KGC 2023 Speakers

This list will be updated as speakers are added to the program.

Keynote Speakers

George Karypis

Senior Principal Scientist/Distinguished McKnight University Professor
AWS AI/University of Minnesota

Deborah McGuinness

Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Denny Vrandečić

Head of Special Projects
Wikimedia Foundation

Speakers

Fernando Aguilar

Data Science Consultant
Enterprise Knowledge LLC

Naveed Ahamed

Enterprise Data Architect
Allianz

Mehwish Alam

Associate Professor
Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France

Janez Ales

Senior Research Scientist, Mathematician, Data & Algorithms, Knowledge Architecture & Innovation
BASF

Michael Andrews

Content Strategy Evangelist
Kontent.ai

Carlos Badenes-Olmedo

Assistant Professor
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Kanika Bhatia

Head of Digital Content Strategy
Australia and New Zealand Bank

Michel Biezunski

Consultant, Programmer, Founder
Infoloom

Hodaya Binyamini

Applied Research
Accenture

Andreas Blumauer

Founder and CEO
Pool Party

Christos Boutsidis

Vice President
Goldman Sachs

Chris Brockmann

CEO
eccenca

Márton Búr

Knowledge Engineer
Relational AI Inc.

Diego Collaran-Vargas

Team Leader Knowledge Graphs
Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, IAIS, Germany

Abhilekha Dalal

Graduate Research Assistant & PhD Candidate
Kansas State University

Marco Diciolla

Vice President of EMEA
RelationalAI

Leia Dickerson

Senior Librarian, Taxonomy & Research
US GAO

Dennis Diefenbach

CEO
The QA Company

Jens Doerpmund

Vice President, Software Architecture
Hitachi Vantara

Jennifer D’Souza

Postdoctoral Researcher
TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology

Sara Duane

Senior Data and Information Management Analyst
Enterprise Knowledge LLC

Parker Erickson

Machine Learning Engineer
TigerGraph

Anna Filippova

Director of Community & Data
dbt Labs

Eleni Fotopoulou

Senior Researcher
National Technical University of Athens – Institute of Communication and Computer Systems

Beatrice Gamba

Head of Agency
WordLift S.r.l.

Manas Gaur

Assistant Professor
University of Maryland Baltimore County

Stephen Goldbaum

Executive Director, Distinguished Engineer
Morgan Stanley

Julian Gruemmer

Analyst
Proventis Partners

Gautam Gupta

Group Manager
Inuit

Harsha Gurulingappa

Head of Text Analytics
Merck Group

Junheng Hao

Researcher
Microsoft Research

Jordan Hauer

Co-Founder & CEO
Amass Insights

Michael Havey

Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services

Heather Hedden

Knowledge Engineer
Pool Party

Michael Iannelli

Senior Data Scientist
Yext

Stephen Kahmann

Co-Founder
Crown Point Technologies, LLC

Martin Kaltenböck

Co-Founder and CFO
Pool Party

Maulik R Kamdar

Director of Clinical Informatics
Optum Health

Katariina Kari

Lead Ontologist
Inter IKEA Systems B.V.

Adam Keresztes

Business Owner
Inter IKEA Systems B.V.

Muhammad Jaleed Khan

PhD Researcher (AI)
Data Science Institute, University of Galway

Richard Loveday

Head of Product
Graph.Build (Data Lens Labs Limited)

Malik Magdon-Ismail

Vice President
Goldman Sachs

Holly Maykow

Data Engineering Consultant
Enterprise Knowledge LLC

Gavin Mendel-Gleason

CTO
TerminusDB

Franck Michel

Research Engineer
University Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria

Nandana Mihindukulasooriya

Senior Research Scientist
IBM Research AI

Michael Miller

Cognitive Software Engineer
Northrop Grumman Corporation

Douglas Moore

Senior Specialist Solutions Architect
Databricks

Mark Muyres

Founder & CEO
Fimantic

Firuza Nahmadova

Lead Data Analyst/Architect
Datastake

Sara Nash

Senior Consultant
Enterprise Knowledge

Maya Natarajan

Knowledge Graph & Graph Analytics Evangelist
RLS

Silver Oliver

Information Architect
Data Language

Teodora Petkova

Content Writer
Freelance Content Writer

Peio Popov

VP of Business Operations North America
Ontotext

Jedrzej Potoniec

Academic Researcher
Poznan University of Technology

Vaishali Raghvani

Associate Knowledge Engineer
Beamery

Rashif Rahman

Co-Founder
Fimantic

Sidharth Ramachandran

Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering
RTL Germany

Pete Rivett

Ontologist
Golden

Rajat Saxena

Software Engineering Manager
Booking.com

Tony Seale

Knowledge Graph Engineer
UBS

Cassandra Shum

VP of Field Engineering
RelationalAI

Tommaso Soru

Artificial Intelligence Lead
Serendipity AI Ltd

Ivo Velitchkov

Advisor, Trainer, Author
Self-Employed

Vineeth Venugopal

Postdoctoral Scholar
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Andrea Volpini

Co-Founder and CEO
WordLift

Mark Wallace

Ontologist
Semantic Arts, Inc.

Dylan Watt

Founder
Kadre

Gregor Wobbe

Head of Data Architecture
UBS

Ryan Wright

Founder & CEO
thatDot

Emily Wyatt

Director, Global Resilience Initiatives
Uncharted Software Inc.

Prasad Yalamanchi

CEO
Lead Semantics, Inc.

Amir Yazdavar

Lead Research Engineer
Optum

Ningyu Zhang

Associate Professor
Zhejiang University

Laurel Zuckerman

Editor
Open Art Data

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