Michael Atkin

Semantic Arts

Michael Atkin has over 35 years of experience as a strategic analyst to financial institutions, regulators and market authorities on the principles, practices, and operational realities of data management. His experience spans from the foundations of the information industry to the adoption of semantic technology. Mike has served as a senior advisor to several regulatory bodies in both the US and Europe. He created and taught the Principles of Data Management at Columbia University. He was the founder of the Enterprise Data Management Council and a co-founder of the Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation.

Philippe Hoij

DFRNT

Philippe founded his DFRNT startup after seeing a need in the market for what he calls “logical twins”, with data modelling and logic processing tools for data product builders defining, analyzing, and mapping linked data. His solution is used to create portable digital twins with a datalog engine.

He has 25 years’ experience as a solution architect and management consultant supporting global enterprises with digital solutions for supply chain integration, cybersecurity for operational technology application integration, contract management and knowledge management.

Martin Romacker

Roche Pharmaceuticals

With a PhD in Philosophy, Computational Linguistics and over 20 years in progressive knowledge engineering, biomedical research, and semantic standards delivery, Martin passionately supports data standardization and harmonization transformation.  FAIRification at Scale.

His current role at Roche involves working on data governance, data discovery and the integration of data assets in our Roche Data Marketplace (RDM).  He supports the ongoing FAIR journey and Data Mesh movement within Roche.

Sergey Fogelson

TelevisaUnivision

I lead the data science organization at TelevisaUnivision, the leading media company serving Hispanic America. My team builds and maintains our internal household graph, as well as data products that power personalization, minimize churn, and drive incremental revenue across our entire media ecosystem. Prior to TelevisaUnivision, I lead a combined data science/data engineering group at Paramount Global, worked as a machine learning consultant in investment banking, and worked in cybersecurity and ad-tech startups.

Ravi Bajracharya

Datum.md

A principal knowledge graph engineer and ontologist specializing for the last 6 years in implementation of healthcare ontology, terminology, and knowledge graph, with application in clinical decision support, health data interoperability and artificial intelligence in healthcare. As the CEO and Knowledge Graph Engineer at datum.md, Ravi leads a team of experts in developing a semantic health data platform that can answer complex queries in health data by linking it to biomedical knowledge graphs and related third party sources.

Ben Gardner

AstraZeneca

Ben is R&D lead for Data Mesh and Semantic Infrastructure at AstraZeneca. He is responsible for the application of graph technology in support of Information Discovery. He is focused on delivering FAIR Data-centric architecture to create multimodal integrated data sets to enable exploration and reuse of pre-clinical, clinical and Real-World Evidence data.

Ben started life as a bench scientist leading drug discovery team. This was followed by a move into data architecture where he was responsible for the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 tools and development of knowledge management frameworks that enhanced collaboration and communication across multiple communities. Subsequent to this, he led efforts to enhance the Information Discovery capabilities across structured and unstructured information sources at Linklaters by blending AI technologies with relational and semantic data integration solutions. This was followed by a role as Chief Scientific Officer at Wavelength.law where he was responsible for the application of data science to legal process.

Nayan Paul

Accenture

Nayan is Chief Azure Architect for GenAI CoE with Accenture. Currently he leads the GenAI – CoE Architecture, Assets & Project Delivery for GenAI and LLM solutions. He is a product owner and creator for patented assets like IDF, “LLM Platform in a Box” across Data and AI solutions. He is certified Master Technology Architect , Databricks Champion etc. and has published 2 books . He has been  a speaker in conferences like Strata, Data Works Summit etc. He also conducts guest lectures at the University of Columbia.

Jans Aasman

Franz Inc.

Dean Allemang

data.world

Katariina Kari

Inter IKEA Systems B.V.

Katariina Kari is the lead ontologist at Inter IKEA Systems B.V. Katariina holds both a Master of Science and a Master of Music and is specialized in the semantic web. At IKEA, she models the IKEA Knowledge Graph; a common vocabulary to offer customers compelling interior design solutions in the digital space. In her free time, Katariina advises institutions, such as chamber music festivals, in digitalisation, guiding the humanities to the digital age.

Stratos Kontopoulos

Food Pairing

An enthusiastic and committed knowledge scientist, with a broad interdisciplinary research focus. A versatile expert in Semantic Web technologies and Knowledge Representation methodologies, and in their practical application in diverse domains. Published research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. Experienced in project and team management and strategic planning, as well as research project proposal preparation. An agile development enthusiast and an ardent collaborator.

Alessandro Oltramari

Bosch

Oltramari’s work at Bosch focuses on Neuro-symbolic AI. He investigates how knowledge-based systems can be integrated with machine learning, helping humans and machines make sense of the physical and digital worlds. Oltramari holds a Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Trento (Italy). He had a 10-year tenure at the Italian National Research Council, where he maintains an associate position; Oltramari was a visiting scholar at Princeton University. His research record lists about 100 publications. He received the Army Research Lab “Above and Beyond” award and has been featured in media outlets such as CNET and The New Scientist.

Tavi Truman

RocketUrBiz

Senior Software Architect and Developer, Tavi Truman has 20+ years of progression towards data centricity. Tavi’s BFO ontology based software is disrupting the real estate marketplace with automation and enterprise meaning.

Brian Platz

Fluree

Brian Platz currently serves as Co-founder and co-CEO at Fluree, a high-tech data management startup focused on providing trust, governance, and interoperability as native characteristics to data management. Brian was a successful entrepreneur and executive throughout the early internet days and SaaS boom, having founded the popular A-list apart web development community, along with a host of successful SaaS companies. He also was a fellow founding member of the Web Standards Project, a group formed to push Microsoft and Netscape to adhere to common standards.

Previous to establishing Fluree, Brian was the co-founder and general manager of SilkRoad technology’s Content Solutions, where he was responsible for providing all of the technology and services to deliver state-of-the-art web presences, content solutions, and collaborative content systems that allow a business to share information across its value chain.

Before joining SilkRoad, Brian was the vice president of product management for Divine, inc. from 2001 to 2003 where he led the product strategy and direction for Divine’s widely recognized and award-winning content management and collaboration products.