerto Rico
Andreas Häberlin Nova Southeastern University and St. Thomas University, USA
Ann-Marie Horcher Northwood University, USA
Markus Huber-Liebl Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Angel Hueca Carnegie Mellon University/CERT, USA
Pedro Isaias University of New South Wales (UNSW) - Sydney, Australia
Emmanuel Jigo JiSec Research Group, USA
Oliver Jokisch HSF University of Meissen, Germany
Boris Kantsepolsky The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, Israel
Gila Kurtz Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Ivan Kraljevski Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany
Gregory Laidlaw University of Detroit Mercy, USA
Yair Levy Nova Southeastern University, USA
Wei Li Nova Southeastern University, USA
Christiaan Maasdorp Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Helen MacLennan Lindsey Wilson College, USA
Juan M. Madrid Universidad Icesi, Colombia
Giorina Maratsi Accreditation, Certification and Quality Assurance Institute, Germany
Blaz Markelj Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Joseph Marnell Wayland Baptist University, USA
Herbert Mattord Kennesaw State University, USA
John McConnell Johns Hopkins Health System, USA
Eliel Melon University of Puerto Rico - Medical Sciences Campus, Puerto Rico
Jürgen Moormann Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany
Jean-Henry Morin University of Geneva - CUI, Switzerland
Stephen Mujeye Illinois State University, USA
Roisin Mullins University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK
Maayan Nakash Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Florence Love Nkosi Mzuzu University, Malawi
Martina Neri University of Pisa, Italy
Catherine Neubauer DEVCOM ARL, USA
Federico Niccolini University of Pisa - Department of Political Sciences, Italy
Justin Novak Software Engineering Institute, USA
Michael Nowatkowski Augusta University, USA
Sergio Nunes ISEG-School of Economics and Management, Portugal
Jose Ortiz-Ubarri University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Ilona Paweloszek Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland
Kellen Peitl Unicamp - State University of Campinas, Brazil
Margarida Piteira Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Przemyslaw Polak Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Tommy Pollock Tidewater Community College and National Defense University, USA
Maike Pompa Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten (VNG), Netherlands
Ashraf Qutaishat University of Minho, Portugal
Daphne Raban University of Haifa, Israel
Michelle Ramim Nova Southeastern University - Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA
Roni Ramon Gonen Bar-Ilan university, Israel
Maryam Roshanaei Pennsylvania State University, USA
Idan Roth The Academic College of Tel Aviv–Yaffo, Israel
Meir Russ University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, USA
Joanna Santiago Universidade de Lisboa - ISEG, Portugal
Nanette Saes Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Dara Schniederjans University of Rhode Island, USA
Tamar Shamir The Open University of Israel, Israel
Christopher Shear Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Sofia Sherman The Academic College Tel Aviv Yaffo, Israel
Ingo Siegert Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
Vered Silber-Varod Tel Aviv University, Israel
Martha Snyder Nova Southeastern University, USA
Anna Soltysik-Piorunkiewicz University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Celina Sołek-Borowska Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
K. Subramani West Virginia University, USA
Mathupayas Thongmak Thammasat Universit, Thailand
Arava Tsoury Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Michael Tu Purdue University Northwest, USA
Rolf von Rössing ISACA, Switzerland
Simon Vrhovec University of Maribor, Slovenia
Mathias Walther Technische Hochschule Wildau, Germany
Ling Wang Nova Southeastern University, USA
Bruce Watson National Security Centre of Excellent, Canada
Tobi West Coastline College, USA
Knut Ingar Westeren Nord University, Norway
Zulma Westney Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Nathan White Central Washington University, USA
Jędrzej Wieczorkowski Warsaw School of Economics, Poland
Dariusz Witko Nova Southeastern University, USA
Darren Wiggins Nova Southeastern University, USA
Gianluca Zanella Augusta University, USA
David Zeichick California State University - Chico, USA
Ewa Ziemba University of Economics in Katowice, Poland
Aeron Zentner Coastline College, USA
Rina Zviel-Girshin Ruppin Academic Center, Israel




KM2025 Conference Sponsoring Schools and Organizations



Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics





KM2025 Conference Partner Organizations











Updated: 18 July, 2025