2019

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…

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…

Ron Snyder has over 30 years in the software industry with experience in both commercial and non-profit organizations. Ron is currently the Director of Research and Development for the JSTOR Labs team. He has been with JSTOR for 14 years holding various positions including software development manager and manager of website operations. Prior to coming…

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…