Although such events are certainly worthwhile we feel that bringing together people from both areas and giving them a forum for exchanging ideas will lead to Knowledge Management solutions that are much more useful and effective. The PAKM Conference is dedicated to that quite challenging aim. Each workshop will deal with a certain Knowledge Management problem that calls for solutions on the organizational as well as on the technological side. Sometimes, an information system is even mandatory for the whole Knowledge Management approach to work. Thus, participants from the information technology area get the excellent opportunity to learn about real-world requirements, to identify the organizational framework certain kinds of information systems must take into account, and get new ideas about what specific kinds of Knowledge Management systems are needed.
Technological solutions are useless unless they fit into a given organizational environment.
Participants presenting their technology approaches can get feedback on how well their systems meet reality. Organizational solutions can often benefit from making use of information technology. Thus, participants from the area of organizational and management solutions may find it valuable to get feedback on where an additional usage of information technology could lead to improvements in their solutions. Participants from the organizational and management solutions area have the opportunity to learn what kind of systems are technologically feasible and may be inspired to envision completely new kinds of solutions to certain Knowledge Management problems. Additional to the workshop sessions each of the two conference days will start with an invited talk.