The Knowledge Graph Conference 2025 | The Knowledge Graph Conference | 5 May 2025 | Cornell Tech, 2 W Loop Rd, New York, NY 10044, USA

Join leading experts and award winners in the fields of Hybrid AI, LLMs, NLP, Machine Learning, Data Management, and network with experienced and visionary Data Scientists, Healthcare Professionals, Finance and Investment Analysts, Knowledge Graph Engineers and Ontologists, and more!

The applications of knowledge graphs are vast and growing fast, across industry sectors such as Healthcare and Life Sciences, Finance and Banking, E-commerce and Retail, Manufacturing and Technology, to name a few

Delve deeper into the content of each session. Thoroughly explore the topics and speakers to ensure that you are well-prepared.

2024 Past Speakers

Timm Amstein
Senior Delivery Architect, Capgemini

Andreas Blumauer
Founder and CEO, PoolParty

Ben Clinch
Head of Information Architecture, BT Group Plc

Saurav Dhungana
Founding Engineer, datum.md Inc.

Peter Haase
CSO, metaphacts GmbH

David Hughes
Director of Engineering and AI, Graphable

Adrianna Janik
Technology Research Associate Principal, Accenture

Ora Lassila
Principal Technologist, Amazon Web Services

Brian Martin
Head of AI Information Research, Research Fellow, AbbVie

Jan Michels
Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle

Michael Miller
Cognitive Software Engineer, Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Thilanka Munasinghe
Lecturer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Daniel Nahmias
Applied Researcher, Accenture

Maya Natarajan
Founder, Node2Node

Hervé Pruvost
R&D Engineer, Fraunhofer IIS/EAS

David Rager
Chief Cloud Technologist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Oshani Seneviratne
Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Juan Sequeda
Head of AI Lab, data.world

Joshua Shinavier
Principal Engineer, Microsoft

Andrea Volpini
CEO, WordLift

Ryan Wright
Founder, thatDot

Sagi Zisman
Researcher Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Paco Nathan
Managing Partner, Derwen, Inc.

David Bader
Distinguished Professor and Director, Institute for Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Charles Brecque
Founder & CEO, TextMine

Nandana Mihindukulasooriya
Senior Research Scientist, IBM Research

Adam Rendek
Senior BIM Program Manager, AWS

Brian O'Keefe
Principal Graph Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

Jans Aasman
CEO, Franz Inc.

Thorsten Liebig
Managing Director, derivo GmbH

Tanuja Gupta
Solution Architect, Scania

Prashanth Rao
AI Engineer, Kùzu Inc.

Matthew Rawlings
Managing Director, Head of Data, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Richard Beatch
Executive Director, Common Vocabularies, JPMorgan Chase & Co

Pierre Levy
Associate Researcher, Université de Montréal

Lily Ray
Sr. Director, SEO & Head of Organic Research, Amsive Digital

Mike King
Founder and CEO, iPullRank

John Shehata
CEO, Founder, NewzDash

Beatrice Gamba
Head of Innovation, WordLift

Veronika Heimsbakk
Knowledge Graph Lead, Capgemini

Liana Kiff
Consultant, Tom Sawyer Software

Michael Havey
Solutions Architect, AWS

Peio Popov
Lead FSI, Ontotext

Nikolaos Vasiloglou
VP of Research-ML, RelationalAI

Norm Friend
Solutions Engineer, TopQuadrant

Holger Knublauch
Co-Creator of the SHACL W3C Standard, TopQuadrant

Tom Smoker
Co-Founder, WhyHow.AI

Jemin George
National Science Foundation

Chaitanya Baru
National Science Foundation

Christopher Bizon
Director of Analytics and Data Science, Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Cogan Shimizu
Wright State University

Patrick Grinaway
R&D Software Engineer, ONAI Inc.

Lilit Yeghiazarian
Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati

Sergio Baranzini
Professor of Neurology, University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Adam Pah
Clinical Associate Professor, Georgia State University

Farhad Ameri
Associate Professor, Arizona State University

Jon Stevens
Principal Research Data Scientist, Generative AI Applications, AbbVie

Charles Ivie
Senior Architect, AWS

Tom Plasterer

Hans Constandt
FAQIR

Deborah McGuinness
Tetherless World Chair, Professor of Computer, Cognitive, & Web Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Maulik Kamdar
Optum Health

Sujit Pal
Elsevier Labs

Henrique Santos
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Elisa Kendall
Thematix Partner LLC and EDM Council

Subha Madhavan

Berenice Wulbrecht
Vice President, Solution Enablement

Atanas Kiryakov
Founder and CEO, Ontotext

Dave Bechberger
Principal Graph Architect, Amazon Neptune

Salma Loussaief
Senior Technical Consultant, Metaphacts

Soaib Rashid
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), The Tetraverse Company

Jacobus Geluk
CEO, agnos.ai

Zach Tretter
Data Scientist, Northrop Grumman

Dennis Diefenbach
CEO, The QA Company

Krishna Bulusu
AstraZeneca

Maru C. Willson, M.Ed
Education Consultant, Knowledge Graph Certificate Program

Kai Preuss
Solutions Director, Metaphacts

Amar Doshi
President, TopQuadrant

Ryan Chandler
Knowledge Graph Engineer, AbbVie

Peter Crocker
CEO, Oxford Semantic Technologies

Varun Agarwal
Software Engineering Leader, IKEA’s Knowledge Graph

Lily Wang
CIO, Wholesale Client Onboarding and Group Financial Crimes Ops, Barclays

Branimir Rakic
Founder & CTO, OriginTrail

Nimit Mehta
CEO, TopQuadrant

Vijay Saraswat
Founder, Language Machines; Head, Data and Insights, Fidelity Asset Management

Zach Probst
Staff Software Engineer, Intuit

Bogdan Arsintescu
Partner Director of Engineering, Microsoft

Helmut Nagy
CPO, PoolParty

Irina Schmidt
Chief Marketing Officer, Metaphacts

Alastair Green
Vice Chair, Linked Data Benchmark Council

Molham Aref
CEO, RelationalAI

Jesús Barrasa, Ph.D.
Head of Solutions Architecture EMEA, Neo4j

Katie Roberts, Ph.D.
Data Science Solution Architect, Neo4j

Gretchen Greene
Data Science Group Leader, NIST

Jennifer D'Souza
TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology

Jennifer Wei
Project Scientist and Data Expert, NASA

Armin Mehrabian
Principal Data Scientist, Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center, NASA

Denise Myrick
Senior Product Manager, Oracle

Thulasi Accottillam
Solution Architect, Scania

Aniwaa Owusu Obeng
Senior Director, Datum / Mount Sinai Health System

Ghislain Atemezing
Project Officer, European Union Agency for Railways

Larry Swanson
Content Architect, Elless Media

Todor Primov
Head of Life Sciences and Healthcare Products and Solutions, Ontotext

Santiago Leon
Senior Product Development Engineer, Tom Sawyer Software

Dragos Patru
Project Officer, European Agency for Railways