The Forgetting Machine - Why Your Organization Knows More Than It Can Remember
Every single day, modern organizations build a massive mountain of information; then immediately drop the context out of the window.
We hoard data, but lose the human reasoning behind it. The critical decisions, the hard-earned experiences, and the contextual "why" remain trapped in people's heads, isolated in digital silos, buried in forgotten repositories, or permanently lost when a project ends or someone leaves. Because this collective intelligence is so severely fragmented, knowledge vanishes faster than organizations can remember it.
The problem isn’t collecting information. The problem is converting it into knowledge that people can actually understand and reuse. We are scaling our mistakes far faster than we scale our insights. Without meaning to, we have engineered an incredibly efficient Forgetting Machine.
This session is a direct challenge to this systemic amnesia. We will move past outdated operational mindsets to explore the cultural and behavioral shifts required to stop the bleeding. It is time to dismantle the Forgetting Machine, rescue the human experience behind the data, build a robust knowledge ecosystem, and transform information into enduring organizational wisdom.
Target Audience: Enterprise Architects, CTOs, CIOs, COOs, Chief Architects, Engineering Directors, Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Technology Leaders.
Formats:
Keynote — 45 minutes
Breakout Session — 30 minutes
Where this talk has been presented
2026-09-09 Presented at KPMG Group Digital Technology Days in Zurich, Switzerland
Format: Breakout Session — 30 minutes
Resources: Video recording and event photos coming soon
