SPEAKER ROSTER
Joseph A. Busch is the knowledge leader for taxonomy and metadata and Senior Principal for Information Management at Project Performance Corporation (PPC). Founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies. He works with large companies, government agencies, and international organizations in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies. Before this, he was the founder and a principal of Taxonomy Strategies and held senior positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute, and Pricewaterhouse. Mr. Busch is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, and a former member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Board of Directors.
Ron Daniel Jr. Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier |
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Ron Daniel, Jr. is a Principal at Taxonomy Strategies. Before becoming a partner at Taxonomy Strategies, Dr. Daniel held technical positions at Interwoven, Metacode and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Dr. Daniel is an expert on XML and metadata industry standards. He has served as chair, editor, or member in numerous working groups including PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) (prismstandard.org), XML Linking, RDF (Resource Description Framework), and the Dublin Core (dublincore.org). He co-edited three RFCs for the Internet Engineering Task Force. Ron earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Peter Doliska Taxonomist, Deloitte |
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Seth Earley President, Earley & Associates Inc. |
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Seth has been implementing content management and knowledge management projects for over 14 years and has been in the technology field for 20 + years. He is founder of the Boston Knowledge Management Forum and co-author of Practical Knowledge Management from the IBM Press. He is former adjunct professor at Northeastern University, where he taught graduate courses in Knowledge Management Infrastructure and E Business Strategy. He was 2009 Co-Chair of the Metadata Committee, NDIIPP Education and Outreach for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Seth has developed search, content and knowledge strategies for global organizations and has developed underlying taxonomies for a diverse roster of Fortune 1000 companies. He is a popular speaker and workshop leader at conferences throughout North America speaking on intranet design, knowledge management, content management systems and strategy, taxonomy development and other related topics.
Susan E. Feldman Research Vice President, Search and DiscoveryTechnologies, IDC |
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Susan Feldman specializes in research on search and discovery technologies and markets, and directs the content technologies research programs at IDC, where she is a research vice president. Her current research includes understanding and forecasting markets and trends in search engines, text mining, categorization, NLP, and other information retrieval technologies; unified access to data and content; intelligent workspaces, and information work. Before coming to IDC in 2000, Feldman was president of Datasearch, an independent information consulting firm where she consulted on new retrieval technologies such as natural language processing, search engines, usability of online systems, and digital libraries. Feldman has won a number of awards for her writing and research, including the 2003 James Peacock Research award at IDC for her work on the search and retrieval technology markets.
Marti Heyman Director, Global Taxonomy, Dow Jones & Company |
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Lisa Kamm User Experience Manager, Google |
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Lisa Kamm joined Google as the New York based User Experience Manager in 2008. Before joining Google, she served as Director, AmexWeb at American Express, and spent 7 years at IBM where she founded the first ibm.com Information Architecture department, managed the ibm.com User Experience team, and lead a successful sitewide redesign, before leading the IBM Corporate Intranet Information Management team. She has worked in new media since 1995, at organizations including JPMorgan Chase, Agency.com, the ACLU, and iGuide, leading user experience teams, delivering information architectures, and serving as a user advocate. She has a JD from NYU and an MSLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Paula Markes Senior Information Scientist, Eli Lilly and Company |
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Nigel Owens Taxonomy Integration Project Manager, Home Office |
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Jan Parry Head of e-Working Programme, Home Office |
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Wendi Pohs Chief Technology Officer, InfoClear Consulting |
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Wendi Pohs is CTO at InfoClear Consulting, a company that specializes in taxonomy management and toolkit integration. Her clients include a major news media company, a major computer vendor, several corporate health care clients, and leading consumer Web sites. Previously, she was a consulting IT specialist on IBM's intranet user experience team. Wendi is the author of a book about knowledge management methodologies, Practical Knowledge Management: The Lotus Knowledge Discovery System, published by IBM Press. Wendi's past experience includes search and taxonomy work at the American Mathematical Society and at Lotus Development Corporation. She received her BA and MILS degrees from the University of Michigan.
Tom Reamy Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group |
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Tom Reamy is currently the Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, taxonomy, and eLearning consultants.
Tom has 20 years of experience in information architecture, intranet management and consulting, and education and training software.
Tom’s academic background includes a Master’s in the History of Ideas, research in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, and a strong background in philosophy, particularly epistemology. He has published articles in various journals and is a frequent speaker at knowledge management conferences.
When not writing or developing KM projects, he can usually be found at the bottom of the ocean in Carmel taking photos of strange creatures.
Jay Ven Eman CEO, Access Innovations, Inc. |
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Jay Ven Eman has been with Access Innovations since late 1978. He has been active in all aspects of its business. He has overseen Access' database production services where he was responsible for the design and conversion of large, legacy databases for a variety of government and commercial organizations. He writes, gives workshops, consults, and helps build large-scale, complex, information rich databases. He has presented papers and workshops at ASIS&T, SLA, ASIDIC, InternetWorld, Online - London, AGSI - Netherlands, and many others. Before joining Access, he worked for the University of New Mexico at the Technology Applications Center, operated under a contract from NASA. He specialized in technology transfer and information dissemination of space technology to the commercial arena. He received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Jim Wessely President, Advanced Document Sciences |
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Mr. Wessely is president and co-founder of Advanced Document Sciences, a consulting firm focused upon enterprise information organization and access. He has worked with document technologies since 1985, and spent many years researching and designing application solutions using text analysis, text mining, and unstructured information technologies. This background led Mr. Wessely to taxonomy design and implementation through content analysis. Mr. Wessely previously worked for IBM Global Services, where he helped clients to develop strategies and solutions for enterprise portals, content management, taxonomies, text analysis, and text mining. Prior to his work with IBM, Mr. Wessely was the principal architect for numerous advanced computational solutions in DuPont's Central Research & Development, where his primary focus was upon unstructured information technologies and global scale information portals.
Mr. Wessely has been a frequent presenter at conferences in both the United States and Europe on diverse topics such as portal design and architectures, enterprise content strategies, taxonomy, advanced information access, and personalized information delivery.