2019

Joshua Shinavier, Knowledge Graph Conference

Joshua Shinavier

LinkedIn Senior Staff Engineer Biography Joshua is a member of the graph team at LinkedIn, currently focused on computational knowledge graphs. A co-founder of Apache TinkerPop and holder of a Semantic Web PhD, Joshua has made a career of graph databases and knowledge representation. He is among those who think that we “think in graphs”,…

Nav Mathur

Nav Mathur

Nav Mathur is Senior Director Global Solutions at Neo. He is responsible for solutions development and Go-To-Market activities for Solutions. Nav is a seasoned Solutions Leader, bringing over 20+ years of experience in Business Consulting focused on Strategy, Planning and Transformational Solutions. Previously, Nav was at Wipro heading sales for the Enterprise Architecture practice across…

Amy E. Hodler

Amy E. Hodler

Amy E. Hodler is a network science devotee and AI and Graph Analytics Program Manager at Neo4j. She promotes the use of graph analytics to reveal structures within real-world networks and predict dynamic behaviour. She’s also the co-author of the O’Reilly book, “Graph Algorithms – Practical examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j.” Amy helps teams…

Alfio Gliozzo

Alfio Gliozzo

Alfio Gliozzo is a scientist, technologist and manager with over 17 years of experience in the field of Artificial Intelligence and specifically Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and Knowledge Induction. He is the leader of the Knowledge Area of IBM Research AI tech. His mission is to enhance IBM products with cutting hedge…

Arthur Keen

Arthur Keen

Graph evangelist with more than 20 years experience in graph/analytics/AI/semantics applied to intelligence, cyber, financial, logistics, retail and energy solutions. He has taken 3 products from concept to general availability and has 3 graph patents. Leadership roles CTO, chief scientist, and chief software architect. He has a computer science/Industrial engineering Ph.D. and has been invited…

Bryon Jacob

Bryon Jacob

Bryon is the CTO and co-founder of data.world – on a mission to build the world’s most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource. Bryon is a recognized leader in building large-scale consumer internet systems and an expert in data integration solutions. Bryon’s twenty years of academic and professional experience spans AI research at Case Western…

Jeremy Hanna

Jeremy Hanna

Jeremy Hanna has been involved with building and deploying large-scale distributed systems for the last several years. He was an early contributor on the Apache Cassandra project and involved with Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and related projects. He has helped customers of DataStax deploy these systems for the last seven years. As DataStax entered into…

Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg

Friedrich Lindenberg leads the data team at OCCRP. He is responsible for the development of OCCRP Data and supports ongoing investigations where data analysis is needed. In 2014/2015, Friedrich was a Knight International journalism fellow with the International Center for Journalists, working with the African Network of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), and in 2013…

Brad Bebee

Brad Bebee

Brad Bebee leads product and engineering for Amazon Neptune, AWS’s new fully managed graph database service, and works closely with customers and developers to help them build graph-enabled solutions. Prior to joining AWS, he was the CEO of Blazegraph, where he focused on leveraging products for high performance graph databases and analytics into business and…

Chris Brockman

Chris Brockman

Chris Brockman is the CEO of Eccenca, a leader in data integration, governance, supply-chain and risk management. Chris is also adviser to the president of the APICS Supply Chain Council and the APICS Digitalization Task Force as well as head of the APICS Readiness Task Force. He has a BA from the University of Göttingen…

Colin Puri

Colin Puri

Colin is an R&D Principal within Accenture Labs and is as the lead researcher in the System & Platform group. His background is in the biometrics field building the next generation polygraph using thermal infrared imagery, creating algorithms for detection and quantification of stress, building sensors, and developing algorithms for RADARs in the National Missile…

Dieter Fensel

Dieter Fensel

Talking Knowledge Graphs In this talk, we will demo knowledge graph-driven conversational interfaces. More precisely we will show: Our design choices and architecture decisions of knowledge graphs. The access layer to the knowledge graph based on rule based view definitions that provide locally complete and correct views on large, heterogeneous, and dynamic knowledge graphs. The…

Dean Allemang

Dean Allemang

Dean is an Ontologies at EDM Council. He Assists EDM Council in the development of the Financial Industry Business Ontology.   He has 20 years of research and deployment of semantic solutions, including expert systems, knowledge management systems, rule-base systems.   He has been interested for most of his career in how knowledge can be…

David Newman

David Newman

David provides leadership and expertise for the advancement of knowledge graph and machine intelligence based technologies at Wells Fargo. His team develops innovations that employ various AI capabilities, including semantic technology, graph analytics, machine learning and natural language processing. David’s core mission is to use AI to develop the foundational building blocks for the future…

Joe Pindell

Joe Pindell

Mr. Pindell is a Managing Director on the Global Solution Management team which is responsible for the overall go to market of software solutions. While at Pitney Bowes, Joe has contributed his expertise as a Strategic Consultant, Solution Sales Director, a Director of Technical Projects as well as a Managing Consultant while working with clients…