KGC 2025

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  • Graph AI Killer Apps: Self-Service Data, Regulatory Compliance and Knowledge Hub

    Atanas Kiryakov, Graphwise, President
    Peio Popov, Graphwise, VP of Business Operations

    Knowledge graphs transform how businesses manage data, develop AI applications, and gain insights. This presentation will showcase three applications where graph and GenAI bring real difference: (i) self-servi...

  • Uncle AI Wants You! How KGs Will Form the Foundation of the Cognitive Enterprise

    Brian Martin, AbbVie, Chief AI Product Owner, Senior Research Fellow

    The potential impact of AI - notwithstanding the hype and hyperbole - is nothing less than evolutionary. As companies begin to evolve themselves, the direction of that evolution is toward companies beginning more and more to a...

  • What it Truly Takes to Build a Knowledge Graph in an Enterprise

    Tara Raafat, Bloomberg, Head of (Semantic) Metadata and Knowledge graph Strategy

    Building a knowledge graph (KG) in an enterprise is more than just a technical endeavor — it is a strategic, organizational, and technological transformation. Enterprises embarking on this journey face a multitude o...

  • Firmographica: An Ownership Knowledge Graph for Short Selling Risk Assessment

    Javid Huseynov, Columbia University, Associate Professor of Practice

    In financial markets, corporate ownership structures influence short selling risks. To assess this impact, we present Firmographica, a knowledge graph that integrates ownership information and relationships for publicly traded ...

  • AI Ready Data: Tables Aren't Enough, Why We Need Strong Metadata

    Dan Bennett, S&P Global, Head of Technology, Enterprise Data Organization

    We have made good progress with formatting our unstructured, textual, data for AI consumption with the RAG pattern. Yet, here in early 2025, the industry has not centered on a definition of what AI ready data means for str...

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  • KGC 2025 Lightning Talk Compilation

    SQL Users Have IDEs - Why Don’t We?

    Entity Resolution for Graph Practices Across Many Business Verticals

    Automated Knowledge Graphs for Synchronized Building Operations

    Oracle Database 23ai: The Complete Data Platform Powered by AI

    Building Agentic Flows: From Data and Apps to Knowledge and A...

  • Accelerating AI Initiatives With a Data-Centric Enterprise Architecture

    Sebastian Schmidt, Metaphacts, CEO

  • AI Agents With Reusable Data Products and Decentralized Knowledge Graph

    Charles Ivie, AWS, Sr Graph Architect
    Tony Seale, The Knowledge Graph Guys, Founder
    Branimir Rakić, OriginTrail, Founder and CTO
    Ben Clinch, Ortecha, Partner

    Background: Data Products deliver higher ROI for data management and lower costs of ownership. Yet, implementations are often hard, expen...

  • OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph as Enabler of Trustworthy AI Solutions

    Žiga Drev, Origintrail, Founder and Managing Director
    Tomaž Levak, OriginTrail, Founder and Managing Director
    Branimir Rakić, OriginTrail, Founder and CTO
    Dr. Bob Metcalfe, University of Texas at Austin, Retired Professor
    Chris Rynning, AMYP Ventures, Managing Partner
    Fady Mansour, Ethical Capita...

  • Exploration of Prompting Strategies for GraphRAG applications

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

    In this hands-on learning tutorial, we will experiment with various strategies for using GenAI models to automate extracting and transforming raw data into a knowledge graph, and understanding and analyz...

  • How to Model Reality: From Data to Enterprise Knowledge Graph

    Eliud Polanco, Fluree, President
    Doug Beeson, Semantic Arts, Associate Ontologist

    Pharmaceutical and BioTechnology companies must comply with regulatory requirements, resulting in months of labor spent to produce textbooks of documentation that could be riddled with human errors or misinterpreta...

  • Building Agentic APIs With LLM Tool Use & Knowledge Graphs

    William Lyon, Hypermode, Director of Developer Experience

    The true power of LLMs isn’t in building chatbots, but rather leveraging AI models for implementing agentic workflows in the applications we build, adding features to our apps powered by LLMs that interact with APIs and data sources direc...

  • Unlocking Graph Neural Networks: A Hands-on Journey from Basics to Breakthroughs

    Giuseppe Futia, CSI - Piedmontese Consortium for Information Systems (Italy), Data Engineer

    Graphs provide a powerful framework for modeling relationships between entities, making Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) a crucial tool for applying machine learning to graph-structured data. However, impleme...

  • Beyond GraphRAG: Graph Enabled Agents

    Peio Popov, Graphwise, VP of Business Operations

  • Empowering Business Users with AI Agent-Driven Insights

    Empowering Business Users with AI Agent-Driven Insights based on an Enterprise Knowledge Graph providing Trusted and Explainable Answers: A Hands-on Tutorial
    Daniel H, Metaphacts, COO

    Decision-makers and business users must trust the data that informs their decisions. Collecting and integrating ...

  • RPI Research Paper Lightning Talk

    Anirban Acharya
    Johnny Sun
    Abhirup Dasgupta
    Dominic Iadevaia
    Danielle Villa
    Elisa Kendall
    Deborah L. McGuinness

  • DBR-X: Drug-Based Reasoning Explainer for Interpretable Drug Repositioning

    Adriana Carolina Gonzalez Cavazos, Scripps Research Institue, PhD student

    Drug repurposing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional drug development by identifying new uses for existing drugs. Recent advances leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNN) to model complex biological data, showin...

  • From Lessons Learned to Agentic Futures: Our Journey at BMS

    Umesh Bhatt

    This presentation explores the evolution of knowledge graph initiatives within Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), contrasting past large-scale projects (BE-FAIR, Project Spartan) with current, more agile approaches. I present factors contributing to the limited success of earlier "big graph...

  • Chatbot: Empowering Medical Communication using AI

    Ying Ding, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, Professor

    Conventional medical communication has been fundamentally broken, placing an increasing burden on healthcare professionals and significantly contributing to burnout and inefficiency. Physicians, nurses, and administrative...

  • A semantic approach empowering reverse translation for drug discovery

    Pooja Arora, ThoughtWorks Inc, HCLS Advisory & Strategy lead
    Ganesh Kumar Sathiyamoorthi, Thoughtworks Inc, Principal Data Engineer

    Clinical trials face a high failure rate, with 90% of drugs failing to progress due to challenges in translating preclinical results into clinical outcomes. Sydney ...

  • The Future of Knowledge Graphs: A Path to Success or a Road to Nowhere?

    Moderator
    Jamie McCusker, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Research Director

    Panelist
    Mark Musen, Stanford Medicine Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford University
    Ted Slater, EPAM Systems, Managing Principal, Scientific Informatics Knowledge Engineering

  • Toward Unified Semantics

    The proliferation of diverse data model formats, represented in relational databases, RDF graphs and labeled property graphs, frequently leads to semantic fragmentation, hindering deep data integration and shared understanding for humans and machines. Unified semantics is an approach to define c...

  • Reports of the Death of Knowledge Engineering Are Greatly Exaggerated

    Biomedical researchers generate experimental data at prodigious rates. There are widespread dreams that these data can be studied and re-explored to enable third parties to verify the published claims of the original investigators and to make new discoveries themselves through secondary analyses....