Tatiana Emshanova
Managing director of the ViceVersa Technologies.

In her professional background Tatiana is a system software engineer in computer networks and development tools for multimedia environments. Since 1998 she has participated in a number of projects in content management, intranet and extranet system designing and web-site developing both as a manager and a system analyst. For the most part she was responsible for customer relationship management, project management, design of information system architecture, information modeling, ontologies and taxonomies development, user requirement analysis and user testing.

Concurrently she has been involved in several projects as a consultant in business and knowledge management strategic planning, business processes optimization and quality control; as well as a researcher in information architecture, knowledge and innovation management, development and facilitating of communities of practice. Tatiana is experienced in an organisation of regional and international round tables, research and business seminars, face-to-face and teleconferences. She also took part in the similar events as a participant and a speaker.

Currently Tatiana is interested in issues of Semantic Web, namely in semantically-based social desktop and collaborative environment development, linked open data, knowledge representation, information mapping and ontologies development.

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Blog: http://www.eat-and-travel.com
Twitter: @tanya_emsh

Alexey Alishevskikh
Technology director of the ViceVersa Technologies.

Alexey started his professional career of a software developer in the web and e-commerce industry in 1998. Later Alexey focused his interests onto the emerging area of content management and professional web-publishing technologies. Since the very founding of the ViceVersa Company in 2003, Alexey holds a position of the technology director (CTO), being in charge of defining a corporate technological strategy, as well as of technical management of all solutions and projects, which the company carries out.

Alexey is an early open source software adopter, an initiator and a major contributor of a number of open software projects. The technology, developed within the SCAN Semantic Desktop project, launched by Alexey in 2007, is at the heart of the technology solution, currently provided by the ViceVersa Technologies Company.

Alexey is a participant of several international research and software development projects; currently he collaborates as a researcher and a software engineer with the University of Nottingham in the framework of the project in the Semantic Web and Social Networks research area.

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LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexeya
Blog: http://blog.cyberborean.org
Twitter: @cyberborean