2023

Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Business Owner Biography Adam is one of the founders of the IKEA Knowledge Graph. You might think he has a long career within the area of data or semantics, but this is far from the truth. He started as an Interior designer one of the IKEA stores in Japan before turning…

Data Science Institute, University of Galway PhD Researcher (AI) Biography Jaleed is a PhD researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Data Science Institute at the University of Galway. He has over five years of R&D experience in academic and industrial setups and has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and presented at highly regarded conferences. He…

Graph.Build (Data Lens Labs Limited) Head of Product Biography I am a developer who has been working in the Semantic space for the last 7 years as a consultant helping companies to implement linked data solutions. I have now moved across from consulting to lead the product development for graph.build (for datalens labs limited) Talks…

University Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Inria Research Engineer Biography Franck Michel is a CNRS research engineer, member of University Cote d’Azur and Inria’s Wimmics research team. His research relates to the representation of knowledge in the form of graphs using the Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies. He is involved in several projects aimed at exploiting…

Northrop Grumman Corporation Cognitive Software Engineer Biography Michael Miller conducts research for Northrop Grumman as a Cognitive Software Engineer. He is leading the Digital Innovation Team’s efforts to mobilize unstructured data from within technical documents. Michael pulls knowledge from a diverse set of experiences in the aerospace and defense industry, including simulation, systems, and software…

Databricks Senior Specialist Solutions Architect Biography I’m passionate about helping customers find value in data and helping the people I work better succeed. 20+ year data veteran, ranging from embedded systems to massive cloud based data lakes. Past roles have included: Solutions Architect, Data Architect, CTO, Engineer.Current Specialties: Big Data Strategy & Architecture, Data Lakes,…

Datastake Lead Data Analyst/Architect Biography I am a data architect and analyst professional, currently working with Datastake to decentralize and standardize knowledge in the Global South. I am also a political researcher focusing on policy in the South Caucasus region. Talks and Events Decentralized Knowledge for the Global South While 2.5 quintillion bytes of data…

Data Language Information Architect Biography Silver is an Information Professional specialising in model driven information architectures. Recently working in health care, broadcast and publishing. Talks and Events Knowledge Graphs in Media: 10 years on from BBC’s 2012 Olympics Project, What is the State of Semantic Publishing in News and Broadcasting? This talk will look at…

Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland Academic Researcher Biography Jedrzej Potoniec is with Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, where he works as a researcher. He defended his Ph.D. in 2018 on learning ontologies from Linked Data. Currently, he is pursuing his research interests of building learning systems employing and/or outputting complex data structures like…

Beamery Associate Knowledge Engineer Biography I am a Knowledge Engineer, working primarily with Knowledge Graphs and data modelling. I have proficiency in SPARQL and rule-based reasoning, and skills in SQL and Java. I work excellently in a team, thrive under pressure and take pride in meeting deadlines. I am a confident individual, who is not…

Fimantic Co-founder Biography Rashif is a Semantic Web and graph databases specialist with close to seven years’ experience in implementing knowledge-graph applications, through both the LPG and RDF paradigms. He did an MSc thesis project on the application of semantic technologies to regulatory compliance management, which was supported by Fimantic, a financial services digitization project…

RTL Germany Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering Biography Sidharth is the Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering at RTL where he leads multiple data product teams who analyse, enrich and improve content understanding. He is also the co-author of the book “Blueprints for Text Analytics” that is published by O’Reilly. Talks and Events Building a Content Knowledge Graph…

Booking.com Software Engineering Manager Biography I am an Engineering Manager in the Fraud Prevention department at Booking.com, based out of Amsterdam. My team works on building innovative platforms and services to improve fraud detection and minimising fraud losses. Prior to this, I was working as a Software Engineer in Facebook’s London office. Talks and Events…

UBS Knowledge Graph Engineer Biography An experienced software architect and polyglot programmer with a proven track record of successfully delivering Knowledge Graphs into production for Tier 1 investment banks. I can guide the creation of Enterprise Knowledge Graph architecture. I have deep knowledge of the relevant technologies (data pipelines, triplestore optimisation, API and service design,…

Serendipity AI Ltd Artificial Intelligence Lead Biography Tommaso Soru is Artificial Intelligence Lead at Serendipity AI in London, UK and a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He authored more than 30 publications in the fields of knowledge engineering, machine learning, and natural language processing. Talks and Events Spotting Signals in Text via…

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Scholar Biography I am a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on knowledge/data extraction from scientific literature using Natural Language Processing. I am PhD in Materials Engineering from Brown University, USA where I studied piezoelectric materials and their fabrication. I am interested in the creation of AI/ML…

Kadre Founder Biography I am a founder of Kadre.io, an analytics consulting company. We focus primarily on companies looking to be small and scrappy, often setting up their data functions for the first time. What I’ve found is that semantic layers, historically LookMl, have massive returns on being able to do more with less. If…

thatDot Founder & CEO Biography Ryan Wright is the creator of Quine, and has been leading software teams focused on data infrastructure and data science for two decades. He has served as principal engineer, director of engineering, principal investigator on DARPA-funded research programs, and is currently the founder and CEO of thatDot—the company supporting the…