Dave Clarke

Dave Clarke
EVP, Semantic Graph Technology
Synaptica, part of Squirro AG, UK

Dave Clarke is co-founder and CEO of the Synaptica, providers of enterprise software solutions for knowledge organisation and discovery. He served on the authoring committee of the US national standard for controlled vocabularies, ANSI/NISO Z39.19, and is currently working on the revision to ISO 25964. Dave leads research and development at Synaptica, including software solutions for taxonomy and ontology management, text analytics and auto-categorisation, and enterprise knowledge graphs. Synaptica software solutions have attracted numerous international awards including: Knowledge Management World magazine’s 100 Companies that Matter in KM, and Trend Setting Product of the Year (multiple awards between 2011 and 2022). In 2016 Clarke was awarded the Knowledge Management Leadership Award by the Global Knowledge Management Congress. Dave is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, London, and a Leadership Fellow of St. George’s House, Windsor Castle.

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2024

Wednesday 20 March 2024

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

LLMs vs knowledge graphs: alien vs predator?

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2023

Wednesday 22 March 2023

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

I don't know what you mean!

Wednesday 21 June 2023

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Recruitment taxonomies and the power of similarity search

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2022

Wednesday 23 March 2022

4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

A taxonomy of taxonomies & LSE's adventures in Wikidata-land

Wednesday 8 June 2022

2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Five problems a taxonomy can’t solve but might get blamed for

Bite-sized Taxonomy Boot Camp London June 2021

Wednesday 9 June 2021

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Ontology as the backbone of content discovery

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2020

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Taxonomies & Ontologies: where are we now and where are we heading?

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2019

Tuesday 15 October 2019

Keynote 10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

The hype around knowledge graphs

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2018

Tuesday 16 October 2018

Keynote 10:20 a.m. - 10:40 a.m.

Catching the wave – what tools do taxonomists need to do their job

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2017

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Keynote 10:20 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.

Jump-starting your taxonomy project

Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2016

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

10:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.	Taxonomy development
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.	Taxonomies for structured content

Tuesday, 18 October 2016

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Case studies for complex information spaces