Meet Our Speakers
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2024 provides attendees with opportunities to meet and learn from the leading experts in taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, tagging mechanisms and other techniques for organizing information. Click on the links below to find out more about our speakers and when they'll be speaking!
- Prakash Bellur — Senior Director, Marketing & Sales, IEEE
- Katherine Black — Senior Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Joseph Busch — Principal, Taxonomy Strategies
- Tatiana Baquero Cakici — Senior KM Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC
- Connor Cantrell — Information Architect, Factor Firm
- Lauren Clark Hill — Client Solutions Specialist, Synaptica
- Dave Clarke — EVP, Semantic Graph Technology, Squirro
- Duane Degler — Principal Consultant–IA, Design for Context
- Celia DiNicola — Deputy Director, Stand Together
- Sarah Downs — Director, Client Solutions, Synaptica
- Stephanie Duncan — Taxonomy Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Joann Fogleson — Director, Publishing Technologies, Publications, American Society of Civil Engineers
- Max Gaibort — Associate Taxonomy Analyst, Electronic Arts (EA)
- Elizabeth Greenberg — Senior Multilingual Taxonomist, Freelance
- Teresa Greene — Independent Consultant
- Bonnie Griffin — Taxonomist, PayPal
- Heather Hedden — Senior Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC, Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
- Marjorie Hlava — Chief Scientist, Access Innovations, Data Harmony
- Michele Ann Jenkins — Senior Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Jennifer Kaari — Catalog Specialist, OpenSesame
- Rebecca Kirk — Taxonomist and Director of Manuscript Submissions, PLOS
- Erik Lee — Taxonomist, Factor Firm
- Ahren Lehnert — Principal Taxonomist, Nike Inc.
- Stephanie Lemieux — President & Principal Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Yonah Levenson — Co-Academic Director/Instructor, Rutgers University, Consultant
- Paula Little — Lead Senior Information Architect & Taxonomist, Factor Firm
- Rachael Maddison — Product Manager, Taxonomy as a Service Platform, Adobe
- Shannon Moore — Senior Taxonomy Analyst, Electronic Arts (EA)
- Sara Mae O’Brien-Scott — Senior Semantic Engineering Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC
- Lindsay Pettai — Data Governance Manager, Grant Thornton LLP (Canada)
- Sid Probstein — Founder & CEO, SWIRL
- Mandana Rafat — Director, Organic Growth & Retention, Skillshare
- Rebekah Randle — Taxonomist, Electronic Arts (EA)
- Kristen C. Ratanatharathorn — Senior Manager–Grant Information & Administration, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (AWMF)
- Laura Rodriguez — Knowledge Manager, HealthStream
- Louis Rosenberg — CEO, Unanimous.AI, Author, Our Next Reality: How the AI-Powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World
- Ashu Roy — Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, eGain
- Chantal Schweizer — Practice Director, Strategic Data Services, Pivotree
- Thomas Stilling — Digital Strategist and Metadata Maestro
- Joyce van Aalten — Taxonomy Consultant, Invenier
- Briana Vann — Privacy Taxonomist, Meta
- Zach Wahl — CEO, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC
