Who will help with specialist knowledge and experience?

A number of speakers from the Metadata conference will be on hand to provide specific expertise and resources:

Mills Davis, founder and managing director of Project10X

Mills consults with technology manufacturers, global 2000 corporations, and government agencies on next-wave semantic technologies and solutions. Mills serves as lead for the US Federal CIO council’s Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) research into the business value of semantic technologies. Also, he is a founding member of the AIIM interoperable enterprise content management (iECM) working group, and a founding member of the National Center for Ontology Research (NCOR). Mr. Davis brings 25 years experience as a researcher, principal investigator, industry analyst, and consultant focusing on new information, communication, and media technology research. Mr. Davis’ research consulting clients include a broad range of leading technology, government, and industrial enterprises, for example: At&T, Apple Computer, IBM, Intel, Time Warner, CIA, US Department of Defence and international clients in Europe and South America. Find out more

Holger Kohler
Defence Science and Technology Organisation

Holger Kohler has spent the last 11 years working at Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Edinburgh, South Australia. During that time he has worked on a variety of prototype systems that have helped Defence and National Security clients better understand their existing and future requirements. His work areas have covered information management, information fusion, geospatial information systems, natural language processing, and ontologies. His academic interests have included an eclectic mix of biology, teaching, information technology and cognitive science.

Amanda Lawrence
Managing Editor, Australian Policy Online

Amanda Lawrence is managing editor of Australian Policy Online (apo.org.au) at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology. She was project manager on the resdesign of the site in 2009. She manages the website of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and its Creative Economy newsletter. Amanda is currently completing a Graduate Diploma of Library and Information Management at RMIT. She has a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Melbourne and was Manager of the Literature Program at the University's Asialink Centre from 1996 - 2005.

Ingrid Mason
Powerhouse Museum

Ingrid Mason is a self-professed metadata nerd who never realised that she’d found a work-space that could satisfy her interests in the humanities, semantics and the web. Ingrid has interests in technology and research and a background in digital cultural heritage and business development. Ingrid works as a digital project manager for the Powerhouse Museum – currently she’s managing Collections Australia Network. Prior to taking up this role she project managed in the Digital Innovation Unit (University of Sydney), managed a university digital repository, led a web archiving team, and contributed to developing the requirements for the National Digital Heritage Archive in New Zealand.

Vanessa Scott – Content Manager, eServices, Information Victoria
Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development, Victoria

Vanessa has worked in the information management field for 19 years. She is currently working within Information Victoria at the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development. For the last 7 years she has been Content Manager for Victoria Online - the Victorian Government portal. During that time she has seen Victoria Online been redesigned and switched over to an open-source CMS, integrating web 2.0 and now getting ready for another redesign. She is responsible for maintaining the Victoria Online Thesaurus - a subject-based thesaurus and administers a whole-of-Victorian-Government Seminar Series to promote best practice in the online space. Last year she started up a whole-of-Victorian-Government email newsletter group to bring together newsletter editors to share information and promote efficiencies across government in email newsletter management. In her spare time, Vanessa is renovating her house with her husband.

Henk Verhoeven – Intergen
Henk is an Architect and Consultant within Intergen’s Innovation, Strategy and Solutions team. He has over 15 years of international experience in the IT industry proposing, building and integrating strategically focused solutions in the insurance, government, telecoms, pharmaceutical and forensic science industries spanning the United States, New Zealand, South African and Namibia. He consults with New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs regarding their open data initiatives and helps government organisations participate in the open data frameworks and guidelines.