Personal Knowledge Management Summit (PKM Summit)*
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The Personal Knowledge Management Summit (PKM Summit), organized by Digital Fitness International, is a community-based event on how Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is revolutionizing the way we deal with information.
Conference History:
3rd PKM Summit 2026, March 20-21, 2026, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sub-title: TBD
Note: The 2026 summit is also known as “PKM Summit 2026 – Third European Edition”
Conference program TBD
Presentations: (TBC)
If love is the killer app, PKM is the magic that makes it work!
AI is changing how people find, understand, and use information
Living with Algorithms
You can’t expect to thrive when your systems aren’t designed to support you
The right mindset cultivates a mental paradise, where deep learning fuels meaningful creation
When two or more ideas intersect, the spark of creativity ignites
Being effective at managing knowledge is a superpower—and linking your thinking supercharges it
The MindSET Shift: Visualizing the Future of PKM with Obsidian-Excalidraw
Fully human, empowered by technology
The fastest, most rewarding way to learn is to do it in public
AI is changing how people find, understand, and use information
2nd PKM Summit 2025, March 14-15, 2025, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sub-title: Unlock the Power of Knowledge!
Note: The 2025 summit is also known as “PKM Summit Europe”, “European PKM Summit” or “PKM Summit 2025 – Second European Edition” to distinguish from the PKM Summit planned in April 2025 in Washington, DC, USA. The US event is not realized.
Sessions:
Holistic Personal Knowledge Management – Unlock Your Competence Before Taking Action
The right mindset cultivates a mental paradise, where deep learning fuels meaningful creation.
Visual Zettelkasten, Storyboarding, and the Excalidraw Writing Machine
Dawn of the Ideaverse
Managing Media Files and Notes in a unified system
AI-Powered Knowledge Capture: Automate, Organize & Retrieve
How I Write with My Zettelkasten
Human, are you still in the loop?
Opening the doors, Spotlight session
PKM the game part 1 & 2
From memory to history, toward a new PKM era
Supercharging Your Local Markdown Notes with AI Code Editors
From Silos to Networks – PKM, Zettelkasten, and Organizational Design
Personal ontologies; an interesting piece of the PKM puzzle?
Architect or Gardener? Transcend Your Knowledge Management Limitations
Let’s shape the future of PKM
Holding Space for Daily Inspiration
6 Weeks to a Book: A Techno-Visual PKM Experiment
Spotlight on Steroids: An Closer Look at Raycast for macOS
Evernote in 2025: Still a Powerhouse for Personal Knowledge Management
PKM Across the Semantic Spectrum
The Rollup Method
How to Capture and Retrieve Information in Obsidian (Journaling, Work and Studying)
Creative Thinking with a Zettelkasten System
Project SEN
Foreign Keys, Familiar Loves: Mapping relationships in Obsidian
PKM Web Clipper: Options, Workflows and An Exploration
Opening the Doors, Spotlight Session
AI and Personal Knowledge Management: A study on Implications for knowledge workers
Small and practical insights from having a stroke and using PKM
PKM in Practice: Insights from a PhD process
Opening the Doors, Spotlight Session
Panel discussion: Where do you see PKM’s future?
Should we be teaching PKM in college? – discussion
1st PKM Summit 2024, March 22 – 23, 2024, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sub-title: Unlock the Power of Knowledge! Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is revolutionizing the way we deal with information.
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Presentations:
History of PKM
WORKSHOP TRACK: Trasform
Mind Gardening: A Flexible PKM System for Emergent Creativity (online)
The Architect & the Gardener: How to Be Both with Linked Notes
Why, what and how using daily notes as the heart of your PKM system (Open Space)
Twenty Years of PKM (online)
Roll for Connections: RPGs, CRM, and PKM (Open Space)
Debunk & Discuss: PKM-Myths Demystified (Open Space)
The MindSET 4D Visual PKM
Twenty Years of PKM – Interview + Q&A (online)
The Architect & the Gardener – How to Be Both with Linked Notes
Personal Stats – A 15 year journey in personal knowledge (Open Space)
WORKSHOP TRACK: Ecosystem
Thinking Dividends: How making notes can change your life
How to Build an Information Organization
Work smarter with a dashboard: keep an overview of the short and long term (Open Space)
Evidence-Informed Note-Making: Debunking Myths about Knowledge Management
SEN – a /home for your thoughts(Open Space)
Intentional PKM: blending structure with the unexpected for growth (Open Space)
Learning organizations: PKM as the missing link
Exploring Productivity and Sense-Making in PKM: A Visual Comparison
Unlock your potential with the AI infused mind
Knowledge Communication (Open Space)
WORKSHOP TRACK: Tribe
Reviving The Flattening Mind’ – fully human empowered by technology
PKM is for life, not just for productivity
PKM Lock-In Effect (Open Space)
Many PKM tools, not one
Digital Fitness & Mental Fitness (Open Space)
Decoding Thought (Open Space)
Doing it in public: observability for PKM
Are you team #notion or team #obsidian?
The PKM Buddy Method
WORKSHOP TRACK: Global
Knowledge network mapping
Show & Tell (Open Space)
Untangling the Zettelkasten Method
Q&A about Team: Getting Things Done with Others (Open Space)
Show & Tell 2: Quick wins, hotkeys & other time-saving tools (Open Space)
Leaving Evernote for OneNote
Show & Tell
Open Space (Open Space)