Call for Speakers
Deadline is 9 October 2026
We’re back in 13 - 14 April 2027 for Taxonomy Boot Camp London! We can’t wait to welcome you in person to two days of unmissable insights and networking, in the heart of historic London.
The last few years have transformed the world of taxonomies and semantic technologies. As AI has taken centre stage, the business value of our work has never been more visible.
Every day, practitioners are tackling complex challenges, connecting information, solving problems, making sense of data and content, and designing solutions that help their organisations work smarter.
Now we want to hear from you.
Help us make Taxonomy Boot Camp London 2027 our best yet. Share your expertise, insights, practical tips, lessons learned and strategic thinking that can help others move their work forward, and be part of a growing community hungry to learn, exchange ideas and push the discipline further.
Topics could include:
- Building taxonomies
- Managing taxonomies
- Working with taxonomies
- Taxonomy, metadata and data governance
- Ontologies, knowledge graphs, AI and the semantic layer
- Career development
Full list of suggested topics below.
Session Types
We are interested in your case studies, suggestions for panels, best practices, innovations, career stories, workshops and more!
Benefits of Speaking
All accepted speakers receive a complimentary two-day conference pass (13-14 April) as well as great exposure in the industry, so think over your latest projects and success stories, and submit your proposal today!
How to Submit a Proposal to Speak
If you would like to participate in Taxonomy Boot Camp London as a speaker or workshop leader, please submit a proposal as soon as possible (9 October at the latest) via the Call for Speakers form. Please be prepared to include the following brief details of your proposed presentation on the form: title, abstract, a few sentences of biographical information that relate you to the topic, and full contact information for you and your co-presenters (title, address, email, and phone). All abstracts are reviewed by the Organising Committee and notification regarding acceptance will be made in December 2026.
Programme Chair
If you have any questions or would like to discuss your idea, please email our programme chair – we’d love to hear from you.
Helen Lippell, Taxonomy and Search Consultant, UK
TBCL-Speakers@infotoday.com
Suggested Topics
Building taxonomies
- Evaluating external taxonomies
- Mapping and interoperability; combining or splitting taxonomies
- Multilingual taxonomies
- Design decisions about structure, style, display, granularity
Managing taxonomies
- Governance
- Maintenance
- Resourcing, teams or working solo
- Software; procuring, implementing, training, open-source or lower-cost options
- Validation, testing, metrics
- Getting a taxonomy project going from scratch
- Demerging/merging taxonomies
Working with taxonomies
- Sector and domain-specific taxonomies
- Taxonomies for ecommerce, enterprise search, content management, digital asset management, data platforms
- How taxonomies support/interact with UX, information architecture, content strategy
- SharePoint and O365 metadata and taxonomies
- Automatic classification with taxonomies
- Tagging; adding metadata to content and data
- Data and domain modelling; reference data; metadata models
- Case studies, success stories, ‘lessons learned’ stories
Ontologies, knowledge graphs, AI and the semantic layer
- Machine learning, entity extraction, text analytics, NLP
- The semantic layer - taxonomies and other knowledge representation tools joined-up across the organisation
- The role of taxonomies in driving generative AI implementation
- Taxonomies for Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Ontologies and knowledge graphs
Career development
- How AI is changing the profession
- Career stories eg getting started in taxonomy work; moving into taxonomies from another field
- Use cases and problem-solving
- Beginner and entry-level tips, insights and explainers
- Tips, tricks and best practices
- Workshop suggestions
- Working with stakeholders, subject matter experts, taggers. Working with non-specialist colleagues
- Working as a solo taxonomist; visibility; persuasion skills; project management
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