Meet Our Speakers
Enterprise Search & Discovery 2026 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!
- Anupa Bhattarcharyya — Senior Technical Account Manager, Amazon Web Services
- Philip Brittan — CEO, Bloomfire
- Connor Cantrell — Information Architect, Factor
- Dave Clarke — CEO, Squirro
- Daniel Cohen-Dumani — Founder & CEO, Experio Labs
- Stephane Donze — Founder & CEO, AODocs
- Gigi Farner — Information Architect, Factor
- Jeff Fried — Director, Platform Strategy & Innovation, InterSystems
- Kim Glover — Former Director, KM, Employee Communications, Change Management, TechnipFMC
- Arvind Gopal — VP, Product Management & Product Strategy, eGain
- Ike Hecht — CEO, WikiTeq
- Marjorie Hlava — Chief Scientist, Access Innovations
- Kamran Khan — CEO, Pureinsights Technology Corp.
- Fahreen Kurji — Chief Customer Intelligence Officer, Behavox
- Fabrice Lacroix — CEO, Fluid Topics
- Julie Mohr — Principal Analyst, Forrester
- Agnes Molnar — Founder & Principal Consultant, Search Explained, Agnes Molnar Coaching
- Sandra Montanino — Founder & Principal, Navig8 PD
- Washim Nawaz — Specialist Solutions Architect, Analytics, Amazon Web Services
- Rick Nucci — Co-Founder and CEO, Guru
- Marydee Ojala — Editor-in-Chief, KMWorld Magazine, Editor, Enterprise AI World
- David Patrick — Subject Matter Expert (SME), DSA Inc., MCT, MVP, MCSE, MCSD
- Brian Pichman — Director, Strategic Innovation, Evolve Project
- Dan Pontefract — Founder, Pontefract Group, Author, "The Future of Work Is Grey: The Untapped Value of Age in the Workforce"
- Peio Popov — FSI Lead, Graphwise
- Eric Pugh — Founder, OpenSource Connections, Member OpenSearch Technical Steering Committee
- Piyush Rajput — CTO, Simmplr
- Mou Rakshit — Prinicpal Data Platform Architect, Databricks Champion and SME, Microsoft Fabric SME, Accenture / Avanade
- Beth Rudden — CEO and Chairwoman, Bast.ai, Author, AI for the Rest of Us
- Daniel Shapiro — Director, Digital Solutions and Artificial Intelligence, Organon
- Randall Smith — Chief Revenue Officer, Forefront Technologies
- Ross Smith — WW Support Leader, AI First, Microsoft, Author, The AI Revolution in Customer Service & Support & Podcast: AI & Creativity for the Future World
- Maggie Starkey — Knowledge Management Specialist, Kraton Corporation
- Rob Stein — Keynote Speaker, Consultant, Executive Coach, Author, Author, Impossible to Fail: The Step-by-Step Formula to Guarantee Your Success in Anything
- Jan Stihec — Director, Data & AI, Shelf
- Kent Stroker — Principal Solutions Architect, Graphwise
- Rachel Teague — VP KM & Organizational Learning, Emory Consulting Services
- Jonathan Thill — Vice President of Sales, Corporate and Federal Government Markets, EBSCO
- Elizabeth Turner — Founder & Principal, Turner Adaptive Strategies, Director of Innovation at MUFG Capital Analytics
- Piet Walvoord — Product Manager, Moody's Analytics
- Alper Yilmaz — Founder & Chief AI Architect, Cortagent AI
