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 — Director, Employee Communications & Change Management, TechnipFMC
- Arvind Gopal — VP, Product Management & Product Strategy, eGain
- Srikanth Reddy Gudi — Software Engineer Senior Advisor, Cigna Evernorth Health Services
- Ike Hecht — CEO, WikiTeq
- Dhiraj (Dee) Hinduja — Product Manager
- 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 — Managing Consultant & Coach, 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
- 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 — Associate Director, Organon
- 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 , Author, Impossible to Fail: The Step-by-Step Formula to Guarantee Your Success in Anything
- Jan Stihec — Director, Data & GenAI, Shelf
- Kent Stroker — Senior Field Sales Engineer, Graphwise
- Rachel Teague — VP KM & Organizational Learning, Emory Consulting Services
- Elizabeth Turner — Director, Innovation & Business Program Management, MUFG Capital Analytics
- Piet Walvoord — Product Manager, Moody's Analytics
- Alper Yilmaz — Founder & Chief AI Architect, Cortagent
