2020

Vassil has more than 15 years in software development in various domains like life sciences, pharmaceutical, health care and telecommunication. In the past 10 years he mostly engaged with the development of complex enterprise knowledge management solutions that features natural language processing, text analytics, reasoning, semantics, ontology design, linked data, conceptual model design, implementation of…

Topojoy currently leads information extraction on text and videos in Yahoo Knowledge Graph which powers search and information organization in products in Yahoo! like Finance, Sports, entity search and browse. He has worked on Yahoo Knowledge Graph (YK) for 4 years on various aspects of creating knowledge graphs like reconciliation of source graphs, type classifying…

Ghent University

Professor of Decentralized Web Technology

Ron Bekkerman is the CTO of Cherre Inc., an AI-powered real estate data integration platform. From 2013 to 2018, Ron was Assistant Professor and Director of the Big Data Science Lab at the University of Haifa, Israel. Prior to that, he was the Chief Data Officer of Viola Ventures, a founding member of the Data…

Rafael Gonçalves is a Research Scientist at Stanford University. He researches methods for engineering and reasoning over ontologies primarily represented in OWL. He steers the research activities of the Protégé group, which develops Protégé and WebProtégé: widely used, open-source ontology editors with rich collaboration features for Web-based editing. 2020 Talk: Use of OWL and Semantic…

Nic Seyot serves as Head of Information Management for Morgan Stanley and as Head of Data & Analytics for the Legal and Compliance Division. Nic joined Morgan Stanley in 2014 to help create services and tools to better organize, retrieve, retain and protect the firm’s information. Since 2019, Nic leads the Data & Analytics team…

Dr. Konstantin Todorov is Assoc. Professor at the University of Montpellier since 2012. He obtained his PhD in Cognitive Science from the Univ. of Osnabrück (Germany) in 2010 after receiving a MSc in Statistical Learning from the Univ. of Provence (France). His research lies in the AI fields of knowledge and data integration and extraction…

John F. Sowa spent 30 years on R & D projects at IBM and is a co-founder of VivoMind Research LLC. He is a fellow of the AAAI, and he has published several books and many articles on logic, AI, and computational linguistics.   2020 Talk: From Semantic Networks to Knowledge Graphs Since the 1960s,…

Huda Khan works in software development at Mann Library, Cornell University. She is interested in the design and architecture of linked data and semantic web applications, specifically in: (a) supporting usability through effective interface design and (b) enabling flexible interplay between different components and/or technologies. In the LD4P2 grant, she has focused on experiments around…

Currently works at Dow Jones as the head of engineering for a team that is looking to deliver its customers more relevant information by leveraging big data technologies, graphs, and nlp. Recently relocated from Minneapolis to Barcelona to build the team tasked with working towards this effort. When he isn’t coding he enjoys exploring this…

Dr. Chen Yong Cher is the CTO of Infrastructure at Graphen. He oversees Graphen’s core AI platform, Ardi, and some of its cybersecurity and risk management solutions catering to financial firms. Prior to Graphen, he was a System Researcher at IBM for 12 years. He was a contributor to BlueGene/Q supercomputer and DARPA’s PERCS and…

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…

Franz Inc

CEO

Pierre Haren is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in France, and holds MS and PhD degrees from MIT. He led a research team at INRIA on the design of expert systems in the 1980s. He created ILOG in 1987, took it public in 1997 and led its sale to IBM in 2008. He subsequently joined…

Stardog
Co-Founder and SVP of Engineering