ECKM 2021- Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Knowledge Management

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 22^nd European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2021), hosted by Coventry University, UK on 2-3 September 2021. The Conference Chair is Dr Alexeis Garcia-Perez from Coventry University, UK and the Programme Chair is Professor Lyndon Simkin, from Henley Business School (University of Reading), UK.

ECKM is now a well-established event on the academic research calendar and now in its 22^nd year the key aim remains the opportunity for participants to share ideas and meet the people who hold them. The conference was due to be held at by Coventry University, UK but due to the global Covid-19 pandemic it was moved online to be held as a virtual event. The scope of papers will ensure an interesting two days. The subjects covered illustrate the wide range of topics that fall into this important and ever-growing area of research.

The opening keynote presentation is given by Prof. Dr. Dagmar Monett, Professor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering) Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin), and AGISI.org, on the topic of Intelligence, The Elusive Concept And General Capability Still Not Found in Machines. There will be an afternoon Keynote presentation given by Dr. Denise Bedford, Georgetown University's Communication Culture and Technology, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Coventry, UK on the topic of The Culture and Community of Knowledge Sciences.The second day of the conference will open with an address by Peter Pawlowsky, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, who will talk about KM in post pandemic times"KM unde venis-quo vadis?".

With an initial submission of 205 abstracts, after the double blind, peer review process there are 101 Academic research papers, 9 PhD research papers and 5 work-in-progress papers published in these Conference Proceedings. These papers represent research from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Lithuania, Malaysia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Cyprus, Norway, Pakistan, PARAGUAY, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and USA