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. The conference program is currently being developed and will be available in mid-July. Check back soon for more details. If you'd like to participate as a speaker please visit our Call for Speakers for details or to submit a proposal.
In the meantime, find out more about our conference chair!
- Anupa Bhattarcharyya — Senior Technical Account Manager
- Philip Brittan — CEO, Bloomfire
- Connor Cantrell — Information Architect, Factor
- Dave Clarke — CEO, Squirro
- Daniel Cohen-Dumani — Founder & CEO, Experio Labs
- Stephane Donze — CEO, AODocs
- Giselle Farner — Information Architect, Factor
- Jeff Fried — Director, Platform Strategy & Innovation, InterSystems
- Kim Glover — Director, Employee Communications & Change Management, TechnipFMC
- Srikanth Reddy Gudi — Software Engineer Senior Advisor, Healthcare, Cigna Evernorth Health Services Real-Time Drug Delivery via OCR-Based Fax Prescription Processing
- Ike Hecht — CEO, WikiTeq
- Dhiraj (Dee) Hinduja — Product Manager, Capital One
- Kamran Khan — CEO, Pureinsights Technology Corp.
- Fabrice Lacroix — CEO, Fluid Topics
- Anthony Manluccia — Training Lead, Lemonade Insurance
- 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 & CEO, Pontefract Group, Author, Work-Life Bloom, Flat Army & others
- Peio Popov — FSI Lead, Graphwise
- Eric Pugh — Founder, OpenSource Connections, Member OpenSearch Technical Steering Committee
- Mou Rakshit — Prinicpal Data Platform Architect, Accenture
- Beth Rudden — CEO, Bast.ai, Author, AI for the Rest of Us
- Daniel Shapiro — Associate Director, Organon
- Ross Smith — WW Support Leader, AI First, Microsoft & Author, 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, Author
- Kent Stroker — Senior Field Sales Engineer, Graphwise
- Elizabeth Turner — Founder & Principal, Turner Adaptive Strategies, LLC
- Piet Walvoord — Product Manager, Moody's Analytics
- Alper Yilmaz — Founder & Chief AI Architect, Cortagent
