KGC 2023 Speakers This list will be updated as speakers are added to the program. Keynote Speakers George KarypisSenior Principal Scientist/Distinguished McKnight University Professor AWS AI/University of Minnesota Deborah McGuinnessTetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive ScienceRensselaer Polytechnic Institute Denny VrandečićHead of Special ProjectsWikimedia Foundation Speakers Fernando AguilarData Science ConsultantEnterprise Knowledge LLC Naveed AhamedEnterprise Data ArchitectAllianz Mehwish AlamAssociate ProfessorTelecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Janez AlesSenior Research Scientist, Mathematician, Data & Algorithms, Knowledge Architecture & InnovationBASF Michael AndrewsContent Strategy EvangelistKontent.ai Carlos Badenes-OlmedoAssistant ProfessorUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid Kanika BhatiaHead of Digital Content StrategyAustralia and New Zealand Bank Michel BiezunskiConsultant, Programmer, FounderInfoloom Hodaya BinyaminiApplied ResearchAccenture Andreas BlumauerFounder and CEOPool Party Christos BoutsidisVice PresidentGoldman Sachs Chris BrockmannCEOeccenca Márton BúrKnowledge EngineerRelational AI Inc. Diego Collaran-VargasTeam Leader Knowledge GraphsFraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, IAIS, Germany Abhilekha DalalGraduate Research Assistant & PhD CandidateKansas State University Marco DiciollaVice President of EMEARelationalAI Leia DickersonSenior Librarian, Taxonomy & ResearchUS GAO Dennis DiefenbachCEOThe QA Company Jens DoerpmundVice President, Software ArchitectureHitachi Vantara Jennifer D’SouzaPostdoctoral ResearcherTIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology Sara DuaneSenior Data and Information Management AnalystEnterprise Knowledge LLC Parker EricksonMachine Learning EngineerTigerGraph Anna FilippovaDirector of Community & Datadbt Labs Eleni FotopoulouSenior ResearcherNational Technical University of Athens – Institute of Communication and Computer Systems Beatrice GambaHead of AgencyWordLift S.r.l. Manas GaurAssistant ProfessorUniversity of Maryland Baltimore County Stephen GoldbaumExecutive Director, Distinguished EngineerMorgan Stanley Julian GruemmerAnalystProventis Partners Gautam GuptaGroup ManagerInuit Harsha GurulingappaHead of Text AnalyticsMerck Group Junheng HaoResearcherMicrosoft Research Jordan HauerCo-Founder & CEOAmass Insights Michael HaveySolutions ArchitectAmazon Web Services Heather HeddenKnowledge EngineerPool Party Michael IannelliSenior Data ScientistYext Stephen KahmannCo-FounderCrown Point Technologies, LLC Martin KaltenböckCo-Founder and CFOPool Party Maulik R KamdarDirector of Clinical InformaticsOptum Health Katariina KariLead OntologistInter IKEA Systems B.V. Adam KeresztesBusiness OwnerInter IKEA Systems B.V. Muhammad Jaleed KhanPhD Researcher (AI)Data Science Institute, University of Galway Richard LovedayHead of ProductGraph.Build (Data Lens Labs Limited) Malik Magdon-IsmailVice PresidentGoldman Sachs Holly MaykowData Engineering ConsultantEnterprise Knowledge LLC Gavin Mendel-GleasonCTOTerminusDB Franck MichelResearch EngineerUniversity Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria Nandana MihindukulasooriyaSenior Research ScientistIBM Research AI Michael MillerCognitive Software EngineerNorthrop Grumman Corporation Douglas MooreSenior Specialist Solutions ArchitectDatabricks Mark MuyresFounder & CEO Fimantic Firuza NahmadovaLead Data Analyst/ArchitectDatastake Sara NashSenior ConsultantEnterprise Knowledge Maya NatarajanKnowledge Graph & Graph Analytics EvangelistRLS Silver OliverInformation ArchitectData Language Teodora PetkovaContent WriterFreelance Content Writer Peio PopovVP of Business Operations North AmericaOntotext Jedrzej PotoniecAcademic ResearcherPoznan University of Technology Vaishali RaghvaniAssociate Knowledge EngineerBeamery Rashif RahmanCo-FounderFimantic Sidharth RamachandranSenior Director, Knowledge EngineeringRTL Germany Pete RivettOntologistGolden Rajat SaxenaSoftware Engineering ManagerBooking.com Tony SealeKnowledge Graph EngineerUBS Cassandra ShumVP of Field EngineeringRelationalAI Tommaso SoruArtificial Intelligence LeadSerendipity AI Ltd Ivo VelitchkovAdvisor, Trainer, AuthorSelf-Employed Vineeth VenugopalPostdoctoral ScholarMassachusetts Institute of Technology Andrea VolpiniCo-Founder and CEOWordLift Mark WallaceOntologistSemantic Arts, Inc. Dylan WattFounderKadre Gregor WobbeHead of Data ArchitectureUBS Ryan WrightFounder & CEOthatDot Emily WyattDirector, Global Resilience InitiativesUncharted Software Inc. Prasad YalamanchiCEOLead Semantics, Inc. Amir YazdavarLead Research EngineerOptum Ningyu ZhangAssociate ProfessorZhejiang University Laurel ZuckermanEditorOpen Art Data
