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Workshops & Tutorials — Day 1

  • Workshops
  • Tutorials
  • ⭐ Sponsor
9:00 Foundation for a Knowledge Graph: Taxonomy Design Best Practices Heather Hedden
9:30
10:00 Semantic Modeling for Knowledge Graphs Panos Alexopoulos Integrating Data through Virtual Knowledge Graphs with Ontop Diego Calvanese Benjamin Cogrel Xiao Guohui
10:30
11:00 Knowledge Graphs for Social Good Lambert Hogenhout Vivek Khetan Bogdan Sacaleanu Rayid Ghani
11:30
12:00
12:30
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13:30 Enterprise Knowledge Graph Workshop Dennis Wisnosky Workshop on Knowledge-infused Learning Amit Sheth Ying Ding Pavan Kapinapathi Manas Gaur
14:00 An Introduction to Knowledge Graphs Vinay Chaudhri
14:30
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16:00 Startup Pitch Event Sponsored by Accenture
16:30 Modeling Sustainability Ellie Young
17:00
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Workshops & Tutorials — Day 1

  • Workshops
  • Tutorials
  • ⭐ Sponsor
9:00 DBpedia Knowledge Graph Tech Tutorial Milan Dojchinovski Sebastian Hellmann Jan Forberg Johannes Frey Julia Holze Paths to More Personal and Collaborative Knowledge Graphs Alan Morisson
9:30
10:00 Second Workshop on Personal Health Knowledge Graphs Ching-Hua Chen Amar Das Ying Ding Deborah McGuinness ⭐ Graph-Based Data Science Sponsored by: Katana Graph Presented by: Paco Nathan Daniel Vila Suero Gaurav Jaglan
10:30
11:00
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13:00 Validating semantic knowledge graphs using SHACL Veronika Heimsbakk
13:30
14:30 How Graphs Improve Systems Thinking Dan McCreary
15:00 Intro to Data Mesh Samia Rahman
15:30 Annotating Tabular Data using Semantic Data Dictionaries Sabbir Rashid Jamie McCusker
16:00
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  • Workshops
  • Tutorials
  • ⭐ Sponsor

Main Conference — Day 1

Legend
? Search ?‍? Life Sciences ? Data Architecture ? XAI
? NLP ? Finance ? Open Knowledge Networks ? Knowledge Graphs
? Tools ? Libraries ? Machine Learning ⭐ Sponsor
⛓️ Blockchain ?️ History ? Hardware ? Standards
9:00 Morning Coffee & Yoga/Meditation Session
9:30 High-Performance Knowledge Graph Computing on the Katana Graph Engine Keshav Pingali Katana Graph ⭐
10:00 Biological Insights Knowledge Graph to help drug development Andriy Nikolov AstraZeneca ?‍? Tales from the Road of Text to Knowledge Veronika Heimsbakk Capgemini ? Knowledge Graph Magic Map: Capabilities and Partners Atanas Kiryakov Ontotext ⭐? RDF-star: Metadata for RDF Statements Olaf Hartig Linköping University ?
10:30 Data Governance 4.0 applied to a Unified Clinical Data Model Cedric Berger Novartis International ?‍? Entity Disambiguation with Knowledge Graph Chen Zhang and Dmytro Dolgopolov Finra ? The Semantic Content Hub: Transforming data hurdles into comprehensive knowledge discovery Andreas Blumauer Semantic Web Company ⭐? A Report from the Property Graph Schema Working Group Jan Hidders University of London ?
11:00 Break – Sponsored by Katana Graph Speakers AMA / Experts Roundtables / Networking Tables ⭐
11:30 Building an Immuno-Oncology & Cell Therapy Knowledge Graph Eelke van der Horst The Hyve ?‍? Automated Knowledge Graphs for Market Intelligence Mike Tung Diffbot ? Katana Graph Solutions: Scalable Graph Search and Graph Mining Ying Ding ⭐? W3C Dataset Exchange Group – Current work and implementation suggestions Peter Winstanley and Boris Pelakh Semantic Arts ?
12:00 Elsevier’s Healthcare Knowledge Graph: An Actionable Medical Knowledge Platform to Power Diverse Applications Maulik Kamdar Elsevier Inc. ?‍? Structured to Unstructured and Back: Integrated Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Processing Techniques Alex Kalinowski Wells Fargo/Drexel Un. ? Git for Data? Why a Knowledge Graph is Best for Distributed Collaboration Luke Feeney TerminusDB ? The Upcoming GQL Standard Stefan Plantikow Neo4j ?
12:30 Data Commons in the wild – it’s an API world out there Jonas Almeida National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics ?‍? Re-imagining Regulatory Obligation Management Abhishek Mittal Wolters Kluwer (GRC Division) ? Data-centric transformation Martynas Jusevicius AtomGraph ? Anything-to-Graph Joshua Shinavier Uber Inc. ?
13:00 Break Speakers AMA / Experts Roundtables / Networking Tables. At 1pm join DataStax for an AMA with the authors of the “Practitioner’s guide to Graph Data”
13:30
14:00 Panel Discussion on Life Sciences Moderator: Tom Plasterer AstraZeneca Panel Discussion on NLP for KGs Bringing Time and Truth to Semantic Data Trey Botard Fluree ⭐? Panel discussion on Standardization efforts for knowledge graphs Moderator: Josh Shinavier
14:30 PROV4ITDaTa: Flexible KG generation within reach (tool presentation) Ben De Meester IDLab – imec – Ghent University ?
15:00 History of Knowledge Graph’s Main Ideas Juan Sequeda data.world ?️ Knowledge Economy tools based on the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph Branimir Rakic OriginTrail ⛓️ Think Big: How To Build Enterprise Scalability into a Knowledge Graph Platform Ben Szekley Cambridge Semantics ⭐ Introduction to Weaviate Vector Search Engine Laura Ham SeMI Technologies ?
15:30 Break Speakers AMA / Experts Roundtables / Networking Tables
16:00 Scaling and maintaining OpenRefine Antonin Delpeuch OpenRefine ? On the role of knowledge graphs in explainable machine learning Freddy Lecue Thales Canada – Inria France ? From discovering to trusting data Mark Grover Stemma ? Graph-Based Data Science: `kglab` open source integration of graph libraries with popular data science tooling Paco Nathan Derwen Inc. ?
16:30 Semantic MediaWiki as Knowledge Graph Interface Bernhard Krabina KDZ – Centre for Public Administration Research ? Connecting the Dots with Knowledge and Data to Enable Analogical Reasoning Steven Gustafson Noonum Inc. ? Data Observability: The Next Frontier of Data Engineering Barr Moses Monte Carlo ? NLP – A Cornerstone for a Successful Graph: A look at handling unstructured data through a medical case study Nicole Moldovan Lymba ⭐?
17:00 VocBench – a semantic web collaborative development platform for ontologies – thesauri and lexicons Johannes Keizer Lore Star srl ? Panel discussion on KGs Adoption in Finance Moderator: Mike Atkin Building Data Products using a No-code Knowledge Graph Platform Justin Zhen and François Scharffe Kgbase & The Knowledge Graph Conference ⭐? Panel discussion on Graph Data Science Moderator: Paco Nathan
17:30 Known Unknowns: How Philanthropy Is Using Knowledge Graphs to Make Smarter Investments in Data Ecosystems Matt Gee BrightHive ⭐ Visualizing Data Lineage Peter Hicks Datakin ?
18:00
18:30 Networking and Socializing Events Everyone

Main Conference — Day 2

Legend
? Search ?‍? Life Sciences ? Data Architecture ? XAI
? NLP ? Finance ? Open Knowledge Networks ? Knowledge Graphs
? Tools ? Libraries ? Machine Learning ⭐ Sponsor
⛓️ Blockchain ?️ History ? Hardware ? Standards
9:00 From Network Medicine to Food and Knowledge Graphs Albert-László Barabási Northeastern University
9:30 KGC Opening and Prize
10:00 KG Industry Survey Mike Atkin & François Scharffe & Thomas Deely
10:30 Break Speakers AMA / Experts Roundtables / Networking Tables
11:00 Introduction to Data Mesh: A paradigm shift in managing analytical data Zhamak Dehghani ThoughtWorks – North America
11:30 Accelerating Industry Data Integration: Knowledge Graph Enabled Data Mesh Teresa Tung and Neda Abolhassani Accenture ⭐
12:00 Elevating Data to Knowledge: Practical Approach to Weave Knowledge Graph Technology in Enterprise Data Architecture Jay Yu Intuit ? What can we learn from knowledge graphs? A Wirecard perspective Julian Grümmer Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg ? A knowledge graph is more than just a graph database Ora Lassila and Charles Ivie AWS ? From Vision to Reality: A Fireside Chat with Knowledge Graph Trailblazers Moderated by Mike Atkin ⭐
12:30 Future of Enterprise Data Management: Data products powered by Knowledge Graphs Mohammed Aaser McKinsey and Company ? A knowledge graph of controversial claims and its applications Konstantin Todorov University of Montpellier ? How to Build a Data Fabric Michael Grove Stardog ? Open Knowledge Network Chaitan Baru National Science Foundation ?
13:00 Break Speakers AMA / Experts Roundtables / Networking Tables
13:30
14:00 Panel Discussion on Data Architecture Moderator: Juan Sequeda The OpenAIRE Research Graph: Science as a public good Paolo Manghi CNR / ISTI ? Shopping Sense: Bringing common sense to worldwide shopping knowledge Chris Welty Google Research ? Know – Know Where – KnowWhereGraph Krzysztof Janowicz University of California – Santa Barbara ?
14:30 Benefits of Collaborative AI vs. Manual Creation of the Graph: Taxonomization of IATE – the EU Terminology Alena Vasilevich Coreon GmbH ? The Usearch Contextual Graph Roi Krakovski Usearch – Internet Search Technologies ? SPOKE: a biomedical open knowledge graph Sergio Baranzini University of California San Francisco ?
15:00 How to Optimally Merge Knowledge Graphs with Category Theory Ryan Wisnesky Conexus AI ? Graph Hardware Is Coming! Dan McCreary Optum and Intel ? Serving a web scale Knowledge Graph Mike Welch Verizon Media ? Infrastructure for Knowledge Graph Application Programming Michael Cafarella MIT CSAIL ?
15:30 Break Speakers AMA / Experts Roundtables / Networking Tables
16:00 AutoKnow: Self-Driving Knowledge Collection for Products of Thousands of Types Xian Li Amazon ? Developing Enterprise Applications with Oracle Graph Melliyal Annamalai Oracle ⭐? Entity Life Cycle In Search-Centric Knowledge Graphs Amgad Madkour Microsoft ? Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources into a COVID-19 Knowledge Graph Peter Rose UC San Diego ?
16:30 Multi-Modal retrieval over Knowledge Graphs Shekar Iyer Facebook ? Startup Pitch Winner Announcement Your Future in Search is Built on Knowledge Graphs Duane Forrester Yext ? OKN Panel Discussion
17:00 Financial Knowledge Graph at Bloomberg: Applications and Challenges Ridho Reinanda Bloomberg ? Panel Discussion on Search
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18:00 Closing
18:30 Networking and Socializing Events Everyone