Meet Our Speakers
Taxonomy Boot Camp 2026 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!
- Dan Brown — Principal, Curious Squid
- Nicole Buckenwolf — Senior Staff Ontologist, Spotify
- Joseph Busch — Principal Analyst, Taxonomy Strategies
- Connor Cantrell — Information Architect, Factor
- Lauren Clark Hill — Expert Solutions Engineer, Squirro
- Dave Clarke — CEO, Squirro
- Lisa Dawn Colvin — AI Product Strategist, Semantic Generation
- Duane Degler — Principal, Design for Context
- Seth Earley — CEO, Earley Information Science
- Heather Eisenbraun — Chief Knowledge Architect, Earley Information Science
- Gigi Farner — Information Architect, Factor
- Ashish Garg — Principal Product Manager, Walmart
- Melinda Geist — Semantic Graph Solutions, Squirro
- Maddie Glerum — Implementation Lead, Enterprise Knowledge
- Arvind Gopal — VP, Product Management & Product Strategy, eGain
- Bonnie Griffin — Semantic Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge
- Heather Hedden — Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management, Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
- Joseph Hochenstein — Manager, Digital Assets, Marvel Comics
- Michele Ann Jenkins — Senior Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Jennifer Kaari — Catalog Manager, OpenSesame
- Boram Lee — Senior Product Manager, Adobe
- Ahren Lehnert — Senior Taxonomist, Genentech
- Stephanie Lemieux — President, Dovecot Studio
- Ang Li — Computations Linguist, JPMorgan Chase
- Claudette Lloyd — Principal Consultant, Access Sciences
- John Magee — Director of Metadata Services, Cengage Learning
- Erin McElrath — Content Systems & AI Strategist, LinkedIn
- Matthew Petrillo — Principal Consultant, Tauru Systems
- Dan Pontefract — Founder, Pontefract Group, Author, The Future of Work Is Grey: The Untapped Value of Age in the Workforce
- Brian Provenzale — Senior Manager of Information Architecture, Electronic Arts
- Amelia Quintero — Manager, Information Governance & Compliance, Cheniere Energy, Inc.
- Quentin Reul — Founder & Principal, Enterprise AI at RQle.ai, Expert.AI
- Juana Marie Ruiz — Ontologist, Spotify
- Chantal Schweizer — Senior Director, Enterprise Data, TicorBraun
- Juan Sequeda — Principal Data Strategist & Researcher, ServiceNow
- Sam Stringer — Information Architect, Factor
- Kent Stroker — Senior Pre-Sales Engineer, Graphwise
- Zach Wahl — CEO, Enterprise Knowledge LLC
