Enterprise Search & Discovery 2018 Speakers

  • V. Mary Abraham — Co-Founder, Above and Beyond KM
  • Nathan Ahlstrom — Senior Principal IT Technologist, Medtronic, Inc.
  • Lisa Austin — Product Owner, Knowledge Management, Information Services, End User Services, Toyota Motors North America, The KM Coach
  • Steve Barth — Assistant Professor/Chair, Business & Entrepreneurship, Iovine and Young Academy for Arts, Engineering and the Business of Innovation, University of Southern California, Reflected Knowledge Consulting
  • Holly C. Baxter — Chief Scientist & CEO, Strategic Knowledge Solutions, Cognitive Performance Group
  • Andreas Blumauer — Founder & CEO, Semantic Web Company Inc.
  • Phaedra Boinodiris — Global Leader for Responsible AI, IBM Consulting, Author, AI for the Rest of Us
  • Flynn Bucy — Managing Director, Prescient360 Group
  • Tony Byrne — Founder, Real Story Group
  • Beatrice Cacace — Senior Program Manager, Knowledge Management, Ubisoft Entertainment
  • Brandyn Campbell — Director of Business Development, Ephesoft
  • Dave Clarke — EVP, Semantic Graph Technology, Synaptica - a Squirro Company, UK
  • Sean Coleman — SVP & GM, Knowledge and Call Center Productivity, Upland Software
  • Nancy Dixon — Principal & Founder, Common Knowledge Associates
  • Patrick Duverger — CIO, City of Antibes, HP Compaq DigitalEquipment OrangeLabs
  • Gerard Dwan — Director of Customer Engagement, Attivio
  • Leif Edvinsson — World's First Professor Emeritus on Intellectual Capital, Lund University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, formerly with Skandia & Author, Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company’s True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower
  • Susan E. Feldman — President, Synthexis, Cognitive Computing Consortium
  • Jeff Fried — Director, Platform Strategy & Innovation, InterSystems
  • Stan Garfield — Author of six KM books & Founder, SIKM Leaders Community
  • Melinda Geist — Digital Operations Manager, Sales and Marketing, Intel
  • Kim Glover — Director, Internal Communications, TechnipFMC
  • Susan S. Hanley — President, Susan Hanley LLC, Intranet Consultant, Microsoft MVP
  • Will Hayes — CEO, Lucidworks
  • Michael Hill — Senior Analyst/Professional Mentor, SOLUTE, Puzzle Solver, & Former Member of the U.S. Navy
  • Patrick Hoeffel — Software Engineering Manager, Polaris Alpha
  • Harold Jarche — Director, Jarche.com, Author, Perpetual Beta series
  • Miles Kehoe — Founder & President, New Idea Engineering
  • Kamran Khan — Managing Director, Accenture
  • Sebastian Klatt — Senior Consultant, Raytion GmbH
  • Andy Liu — Senior Data Engineer, Lucidworks
  • Mary Maida — Knowledge Solutions Consultant, Medtronic
  • Willem Manders — Global Head of Knowledge Management, Projects & Technology, Shell
  • Daniel Mayer — CMO, Expert System Enterprise
  • Agnes Molnar — Managing Consultant, Search Explained
  • Naomi Moneypenny — Director, Product Development, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft
  • Peter Morville — President, Semantic Studios
  • Art Murray — CEO, Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc., Director, Enterprise of the Future Program, International Institute for Knowledge and Innovation
  • Paul Nelson — Innovation Lead, Accenture
  • Marydee Ojala — Editor-in-Chief, KMWorld Magazine, & Editor, Enterprise AI World
  • Scott Parker — Director of Product Marketing, Sinequa
  • Daniel Pinkstock — Regional Sales Manager, Systemware
  • Dan Pontefract — Founder & CEO, Pontefract Group, Author, Work-Life Bloom, Flat Army & others
  • Avi Rappoport — Senior Search Consultant, Search Tools Consulting
  • Tom Reamy — Chief Knowledge Architect & Founder, KAPS Group, Author, Deep Text
  • Rebecca Rodgers — Principal Consultant Digital Workplace & Community Manager, Step Two
  • Stephen Scarr — CEO and Co-Founder, eContext
  • Timo Selvaraj — Co-Founder/VP Product Management, SearchBlox Software, Inc.
  • Tracey Seward — Global Director of Innovation & Knowledge, Accenture
  • Catherine Shinners — Principal & Founder, Merced Group
  • Theresa A Simek — Discover Search Product Manager, Global Markets - EY Knowledge, EY
  • Eric Smith — Chief Technologist & Information Security Officer, FireOak Strategies, LLC
  • Dave Snowden — Founder & Chief Scientist, The Cynefin Company
  • Tom Stewart — Executive Director, National Center for the Middle Market, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
  • Cedric Ulmer — CEO & Co-Founder, France Labs
  • Gordon Vala-Webb — CEO, Vala-Webb Consulting Inc.
  • Vinod Valloppillil — Group Product Manager, Machine Intelligence, Dropbox
  • Dirk Van Hyfte — Senior Advisor, Biomedical Informatics, InterSystems
  • Thomas Vander Wal — Sr. Consultant
  • Tamara Viles — Knowledge Management Program Manager, Learning & Knowledge Management, TechnipFMC
  • Bram Wessel — Principal, Factor, Board Member, Information Architecture Institute
  • Jim Wickham — Architect, Microsoft Services, Microsoft
  • Amy Wilkinson — Founder & CEO, Ingenuity, Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business; Author, The Creator’s Code: Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs

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