Michael K. Bergman is a senior principal for Cognonto Corporation, and lead editor for the open-source KBpedia knowledge structure. For more than a decade, his AI3:::Adaptive Information blog has been a leading go-to resource on topics in semantic technologies, large-scale knowledge bases for machine learning, data interoperability, knowledge graphs and mapping, and fact and entity extraction and tagging. For the past twenty years Mike has been an entrepreneur, Web scientist, and independent consultant. For the decade up to 2018, Mike was the CEO of Structured Dynamics LLC, which he co-founded with Fred Giasson. Mike has held C-class positions and was a founder of the prior companies Zitgist LLC, BrightPlanet Corporation, VisualMetrics Corporation, and TheWebTools Company. These companies provided notable market advances in semantic technologies, data warehousing, the deep Web, large-scale Internet databases, meta-search tools, and bioinformatics. Bergman began his professional career in the mid-1970s as a project director for the U.S. EPA for a major energy study called the Coal Technology Assessment. He later taught in the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he was a fellow in the Energy Policies Study Center. He then joined the American Public Power Association in 1982, where he rose to director of energy research. APPA's pioneering work with small computers sparked Bergman's transition to information technologies. Before entering industry, Mike was a doctoral candidate at Duke University in population genetics.