KGC Speakers 2022
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Bob Metcalfe
Internet pioneer and Ethernet founder
Trace Labs advisory board member
Trace Labs advisory board member
Bob Muglia
Relational AI
Board member
Board member
David Meza
NASA
AI/ML R&D Lead, People Analytics and Sr. Data Scientist
AI/ML R&D Lead, People Analytics and Sr. Data Scientist
Jure Leskovesc
Stanford
Professor
Professor
Ora Lassila
Amazon Web Services
Principal Technologist
SPEAKERS
Alejandro Jaimes
Dataminr
Chief Scientist & SVP of AI
Chief Scientist & SVP of AI
Alena Vasilevich
Coreon GmbH
Computational Linguist
Alex Samylkin
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer
Allard Oelen
L3S (Leibniz University Hannover) and TIB (Technische Informationsbibliothek)
Alyx Rossetti
Netflix
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Amit Jere
Intuit
Vice President Of Product Development
Vice President Of Product Development
Andrea Volpini
WordLift
Co-founder and CEO
Andrew Zhai
Pinterest
Software Engineer
Software Engineer
Andy Fitzgerald
Independant Consultant
Anna Fensel
University of Innsbruck, Austria
Associate Professor
Atanas Kiryakov
Ontotext
Founder and CEO
Founder and CEO
Atlas Wang
UT Austin
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Avy Faingezicht
Vouch
Engineering Manager
Bee-Chung Chen
Pinterest
Software Engineer, Sr Machine Learning Architect
Software Engineer, Sr Machine Learning Architect
Ben Steer
Pometry
Founder and CTO
Founder and CTO
Bo Wu
Katana Graph and Colorado School of Mines
Principal Engineer;Associate Professor
Principal Engineer;Associate Professor
Borislav Iordanov
Semantic Arts
Ontologist
Branimir Rakic
Trace Labs
Co-Founder and CTO
Co-Founder and CTO
Britt Ellmer
TSYS
Director of the Content Strategy Program
Director of the Content Strategy Program
Bryan Perozzi
Google
Research Scientist, Data Mining & Machine Learning
Research Scientist, Data Mining & Machine Learning
Charles Tapley Hoyt
Harvard Medical School
Postdoctoral Fellow
Chris Brockmann
eccenca
CEO
Danai Koutra
University of Michigan/Amazon
Professor
Professor
Daniel Kornev
Deep Pavlov
Chief Product Officer
Dave Duggal
EnterpriseWeb
Founder / Managing Director
Founder / Managing Director
Dixon Jones
Inlinks Optimization LTD
CEO
Dominique LaSalle
Nvidia
Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer
Senior AI Developer Technology Engineer
Dr. Jesus Barrasa
neo4j
Sr. Director, Sales Engineering EMEA
Sr. Director, Sales Engineering EMEA
Dr. Maya Natarajan
neo4j
Sr. Director, Knowledge Graphs
Sr. Director, Knowledge Graphs
Dr. Mirko Kämpf
ecolytiq GmbH
CTO and Chief Architect
Elisa Kendall
Thematix Partners LLC
Partner
Eric Little
Accenture Life Sciences
Industry Innovation Principal Director
Industry Innovation Principal Director
Eric Tessenow
ecolytiq GmbH
Chief Information Security Officer
Chief Information Security Officer
Feiyu Xiong
Alibaba Group
Director, Business Platform Unit
Director, Business Platform Unit
Filip Ilievski
USC Information Sciences Institute
Research scientist
Filippo Minutella
Larus Business Automation
AI Engineer
Gaetan Belbeoc’h
ADEO
Head of Customer Experience
Gautam Gupta
Intuit
Group Manager
Giuseppe Futia
GraphAware
Senior Data Scientist
Greg Steck
Katana Graph
Solutions Architect – FSI
Solutions Architect – FSI
Gregor Wobbe
UBS
Head of Data Architecture
Hamza Ishaq
Ellie Lou
Operating partner
Harry Powell
Tigergraph
Head of Industry Solutions
Heather Hedden
Semantic Web Company
Data and Knowledge Engineer
Holly Maykow
Enterprise Knowledge, LLC Data Engineering Consultant Biography A data and information management analyst skilled in technical analysis, content management, and workshop development and facilitation. Exceptional communicator with a proven ability to derive productive insights from anecdotal and technical data inputs. Direct public and private sector experience creating and implementing comprehensive data and information management solutions…
Huajun Chen
Zhejiang University
Professor
Professor
Jacobus Geluk
Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation
Board member
Board member
Jaewon Yang
LinkedIn
Principal Staff Software Engineer
Principal Staff Software Engineer
Jans Aasman
Franz Inc
CEO
Jason Barnard
Kalicube
Founder and CEO
Jay Yu
Tigergraph
VP Product & Innovation
VP Product & Innovation
Jayadev Chandrasekhar
Netflix
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Jean Delahousse
Jean Delahousse SARL and Université Panthéon-Sorbonne
Consultant
Jeff Coyle
MarketMuse
Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer
Jennifer D’Souza
TIB (Technische Informationsbibliothek), Leibniz University Hannover
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jim Culver
GSK
AI/ML Product Manager
AI/ML Product Manager
Jurgen Weichenberger
Accenture
Senior Data Science Executive
Katariina Kari
Inter IKEA Systems
Lead Ontologist
Kumar Deepak
AMD
Fellow, Compute Acceleration
Fellow, Compute Acceleration
Laura Arditti
LARUS Business Automation
Graph Data Scientist
Maciej Kazirod
Netflix
Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
Malik Magdon-Ismail
Goldman Sachs Vice President Biography Machine Learning and Big Data expert/consultant. Worked in automated trading, healthcare analytics, and Internet startups. Numerous publications in machine learning, computational finance, algorithms and networks. Specialties: Machine Learning; Computational Finance; Healthcare analytics; Efficient algorithms for computer applications; Social Networks. Talks and Events A Distributed Vertex-Deduplication Framework for Large Graphs Our…
Mark Austin
AT&T
Vice President, Data Science
Vice President, Data Science
Mark Myslin
Lexis Nexis
Principal Data Scientist
Principal Data Scientist
Michael Atkin
Content Strategies LLC
Managing Director
Managing Director
Michael Grove
Stardog
Co-Founder and SVP of Engineering
Co-Founder and SVP of Engineering
Michael Shaler
TigerGraph
VP of Business Development
Mike Bennett
Hypercube Ltd.
Director
Director
Mike Dillinger
Principal
Independent Consulting
Mike Gilger
Modus Operandi
CTO
CTO
Mike Pool
Morgan Stanley
Executive Director
Nabeel Zewail
Vouch
Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager
Neil Shah
Snapchat
Lead Research Scientist
Lead Research Scientist
Nitesh Chawla
University of Notre Dame
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Noel Billingsley
Palturai
Head of Business Operations North America
Head of Business Operations North America
Octavian Udrea
Dataminr
Principal Research Scientist
Principal Research Scientist
Oliver Smith
TerminusDB
Content Marketing Lead
Ora Lassila
Amazon Web Services
Principal Technologist
Peio Popov
Ontotext
VP of Business Operations North America
VP of Business Operations North America
Pete Rivett
Golden Ontologist Biography Pete Rivett has recently joined Golden as their Ontologist. He has been heavily involved in many ontology and knowledge graph efforts, both enterprise-specific and industry-wide including the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) LEI ontology. He is founding director of Enterprise Knowledge Grapoh Foundation (EKGF)…
Ridho Reinanda
Wells Fargo
Knowledge Engineer Manager
Knowledge Engineer Manager
Rishiraj Saha Roy
Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Senior Research Scientist
Ruben Verborgh
Ghent University
Professor of Decentralized Web Technology
Sara Nash
Enterprise Knowledge
Senior Consultant
Senior Consultant
Shannon Copeland
Accenture
Managing Director
Managing Director
Sharat Israni
University of California, San Francisco
Exec Dir & CTO
Exec Dir & CTO
Sharon Davids
Nearmap
Mechatronic Engineer
Shyamal Shukla
Microsoft
Principal Software Engineer
Principal Software Engineer
Souripriya Das
Oracle America Inc.
Architect, Spatial and Graph Database
Architect, Spatial and Graph Database
Stefan Winzenried
JANZZ Ltd.
CEO
CEO
Stuart Jennings
BBC
Lead Data Scientist
Lead Data Scientist
Suneeta Mall
Nearmap
Director, AI Model Systems at Nearmap
Director, AI Model Systems at Nearmap
Teodora Petkova
Self-Employed
Freelance Content Writer
Freelance Content Writer
Thomas Mitrevski
Enterprise Knowledge
Consultant
Consultant
Tomer Ram
Accenture Israel Cyber R&D Lab
Senior Software Engineer
Senior Software Engineer
Vaishali Raghvani
Legislate
Knowledge Engineer
Knowledge Engineer
Valentina Janev
The Institute Mihajlo Pupin
Senior Researcher
Senior Researcher
Veronika Heimsbakk
Capgemini
Managing AI Engineer
Victor Chen
GoPeaks
Founder
Founder
Yanko Ivanov
Enterprise Knowledge
Enterprise Solution Architect
Yizhou Sun
UCLA
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Yu Liu
Meta
Director at Facebook AI
Director at Facebook AI