SPEAKER ROSTER
Brad Allen Founder & CTO, Siderean Software |
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Bradley Allen began his career as a member of the research staff at Carnegie-Mellon’s Robotics Institute. In 1984, he joined Inference Corp., where he created Inference CBR, one of the first CRM problem resolution products. He left Inference in 1995 to co-found Limbex Corp. where he created WebCompass, an internet search tool that won Best of Show at COMDEX Fall ’95. Quarterdeck Corp. acquired Limbex in 1996. In 1997, Allen co-founded TriVida Corp. and served as CTO until TriVida’s acquisition by Be Free, Inc. in
March 2000. Allen earned a B.S. in applied mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1982 and has been awarded four U.S. patents.
Richard Beatch Search & Information Architect, Allstate |
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Richard Beatch has worked extensively in the fields of search and taxonomy over the past several years after making the jump to technology from an academic career as professor of Ontology and Philosophy. Through his work he has developed hundreds of taxonomies as well as optimizing several search implementations using a range of technologies for a vast array of companies. His past work has involved companies including Apple Computer, McAfee, Microsoft and, more recently, Allstate Insurance and, now Dell Inc. At Dell, Richard works on the Global E-Commerce team as the lead architect for Search and Information Architecture.
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.
Christine JM. Connors Principal, TriviumRLG LLC |
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Ms. Connors has extensive experience in taxonomy, ontology and metadata design and development. Prior to forming TriviumRLG Ms. Connors was the global director, semantic technology solutions for Dow Jones, responsible for partnering with business champions across Dow Jones to improve digital asset management and delivery. Ms. Connors also served as business champion for the Synaptica® software application and supported Dow Jones consulting practices worldwide. Prior to joining Dow Jones Ms. Connors was knowledge architect at Intuit, and metadata architect at Raytheon Company. Ms. Connors holds a master of science degree in Library and Information Sciences from Simmons College, Boston, MA.
Dr. Donna Cuomo Chief Information Architect, Center for Information & Technology, MITRE Corp. |
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Dr. Donna Cuomo is currently the Chief Information Architect in MITRE's Center for Information and Technology. In this position, she is responsible for the enterprise advancement of social, collaboration and knowledge systems and enterprise information architecture. She is currently working on MITRE's social networking/social media strategy, is deploying social media tools for the enterprise and working to improve information findability. She received her Masters and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, where she majored in Human Factors Engineering/Human-Computer Interaction.
Laurie Damianos Lead Artificial Intelligence Engineer, MITRE Corp. |
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Laurie Damianos has been with MITRE for more than 10 years. Her interests focus on human-computer interaction, specifically design and development of usable and useful systems for real problems and real users, applications of user-centered studies, and research into evaluation methodologies. Damianos is currently involved in fielding onomi, a social bookmarking tool on MITRE’s intranet. As task lead, she is interested in collecting bookmarking data and analyzing usage patterns for better understanding social trends and influences.
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.
Jayne Dutra Information Architect, Knowledge Navigation |
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Jayne Dutra is passionate about information architecture, metadata and knowledge management. Nevertheless, she does have friends and a family. Jayne worked for 13 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA developing solutions for knowledge navigation and information retrieval. Among other duties, she held the position of KM Process Owner at JPL for 5 years. Most recently she served as the Lab's Lead Enterprise Information Architect working on issues surrounding Master Data Management. She has extensive experience with data architecture, taxonomy development and enterprise search.
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.
Beth Golden Dow Jones & Company |
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Sarah Goldman Manager for Information Discovery, IBM’s Intranet, IBM |
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Mark Goldstein President, International Research Center |
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Mark Goldstein is President of International Research Center, a company that provides consulting, custom research, and strategic support for business, legal, and public policy clients. Mark is a technophile and technology visionary who harnesses global information resources for informed decision making. He concentrates on the complex worlds of telecommunications, information technology, ecommerce, and biotechnology. Mark is on the Board and Executive Committees of the Arizona Technology Council and the Arizona Telecommunications & Information Council (ATIC). He has also twice served on the Board of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP).
Dr. Marti Hearst Professor, School of Information, University of California - Berkeley |
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Dr. Marti Hearst is a
professor in the
School of Information at the
University of California, Berkeley. She received BA, MS, and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and was a Member of the Research Staff at Xerox PARC from 1994 to 1997.
A primary focus of Dr. Hearst's research is user interfaces for search. She has invented or participated in several well-known search interface projects including Scatter/Gather clustering of search results, TileBars query term visualization,
BioText search over the bioscience literature, and the
Flamenco project that investigated and the promoted the use of faceted metadata for collection navigation. She has
published extensively on this and other topics.
The Flamenco project has had a significant impact in industry and practice; interfaces similar in design to Flamenco are now the standard on e-commerce sites, image navigation sites, and library catalog sites, and support for faceted navigation is now standard in content management systems. Dr. Hearst has also acted as a consultant for a wide range of search companies.
Kevin Lynch Knowledge Architect, Raytheon |
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Graf Mouen Project Lead, Media Archive Retrieval System, ABC Company |
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Lynda Moulton is Senior Analyst for Enterprise Search Outsell's Gilbane services. She is also principal at LWM Technology Services. Her professional accomplishments include implementing search related technologies, and designing systems for managing enterprise content, beginning with the release of BiblioTech software in 1980. A leader in the Boston KM Forum, Lynda also blogs and writes on knowledge management. Her commentary on search can be seen at:
http://gilbane.com/search_blog/. Other projects and writings on knowledge and information management are at
http://www.lwmtechnology.com. In 2008 she played a lead role in producing the Gilbane report:
Enterprise Search Markets and Applications; Capitalizing on Emerging Demand. She was the principal writer for the July 2010 study,
Semantic Software Technologies; Landscape of High Value Applications for the Enterprise. In addition to analyst work, Lynda consults to enterprises on search and content strategies, taxonomy development and management, and product evaluations and implementations.
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.
Theresa Regli Principal, Real Story Group |
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Theresa Regli is principal at CMS Watch, a vendor-independent and buyer-focused content technology analyst firm. She covers enterprise search, semantic technologies, digital asset management, and related technologies and practices. She is contributing analyst and editor of “The 2008 Enterprise Search Report,” which evaluates and compares 18 enterprise search vendors head-to-head, and co-author of “The Digital Asset Management Report.” Regli holds degrees and certifications in romance languages and linguistics from universities in France, the U.S. and the U.K. and frequently delivers presentations and keynotes at events around the world.
Susan Saraidaridis Enterprise Taxonomist & Metadata Manager, Business School Publishing, Harvard University |
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Roger Sperberg Taxonomy Project Tech Lead, Wolters Kluwer Health/Ovid |
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Ed Stevenson Director, Content Strategies, Really Strategies, Inc |
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Darin Stewart Director, Research Information Services, Oregon Health & Science University |
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Dr. David Weinberger Fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard University |
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David Weinberger is editor of
The Journal of Hyperlinked Organizations (JOHO), an online journal about how the Web is changing the way businesses run and people work together. He is also president of Evident Marketing, a strategic marketing consulting firm.
Before that, Dr. Weinberger was one of the architects of the transformation of Open Text into the leading provider of intranet application software . Dr. Weinberger was VP of Strategic Marketing there for 2.5 years. Prior to that he held a similar position at Interleaf. Before that, he taught college philosophy for 6 years.
Dr. Weinberger has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Toronto and a BA from Bucknell University. He co-author of
The Cluetrain Manifesto (Perseus).
Dr. Weinberger has had extensive experience in the electronic document management and delivery markets. He was editor of the Gilbane Report (the leading journal on document management), publishes frequently in magazines such as Wired and speaks at conferences around the world on the future of documents and the Web's influence on business processes. He is an elected member of AIIM's Emerging Technology Advisory Group and is on the advisory boards of Xplor's Marketspace, The Seybold Conference and The World Congress of Philosophy. He lives in Boston with his family and can be reached at self@evident.com.
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.