2023

Dennis Diefenbach

The QA Company CEO Biography Dennis Diefenbach is a PhD researcher and entrepreneur in the area of Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs. He did his PhD under a Marie Skłodowska-Curie action, Europe’s most competitive and prestigious research and innovation fellowship. He worked for IBM and SAP. Dennis Diefenbach published over 20 publications in the area…

Jens Doerpmund

Hitachi Vantara Vice President, Software Architecture Biography Jens Doerpmund is responsible for architectural governance and the strategical technical direction of Lumada software products at Hitachi Vantara, which include advanced data and metadata management solutions as well as storage solutions across disparate data sources and environments (on-premises and cloud) with a focus on distributed query processing…

Manas Gaur, Knowledge Graph Conference

Manas Gaur

University of Maryland Baltimore County Assistant Professor Biography Manas Gaur is an assistant professor in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He is an affiliate faculty member of Ebiquity Research Center at UMBC and directs the Knowledge-infused AI and Inference lab (https://www.csee.umbc.edu/research/research-labs/). As the AAAI New…

Beatrice Gamba

WordLift S.r.l. Head of Agency Biography Beatrice Gamba serves as Head of Agency at WordLift. She joined the WordLift team in 2016 following a three-year tenure in Berlin, where she worked for a prominent European e-commerce company. Her extensive experience in digital marketing and semantic SEO has equipped her with the expertise necessary to lead…

Eleni Fotopoulou

National Technical University of Athens – Institute of Communication and Computer Systems Senior Researcher Biography Eleni Fotopoulou received her diploma in electrical and computer engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2009, the degree in therapeutic pedagogy from the University of Thessaly in 2013, and the master’s degree in emotional intelligence from…

Anna Filippova

dbt Labs Director of Community & Data Biography Anna Filippova tends to the dbt Community garden of over 50,000 at dbt Labs as well as leading the company’s internal data team. Prior to dbt Labs, Anna built the first Analytics Engineering team at GitHub and published research on how to build effective teams and organizations….

Harsha Gurulingappa

Merck Group Head of Text Analytics Biography Dr. Harsha Gurulingappa is a part of Merck Data Office, Group Digital Innovation within Merck Group a leading science, and technology company in the area of Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics businesses. He works as Head of Text Analytics responsible for driving the development and adoption of practices…

Junheng Hao

Microsoft Research Researcher Biography Junheng is a researcher at Microsoft and a member of the Knowledge and Language Team in the Cognitive Services Research Group. His research interests include knowledge graph and knowledge-driven interdisciplinary applications. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), advised by Prof. Wei Wang and…

Michael Iannelli

Yext Senior Data Scientist Biography Michael Iannelli is a Senior Data Scientist at Yext based in New York City where he specializes in representation learning and search over large graphs. His academic background is in distributed systems and machine learning. His professional career has touched upon the military research, ad-tech, and mar-tech industries. Talks and…

Michael Havey

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Biography Mike Havey is a Solutions Architect for AWS with over 25 years of experience building enterprise applications. Mike is the author of two books and numerous articles. Visit his Amazon author page to read more. Talks and Events “Multi” Model – An Ontology For Every DB on the Truck…

Stephen Kahmann

Crown Point Technologies, LLC Co-Founder Biography Mr. Stephen Kahmann brings twelve years of experience in software and knowledge engineering together with rich experience building strong technical teams. His passion for all things data drove him to found Crown Point Technologies to help organizations transform their businesses with cutting-edge data technologies. Mr. Kahmann holds a B.S….

Jordan Hauer

Amass Insights Co-Founder & CEO Biography Jordan has spent the past several years consulting for technology companies striving to better monetize their proprietary data to institutional investors and for asset managers looking to discover and utilize valuable alternative data in their investment process. Previously, Jordan worked at Hunter Global Investors (a $1B hedge fund) as…

Martin Kaltenböck

Semantic Web Company Co-Founder and CFO Biography Martin Kaltenböck studied communication science, psychology and marketing at the University of Vienna. He is co-founder and managing partner of the Semantic Web Company and as CFO responsible for financial, legal and organisational issues. Furthermore he leads and works in several national and international research, industry and government…