Hanlie Smuts is the Head of Department Informatics at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She completed her PhD studies in Information Systems, with specialisation in Knowledge Management. She is the principal investigator in several research collaborations and holds a C2 NRF rating. She has published more than 50 papers in various journals, and serves as an Associate Editor for SACJ and the Chairperson of the international Society 5.0 Steering Committee, as well as a Director at large of the Southern African Chapter of the Association for Information Systems. Her teaching disciplines include Enterprise Architecture, Big data management and Data, Information and Knowledge Management, and her research interests include knowledge management (KM) as a sustainability strategy, AI4KM, KM4DEV, and Information Systems and the organisation.