2021

Ben Szekely is co-founder and Senior Vice President of Field Operations of Cambridge Semantics, creator of the industry-leading Anzo data discovery and integration platform. He has spent more than a decade working with life science organizations to implement transformational data and analytic platforms based on semantic and graph data model technologies. Prior to founding Cambridge…

Joshua is a researcher and software developer who specializes in graphs and data integration. He holds a PhD in Web science from RPI’s Tetherless World Constellation, and co-founded what is now Apache TinkerPop, contributing to the first common APIs for graph databases, the RDF-based query language that preceded Gremlin, and the first tools which aligned…

Senior Technology Leader with over 20 years of experience in delivering software solutions. The last several years have been focusing on storing, discovering and analyzing various regulatory text corpora. Currently leading the team of researchers and engineers that apply various AI/ML techniques for regulatory review of unstructured content. Presented at various international conferences including AWS…

Eelke van der Horst is a semantic modelling expert and data engineer at the Biomedical Data Services group at the Hyve. He has years of experience in the application of semantic web technologies for integrating heterogeneous biomedical data sources, in areas such as rare disease research and drug discovery & development. Eelke holds a PhD…

Sabbir M. Rashid is a Ph.D. candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute working with Professor Deborah McGuinness on research related to data annotation and harmonization, ontology engineering, knowledge representation, and various forms of reasoning. Prior to attending RPI, Sabbir completed a double major at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he received B.S. degrees in both Physics and…

Trey Botard is a Developer Advocate at Fluree, a North-Carolina based Public Benefit Corporation focused on transforming data security, ownership, and access with an immutable semantic graph database. For the past several years, Trey has developed software solutions at companies such as Lincoln Financial, Volvo, and BoA in various areas from natural language understanding, to…