Meet Our Speakers
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2025 provides attendees with opportunities to meet and learn from the leading experts in taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies, tagging mechanisms and other techniques for organizing information. The conference program is currently being developed and will be available in mid-July. Check back soon for more details. If you'd like to participate as a speaker please visit our Call for Speakers for details or to submit a proposal.
- Maite Arakaki — Knowledge and Learning Senior Associate, Inter-American Development Bank
- Ashley Bearden — Knowledge Management - Knowledge Foundations Lead, Amgen
- Doug Beeson — Journeyman Ontologist, Semantic Arts
- Andreas Blumauer — SVP Growth, Graphwhise
- Patrick Bradley — Product Manager, Expedia Group
- Joseph Busch — Principal Analyst, Taxonomy Strategies
- Mike Cannon — Senior Director, Serial Publications and Editorial Services, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
- Lauren Clark Hill — Expert Knowledge Management Solutions Engineer, Squirro
- Dave Clarke — Chief Innovation Officer, Squirro
- Duane Degler — Principal, Design for Context
- Simon Denton — Enterprise Architect, Mott MacDonald
- Stephanie Duncan — Taxonomy Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- James Egan — Ontology Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge
- Monica Fulvio — Senior Consultant, Tauru Systems
- Bonnie Griffin — Taxonomy Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge
- Malcolm Hawker — Chief Data Officer, Profisee
- Miriam Heard — Program Manager, Content Library, YMCA of the USA
- Heather Hedden — Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management, Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
- Tim Hill — Director, Product Management, NiCE
- David Hobbs — Early Digital Strategist, David Hobbs Consulting
- TJ Hsu — Director, R&D Knowledge Management, Amgen
- Michele Ann Jenkins — Senior Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Bob Kasenchak — Lead Information Architect, Factor
- Benjamin Kass — Ontology Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge
- Melissa Knudtson Monsalve — Taxonomy Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Martin Kon — President & COO; former CFO, YouTube
- Heather Lawson — Taxonomist, Vinted
- Erik Lee — Taxonomist / Information Architect, Factor
- Ahren Lehnert , Independent Taxonomist
- Stephanie Lemieux — President & Principal Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Yonah Levenson — CEO, Metadata Taxonomy Strategies
- Leila Martini — President, Olive Branch Research, LLC
- Elizabeth McLean — Principal, Knowsaic
- Nimit Mehta — CEO, TopQuadrant
- Brandon Mora — Knowledge and Learning Senior Associate, Inter-American Development Bank
- Laura Rodriguez — Metadata Manager, HealthStream
- Ashu Roy — Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, eGain Corporation
- Harrison Saltz — Senior Information Architect, Amazon
- Chantal Schweitzer — Practice Director, Strategic Data Services, Pivotree
- Dorian Selz — CEO & Co-Founder, Squirro
- Zach Wahl — President & CEO, Enterprise Knowledge
- Alex Zichettello — Knowledge Management Lead, Frame & Interior Business Unit, Honda Development & Manufacturing of Americas, LLC
