Ms Manjula Ambur Information Management Branch Chief, Office of the CIO, NASA Langley Research Center |
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Ms. Manjula Ambur has over 25 years of experience in information and information technology management , with 20 years at the NASA Langley Research Center. Currently Ms. Ambur leads the Information Management Branch, within the Office of Chief Information Officer at Langley, which is responsible for developing and providing Center wide information systems and services for finding, discovering, sharing, storing and archiving scientific and technical data and information. She is also currently leading NASA Enterprise Search prototype and NASA Digital Library initiatives, and represents Langley on the NASA-wide Enterprise Architecture and Knowledge Management Teams. Prior to her current position, as IT Project Manager, Ms. Ambur successfully led many Center-wide initiatives such as web communications portal, document management system, financial information system, and Y2K, and NASA-wide on-line catalog. She has also led the development of NASA Langley Knowledge Management plan and represented Langley in the development of Agency eNASA plan and Inside NASA portal implementation. Ms. Ambur has Master’s degrees in Computer Information Systems, Library and Information Science, and Biology.
Tatiana Baquero Senior Knowledge Management Analyst, Project Performance Corporation |
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Dr. Denise A.D. Bedford Goodyear Professor of Knowledge Management, Kent State University |
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Dr. Denise Bedford is currently a Senior Information Officer at the World Bank in Washington DC. At the World Bank she serves as practice lead for Business Architecture, is a core member of the Operational and Knowledge Systems Program and the Enterprise Search team, and is a certified Enterprise Architect. Her responsibilities include development of the Bank’s core metadata and content type strategies, management of ontologies, taxonomies and the World Bank’s multilanguage topic thesaurus, and development and operationalization of the Bank’s semantic analysis technologies. In addition to the World Bank, she has held positions at NASA, Intel Corporation, Stanford University, the American Mathematical Association, the University of California, University of Michigan and University of Southern California. She is adjunct faculty at Georgeotown University, Unversity of Tennessee, and Kent State University where she teaches a variety of courses in information architecture, knowledge management, systems and project management, and semantics/semantic applications. She is a member of several professional associations including ASIST, ACM, AIIM, SLA, ALA and AAAI. Her educational background includes a B.A. in History, Russian Language and Literature, and German Language and Literature; an M.A. in Russian History; an M.S. in Librarianship and a Ph.D. in Information Science. In January, 2010 Dr. Bedford will be retiring from the World Bank to assume the Goodyear Professorship at Kent State University. In this new position she will focus on teaching and research in the areas of knowledge management, architecture and engineering, communities of practice, and semantic web and semantic search applications.
Adriaan M. Bloem Analyst, Real Story Group |
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Adriaan Bloem is analyst at the Real Story Group. Based in The Netherlands, he covers web content management, social software, and enterprise search technologies. Before joining the Real Story Group, he was an independent consultant, advising large organizations on both technical and organizational aspects of content management. Adriaan was developer, webmaster, coordinator, and project manager for a host of legal knowledge management, e-learning, and web content management projects for the decade prior to joining the Real Story Group.
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.
Gary Carlson Principal, Gary Carlson Consulting |
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Gary Carlson brings over 20 years of experience as a taxonomist, consultant, product manager, and information strategist working for small to Fortune 100 companies. The past ten years have been spent leading information and knowledge management projects and products spanning Taxonomy Tools, Search, Auto-categorization, Expert systems, Content Management, and Governance. Gary is currently focussed on helping companies develop their information infrastructure to meet enterprise goals. He is currently involved in customer facing e-commerce, social media and semantic web technologies.
Jeff Carr Senior Information Architect & Search Consultant, Earley & Associates |
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Jeff is a Senior Information Architect and Search Consultant with Earley & Associates specializing in user centered information design. With a strong multi-disciplinary foundation across information architecture, content management, enterprise search, taxonomy, metadata, search marketing and business analysis, he has been involved in the design, development and integration of web-based solutions from intranets and extranets to public facing websites for a variety of large enterprises across a wide range of industries.
Mr Dave Clarke CEO, Synaptica, LLC |
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Dave Clarke is CEO of Synaptica, LLC, the producer and worldwide distributor of the Synaptica taxonomy management software application. His previous roles include co-founder and CTO of Synapse Corporation and Global Taxonomy Director at Dow Jones. He is the principle architect of the Synaptica software and the creator of Taxonomy Warehouse. He served on the NISO committee responsible for the 2005 version of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies - ANSI/NISO Z39.19.
Lisa Colvin Ontologist, TopQuadrant Inc. |
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Lisa Dawn Colvin is an ontologist for TopQuadrant, developing ontologies and data architecture standards for the NASA Constellation Program. Prior to TopQuadrant, she worked in knowledge applications services at Genentech, spam fighting at Inktomi / Yahoo!, and has also taken on roles at VerticalNet as Senior Ontologist as well as Product Manager for their Ontology Builder software product. Her interest in ontologies began with her work as a computational linguist on the first attempt to formalize common-sense knowledge in a multi-contextual knowledge base, the CYC project at Cycorp. In 1998, Colvin received the George Kozmetsky Award for her graduate work in technology commercialization from the University of Texas at Austin. In addition to her MS in technology management, she received an MA in linguistics from UT/Austin and a BA in philosophy from Tufts University.
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.
Michael Crandall Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Washington |
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Michael Crandall is Chair of the Master of Science in Information Management program and Senior Lecturer in the Information School of the University of Washington. He has served on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Board of Trustees since its inception in 2001, managed the Knowledge Architecture Group in Microsoft Information Services, and worked on information management and information architecture at the Boeing Company.
Lori Finch Thesarus Coordinator, USDA, National Agricultural Library |
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Jarrod Gingras Analyst, Real Story Group |
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Jarrod Gingras is an Analyst covering enterprise information including multi-channel publishing, web CMS, and ECM.
Jarrod is a ten-year veteran of the content technology industry, starting his career as a web developer and information architect. Prior to joining The Real Story Group (formerly CMS Watch) in 2007, Jarrod worked as a user interface designer at a systems integration firm, where he developed user-focused content management strategies and solutions for clients in the financial services, retail, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing industries.
Since joining The Real Story Group (
www.realstorygroup.com), Jarrod has contributed to research across the enterprise information landscape, with a special focus on the end-user experience for the technologies we evaluate.
Heather Hedden Taxonomy Manager, First Wind Energy LLC |
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Heather Hedden is the taxonomy manager at First Wind Energy LLC. Previously she was a taxonomy consultant with Earley & Associates and had offered taxonomy development, training, and indexing services through Hedden Information Management. She had also worked as the taxonomist at an enterprise search vendor, Viziant. Heather teaches online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science. She is the author of The Accidental Taxonomist (Information Today Inc., May 2010).
Marjorie M.K. Hlava President & Chairman, Access Innovations, Inc. Data Harmony My blog is TaxoDiary |
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Marjorie Hlava is the President of Access Innovations, a leader in content management for the last thirty years and the Chair of SLA's Taxonomy-Division. She has created over fifty thesauri and taxonomies and worked with more than two hundred, and she is the author of www.taxodiary.com, a blog that covers news, trends, and opinions in the taxonomy and metadata space. Ms. Hlava has also participated in taxonomy Standards development, including Z39.19/2005 for Controlled Vocabularies, Z39.84 for Dublin Core, and the NISO Content Board. Her current areas of research 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.
August Jackson is a competitive intelligence and strategy professional, technology pundit and social software evangelist currently working for Verizon. Mr. Jackson regularly speaks and writes about strategic analysis, competitive intelligence and how organizations can leverage Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for competitive advantage and growth. He produces the Competitive Intelligence Podcast and has interviewed thought leaders in competitive intelligence. His blog discusses competitive intelligence, the technology industry and new business models and scenarios faced by modern business.
Rebecca Jones Managing Partner, Dysart & Jones Associates |
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As a principal with Dysart & Jones, Rebecca focuses on facilitating clients' planning processes, problem-solving, and project management. These are all skills she honed during eight years with Imperial Oil Limited, where she was involved with many innovative information management and human resource initiatives. An early advocate of integrating information services into business processes, Rebecca restructured discrete records and information functions into one client-focused service unit. She also launched and led one of the company's first self-managing teams and directed its computing skills team. Rebecca is known for having long advocated the application of business savvy to information services and knowledge management. She teaches professional development courses with the University of Toronto's iSchool Institute. Her services as facilitator in decision-making and problem-solving processes are enlisted by many organizations and focus groups.
Aline Martinez Taxonomist / Search Lead, Earley & Associates |
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Aline has been managing highly visible, large scale, cost-effective enterprise search and content management strategies for the last 15 years. This includes defining search strategies, identifying functional requirements, developing governance plans, implementing both search tools and metadata specifications, and auditing outcomes. She trains and provides nstructional materials to raise awareness on how taxonomies work and on optimizing search services. Her focus is on integrating end user needs and business requirements to provide effective user-centered resources.
Chris McNulty Practice Lead, KMA |
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Josh Meidema Technical Support & Inside Sales, Ultralingua, Inc |
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Karin Michel Taxonomy Architecture Specialist, Information & Application Architecture, SNC-Lavalin |
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Karin Michel M.I.S is the Taxonomist at SNC-Lavalin. Ms Michel is an archivist, librarian, and is specialized in the management of digital information. She also has ten years of experience in network management and three years as a competitive information analyst in the field of local economic development . She is particularly interested in the organization of digital information, in non records documents that would potentially have high added value in terms of knowledge sharing, and generally, the idea that documents created today, no matter their context of creation or their form, constitute tomorrow's memory.
Denis Normand Director, Information Management and Security, SNC-Lavalin |
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Denis Normand is Director of Information Management and Security at SNC-Lavalin Mr Normand has over 20 years of experience in the field of information technologies and he has been, for the last 8 years, director of information management and security at SNC-Lavalin. In this capacity, he oversees the development and the evolution of the information management and security frameworks at the strategic and tactical level for the organization. Prior to that he was an independent consultant and trainer in IT Architecture, Telecommunication and Information Security.
Mitesh Patel Senior Developer, Amentra, Inc. |
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Michael Pendleton Terminology Services Program Manager, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
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Antoine Perdaens Chief Operating Officer, Whatever |
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Michael Piccorossi Director of Operations, Pew Research Center |
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Michael Piccorossi is the Director of Strategy and IT for the Pew Research Center. Before this, Michael was at U.S. News and World Report for 10 years including Director of Online Operations for 3 years.
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.
Ginger Richards Knowledge Management Specialist, Pew Research Center |
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Ginger Richards is the Knowledge Management Specialist for the Pew Research Center where she manages the “care and feeding” of digital assets and is responsible many other information management functions. Before this, Ginger was Senior Electronic Resources Librarian at the National Endowment for Democracy, Systems Librarian at U.S. Department of Labor Wirtz Labor Library, and the Librarian at People for the American Way.
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.
Paul Rosenburg Corporate Taxonomist, GEICO Insurance |
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Bethany Holroyd Sehon Vocabulary Service Manager, PricewaterhouseCoopers |
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Bethany Sehon is Vocabulary Solutions Manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she provides the global network of PwC member firms with comprehensive, tailored plans to improve information management through the use of vocabularies. Bethany oversees the Vocabulary Management Service which delivers enterprise vocabulary standards and consultative services including infrastructure and support necessary for creating and managing vocabularies, vocabulary development and/or maintenance as well as cost-saving tools and proven approaches. Prior to her Vocabulary Management role, Bethany was part of the Content Standards Group, a team responsible for the creation and maintenance of standards and guidelines for PwC's knowledge sharing solution. Bethany holds a masters degree in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University.
Mr. Thomas A Stewart Chief Marketing & Knowledge Officer, Booz & Company Former Editor & Managing Director, Harvard Business Review |
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Thomas A. Stewart is Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer for global management consulting firm Booz & Company. Stewart is a best-selling author, an authority on intellectual capital and knowledge management, and an influential thought leader on global management issues and ideas.
Stewart leads Booz & Company's marketing, intellectual capital and knowledge management efforts. He manages the firm's team of marketing and knowledge management professionals and works with its global partners to build on the firm's broad and robust foundation of world recognized thought leadership on the future direction of business.
Before joining Booz & Company, Stewart served as editor and managing director of Harvard Business Review. In his six year tenure, the magazine was a two-time finalist for general excellence in the National Magazine Awards, and received an "Eddie" in 2007 from Folio Magazine. Previously, Stewart served as the editorial director for Business 2.0 and as a member of Fortune's Board of Editors.
He is the author of two books, Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations, and The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the 21st Century Organization, published by Doubleday Business in 1998 and 2003, respectively.
He has spoken frequently about intellectual capital and knowledge management, to, among others, the World Economic Forum, the Conference Board, the Canadian Centre for Management, the Brazilian Ministry of Planning, the British Ministry of Trade and Industry, Scottish Enterprise, the International Human Resources Information Management Association, the Australian Human Resources Institutes, etc. In 2001 he was a judge for the first Singapore Innovation Award sponsored by that country's Economic Development Board. The following year he was honored to deliver the annual management lecture for the Singapore Institute of Management.
Stewart is a fellow of the World Economic Forum. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, and holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cass School of Business at City University, London.
Kyle Strand Knowledge and Learning Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank |
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Kyle Strand is Knowledge and Learning Specialist with the Inter-American Development Bank’s Knowledge Management Division, where he is coordinating the development of the Institutional Knowledge Repository. He focuses on issues of knowledge visibility and accessibility, vocabulary and metadata, virtual collaboration and sharing, and integration. Kyle has lived and studied in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
Michael Uschold Independent Consultant |
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Thomas Vander Wal Principal, InfoCloud Solutions, Inc |
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Thomas Vander Wal is an analyst, strategist, advisor, and popular speaker. He focusses his work on increasing value and optimizing social tools inside, through, and outside the firewall. He works with organizations of all sizes and focus (non-profit and education to Fortune 500) to help them better understand the values and hidden considerations in building, implementing, and optimizing these social tools. He has a broad and deep background covering more than 20 years of experience in project/product/program management, application development, and user experience.
Thomas puts the focus on improving use and reuse of shared information in the services and tools. He deeply understands the tensions and need to focus on: The people using the tools as they need: the difference of collaboration, community, & collective services; and Implementing and maintaining these services on individual as well as across various services and tools.
Thomas has a strong focus on meta for machine use, but also for people finding information and refinding it. He coined the term "folkonomy" to differentiate the shared terms people apply for their own use as well as others. He also helps develop the integration of folksonomy with taxonomy for the best results.
Thomas helped found the Boxes and Arrows online magazine, helped found the Institute for Information Architecture, and has been a member of the Web Standards Project Steering Committee. He is currently working on a book for O'Reilly media on "Understanding Folksonomy”.
Zachary Wahl Director for Information Management, Project Performance Corporation |
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Mr. Wahl leads the internationally known Knowledge Management Practice at PPC. He is an expert and frequent speaker on the topics of Taxonomy Design, Knowledge Gathering, and Portal Governance. He focuses in the design and deployment of Portal 2.0 technologies and systems including collaboration tools, wikis, and social tagging devices. In addition, Mr. Wahl has designed his own series of workshops on the topics of Portal Best Practices, Taxonomy Design, and eGovernance. Mr. Wahl has managed the deployment of over 70 portals in both the public and private sectors. He sits on the board of the Washington DC Knowledge Management Institute and is the Chairman of IIRUSA's Enterprise Web, Portals, and Collaborative Technologies conference.
Paul Wlodarczyk , Earley & Associates |
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Sunny Yoon Taxonomist, Enterprise Data Group, Morgan Stanley |
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Sunny Yoon works within the Enterprise Data Group at Morgan Stanley to build taxonomies that help to precisely define, easily integrate and effectively retrieve core data used across the firm. Her expertise in linguistics led her to work in semantic web-based search technologies where she discovered her passion for structured information. As a an academic librarian at NJIT, NYU and the City University of New York, she established and managed institutional repositories, a digital archive for capturing and preserving the intellectual and creative output of university. Sunny holds an MA in Linguistics from UC Berkeley as well as an MLIS from Rutgers.