2019

Dean Allemang

Dean Allemang

Dean is an Ontologies at EDM Council. He Assists EDM Council in the development of the Financial Industry Business Ontology. He has 20 years of research and deployment of semantic solutions, including expert systems, knowledge management systems, rule-base systems. He has been interested for most of his career in how knowledge can be formalized and…

Bryon Jacob

Bryon Jacob

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…

Chris Brockman

Chris Brockman

Chris Brockman is the CEO of Eccenca, a leader in data integration, governance, supply-chain and risk management. Chris is also adviser to the president of the APICS Supply Chain Council and the APICS Digitalization Task Force as well as head of the APICS Readiness Task Force. He has a BA from the University of Göttingen…

Colin Puri

Colin Puri

Colin is an R&D Principal within Accenture Labs and is as the lead researcher in the System & Platform group. His background is in the biometrics field building the next generation polygraph using thermal infrared imagery, creating algorithms for detection and quantification of stress, building sensors, and developing algorithms for RADARs in the National Missile…

Denny Vrandecic

Denny Vrandecic

Denny Vrandecic is the founder of Wikidata. Previously, he founded Semantic MediaWiki, used in many organizations such as NASA, the US intelligence agencies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and others. He received a PhD from KIT and was a visiting researcher at USC’s ISI in 2010. He was the founder of the Croatian Wikipedia, and…

David Newman

David Newman

David provides leadership and expertise for the advancement of knowledge graph and machine intelligence based technologies at Wells Fargo. His team develops innovations that employ various AI capabilities, including semantic technology, graph analytics, machine learning and natural language processing. David’s core mission is to use AI to develop the foundational building blocks for the future…