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Annette has been part of the Information Management team at The Associated Press (AP) for 17 years. At the AP, Annette is responsible for creating and shepherding metadata for news content, from its creation to its successful delivery.  She works with AP editorial colleagues spanning every media type, and with those who curate news products for every kind of customer, using ancient and modern technologies and standards. Her job is to get everything to play together nicely.

Jackie is a Senior Design Operations Lead at Roblox, recognized for blending data-driven strategies with empathetic problem-solving approaches. Nurturing a dynamic and inclusive atmosphere, she champions diversity of thought, is propelled by understanding core motivations, and employs storytelling to galvanize collective action toward a unified solution. Passionate about continuous improvement, Jackie leverages her expertise to continually advance the interactive entertainment industry and its associated design professionals.

Heather has been creating and editing taxonomies for over 28 years and has recently returned to independent consulting. Prior roles have included senior consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, Knowledge Engineer at Semantic Web Company, and Senior Vocabulary Editor at Cengage/Gale. Her work involved metadata, taxonomy, and ontology design, taxonomy revision, tagging and indexing, and taxonomy governance and documentation.

Joseph Harper is Global Head of Content at DIAGEO, a British multinational alcoholic beverage company which owns over 200 brands, including the world’s best-selling Scotch whisky brand Johnnie Walker, best-selling premium distilled vodka Smirnoff and the iconic Irish stout Guinness.

Tracy is one of the first taxonomists at Spotify, working on classification projects related to Personalization. Prior to Spotify, Tracy worked as a DAM Manager for Corbis Images, in metadata and search at Getty Images, in the publishing world on content classification at McGraw-Hill, and at creative powerhouses like Adobe and Picsart on metadata, findability, content strategy and taxonomy. At the heart of all these roles was some kind of digital asset management system or CMS, whether out of the box or custom-built internal tools.