Meet Our Speakers
Enterprise Search & Discovery 2022 provides attendees with opportunities to meet and learn from the leading experts in enterprise search including cognitive search, machine learning, and AI. Click on the links below to find out more about our speakers and when they'll be speaking!
- Firaz Akmal — Senior Product Management, Amazon Kendra, AWS
- Christophe Aubry — Global Head of Value Creation, expert.ai
- Andreas Blumauer — SVP Growth, Graphwise
- Phaedra Boinodiris — Global Leader for Responsible AI, IBM Consulting, & 2026 Women in AI Honoree
- Gloria Burke — Senior Knowledge Management Strategist & formerly KM Slalom
- Michael Cizmar — CEO, MC+A
- Dave Clarke — CEO, Squirro
- Sean Coleman — SVP & GM, Knowledge and Call Center Productivity, Upland Software
- Sawan Deshpande
- Marc Dispensa — Founder & CEO, Lucy
- Jeff Evernham — Chief Product Officer, Sinequa by ChapsVision
- Chip Gettinger — VP Global Solutions Consulting, Structured Content Technologies, RWS
- Steve Goldstein — CEO, ResoluteAI
- Eric Gross — Founder and CEO, Ozmosys
- Heather Hedden — Taxonomy Consultant, Hedden Information Management, Author, The Accidental Taxonomist
- Joseph Hilger — COO, Enterprise Knowledge
- Patrick Hoeffel — Head, Partner Success, Lucidworks
- Colin Kennedy — COO and Co-Founder, Shelf
- Kamran Khan — CEO, Pureinsights Technology Corp.
- Gary Klein — CEO, Author, Snapshots of the Mind
- Basker Krishnan — President & CEO, ImageScan/CogniVision
- Patrick Lambe — Principal Consultant, Straits Knowledge, Author, Principles of Knowledge Auditing
- Ricardo Leon — Technical Architect, Pureinsights Technology Corporation
- John Lewis — Chief Storyteller, Explanation Age LLC, Author, Story Thinking: Transforming Organizations for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Agnes Molnar — Founder & Principal Consultant, Search Explained, Agnes Molnar Coaching
- Naomi Moneypenny — Director, Product Development, Microsoft Viva, Microsoft
- Jean-Claude Monney — Digital Workplace & KM Advisor, The Monney Group, LLC
- Helmut Nagy — VP, Sales Enablement, Graphwise, Austria
- Marydee Ojala — Editor-in-Chief, KMWorld Magazine, Editor, Enterprise AI World
- Vasko Panovski — Senior Consultant & Project Manager, Raytion GmbH
- Swapnil Paranjpe — Chief Architect, Data & Integration, Persistent Systems Ltd
- Karen Passmore — CEO, Predictive UX
- Irene Polikoff — Chief Evangelist, TopQuadrant
- Carl Prizzi — EVP of Revenue, Hawksearch by Bridgeline
- Larry Prusak — Author, The Smart Mission - NASA's Lessons for Managing Knowledge, People, and Projects
- Eric Pugh — Founder, OpenSource Connections, Member OpenSearch Technical Steering Committee
- Christian Puzicha — Senior Solutions Architect, Raytion GmbH
- Pari Rajaram — Principal AI Architect, MITRE
- Rajesh Kumar Ravi — Senior Solution Architect, WWSO AI/ML Services, Amazon Web Services
- Rachel Rong — Principal Applied Scientist Manager, Microsoft Search
- Susann Roth — Advisor, Innovation & KM, Asian Development Bank (ADB)
- Ashu Roy — Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, eGain Corporation
- David Seuss — Founder & CEO, Northern Light
- Theresa A Simek — Discover Search Product Manager, Global Markets - EY Knowledge, EY
- Dave Snowden — Founder & Chief Scientist, The Cynefin Company
- Harish Srigiriraju — Distinguished Engineer, Verizon
- Cedric Ulmer — CEO, France Labs Datafari
- Zach Wahl — President & CEO, Enterprise Knowledge
- Irena Zadonsky — Director, Data & Analytics Architecture, Amtrak, and former Data Strategy and Policy Manager, Federal Reserve Board
