Medford, NJ, December 18, 2002 — More than 1,700 information and knowledge management professionals gathered in Santa Clara in October to attend the KMWorld & Intranets 2002 Conference & Exposition. 

The combined KMWorld & Intranets 2002 event (held October 29-31) featured seven conference tracks over three days and a single exposition featuring top companies in the knowledge management, business intelligence, and intranet fields. This global conference and exposition is designed for developing and evaluating enterprisewide KM strategies and for implementing collaborative intranet & portal strategies and technologies that meet organizational goals.

Forrest Sawyer, NBC News anchor and chairman and co-founder of Sawyer Media Systems, was the opening and plenary keynote speaker at the KMWorld & Intranets 2002 Conference & Exposition. This forward-thinking keynote presentation explored the impact and potential of rich media and digital video assets on enterprise knowledge management, describing Sawyer’s vision of how to integrate legacy information and new media production with emerging digital video technology.

KMWorld & Intranets 2002 served as a forum for the KMWorld Awards sponsored by KMWorld magazine (www.kmworld.com). The 2002 KM Reality Award, which honors an organization for demonstrating leadership in the implementation of KM practices and processes by realizing measurable benefits, was awarded to Wipro Technologies. The KM Promise Award recognizes a company that delivered on the promise of providing truly innovative technology solutions for implementing and integrating KM practices into the business process. This year's winner was Kamoon, Inc. To learn more about the KMWorld Awards, please visit www.kmworld.com/kmw02/KMAwards.cfm. 

KMWorld & Intranets 2003 will take place October 14-16, 2003 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California. For more information, please contact Information Today, Inc. at (800) 300-9868 (outside the U.S. call (609) 654-6266), e-mail  custserv@infotoday.com, or visit us on the Web at www.infotoday.com.