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🗻 🗻 Super Early Bird registration is now open for KA Connect 2026! 🗻 🗻 Our annual knowledge and learning management conference for the AEC industry, will take place at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Sundance, Utah from August 11th to August 14th, 2026. We’ll explore what it means to design a modern learning organization—one that blends knowledge management, learning and development, and artificial intelligence into a more integrated and intentional approach to capability building. We’re just at the beginning of this journey. The technology is evolving rapidly and best practices are beginning to emerge. By coming together as a community—sharing experiments, surfacing insights, and challenging assumptions—we can get smarter faster, together. Over two mornings of general sessions, we’ll hear real-world stories from AEC firms navigating this shift and learn how they are: 🗻 Accelerating knowledge transfer by blending on-demand learning, social learning, and AI-powered search approaches 🗻 Building new learning experiences that are smarter, more concise, more effective, and more engaging for today’s learners 🗻 Making expertise more scalable by using AI to surface and distribute firmwide knowledge in the flow of work 🗻 Integrating KM and L&D—operationally, culturally, and technologically—to better serve employees and the business 🗻 Designing for the future by investing in modern platforms, knowledge agents, smarter workflows, and high-trust cultures of learning Sundance’s stunning location—at 6,100 feet in the north fork of Provo Canyon—will provide an inspiring backdrop for you to learn from and with your fellow KA Community members. Join us as we explore how to integrate knowledge management, learning & development, and AI to build smarter, more adaptive learning organizations. 🚀 Learn more and register early: https://lnkd.in/gM3NDptV #AEC #KnowledgeManagement #LearningOrganizations #KAConnect2026

Join us for a webinar on the real-world benefits of AI-powered knowledge management, hosted by PSMJ and featuring Christopher Parsons, Founder and CEO of Knowledge Architecture. In this session, Christopher will share five real-world case studies showing how AEC firms are using the intranet and AI search capabilities of Synthesis—Knowledge Architecture’s integrated knowledge and learning management platform—to connect the right person to the right knowledge or expert in the flow of work. Rather than talking about AI as a distant future concept, this webinar looks at what it actually looks like inside firms today — how knowledge is being captured, made searchable, and reused long after someone attends a training or asks a question for the first time. The five case studies include: → How BWBR created a healthcare upskilling series with 18 learning modules, best practice guides, and expert-curated content. AI search makes it all accessible to new hires so they can quickly get answers to their questions. → How Turner Fleischer combined structured standards, #TechTalk videos, a searchable eTutor library, and an internal learning academy to build a robust KM foundation. AI search delivers just-in-time answers that support technology adoption at scale. → How Boulder Associates uses expert interviews to capture knowledge, such as seismic compliance strategies and Bluebeam project workflows. AI search then surfaces this expertise so project teams can get answers and connect directly with in-house experts. → How Bora Architecture & Interiors built a digital twin of their sustainability lead, Corey Squire, by integrating his best practices, project reflections, and even his book into their intranet. AI search (aka “Robo Corey”) now helps employees find standards, strategies, and subject matter experts for sustainable design decisions. → How Shepley Bulfinch created a comprehensive onboarding knowledge ecosystem, answering questions such as “How do I get staffed on projects?” or “Who knows Affinity Photo in Houston?” in the flow of work. AI search allows access to these answers long after orientation. We’ll close with a brief preview of what’s next for AI-powered knowledge management in AEC, including a look at emerging capabilities such as advanced project search and AI-powered knowledge agents. The webinar takes place Thursday, November 6th at 1 PM EST. We hope you’ll join us for this conversation. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/gFjD7ey9 #AEC #KnowledgeManagement #LearningOrganizations PSMJ Resources, Inc.

Ever wonder how AI solutions actually work? In this behind-the-scenes session, Christopher Parsons (Founder and CEO) and Sean W. Mahan (Director of Software Engineering) share how Knowledge Architecture designed and built Synthesis AI Search, tracing its evolution through multiple generations of design and engineering. You’ll see the real problems they set out to solve, the obstacles they overcame, and the lessons they learned along the way. This is a deep dive for the curious—ideal for anyone who wants to understand how AI retrieves, reasons, and improves over time. We’ll explore architecture diagrams and code concepts in plain language, connecting each layer of the system back to design strategy and business outcomes. By understanding how AI search works, you’ll also gain insight into how to capture and structure knowledge more effectively, helping your firm better connect the right person to the right knowledge at the right time. We’ll close with a look ahead at how Synthesis AI Search is laying the foundation for knowledge agents—AI-powered assistants that will help your firm make better use of its collective knowledge, streamline workflows, and accelerate learning. This 60-minute webinar will take place on Thursday, October 30th at 9 AM PT. We hope to see you there. 📅 Thursday, October 30th at 9 AM PT 🕘 60 minutes 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/g2cG66V3

How do you transfer knowledge from retiring experts? AEC firms have been working on this challenge for years with varying degrees of success. What’s changing is how easily we can capture that expertise and make it useful. Video, transcription, and AI agents are creating new possibilities for helping employees learn from their colleagues’ experience and apply it in the flow of work. In this 90-minute webinar, EUA, Shepley Bulfinch, and Turner Fleischer shared three approaches to expert knowledge transfer, supported by Synthesis Knowledge Agents: → EUA is preserving 25 years of specifications questions and answers from a retiring expert through a Knowledge Agent called Marty+, with a dedicated team maintaining and growing that knowledge. → Shepley Bulfinch brought employees into one-on-one interviews with retiring leaders, creating immediate learning opportunities and a collection of recorded expertise others can explore through a Knowledge Agent. → Turner Fleischer captured a retiring senior contract administrator’s experience through guided conversations, then used a Knowledge Agent to help identify lessons, knowledge gaps, and opportunities to improve practice guidance. Following the presentations, Susan Strom, Chief Client Officer at Knowledge Architecture, facilitated a conversation about encouraging experts to share, designing useful interviews, maintaining captured knowledge, and where human relationships and judgment remain essential. One of the most important insights emerged toward the end of the conversation: these approaches don’t just apply to retiring experts. An upcoming retirement can create urgency, but the broader opportunity is to continuously preserve, strengthen, and scale the critical capabilities your firm depends on to succeed. Whenever difficult-to-replace and highly useful knowledge is concentrated in a single person or a few people, AEC firms can proactively use the techniques shared in this webinar to transfer that knowledge more broadly through their organizations. 📺 Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/g48uKqAz Thank you to Andrea Moede, James C. Martin and Marco Marcoccia, CKM for your generosity in sharing your work with our community! #AEC #KnowledgeManagement #SmarterByDesign

I've known Laurie Dreyer, Chief Development Officer at Taylor Design, since I started Knowledge Architecture in 2009, and I've learned a tremendous amount from her over the years about leadership, organizational development, knowledge management, and learning. A few weeks ago, Laurie and I had a conversation about how to design AEC firms to thrive in an era of rapid, continuous change. We covered so much fascinating territory that when our half-hour meeting ended, I wasn't ready for the conversation to stop. So I invited Laurie onto the Smarter by Design podcast to continue exploring what it takes to build a more adaptable AEC firm. Five ideas from our conversation: 1. Sustained simplicity creates capacity. Every unnecessary system, process, and piece of outdated information imposes a small tax on employees' time and attention. Laurie shares how Taylor Design simplified its employee experience, and we explore how firms can reinvest the capacity they recover into better knowledge, learning, and processes. Those investments can create a compounding dividend, provided firms maintain the discipline to keep complexity from creeping back in. 2. Make change with people, not to people. Inviting employees into the process of change doesn't mean waiting for everyone to agree. Laurie shares how Taylor Design uses surveys, employee forums, and other feedback mechanisms to bring more perspectives into the decision-making process, uncover opportunities for improvement that leaders might otherwise overlook, and build greater trust and buy-in along the way. 3. The power of the networked organization. One of our shared mentors, Ed Friedrichs, believed that employees should be no more than two degrees of separation from the expertise they need. We explore how informal networks, communities of practice, and connected knowledge systems help people find one another, share what they know, and solve problems more effectively. 4. Reboarding is the new onboarding. Firms invest considerable effort in helping new employees understand how things work. But what about employees who have been there for 10, 20, or 30 years? Laurie introduces the idea of reboarding, helping experienced professionals learn how their organizations have evolved and adopt better ways of working. 5. Create stable ground for continuous change. Adaptability doesn't mean everything needs to be in constant flux. We explore how shared values, trusted relationships, and clear ways of working provide a stable foundation from which employees can confidently experiment, learn, and embrace new opportunities. Laurie shares how leaders can reinforce that foundation while building a culture that expects and welcomes continuous improvement. Throughout our conversation, we explore what it takes to build a Modern Learning Organization that can accelerate learning, scale expertise, and thrive in an era of continuous change. I hope you'll enjoy this conversation as much as I did. 📺 🎧 Watch or listen here: https://lnkd.in/gGbK8a2P #AEC #SmarterByDesign #ModernLearningOrganizations

Early registration is open for KA Connect 2027! We’ll return to Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah from August 10–13, 2027, to explore our conference theme: Building Modern Learning Organizations. Across the AEC industry, firms are bringing knowledge management, learning and development, and AI together to help their people learn faster, scale expertise, and put collective knowledge to work. At KA Connect, we’ll hear real-world stories from firms building new learning experiences, using AI agents to support complex work, and expanding their capacity for continuous change. We’ll explore how codifying the way a firm does its best work can go hand in hand with cultivating trust, experimentation, and continuous improvement. The technology is evolving rapidly and we’re all still learning what works. Coming together to share experiments, surface insights, and challenge assumptions helps us get smarter faster, together. Being in Sundance gives us a beautiful setting to step away from our daily routines, connect with peers, and think about what comes next for our firms. We’ll announce the full program in spring 2027. In the meantime, early registration pricing is available. 🏔️🦉 Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/edv7vMQ8 #AEC #ModernLearning Organizations #KnowledgeManagement #KAConnect2027