Dave Clarke is CEO of Squirro AG, a Gartner-recognized emerging leader in AI that combines AI and knowledge graph technology to deliver precision semantic search and process automation for the enterprise. With over 30 years as a technologist and entrepreneur, Dave is also the visionary behind the Synaptica® brand, which brings human-like reasoning to machine knowledge. He's a voting member of NISO and recently co-authored the 2026 edition of ISO 25964-1, the international standard for multilingual knowledge organization systems.