Fortnightly Knowledge Graph News Roundup [17 January 2025]
Welcome back to another fortnightly news roundup from around the knowledge graph industry for the week ending on January 17th, 2025.
2025 Predictions, Articles, & Hot Takes
Tony Seale – the Knowledge Graph Guy – shares his predictions for knowledge graphs in 2025 [LinkedIn]
Michael Iantosca has only one, bold prediction for 2025 [LinkedIn]
Jay JieBing Yu reflects on the hottest trends of 2024 and what’s ahead for 2025 [LinkedIn]
2025 Predictions: The Year of Compound AI for Enterprise Adoption [Unite.AI]
Why 2025 will be the year of AI orchestration [VentureBeat]
KnowHax Q&A with Tianyi Zhang, Assistant Professor at Purdue University [LinkedIn]
AI Leadership Depends on What is Measured [Jamestown]
Does current AI represent a dead end? [BCS]
Knowledge Graph Jobs
Recurrent Knowledge Graph Builder – Chewy
Knowledge Graph / Data Engineering, Manager – PwC
Graphistry is hiring for a few positions across:
- Engineering
- AI Fellowships
- R&D
- Graph + GenAI
- Data Science
Call for Papers, Presentations & More
Call for Speakers – Knowledge Graph Conference | New York City | Submission deadline: 17 January 2025
Call for Participation – W3C Data Shapes Working Group
Call for papers: Special Issue on Large Language Models, Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs – Semantic Web Journal | Submission deadline: 31 March 2025
Call for Papers – International Conference on Neurosymbolic Learning & Reasoning (NeSy) | Santa Cruz, CA | Submission deadlines start on 28 February 2025
Early Announcement – International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) | Nara, Japan | 2-6 November 2025
KG Community & Discussions
Stratos Kontopoulos shares how enterprises can join the graph game [LinkedIn]
Discussion on Knowledge Graph RAG Framework about the explosion of new tools available [Hacker News]
Kurt Cagle writes on Ontological Ruminations and more in the Cagle Report newsletter [LinkedIn]
Bob Metcalfe will be attending the Knowledge Graph Conference this May 2025
Knowledge Graph Events
KnowHax Live Q&A with Tianyi Zhang, Assistant Professor at Purdue University, on Friday, 10 January at 2:30 p.m. EST on LinkedIn.
Research & Papers
Driving the Future with Autonomous Transportation & Smart Vehicles: Catalysts for Sustainable Urban Mobility (including knowledge graphs) [ResearchGate]
TarIKGC: A Target Identification Tool Using Semantics-Enhanced Knowledge Graph Completion with Application to CDK2 Inhibitor Discovery [Journal of Medicinal Chemistry]
HGeoKG: A Hierarchical Geographic Knowledge Graph for Geographic Knowledge Reasoning [International Journal of Geo-Information]
The S2 Hierarchical Discrete Global Grid as a Nexus for Data Representation, Integration, & Querying across Geospatial Knowledge Graphs [preprint]
HybridRAG: Integrating Knowledge Graphs and Vector Retrieval Augmented Generation for Efficient Information Extraction [arXiv]
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Prompt Engineering for Knowledge Graph Question Answering [Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence]
Fundraising News
Hyro AI raises $35M series B with Healthier Capital’s Amir Rubin [Fierce Healthcare]
Enterpret Raises $20.8M series A for “Actionable AI” [MrWeb]
Biotech Nintx Raises US$10 million to Advance a New Generation of Medicines Based on Brazilian Biodiversity [BioSpace]
Fraud prevention platform Bureau raises $30M in Series B round [Entrackr]
New KG Tech & Solutions
G.V() graph database client now offers a free tier for developers and is available on AWS marketplace [G.V() blog]
Startup & Corporate News
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Announces Expanded Work in AI along with New Advisory Board [eSchool News]
Securiti Named Most Innovative Data Security Posture Management Leader by Frost & Sullivan [BusinessWire]
Samsung’s New Year Resolutions include becoming an ‘undisputed leader’ in AI on phones [PhoneArena]
Tech Deep Dive & Applications
Untapped Potential of AI and Knowledge Graphs in Redefining the Construction Industry [RTInsights]
LLM 2.0, RAG & Non-Standard Gen AI on GitHub [DataScienceCentral]
How Agentic Graph Systems Transform AI from Pattern Matching to Intelligent Reasoning [Anthony Alcaraz on LinkedIn]
Ontologies vs. Knowledge Graphs [The Accidental Taxonomist]
A Gentle Introduction to Graph Neural Networks [Distill]
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