Shamod Lacoul is a software entrepreneur, developer and consultant. He has been working as a software consultant for 7 years, focusing on back-end and data integration technologies. He is an assistant organizer of the Silicon Valley Semantic Technologies (SVST) Meetup. He has a Master’s in Software Engineering and Bachelor’s in Computer Science from San Jose State University. You may follow him in twitter @shamod.

Mike has been CEO of Hewett Research in Palo Alto since 2004. Previously he was a Research Scientist in the Bioinformatics group at Stanford University. His goal is to improve software development practice through knowledge modeling and intelligent assistants. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and has implemented the Algernon rule engine and the Jatha LISP library for Java.