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Chief Scientist, TopQuadrant Inc., & Co-Author, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist

Dr. Allemang specializes in innovative applications of knowledge technology and brings to TopQuadrant over 15 years of experience in research, deployment, and development of knowledge-based systems. He developed the curriculum for Top Quadrant's successful training series for Semantic Web technologies, which he has been presenting to customers world-wide for five years. He is co-author of "Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist" (Morgan-Kaufmann, 2008), which is already in second printing and translated into Korean. Dean has worked and studied extensively throughout the US and Europe, completing a master's degree at the University of Cambridge as a Marshall scholar, a PhD at the Ohio State University as a National Science Foundation Graduate Scholar (where he was also awarded the President's 300th Commencement Award), and is a two-time winner of the the Swiss Prize for Innovation in Technology.

Senior Information Specialist, Information International Associates, Inc.

Nikkia Anderson is a Senior Information Specialist for Information International Associates, Inc. (IIa).  She has worked in the information management field for over 7 years with specialized expertise in terminology development, metadata structures and analysis, digital conversion, preservation, and repository development.  She has a BS in Computer Science from Bowie State University and a MLIS in Digital Information Management from Drexel University.  She has supported work in terminology development for government agencies and private organizations. Nikkia has delivered presentations on the development and implementation of enterprise-wide metadata frameworks in the sciences, including use of taxonomies and other controlled vocabularies. She is currently the co-chair for Taxonomy Tuesday, an ad hoc group of terminology developers in the Washington DC area. 

Senior Consultant, Mondeca

Laurent is a Senior Consultant and has responsibility for managing and coordinating complex knowledge management projects at Mondeca. Originally trained in Optical Engineering, Laurent subsequently obtained a Masters Degree in Artificial Intelligence and is a specialist in Semantic Web technologies. Prior to joining Mondeca in 2008 Laurent held various positions in technical sales and product marketing in France and in the US.

CEO & Founder, Smartlogic

Jeremy Bentley has 18 years experience in complex solution-based software company leadership, sales, marketing, operations and development.  He is Founder and CEO of Smartlogic.

Educated in Britain he has business experience in Europe (8 yrs), Asia Pacific (3 yrs), America (4 yrs) and South Africa (3 yrs). As well as this rounded international experience he has a proven record of growing successful software companies, and in developing a customer-oriented entrepreneurial attitude within the teams that he leads. Prior to becoming CEO of Smartlogic, he was Managing Director of Microbank Software, a US software company that sold to Sungard Data Systems in 2000. Before Microbank he ran the 3rd party product business for BIS Banking Systems (now Misys).

General Manager, Box Enterprise

Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck is the General Manager of Box Enterprise, driving the growth strategy for Box in the enterprise market across sales, marketing, product, and services. Prior to joining Box, Whitney spent 15 years with Documentum and then EMC (via acquisition) and held a variety of positions, including Worldwide Vice President of Product Marketing, General Manager of two of the organization's most important product lines, and most recently as Chief Marketing Officer of the Information Intelligence Group at EMC. Previously, Whitney had a variety of technology and leadership roles at Sybase and Oracle.

Director, Product Evangelism, Axceler

Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for Axceler, where he drives partner and community development. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as part of the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of Office365), and led an engineering team in advertising operations. Prior to Microsoft, Christian was managing director of a regional consulting firm in the San Francisco East Bay, participated in several startups, and worked with IBM, HP, Cisco, Matsushita, Solectron, Seagate and other large hi-tech and manufacturing firms to deploy collaboration and supply chain solutions. He is co-author of three books on IBM Rational Software configuration management and defect tracking solutions and a soon to be released book on SharePoint 2010 (MS Press). He can be found online at www.buckleyplanet.com and www.twitter.com/buckleyplanet

Director of Professional Services, ByteManagers, Inc.

Gina Bulatovic brings more than a decade of experience analyzing and modeling data. A graduate of the University of Chicago, she received her Ph.D. in Linguistics specializing in Formal Semantics. With an industry background that includes working with several eCommerce leaders to refine and engineer increasingly effective search and navigation strategies for use online and internally, Gina joined the ByteManagers team in 2009. As the Director of Professional Services, she consults with Fortune 500 companies to implement enterprise data solutions that aim to increase profitability and improve eCommerce usability.  

Founder and Principal, Taxonomy Strategies

Mr. Busch is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Taxonomy Strategies. Taxonomy Strategies guides global companies, government agencies, international organizations and not-for-profits such as Nike, Oracle, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the International Monetary Fund and Harvard Business Publishing in developing metadata frameworks and taxonomy strategies soi that content can obtain its highest value. Before founding Taxonomy Strategies, Joseph Busch held management positions at Interwoven, Metacode Technologies, the Getty Information Institute and PriceWaterhouse. He is a Past President of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (www.asis.org), and past member of the Board of Directors of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (dublincore.org).

Principal, Gary Carlson Consulting

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 twelve years have been spent leading information and knowledge management projects and products spanning Taxonomy Tools, Search, SharePoint 2010, 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.

Corporate Taxonomist and Enterprise Portal & Search Leader, Global Information Services, Caterpillar

Gretta Chahine has been directly involved in the development, implementation and maintenance of the corporate taxonomy. For the past 7 years, Gretta has been the corporate taxonomist and the Enterprise Portal & Search leader where she created and developed Caterpillar Taxonomy and formed a community of practices addressing taxonomy and content management issues as they relate to search and fundability challenges. She created and set up Caterpillar's web standards where the goal of that project was to deliver a common "Top Navigation"/Taxonomy Standard for Caterpillar Intranet.

Technical Lead, Intel

Sherry Chang is the technical lead for Intel external web presence solution. Sherry has 17 years of experience architecting and developing mission critical Windows and Internet solutions. Sherry began her career at Intel where she was responsible for deploying standards, best practices, and framework across all Intel sites. Sherry is currently leading the re-platform effort of intel.com solutions stack to transform Intel’s customer experience.

CEO, Synaptica International

Dave Clarke is CEO of Synaptica International, the 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 principal 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.

SharePoint Consultant, SharePointEduTech

19 years working in the IT industry with 11 of those working in the education sector and I have worked with many versions of Windows server, Exchange, SQL Server. Over the last few years I have been specializing in SharePoint starting with SharePoint team services back in 2001 through SharePoint portal server 2003 and on to SharePoint 2007 and now onto SharePoint 2010.  Many articles have been written about our SharePoint deployment with case studies and architecture models appearing on the Microsoft websites worldwide. I am also a regular speaker on our SharePoint achievements including on the Microsoft stand at BETT, Learning Gateway Conference, SharePoint Saturdays and recently presenting to the Microsoft SharePoint product group and education team at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond.

Senior Lecturer, Information School, University of Washington Information School

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.

Principal Owner, Term Management, LLC

Mike Doane is the principal owner of Term Management, LLC. He is a senior level consultant with 18+ years in information management, with a deep background in information science and content management. In his role as an information management consultant, Mike works with clients to solve develop taxonomies and ontologies for use in managing metadata within intranets, extranets, portals and other enterprise content management systems. He specializes in developing and maintaining taxonomies in SharePoint 2010.

Mike has experiences working with all types of vertical businesses and industries, such as legal, retail, pharma, energy and information technology. He has developed taxonomies for Microsoft, Del Monte, NASA-JSC, Expedia, UW Medicine, Sterling Savings Bank, First Mutual Bank, KCLS, Nike, Philip Morris, VISA and Washington Mutual. Mike also teaches graduate courses in knowledge management,  information management and taxonomy development at the University  of Washington Information School.

Solution Architect, TopQuadrant, Inc.

Bob DuCharme is the author or O'Reilly's "Learning SPARQL" and a Solution Architect at TopQuadrant, the leading provider of software and solutions for modeling, developing and deploying semantic web applications on Windows, the Mac and Linux. He performs solution requirements, architecture analysis, design, and semantic model-driven application development on TopQuadrant's TopBraid EVN and the TopBraid platform. He came to TopQuadrant from Innodata Isogen, where he did system and architecture analysis and design for a wide range of global publishing clients as well as co-chairing the 2008 Linked Data Planet conference in New York City. Earlier in his career, he oversaw SGML and XML development at Moody's Investors Service and then moved on to LexisNexis, where he did data and systems architecture as they made the transition to XML-based systems. He is also the author of Manning Publications' "XSLT Quickly," Prentice Hall's "XML: The Annotated Specification" and "SGML CD," and McGraw Hill's "Operating Systems Handbook." Bob received his BA in Religion from Columbia University and his Masters in Computer Science from New York University. His weblog at http://www.snee.com/bobdc.blog covers semantic web and metadata technology.

CEO, Earley & Associates

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.

Taxonomy Development Manager, Semedica, Silverchair

Edee Edwards spent the past 4 years as a taxonomy manager who helped move forward master data management and governance efforts. Today, she develops taxonomies for an STM semantic platform.  She has an MS in Library Service from Columbia University, and has worked in IT departments and science-oriented libraries.

Taxonomic Data Governance Czar, Online Business Unit, Sears Holdings Corp.

Clint practices ecommerce product taxonomy categorizing products into browsable hierarchies while utilizing navigable attributes for a faceted feel to the customer. Clint has worked on ecommerce taxonomies for The Home Depot, Lowe’s and Better Homes & Gardens. Currently he is the Senior Taxonomist for Sears Holdings Corporation's Online Business Unit which has more than 23 million products on nine shopping sites including Sears.com, Kmart.com, Craftsman.com and Kenmore.com

Group Leader, Information Organization and Access Group, International Monetary Fund

Farah Gheriss leads the Information and Organizational Access Group in the Information and Knowledge Management Division (IT Department) for the International Monetary Fund. Along with IT leadership and within the Enterprise Information Architecture practice, she works continuously towards applying best practices to help operationalize the IMF’s knowledge management strategy.
She also works to ensure that information management initiatives are in line with the IMF’s Enterprise Architecture practice and helps support projects and programs across the enterprise. Some of her current focuses include enterprise search planning and design, innovative information retrieval techniques, information architecture and content strategy for SharePoint, usability, as well as multilingual taxonomy formulation and implementation.

Farah also has extensive IT project and budget management experience. She holds an MLIS from Catholic University and is fluent in Arabic, French and Spanish.

 

Program Manager, Microsoft

Pam Green develops and evangelizes managed metadata service solutions, including taxonomy, for Microsoft's corporate intranet on SharePoint 2010. She leverages her library and information science background to work with stakeholders across the company to understand content management and information discovery needs then derive business requirements for managed metadata related solutions.

Analytics Strategy Consultant, Alta Plana Corporation

Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management

Heather Hedden is an independent taxonomy consultant with Hedden Information Management and is the author of The Accidental Taxonomist  (Information Today Inc., 2010). She has developed taxonomies for document management in SharePoint at First Wind, for search integration at the software developer Viziant, and for periodical indexing at Gale. Heather also teaches online workshops in taxonomy creation through the continuing education program of Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

President & Chairman, ., Access Innovations, Inc., Data Harmony My blog is TaxoDiary.com

Marjorie Hlava's 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). Hlava is Founding Chair of the SLA Taxonomy Division, and President of Access Innovations, Inc. She has created over 100 thesauri and taxonomies and worked with more than 600. She is active in standards development, including Z39.19/2005 Controlled Vocabulary, Z39.84 Dublin Core and the NISO Content Board for NISO. Her blog, www.taxodiary.com, covers news trends opinions in the taxonomy and metadata space.

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Senior Business Analyst, Bank for International Settlements

Dorothea Auerswald is a Senior Business analyst with a more than 10 year successful track record in business process analysis, improvement opportunities identification and delivering solutions which directly support the business' strategic goals.

In her current role at a high profile international organisation, she has been working on a diverse range of projects with organizational wide impact while successfully meeting the challenges of a multi-lingual and multi-cultural envionment. Her areas of expertise are focussed on requirements analysis, research, strategy development and change management.

Managing Partner, Dysart & Jones Associates

As a principal with Dysart & Jones, Rebecca focuses on facilitating clients' planning processes, problem-solving, and organizational design.  These are all skills she honed with Imperial Oil Limited, where she was involved with many innovative information management and human resource initiatives, and then with University of Toronto's iSchool where she was Director, Professional Learning.  Rebecca is known for having long advocated the application of business and non-profit processes to information services and libraries. 

Founder, Straits Knowledge

Patrick Lambe is the author of the widely-praised book "Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisational Effectiveness" (Oxford: 2007). Based in Singapore, he is the founder of knowledge management research and consulting firm Straits Knowledge, two-term past President of the Information and Knowledge Management Society, an Adjunct Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Visiting Professor at Bangkok University and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Knowledge Management. His paper on "The Unacknowledged Parentage of Knowledge Management" won an Emerald Literati award in 2012. Patrick was educated at Oxford, did his Master's in Librarianship and Information Studies at the University of London, and has worked for the past 30 years in librarianship, learning and development, elearning and knowledge management. He is a widely respected keynote speaker and writer on knowledge and information management issues, and his blog is at http://www.greenchameleon.com

Disruptive Technologies Director, Elsevier Labs

Taxonomy and Search Analyst, Knowledge Management, FMC Technologies

Taxonomy Lead (VP), JP Morgan Chase

An information professional for over ten years, Fleur Levitz is specialized as a Taxonomist within the financial services industry. She has worked for TD Ameritrade as well as Morgan Stanley, where she supported the revenue-generating arms of the firm, and structured data requirements which allowed the firm to respond to a changing regulatory environment. She is currently the Taxonomy Lead at JPMorgan Chase, advising teams on governing and maintaining successful taxonomy schemas and developing ontologies to share information across the firm. She also runs the NYC Taxonomy Meetup, a networking group for information professionals.

Taxonomy Practice Lead, Earley & Associates, Inc., Potomac Indexing, LLC; American Society for Indexing

Seth Maislin is a senior content strategist and taxonomy practice lead at Earley & Associates, and an industry leader in editorial indexing and search keywording. He specializes in the construction of navigable information hierarchies, knowledge retrieval systems, and indexes. He frequently presents and moderates webinars for the Taxonomy Community of Practice (TaxoCoP). Seth is an adjunct instructor at Bentley University, Middlesex Community College, and Simmons College, all in Massachusetts. His acclaimed interactive online-learning indexing course is only one of two in the global industry. Seth served on the national board of the American Society of Indexers (ASI), including as president in 2006-7. Prior to joining Earley & Associates Seth was senior integration manager at Terra Lycos and the senior indexer at O'Reilly Media. He has written several articles for professional print and online periodicals.

President, Semantic Arts, Inc.

Architecture Specialist - Taxonomy, Global Information Technology, Information & Application Architecture, SNC-Lavalin

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 that would potentially have high added value in terms of knowledge sharing.

Taxonomy Specialist, PricewaterhouseCoopers

I am a Taxonomy Specialist in the Knowledge Services Organization for PwC. I have been in this role for 6 months. I am currently pursuing a MLIS degree at the University of South Florida. My current role is my first position in a library-related field. Prior to this role, I worked in PwC's Finance department for 4.5 years as an Internal Auditor.

Industry Analyst, Altimeter Group

Jeremiah Owyang is a Partner focused on customer strategy at Altimeter Group and author of the popular blog “Web Strategy,” which focuses on how corporations connect with their customers using web technologies.  According to Technorati, the Web Strategy blog is in the top 1% of all blogs, and has over 40,000 subscribed readers.  Hailing from enterprise web management, a former Industry Analyst, Jeremiah consults and speaks on the topics of disruptive technologies for brand related customer strategies.

In the realm of disruptive technologies, Jeremiah is frequently sought after and has appeared on Bloomberg TV and is quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today,  Associated Press and other technology and business related publications.  He was featured in the 2009 “Who’s Who” in the Silicon Valley Business Journal.  A s a speaker he has keynoted the Internet Strategy Forum, Web 2.0 Expo, SXSW, and dozens of other venues.

Previously, Jeremiah was a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research, focused on social computing for the interactive marketer.  Prior to that, was the Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech Network, a podcasting and online video startup.  From 2005-2007 Jeremiah held the title of Manager of Global Web Marketing at Hitachi Data Systems and launched the community and blog program.  He also served as the Intranet Architect at World Savings (now Wells Fargo) and was a user experience professional at Exodus Communications.

Jeremiah is active with the web community and has hosted workshops, events, and community tweet ups across the globe.  He’s active with the Twitter community and has over 82,000 followers and growing.  He earned a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing from San Francisco State University.

After work, he spends time with family, gets in some exercise, and travels to tropical beaches.  Jeremiah was pleasantly surprised to find that his small, white, furry dog Rumba is active on Twitter.

Chief Knowledge Architect, KAPS Group

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.

Knowledge Management Consultant/Professor, A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc., Knowledge Systems Institute

Anthony serves as President/Chief Scientist of A.J. Rhem & Associates, Inc a privately held Information Systems Integration and Training firm located in Chicago, Illinois. Anthony is an Information Systems professional with thirty (30) years of experience. As a published author, Dr. Rhem has presented the application and theory of Software Engineering Methodologies, Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence. As an adjunct professor at the Knowledge Systems Institute (KSI) Dr. Rhem has designed a series of Knowledge Management courses and delivered instruction within KSI’s Computer Science Masters program. As a Principle Investigator (researcher) Dr. Rhem has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) phase I grant and has participated in several research projects analyzing, designing and developing knowledge management methodologies and software applications. In addition as a Knowledge Management consultant Dr. Rhem has worked with fortune 500 corporations in retail, insurance, communications, financial, and government (including military) in implementing Knowledge Management programs, policies and solutions.

Deputy Program Manager, USAF Pilot Physician Program, Air Force Medical Service

Lt Col David Sanchez, USAFR, Deputy PM, USAF Pilot Physician Program, is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee attached to the Pilot Physician Program for the Air Force Medical Service. Focused on the subject of metadata driven application of policies for both Information and Knowledge Operations. Lt Col Sanchez also serves as an Air Force Medical Service representative to various working groups is responsible for exploiting the SharePoint ECAL Suite Enterprise Agreement for the Air Force Medical Service by driving the ability to leverage automatic metadata tagging capabilities and Managed Metadata Services within SharePoint 2010.

InfoTheory, LLC

Don Turnbull is a consultant in software research and development specializing in search systems (information seeking and retrieval), analytics, UX design as well as intellectual property creation and analysis. Previously, Don was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, focusing on information discovery, the semantic web, information architecture and knowledge management systems. Don received his doctorate from the University of Toronto for researching Knowledge Discovery (Data Mining) for Informetric and Behavioral Models of Web Use. He is the author of numerous academic papers and presentations, as well as the co-author of the book "Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web". Don was also a principal at Outride, Inc., a Xerox PARC spin-off that developed personalized information retrieval applications and
intellectual property related to mobile and ecommerce search, that was acquired by Google. In the nascent days of the World Wide Web, Don was the Lead Technical Architect at IBM Interactive Multimedia, working on the World Book/IBM Multimedia Encyclopedia and other large-scale Web development projects.

Vice President of Strategic Solutions, PPC

Mr. Wahl is the Vice President of Strategic Solutions at PPC, encompassing all of the organization's Knowledge Management, Taxonomy, Governance, Knowledge Transfer, Content and Document Management, and Strategic IT services. He is an expert and frequent speaker on the topics of Taxonomy Design, Knowledge Management, and Information Governance. He focuses on the design and deployment of information managment technologies and systems including portals, collaboration tools, wikis, and other social computing products. 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 information management systems in both the public and private sectors. He also sits on the board of the Washington DC Knowledge Management Institute.