The Forgetting Machine - Why Your Organization Knows More Than It Can Remember
PRESENTATION
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.
It will help them identify where knowledge is lost, why people and projects take it with them, and what it takes to turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom, the ultimate source of competitive advantage.
This session is a call to action against that systemic amnesia. It reframes knowledge management as strategic infrastructure and replaces the question "How do we store what we know?" with "How do we make the organization remember what it has learned?". You will leave knowing how to dismantle the Forgetting Machine and what to capture beyond documents (the experience, decisions, outcomes and learnings) to turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom, the ultimate source of competitive advantage.
Target Audience: CTOs, CIOs, Chief Architects, Solution Architects, Engineering Managers, Product Managers, and Technology Leaders.
Languages Available: English, Portuguese
Formats:
Keynote — 45 minutes
Breakout Session — 30 minutes
Want this talk at your event? Email me at marceloancelmo@gmail.com
Where this talk has been presented
2026-09-09 Presented at KPMG Group Digital Technology Days
Format: Breakout Session — 30 minutes
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Language: English
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Want this talk at your event? Email me at marceloancelmo@gmail.com
