2023

Marco Diciolla

RelationalAIVice President of EMEA Biography Marco is Vice President of EMEA at RelationalAI where he leads the GTM and Sales efforts in the region.Before joining RelationalAI, he was a Junior Partner at QuantumBlack, the analytics arm of McKinsey, leading QuantumBlack work in TMT (High-Tech, Media, and Telco). Before QuantumBlack, he was a Deployment Strategist at…

Cassandra (Cassie) Shum

RelationalAIVP of Field Engineering Biography Cassie Shum is the VP of Field Engineering for RelationalAI. She leads a large group of highly specialized data scientists, knowledge graph experts, and software architects and engineers implementing the RAI product in enterprise organizations. Her previous years include a background as a software engineer and architect; she has spent…

Peio Popov

OntotextVP of Business Operations North America Biography I have spent all my career at the intersection of tech, law and finance. Started at IBM as Contracts and Negotiations, I moved forward to be part of the development of a system for a mobile payment system at SEP Bulgaria. I was in charge of regulatory compliance and contracting…

Heather Hedden

Semantic Web CompanyKnowledge Engineer Biography Heather Hedden has been a knowledge engineer since 2020 with Semantic Web Company, vendor of PoolParty Semantic Suite software for taxonomy, ontology, and knowledge graph management. In addition to helping customers with their taxonomy/ontology projects and supporting sales, Heather has recently taken on the additional roles of Product Communications Representative…

Gregor Wobbe

UBSHead of Data Architecture Biography Gregor Wobbe is Head of Data Architecture and Executive Director for UBS. Before joining UBS, Mr. Wobbe had held senior positions at JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. His focus is on developing next generation data strategies that leverage knowledge graphs and machine intelligence technologies.He lives with his wife and…

Dr. Maya Natarajan

RLSKnowledge Graph & Graph Analytics Evangelist Biography Maya is passionate about bringing different technologies together to solve complex problems and is championing the use of knowledge graphs to bring context to various systems. She has positioned technologies from Blockchain to Predictive & User-Based Analytics to Machine Learning to Deep Learning to Search to BPM and…

Denny Vrandečić

Wikimedia FoundationHead of Special Projects Biography Denny Vrandečić is Head of Special Projects at the Wikimedia Foundation, leading the development of Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia. He is the founder of Wikidata, co-creator of Semantic MediaWiki, and former elected member of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. He worked for Google on the Google Knowledge Graph….

Mark Muyres

FimanticFounder & CEO Biography Mark holds over 15 years of experience in advising large European financial institutions in their effort to comply with financial regulations. Mark advised over 30 European Banks and supported as Subject Matter Expert in regulatory compliance audits and worked within the policy department within a European Central Bank. Mark is also…

George Karypis

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

Sara Duane

Enterprise Knowledge Senior Data and Information Management Analyst Talks and Events Semantic Recommendation Engines Case Studies: Bringing Enterprise Information Discovery to the 21st Century Content personalization and recommendation engines are pervasive in today’s society. They power some of our most used platforms–including Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, and more. However, many organizations struggle to provide their employees…