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!
- 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, Synaptica, part of Squirro AG, UK
- Duane Degler — Principal Consultant-IA, Design for Context
- Celia DiNicola — Director, Digital Platforms and Web Experiences, Stand Together
- Sarah Downs — Director, Synaptica Client Solutions, Synaptica, part of Squirro AG, UK
- Stephanie Duncan — Taxonomy Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Andy Fitzgerald — Information Architect & Content Strategist, Andy Fitzgerald Consulting, LLC
- 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 — Taxonomy Consultant, Semantic and Knowledge Engineering Practice, Enterprise Knowledge
- Heather Hedden — Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management, Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
- Marjorie Hlava — Chief Scientist, Access Innovations, Data Harmony
- Richard Huffine — Assistant Director, Enterprise Information & Records, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Michele Ann Jenkins — Senior Consultant, Dovecot Studio, Canada
- Jennifer Kaari — Catalog Specialist, OpenSesame
- Michele Lamorte — Sr. Manager, Information Analysis & Digital Assets, Publishing Operations, IEEE
- Erik Lee — Taxonomist / Information Architect, Factor
- Ahren Lehnert — Principal Taxonomist, Nike Inc., USA
- Stephanie Lemieux — President & Principal Consultant, Dovecot Studio
- Yonah Levenson — Co-Academic Director/Instructor, College of Professional Studies, Rutgers University, Metadata & Taxonomy Strategy Consultant
- Paula Little — Lead Senior Information Architect & Taxonomist, Factor Firm
- Rachael Maddison — Product Manager, Taxonomy as a Service Platform, Adobe
- Shannon Moore — Taxonomist II, Electronic Arts (EA)
- Sara Mae O'Brien-Scott — Senior Semantic Engineering Consultant, Enterprise Knowledge, LLC
- Lindsay Pettai — Data Governance Consultant
- Sid Probstein — Founder & CEO, SWIRL
- Mandana Rafat — Growth Leader, Product Strategy, Fractional
- Rebekah Randle — Senior Taxonomist, Electronic Arts (EA)
- Kristen C. Ratanatharathorn — Assistant Director - Grant Systems and Data, 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 Corporation
- Chantal Schweizer — Practice Director, Strategic Data Services, Pivotree, USA
- Thomas Stilling — Digital Strategist and Metadata Maestro
- Joyce van Aalten — Taxonomy Consultant, Invenier, The Netherlands
- Briana Vann — Privacy Taxonomist, Meta
- Zach Wahl — CEO, Enterprise Knowledge
