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
Melissa Casey
— Taxonomist , Knowledge Management, HealthStream
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, Synaptica Client Solutions , Synaptica, a Squirro Company, UK
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 , American Association for State and Local History
Bonnie Griffin
— Taxonomist , PayPal
Heather Hedden
— Taxonomy Consultant , Hedden Information Management , Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
Marjorie Hlava
— Chief Scientist , Access Innovations , Data Harmony
Michele Ann Jenkins
— Senior Consultant , Dovecot Studio
Jennifer Kaari
— Catalog Specialist , OpenSesame
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
— Senior 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