Keynotes
Length: 1 Hour
Description: The workforce is greying. Across the OECD, the median age has climbed past 44, retirement waves are accelerating, and decades of hard-earned tacit knowledge are quietly walking out the door of every enterprise—often with no plan to capture it. For KM leaders, this is not just another demographic statistic. It is the moment this function moves from supporting role to center stage. Drawing on his new book, Pontefract shares the central framework of his research: the Wisdom Wheel. Built on five components—Mentor, Collaborate, Capture, Renew, and Purpose—it is a practical playbook for what enterprise learning, human-centric AI, and knowledge sharing must look like when half the workforce is over 50. He discusses a new concept, Rivers, Rocks, and Rubies, his framework for the three wisdom-sharing eras across every team member’s career, and the real organizational challenges piling up as the Rubies retire and expertise bottlenecks, leadership vacuums, and the collapse of institutional memory runs rampant. Expect golden nuggets and cases from BMW, Deutsche Bahn, TELUS, Tata Chemicals, and Turing AI and a candid look at how AI-enabled cognitive task analysis is finally helping organizations capture the expertise that has always been invisible. How can grey turn to gold? Come find out from our always entertaining and energizing speaker!