2023

Silver Oliver

Data Language Information Architect Biography Silver is an Information Professional specialising in model driven information architectures. Recently working in health care, broadcast and publishing. Talks and Events Knowledge Graphs in Media: 10 years on from BBC’s 2012 Olympics Project, What is the State of Semantic Publishing in News and Broadcasting? This talk will look at…

Jedrzej Potoniec

Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland Academic Researcher Biography Jedrzej Potoniec is with Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, where he works as a researcher. He defended his Ph.D. in 2018 on learning ontologies from Linked Data. Currently, he is pursuing his research interests of building learning systems employing and/or outputting complex data structures like…

Vaishali Raghvani

Beamery Associate Knowledge Engineer Biography I am a Knowledge Engineer, working primarily with Knowledge Graphs and data modelling. I have proficiency in SPARQL and rule-based reasoning, and skills in SQL and Java. I work excellently in a team, thrive under pressure and take pride in meeting deadlines. I am a confident individual, who is not…

Rashif Rahman

Fimantic Co-founder Biography Rashif is a Semantic Web and graph databases specialist with close to seven years’ experience in implementing knowledge-graph applications, through both the LPG and RDF paradigms. He did an MSc thesis project on the application of semantic technologies to regulatory compliance management, which was supported by Fimantic, a financial services digitization project…

Sidharth Ramachandran

RTL Germany Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering Biography Sidharth is the Senior Director, Knowledge Engineering at RTL where he leads multiple data product teams who analyse, enrich and improve content understanding. He is also the co-author of the book “Blueprints for Text Analytics” that is published by O’Reilly. Talks and Events Building a Content Knowledge Graph…

Rajat Saxena

Booking.com Software Engineering Manager Biography I am an Engineering Manager in the Fraud Prevention department at Booking.com, based out of Amsterdam. My team works on building innovative platforms and services to improve fraud detection and minimising fraud losses. Prior to this, I was working as a Software Engineer in Facebook’s London office. Talks and Events…

Tony Seale

UBS Knowledge Graph Engineer Biography An experienced software architect and polyglot programmer with a proven track record of successfully delivering Knowledge Graphs into production for Tier 1 investment banks. I can guide the creation of Enterprise Knowledge Graph architecture. I have deep knowledge of the relevant technologies (data pipelines, triplestore optimisation, API and service design,…

Joshua Shinavier

LinkedIn Senior Staff Engineer Biography Joshua is a member of the graph team at LinkedIn, currently focused on computational knowledge graphs. A co-founder of Apache TinkerPop and holder of a Semantic Web PhD, Joshua has made a career of graph databases and knowledge representation. He is among those who think that we “think in graphs”,…

Tommaso Soru

Serendipity AI Ltd Artificial Intelligence Lead Biography Tommaso Soru is Artificial Intelligence Lead at Serendipity AI in London, UK and a PhD candidate at the University of Leipzig, Germany. He authored more than 30 publications in the fields of knowledge engineering, machine learning, and natural language processing. Talks and Events Spotting Signals in Text via…

Ivo Velitchkov

Ivo Velitchkov

Advisor, trainer, author Self-Employed Biography Ivo is an independent management and data consultant. For the last 25 years, he has worked with big public and private organizations helping them with their strategy, structures and information. He has worked as a project manager, CEO, coach, consultant, researcher, and trainer. He’s the author of the book [Essential…