Meet Our Speakers
Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2026 provides attendees with opportunities to meet and learn from the leading experts dedicated to taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, metadata and more this 14 - 15 April in London. Click on the links below to find out more about our speakers and when they'll be speaking!
- Fran Alexander — Taxonomist & Information Architect, Expedia Group, Canada
- Tom Alexander — Taxonomy Manager, Cancer Research UK
- Paul Appleby — Director, Graphifi Ltd, UK
- Alexandre Ausio Rodriguez — Knowledge Representation Specialist (KRS), Elsevier, Spain
- Rahel Bailie — Content Solutions Director, Altuent, Ireland
- Kristian Bainey — Chief AI Officer, PrecisionPro BioTech, Canada
- Selena Bryant — International Taxonomy Analyst - UK, Indeed
- Joseph Busch — Principal Analyst, Taxonomy Strategies, USA
- Philip Carlisle — Senior Data Standards Specialist, Historic England, UK
- Jo Chapman — Consultant, UK
- Lauren Clark Hill — Expert Solutions Engineer, Squirro, USA
- Dave Clarke — Co-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Squirro
- Ben Clinch — CDO and Partner, Ortecha, UK
- Louis Coiffait-Gunn — CEO, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), UK
- Denis Dechandon — Head of Sector, Reference Data, & Style Guide, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
- Aniko Gerencser — Team Leader, Reference Data Team, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
- Doron Gower — Chief Solution Architect, KMS Lighthouse, USA
- Heather Hedden — Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management, USA, Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
- Matt Hollidge — Director, Research, Innovation and Ideation, kore.uk.com, UK
- Laura Horan — Taxonomy Manager, Vinted, Germany
- Michele Ann Jenkins — Senior Consultant, Dovecot Studio, Canada
- Craig Johnson — President, Xemma, USA
- Bob Kasenchak — Information Architect, Factor, USA
- Jo Kent — Lead Curator, Digital Mapping, British Library, UK
- Ago Kopytko — CTO, Smabbler, Poland
- Charlie Lapin — Taxonomist, Vinted, Germany
- Ahren Lehnert — Independent Taxonomist, UK
- Yonah Levenson , Metadata, Taxonomy, Ontology Strategist, USA
- Helen Lippell — Taxonomy and Search Consultant, Helen Lippell Business Services, UK
- Rachael Maddison — Product Manager, Taxonomy as a Service Platform, Adobe
- Dave McComb — CEO, Semantic Arts, Author, Software Wasteland, Data-Centric Revolution
- Panos Mitzias — Semantic Graph Solutions Specialist, Squirro, Greece
- Helmut Nagy — VP, Sales Enablement, Graphwise, Austria
- Matthew Oleynik — Founder, rangefindr.ca, Canada
- Teodora Petkova — Knowledge Steward, Graphwise, Bulgaria
- Tom Reamy — Chief Knowledge Architect & Founder, KAPS Group, LLC, USA
- Achim Reiz — Founder, neonto, Germany
- Lisa Riemers — Consultant, Lisa Riemers Ltd, UK
- Ravinder Singh — co-founder, Graphifi, UK
- Marc Stephenson — Technical Director, Metataxis, UK
- Jessica Talisman — Information Architect & Semantic Engineer, Ontology Pipeline, Contextually, USA
- Noz Urbina — Consultant and Founder, Urbina Consulting, Spain
- Joyce van Aalten — Taxonomy Consultant, Invenier, Netherlands
- Clemency Wright — Director, Clemency Wright Consulting, UK
- Dennis Wuthrich — CEO, Farallon Geographics, USA
