Knowledge Graphs & AI: Better Together at KGC 2025
We’re excited to announce that the 7th edition of the Knowledge Graph Conference is returning this May to the beautiful Cornell Tech campus in NYC and online.
This year’s conference will be our 4th year at Cornell Tech, and we are pleased that last year’s event was so well attended and received. As we gear up for Knowledge Graph Conference 2025, we wanted to offer you a preview of what this year might have in store.
Knowledge Graphs Are More Relevant Than Ever
“The pendulum is swinging back” was a common sentiment last year, in reference to the fact that semantic technologies are coming back into vogue again, especially as challenges with generative AI become more apparent.
This pendulum swing is becoming a reality out of the need to create more reliable outputs from generative AI and to create those outputs more efficiently by consuming less resources. Another important factor in this swing is the bi-directional interaction between knowledge graphs and AI.
We are proud of the reputation that the conference has built over the past six years as the forum where leading domain experts from across the globe convene to learn from each other. The Knowledge Graph Conference 2025 will again be a great opportunity for you to take the pulse on what’s emerging in a domain that’s more interesting and relevant than ever before.
What’s on the Agenda for KGC 2025
Topics for this year’s conference will include knowledge graphs enabling data-centric applications for artificial intelligence and increasing accuracy and completeness. We will continue to focus on ontologies, as they help enable true reasoning, overcoming the intrinsic limitations of large language models (LLMs).
While LLMs are powerful, they have their drawbacks. Unlike earlier systems, they lack a structured knowledge base, making their reasoning opaque. They can generate convincing text, but without a solid grounding in facts, they are prone to hallucinations—producing information that sounds right but is factually incorrect. This black-box nature of LLMs highlights a fundamental tension in AI: the balance between interpretability and flexibility.
The content in this year’s agenda will remain consistent on topics such as:
- Core knowledge graph technology – languages, techniques and tools
- Business use-cases and adoption stories
- Presentations on specific knowledge graphs, ontologies and taxonomies
- Knowledge engineering methodologies
- Emerging research and hotly debated ideas
The Enduring Role of Knowledge Graphs in the Tech Space
We also recognize that knowledge graphs are only one part of the solution.
Knowledge graphs, vector databases, document stores, and prompt libraries are all being leveraged to build new applications and agent workflows, and terms like retrieval augmented generation (RAG) are becoming commonplace. We’ll also talk about the growing importance of data orchestration at KGC 2025 as organizations look to weave together these various different sources to create the most complete and intelligent outputs from AI.
GraphRAG, a new concept that emerged in the industry following publications from researchers at companies such as Microsoft Research and Neo4j, aims to address these shortcomings by representing knowledge as a graph structure. The approaches to GraphRAG are evolving as well, and as this bleeding-edge field continues to progress, we are bound to see many types of implementations of the same concept.
What Else Is Ahead for This Year’s Knowledge Graph Conference
This May, we’ll continue offering our hands-on masterclasses, plus the Healthcare & Life Sciences Symposium which continues to go from strength to strength, followed by a two-day conference of lightning talks, and a watch party hosted by AWS at their NYC office on the last day of the conference.
We’ve recently seen some exciting news from our partners, with Oxford Semantics being acquired by Samsung Electronics, and longtime partners, Ontotext and Semantic Web Company merging to form Graphwise.
We are excited that Metaphacts has already signed on as a conference partner for 2025, and we look forward to welcoming other past partners as well.
On the education front, the Knowledge Graph Conference is excited to build on our partnership with The National Science Foundation, where we have recently launched a new curriculum for developers (now in beta mode). We are already planning our next hackathons, and we’ll continue our startup pitch and lifetime achievement awards. (Who do you think will win in 2025?) Catch a flashback of our keynote from 2024 below.
We Look Forward to Seeing You in May!
Knowledge graphs are being used more extensively and across a wider range of industries than ever before – startups are showcasing knowledge graphs as a business differentiator and enterprise organizations are using them for search and to get more value from their complex datasets – all of which will make the Knowledge Graph Conference 2025 our strongest event ever!
We’ll have (much) more to announce soon. See you at KGC 2025 in May!
–Thomas & François
What are you waiting for? Get your early-bird ticket to the Knowledge Graph Conference 2025 and level up your skills in knowledge graphs, AI, and more.
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