KGC 2025

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  • Tools and Code Demonstration

  • Doxing Dark Money

    Paco Nathan, Senzing, Principal DevRel Engineer

    The Dark Web: an estimated $3T USD flows annually through shell corps and tax havens worldwide -- serving as the _perpetua mobilia_ for oligarchs, funding illegal weapons transfers, mercenaries, human trafficking at scale, anti-democracy campaigns,...

  • Use of Knowledge Graph and Reasoning in the Financial Crime and KYC domain

    Gautam Verma, Barclays, Head of Financial Crime Core Platforms, Analytics and Intelligence
    Philip Foster, Oxford Semantic Technologies, Chief Operating Officer

    This talk shares the semantic journey so far, exploring several use cases involving knowledge graphs and the use of reasoning via a sema...

  • AI Governance: Leverage Knowledge Graphs to Govern your Agentic Knowledge System

    Francesco Gianferrari Pini, Quantyca, Founder

    As artificial intelligence evolves, designing and orchestrating intelligent agents has become key to creating efficient systems. From basic tools performing singular tasks to autonomous agents capable of complex, iterative decision-making, AI agents ...

  • Beyond LLM Embeddings - Graph Neural Networks as Knowledge Multiplexer

    Karthik Soman, SAP, Palo Alto, Senior Data Scientist

    In the current landscape dominated by Large Language Models, embeddings from models like Sentence Transformers have become the de facto standard for document representation, excelling at capturing semantic relationships. While these embeddings...

  • Ontologies in PLM: Enhancing Enterprise Search Capabilities

    Arquimedes Canedo, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Distinguished Engineer
    Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a cornerstone of modern engineering, enabling the design, development, and manufacturing of complex products such as cars and airplanes. However, PLM systems grapple with vast and ...

  • Building More Expressive Next-Gen Knowledge Resources

    Mike Dillinger, hypergraf, Chief Scientist

    The need for structured knowledge -- in the form of taxonomies, ontologies, and knowledge graphs -- has never been more urgent. It is crucial for evolving gen AI to next-gen AI.

    But one of the blockers for deeper investment and broader deployment is th...

  • Describing it All: Lessons Learned from Documenting Organizational Life

    Mara Inglezakis Owens, Independent, Portfolio Architect

    You know you need a knowledge graph to represent information relevant to your organization. You know it’s on trend. And you got’ve some money for a proof of concept or a project team.

    It’s time to make a business impact. This presentation...

  • Time Is Ticking: Accelerating Organizational AI Readiness with DPROD

    Tony Seale, The Knowledge Graph Guys, Founder

    As tech giants build whale-sized supercomputers to train AI models, organisations must focus on mastering their most valuable asset: data. Yet most organisational data remains fragmented, unstructured, and disconnected. This session explores how the ...

  • The Hidden Cost of Ignoring Semantics

    Juan Sequeda, data.world, Head of AI Lab

    What do enterprises lose by not investing in semantics and knowledge? The ability to reuse data effectively, wasting millions in inefficiencies and missed opportunities. Without a shared understanding of data, even the most advanced AI models struggle to ...

  • Scaling Netflix Entertainment Knowledge Graph with LLMs

    Rajeev Kumar, Netflix, Senior Machine Learning Engineer
    Himanshu Singh, Netflix, Engineering Manager
    Jayadev Chandrasekhar, Netflix, Senior Machine Learning Engineer

    Netflix's mission is to entertain the world with a broad and diverse range of tastes across 190 countries. We build and maintain a...

  • Building a Relational Knowledge Graph for Intelligent Supply Chains on Snowflake

    Jay Yu, RelationalAI , VP Applied Research
    Molham Aref, RelationalAi, Founder and CEO

    This talk presents the practical experience of building a relational knowledge graph (RKG) at Blue Yonder to support intelligent supply chain applications—entirely within the Snowflake Data Cloud. It’s a deep d...

  • How Wiz Became the Most Valuable Security Startup with Amazon Neptune

    Isaac Koren, Wiz, CTO of Code at Wiz
    Nicole Moldovan, Amazon Web Services, Principal, Amazon Neptune

    Alphabet recently announced it will be acquire Wiz for a historic $32B. Learn how the Israeli company, founded in 2020, built with a graph-first approach on Amazon Neptune and scaled to become t...

  • From Stability to Agility: Rethinking Change Management in Knowledge Graphs

    Moderator
    Mike Pool, Bloomberg

    Panelist
    Jesus Barrasa, Neo4j, Field CTO for AI
    Mark Wallace, Semantic Arts, President and Ontologist
    Nikos Trokanas, Scania, Ontology Architect
    Peter Crocker, Oxford Semantic Technologies, CEO and co-founder

    As knowledge graphs gain widespread adoption across ind...

  • From Research to Reality

    Peter Crocker, Oxford Semantic Technologies, CEO and co-founder
    Changhyup Op, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics, Staff Engineer, Data Intelligence Team

    Following many years of research, Samsung announced in January the launch of the Personal Data Engine on its Galaxy S25 model. This represe...

  • Zep: A Temporal Knowledge Graph Architecture for Agent Memory

    Preston Rasmussen, Zep AI, Senior Software Engineer

    Zep is a novel memory layer for AI agents designed to address the limitations of current RAG frameworks in dynamic, real-world enterprise applications. Unlike traditional systems that rely on static corpora, Zep integrates a temporally-aware kn...

  • Unleashing the Power of Multimodal GraphRAG

    David Hughes, Enterprise Knowledge, Principal Solutions Architect
    Amy Hodler, GraphGeeks, Exec Director, Founder

    GraphRAG has proven to be a powerful tool across various use cases, enhancing retrieval accuracy, language model integration, and delivering deeper insights to users. However, a criti...

  • The Data-Driven Enterprise

    Rangarajan Lakshminarayanachar, Capital One, Senior Manager Software Engineering

    "Conformance and Compliance can be Innovative"

    In today’s data-driven enterprises, APIs and knowledge graphs are more than technical tools—they are strategic assets that drive innovation, compliance, and operationa...

  • From Unstructured Text to Hacking the Plane

    Bobby Kuzma, ProCircular, Director of Offensive Cyber Operations

    In this talk, our presenters will delve into the innovative application of knowledge graphs in cybersecurity, specifically focusing on real-time penetration testing. The speakers will outline their methodology, which leverages Natu...

  • Creating Knowledge Graphs from Documents with Whyis

    Jamie McCusker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Research Director

    In this talk, we will explore how the Whyis Knowledge Graph Framework can be used to build knowledge graphs by extracting insights from business documents using in-context learning. Knowledge graphs transform unstructured data i...

  • Driving Business Decisions through Ontology and Enterprise Knowledge Graph

    Renu Rana

    Ontologies are largely in the domain of the Ontologist or Developer, locked up in a modeling tool that few can understand. How can we make the most of the huge investment in developing an ontology? Lets see how it can be used for knowledge sharing, canonical models for data exchange,...

  • Agentic GraphRAG: AI’s Logical Edge

    Stephen Chin, Neo4j, VP of Developer Relations

    AI models are getting tasked to do increasingly complex and industry specific tasks where different retrieval approaches provide distinct advantages in accuracy, explainability, and cost to execute. GraphRAG retrieval models have become a powerful t...

  • Next Version of RDF, or: Reification Considered Annoying

    Ora Lassila, Amazon Web Services, Principal Technologist
    Adrian Gschwend, QLeverize, Zazuko, CEO

    In the RDF specification, reification is probably the most disliked but also the most misunderstood feature. There has been a long-running discussion in the RDF community about how to “fix” reificati...

  • Fine(st)-Grained Access Control for RDF Data

    Souripriya Das, Oracle America, Inc., Architect and Manager

    Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC) is critical not just for government or healthcare agencies but for any enterprise that stores confidential data. While FGAC tools already exist for relational data, the unique nature of RDF data requir...