Jonathan Sage
PwC Consulting

top

Until recently, Jonathan headed the central EMEA Knowledge Management team in Brussels for PricewaterhouseCoopers and was one of six directors within the Global Knowledge Management function. He was a member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers EMEA Human Capital Council (with HR, Learning and Education) and the EMEA Marketing Council. As EMEA KM leader, he is responsible for leading and co-ordinating Knowledge Management activities across the matrix with EMEA territories, Service Lines and Industries.

Prior to the merger between Price Waterhouse and Coopers and Lybrand, Jonathan was responsible for the website and intranet in Coopers and Lybrand, UK. Following the merger, he was Head of New Media for the UK PricewaterhouseCoopers firm before taking responsibility for Knowledge Management in EMEA.

Jonathan has previously been Director of Marketing for a UK software house specialising in e-business. He also spent a formative stage of of his marketing career in Continental Europe, as Commercial Attache for the British Embassy in Vienna for Industrial Goods. Prior to that he worked with a wide range of industries as a management trainer. In his early career, he worked independlently as a linguist, pioneeering Teaching of English as a Foreign Language techniques, translating and interpreting for multinational organisations.

Jonathan was also lecturer in Business Administration at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna and more recently a member of the teaching faculty of the UK Open Business School, lecturing on Strategy for the MBA course. He is married and lives in Belgium and England.

Rob Gaizauskas,
University of Sheffield

top

A native of Ottawa, Canada, Rob Gaizauskas (b. 1955) studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Toronto from 1972-74, then moved to Carleton University in Ottawa where he received an Honours BA in Philosophy in 1975 and an MA in Philosophy (with distinction) in 1978. Following two years teaching Logic as a temporary lecturer at Carleton he obtained a Diploma in Information Processing from Algonquin College, Ottawa, in 1981.

He then worked for several software companies in Ottawa, including Domus Software, Nabu Technologies, and Fulcrum Technologies (now part of Hummingbird), before moving to the U.K. in 1985 to study for a DPhil in the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex.

He received his MA in Cognitive Studies in 1986 and completed his DPhil in 1992, submitting a thesis entitled "Deriving Answers to Logical Queries by Answer Composition: A New Approach to Deductive Question Answering". During 1989 he lectured in Artificial Intelligence at Sussex. From 1990 to 1993 he worked as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex on the POETIC Project.

In 1993 he became a Lecturer in the Natural Language Processing Group of the Department of Computer Science, Sheffield University and became a Reader in Computer Science in the same group in 1999.

Tom Khabaza
SPSS

top

Tom Khabaza is the Programme Manager of the SPSS Advanced Data Mining Group, where he runs a number of projects in data mining and its applications.

Tom has been working in data mining since 1991, and has experience of a wide variety of data mining applications. In the 1990s, Tom worked on the design and implementation of the Clementine data mining system, and then as the chief data mining consultant at Integral Solutions. More recently Tom worked with the team which developed the CRISP-DM standard data mining process, led the creation of Clementine's "Application Templates" (vertical data mining solutions), and is leading the integration of SPSS's data mining and text mining products.

Prior to his involvement in data mining, Tom worked in Artificial Intelligence R&D, and as a Lecturer in AI at Sussex University (1985-90). Tom holds a D.Phil. in Artificial Intelligence.

David Milward
Linguamatics

top

LINGUAMATICS was founded in 2001 to create advanced language processing components and products. Linguamatics provides Information Extraction technology and flexible spoken dialogue systems. Linguamatics Interactive Information Extraction technogy allows users to find precise information from free text e.g. which proteins interact with which others, or which companies are involved in drilling projects in Africa.

DAVID MILWARD (Chief Technology Officer) has over 15 years experience of product development, consultancy and core research in Natural Language Processing. He is widely published in the areas of spoken dialogue, information extraction, parsing, syntax and semantics. He was a Senior Computer Scientist at SRI International, and a Lecturer at Edinburgh University. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Daniel Brown

APR

top

A former clinical psychologist with a doctorate in clinical psychology from the Institute of Psychiatry, Daniel is an authority on decision intelligence, a high-profile speaker and media commentator and the author of many books and papers. He founded Applied Psychology Research with John Turner in 1997.

Daniel's background in clinical psychology and studies at the Institute of Psychiatry acted as a catalyst for his interest in using computers to build
interactive models of stress. A methodology for automating the understanding
and fulfillment of variable user needs followed, along with a strong business case for APR.

The technology's potential as a decision intelligence tool became clearer after work on navigation with John Turner, then a lecturer in Multimedia Systems at London Guildhall University. Together they formed a partnership which developed into APR in 1997.

Daniel's vision of APR as a company which "marries the principles of psychology with technological expertise for intelligent decision making solutions" remain the cornerstone of the company's ongoing and future development. He is the author of several books and papers, as well as being
a high profile speaker and media commentator on decision intelligence.