Jessica Talisman has dedicated her 25-year career to exploring the dynamics of information and knowledge, and how information flows across systems. Her experiences range from historical contexts to educational frameworks and extends to the realms of artificial intelligence and its application within enterprise knowledge systems. She is an active contributor in codifying knowledge management techniques, founded in the discipline of library science and steeped in semantics.

For the past twenty-five years Dave Clarke has worked with enterprises around the world to develop and deploy taxonomies and ontologies at scale. In his current role as Chief Innovation Officer at Squirro, Dave leads a team building client solutions that combine Generative and Agentic AI with taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs for use-cases including search, classification, and business process automation.