2019

Juan F. Sequeda is co-founder of Capsenta, a spin-off from his research, and Senior Director of Capsenta Labs. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.   As an entrepreneur, Juan’s goal is to help customers use Knowledge Graphs as a bridge between complex data sources and the domain…

Lambert Hogenhout is Chief Data Analytics, Partnerships and Technology Innovation at the Office for Information and Communications Technology (OICT) in the United Nations Secretariat. He has spent the past 25 years working both in the private sector and with international organizations such as the World Bank and the United Nations. His current focus is to…

Pierre Haren is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in France, and holds MS and PhD degrees from MIT. He led a research team at INRIA on the design of expert systems in the 1980s. He created ILOG in 1987, took it public in 1997 and led its sale to IBM in 2008. He subsequently joined…

As Senior Director of Enterprise Data Management, Pat has responsibility for data management processes, best practices , establishing the ontology practice and working with the lines of business to educate and validate their data management practices.   Prior to joining Capital One, Pat spent 20 years in a Health Care company where she created and…

Mike Tung is the CEO of Diffbot, an adviser at the Stanford StartX accelerator, and the leader of Stanford’s entry in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. In a previous life, he was a patent lawyer, a grad student in the Stanford AI lab, and a software engineer at eBay, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Mike studied electrical engineering…

Kevin is the CEO of DataChemist, a company based in Dublin Ireland that aims to empower enterprises with remarkable new insights from existing data and increase business process productivity. Kevin previously worked in Trinity College Dublin’s School of Computer Science, and led the international ALIGNED and Seshat research programs, which applied artificial intelligence to imposing…

Mark Woolley is Digital Transformation Lead for Upstream Operations of Maana. Prior to joining Maana, Woolley helped lead Digital Upstream at Accenture where he was responsible for accelerating transformation across E & P organizations. In this capacity, he defined the vision for the upstream business digital transformation, while identifying and qualifying industry and technology partners…

Content Strategies LLC
Managing Director

Stardog
Co-Founder and SVP of Engineering

Dr. Parsa Mirhaji MD. PhD. is an Associate Professor of Systems and Computational Biology, the Director of Center for Health Data Innovations at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, and the Chief Technology Officer at the New York Clinical Data Research Network (NY-CDRN). Formerly, Dr. Mirhaji was the director of the…

Following stations at the universities of Dresden, Ekaterinburg, Leipzig, Pennsylvania, Bonn and the Fraunhofer Society, Prof. Auer was appointed Professor of Data Science and Digital Libraries at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Director of the TIB in 2017. Prof. Auer has made important contributions to semantic technologies, knowledge engineering and information systems. He is the author…

Dr. Gustafson is the CTO at Noonum, a FinTech startup that delivers insights on companies and markets using advances in NLP and AI. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Nottingham, UK, where he was a research fellow in the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group. Shortly…

Subhabrata Mukherjee is a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon leading the information extraction efforts to build the Amazon Product Knowledge Graph, an authoritative knowledge graph for all products in the world. His work is focused on representation learning and neural networks for natural language understanding, web-scale knowledge extraction and integration.   He graduated summa cum…

Tim is the Head of Applied Innovation for Refinitiv, PKA Finance and Risk Division of Thomson Reuters. He leads a team of talented data scientists, research scientists, design and u/x experts, and software engineers who collectively apply new technology and innovative approaches to solve business and customer challenges. Their primary labs are in San Francisco,…

Zhijie (Bill) is a software engineer and researcher in Accenture Lab’s Software & Platforms group. He focuses on graph-based analytics, semantic modeling and distributed graph processing. Bill has lead several graph based enterprise software initiatives for Accenture and its clients, building domain specific knowledge graphs. His research prior to Accenture Lab focused on graph mining…

Vicky Froyen is a Senior Researcher at Collibra heading up research endeavors in knowledge graphs, privacy and explainable AI. He holds a Ph.D in Cognitive Science from the Rutgers University. His research prior to Collibra focussed on developing computational models in order to understand how humans represent the visual world. He is still active in…

Vivek Khetan is an artificial intelligence researcher at Accenture Labs, San Francisco. He is currently leading the Labs effort on intelligent compliance. He is working on semantic role labeling, entity extraction, close and open domain knowledge graph creation. In previous roles, he has worked as dialogue system researcher at SparkCognition and has experience on application…