Human-Centered Design • Cognition and Learning • Digital Technology • Data
Human-Centered Design • Cognition and Learning • Digital Technology • Data
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The Knowledge Forge is a boutique consultancy owned and operated by Sae Schatz. She delivers keynote speeches, designs professional development seminars, and offers advisory consulting, with a focus on human-centered innovation and emerging technologies.
Our customized workshops include presentations, group discussions, practical exercises, and optional assessment opportunities. Perfect for team development or client retreats.
Just looking a little advice? We also offer consulting services right-sized to your needs, whether one-time use, periodic engagements, or on a retainer basis.
What are others saying?
What are others saying?
MSc H.K.E. (Hillery) Hommes, Head of Centre of Expertise Digital Learning, Dutch Royal Army
“Without exaggeration, Sae’s keynote presentations are excellent. She is able to break down complex topics in an understandable way. She has a clear vision, adds some humour and interacts with the audience. She’s also both culturally and politically sensitive, adjusting her message in a way that reaches and inspires different audiences.”
Michael DiCenso, Director,
Startup Week Louisville
“Having Sae as a speaker at our event in 2022 was one of the best decisions we could have made. Not only does she have incredible experience in a range of fields for us to learn from but she taught us strategies on how to absorb it all.…For a conference focused on entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs and how to grow an ecosystem around them, Sae was a perfect fit to bring in and equip us.”
William “G.” Harris, CEO, Association of Test Publishers (ATP) Global
“Dr. Sae Schatz opened ATP’s 25th Innovations in Testing Conference.…During her world-class keynote, she shared insightful LearnOps examples to buttress the claim of greater efficiency and improved learning outcomes. Her outstanding presentation had more than superb content; it came with an equally magnificent performance. Dr. Schatz skillfully engaged the ATP audience for 45 minutes, and her conclusions were some of the key takeaways of the 3-day Innovations Conference.”
What’s new?
What’s new?
March 2026 • Sae will deliver a keynote on cognitive security at the MIT Universal AI Summit in Warsaw. The presentation explores how AI is transforming the threat landscape, while examining the market opportunities emerging in trust infrastructure, detection tools, and cognitive resilience solutions. The summit convenes researchers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs working at the frontier of AI. 🗓️ Dates: March 23–24, 2026 📍 Location: Warsaw
February 2026 • Sae will give a Prometric webinar, titled Competence in Motion: Reimagining Credentialing in the Age of Acceleration. It will cover practical ways for designing credentialing systems in an AI-augmented world, including portfolio-based evidence, performance assessment, and dynamic skill validation. 🗓️ 19 February 2026 at 1:00 EST
February 2026 • Sae will deliver the opening keynote at the 2026 Learning Engineering Research Network (LERN) Convening, hosted by the ASU Learning Engineering Institute. The theme is “From Insights to Implementation: Learning Engineering in Action,” bringing together researchers, practitioners, and innovators. Sae’s keynote explores the “3-Accelerators” that are reshaping how we work, live, and learn: exponentiality, convergence, and ubiquity. 🗓️ Dates: 3–4 February 2026 📍 Location: Phoenix, Arizona
January 2026 • Sae has joined Shelly Blake-Plock, Megan Torrance, and Jim Goodell as the founding Board of Directors for the Institute for Infrastructure and Interoperable Data in Learning (I2IDL), an independent non-profit organization advancing open-source data systems for learning and workforce development. Join I2IDL’s first public webinar, “What Are Learning Technology Standards, and Why Do I Need Them?” 🗓️ 29 January 2026 at 12:00 EST
December 2025 • Engines of Engagement: A Curious Book About Generative AI is now available in Polish, as well as the original English and Ukrainian. Audiobook to follow soon. The book is available in both a paid and free format. You can buy it in English as a beautiful hardback book, available from all good bookstores. Or you can download it as a free digital copy from this site.
October 2025 • Sae and colleagues delivered an encore webinar to the ASIS International community on “Responsible Use of AI to Enhance Corporate Security & Intelligence, part 2.” The other panelists included Michelle d'Amico, Senior Director, Global Head of Intelligence & Insider Risk at Zoom; Buddy Jericho, CEO of Indago Technologies; Nadia Genevieve Masri, Founder & CEO of Aris Data; and Andrew Borene, Executive Director at Flashpoint.
June 2025 • Sae joined Michelle d'Amico, Senior Director, Global Head of Intelligence & Insider Risk at Zoom; Buddy Jericho, CEO of Indago Technologies; Nadia Genevieve Masri, Founder & CEO of Aris Data; and Andrew Borene, Executive Director at Flashpoint on a webinar with the ASIS International community on “Responsible Use of AI to Enhance Corporate Security & Intelligence.” Sae talked about the risks associated with bad human-systems integration between workers and AI tools.
See the video from ASIS (try jumping to 48:00)
May 2025 • Sae delivered a webinar, titled Lock It Down: Credentials, Identifiers, and Authentication on Verifiable Credentials and Digital Identifiers. This webinar is part of Prometric's thought leadership initiatives. Around 200 attendees joined the discussion about digital identity, trust, and data privacy. This webinar was based on work originally created with Alan Thiemann for the ATP Berlin conference.
April 2025 • Sae led a webinar and interactive discussion with the Cognitive Security Institute. It covered the history of information operations (from decades-old political warfare to today's hybrid landscape), and it discussed the ways that various science and technology advancements have been incorporated into it, including neuroscience, cognitive psychology, persuasion and nudge, digital systems (cyber), artificial intelligence, and even neurotechnologies.
December 2023 • We released Engines of Engagement: A Curious Book about Generative AI, co-authored with Julian Stodd and Geoff Stead and including guest interludes from Donald Clark, Mark Oehlert, and Marc Zao-Sanders. In this illustrated book, we explore central questions that Generative AI raises within our organizations, from structures and systems to identity, trust, and the nature of truth.
Here’s a link to more information, including a free digital download or options to purchase the hardcover
…looking for MORE past performance? Check out the archive.
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