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.
Andrea Alliston Director of Knowledge Management, Stikeman Elliott LLP |
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Andrea Alliston is the Director of Knowledge Management and our Senior KM Lawyer in the Toronto office. In this role she is responsible for the strategic direction of knowledge management in Toronto. She leads our knowledge management initiatives and spearheads programs to capture and leverage our intellectual capital. She also oversees our Toronto Knowledge Management Team and works with our other offices on turning the firm-wide knowledge management strategy into actionable projects. As the Senior KM Lawyer, Andrea leads the development and enhancement of the firm's extensive precedent collection. She works with our practicing lawyers to ensure that our precedents are cutting edge and reflect the latest developments in the law and business practices. Our practicing lawyers consult with Andrea on various legal and drafting issues and she frequently speaks inside and outside the firm on legal and knowledge management issues.
Alex Barnes Senior Architect, Strategic Technology Solutions, Hitachi Consulting |
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Alex has over 25 years of experience in enterprise architecture, project management, change management, and system development processes and methodologies. Alex has been technical lead on a number of portal and CMS implementations and has led the development of taxonomies and of tools and governance processes to support taxonomy efforts.
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.
Jennifer Borrell Associate Information Scientist |
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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.
Marilyn Carr Director, Knowledge Services, KPMG LLP |
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Edward Castelli System Administrator, Media Archive, General Motors |
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Julia Daniel Taxonomy Specialist, Media Archive, General Motors |
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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.
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 Fagan Program Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
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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.
Sylvie Hebert Director, Knowledge Management and Precedents, Stikeman Elliott LLP |
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Heather Hedden Senior Analyst, Project Performance Corporation |
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Heather Hedden is a senior analyst providing taxonomy consulting with Project Performance Corporation and is author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., 2010). She has developed taxonomies for SharePoint document management at First Wind, for search integration at the software developer Viziant, and for periodical indexing at Gale. She has also worked as a taxonomy consultant and indexer for her own business, Hedden Information Management. Heather teaches online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
Marti Heyman Director, Global Taxonomy, Dow Jones & Company |
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Marjorie M.K. Hlava President & Chairman, Access Innovations, Inc., Data Harmony My blog is TaxoDiary |
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Marjorie Hlava, Chair-SLA-Taxonomy-Division, President-Access-Innovations, www.taxodiary.com blog covers news-trends-opinions in the taxonomy and metadata space, created over 50 thesauri and taxonomies and worked with more than 200. Standards development including Z39.19/2005-Controlled-Vocabulary, Z39.84-Dublin-Core and the NISO-Content-Board for NISO, research areas include productivity-of-content-creation, information-access-governance-layer through automated-indexing, thesaurus-development, taxonomy-creation, natural-language-processing, machine-translations, and knowledge-organization-systems (KOS http ://www.accessinn.com/about_us/Management_team.html
Jie-hong Morrison Search Engine & Taxonomy Consultant, Computer Technologies Consultants |
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Jie-hong Morrison is a taxonomy and search engine consultant for Computer Technologies Consultants, Inc. Ms. Morrison has been developing Web-based applications for private, state, and federal government sectors since 1996. Her recent years of consulting work focus on search engines and taxonomy. She has served as the team lead for various enterprise search projects, including multilingual search engine migration, specialized searches for automated archival access and faceted navigation. She has also served as the technical lead for multiple full life cycle taxonomy projects and helped integrate the taxonomies in practical applications such as search engines. Ms. Morrison holds masters degrees in both library science and information systems. She has authored many white papers and technical articles as well as served as the managing editor for the Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice under the CIO Council of the Federal Government. Ms. Morrison has recently spoken at Taxonomy Boot Camp, Enterprise Search Summit and various on-line search/taxonomy communities.
Ian Niles Taxonomist, Microsoft |
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Harry A. Pape Principal, Stone Associates |
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Andy Podolsky Consulting Ontologist,Garnet Educational Consulting, Stone Associates |
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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.
Lee Romero Program Manager, Deloitte |
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Mr Romero has worked with technical systems supporting knowledge management solutions for more than 10 years now, including significant focus on taxonomy management and managing and implementing enterprise search solutions. Most recently, he has been the Portal Program Lead for the Global Consulting Knowledge Management organization within Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Dave Snowden Founder & CSO, Cognitive Edge |
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David Snowden is the founder and chief scientific officer of Cognitive Edge. He is work is in the area of naturalising sense-making, seeking to base social science research and practice in the natural science. He is generally considered to be a pioneer in the application of complex adaptive systems theory to a range of social issues, and in the development of narrative as a research method. Cognitive Edge is an independent organisation that manages an open source approach to consultancy method as well as software development and research. His work extends across government and industry in a variety of fields including knowledge management, strategic planning, conflict resolution, weak signal detection, decision support and organisational development.
Snowden holds a variety of academic positions. He is a visiting professor at the Universities of Canberra, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Pretoria and is a visiting fellow at Warwick University, Nanyang University, the Universita' Cattolica in Italy and the Singapore Management College. He was Director of the EPSRC (UK) research programme on emergence in 2006 and was appointed to the NSF (US) review panel on complexity science research in 2007. He is also on the editorial boards of several Knowledge Management journals and is an Editor in Chief for Emergence, Complexity and Organisation.
He previously worked for IBM where he was a Director of the Institution for Knowledge Management and founded the Cynefin Centre for Organisational Complexity. He was selected by IBM as one of six “on-demand” thinkers for a world wide advertising campaign. Prior to that he worked in a range of strategic and management roles in the service sector. He has extensive international experience and has been engaged in a range of DARAP and other government funded research programmes in the field of counter terrorism. He lives in the UK where he pursues the co-evolutionary passions of Welsh Rugby and Wagnerian Opera.
Samantha Starmer Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft |
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Amy Sweigert Director of Information Management, Associated Press |
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Reginald J. Twigg Manager,ECM Classification & Taxonomy, IBM |
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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.
Tom Witczak Manager, Hitachi Consulting |
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Tom is a Manager with Hitachi Consulting having expertise in taxonomy definition, information architecture, Enterprise Content Management, content governance, and User Centered Design. Tom also leads Hitachi Consulting’s User Centered Design (UCD) competency and provides thought leadership across client accounts. He applies these skills to content management, portal, and product development initiatives helping clients build strategies and architectures through proven user centered approaches. Tom has worked with a variety of large, top Fortune 500 clients across many industries using these techniques to design new and improve existing strategies and solutions.