2020

Nicole helps companies turn data into answers through actionable AI programs. Utilizing NLP technologies, Nicole assists clients in extracting value from their structured and unstructured data (documents, contracts, chat logs, reports, emails, text repositories, relational and graph databases) for the purpose of regulatory reporting, question-answering, chat, search, email classification, and other applications. At Lymba, she…

Dr. Short is Lead Scientist and co-founder of the Center for Large Scale Data Systems (CLDS) at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. He has taught business strategy, management information systems, and communications theory at the London Business School, Theseus Institute, and the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was also a Belfer Fellow at the…

Helen Nissenbaum is a Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University. Her research takes an ethical perspective on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media and data science. Topics have included privacy, trust, accountability, security, and values in technology design. Her books include Obfuscation:…

Julia Stoyanovich is an Assistant Professor at New York University in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Tandon School of Engineering, and the Center for Data Science. Julia’s research focuses on responsible data management and analysis practices: on operationalizing fairness, diversity, transparency, and data protection in all stages of the data acquisition…

Rumman Chowdhury’s passion lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and humanity. She holds degrees in quantitative social science and has been a practicing data scientist and AI developer since 2013. She is currently the Global Lead for Responsible AI at Accenture Applied Intelligence, where she works with C-suite clients to create cutting-edge technical solutions…

Pieter leads Collibra Research. With 20 years experience translating science in product and business, he is responsible for envisioning and developing technological and scientific research capabilities. Pieter writes, teaches and advises on computing and management aspects of data innovation, accountability and citizenship. He published five books and dozens of journal articles on these topics. Pieter…

Amit Weitzner is CEO and co-founder at timbr.ai, the SQL Knowledge Graph Company. He has over 10 years of experience developing big data solutions, graph databases, and Semantic Web technologies and is the development team leader at Israel’s 8200 Intelligence Corps unit. Weitzner is a graduate of Mamram Israeli Army software development program.   2020…

Bethany leads a team of product managers, ontologists, data scientists, and data analysts, enhancing Capital One’s data management capabilities around metadata collection, quality and best practices. Bethany is also responsible for establishing the Ontology practice, a capability that is being used to facilitate a common understanding of the data and analytics across the Capital One…

As an Ontologist in Enterprise Data Management, Brian is responsible for leveraging semantic technology to mitigate data risk and promote a shared understanding of data across Capital One. Prior to joining Capital One, Brian spent 3 years at a Research and Defense company as a developer and curator of the Common Core Ontologies: a suite…

Marta V. Lopata is the Chief Growth Officer at Thinknum Alternative Data and Kgbase – no-code knowledge graph tool. In 2019, Marta has founded External Data Conference – the world’s first annual conference bringing together leading minds in finance, business, media, government and sustainability to discuss the real-world applications for alternative data. Marta is also…

Silviu Cucerzan is a Sr. Principal researcher in Microsoft Research, which he joined in 2003, after completing his PhD studies at the Johns Hopkins University. His research has focused on topics at the intersection of NLP and IR with concrete applications to industry, including entity recognition and linking, multilingual spelling correction, question answering, query suggestion…

Enterprise Knowledge

Enterprise Solution Architect

Radu Marian is a Solution Architect at Bank of America, Research and Innovation Team of Global Information Security. Radu has specialized in building semantic knowledge graph solutions for cyber security domain – Cyber Control Ontology and Knowledge Graph. Other interests are Bible Knowledge Graph and building domain-specific languages for interacting with knowledge graphs, creating and…

Paul Groth is the Professor of Algorithmic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam where he leads the Intelligent Data Engineering Lab (INDElab.org). Paul led the design of a number of large scale data integration and knowledge graph construction efforts in the biomedical domain. Paul was co-chair of the W3C Provenance Working Group and continues…

Thematix Partners LLC

Partner

David Kamien is the founder and CEO of Mind-Alliance Systems (www.mind-alliance.com) where he leads the company’s efforts to deliver AI-powered software systems and research services that help clients make better decisions and work smarter. David Kamien is an author and inventor with unique expertise in improving information sharing and collaboration within and between organizations. David…