Agenda At-a-Glance
Full Schedule

Full Schedule Mon, Jan 30 Tue, Jan 31 Wed, Feb 1
Monday, 1/30/2017
Tutorials 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
From Modern AI to Cognitive Computing: A Roadmap for Designing and Deploying Smarter Applications Adrian Bowles, STORM Insights, Inc.
Business/Strategic
Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Computing
Introduction to R Stacy Irwin, Modus Operandi
Technical - Introductory
Data Science
Comparing RDF Graph and Property Graph Models: Features and Use Cases Xavier Lopez, Oracle
Gabriela Montiel, Oracle
Technical - Introductory
Graph Databases
Ontology 101: An Introduction to Knowledge Representation, Knowledge Graphs, and Ontology Elisa Kendall, Thematix Partners LLC
Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
Technical - Introductory
Semantic Technology
Coffee Break 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Tutorials 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Introduction to Machine Learning Pragyansmita Nayak, CGI Federal Inc.
Technical - Introductory
Machine Learning
Advances in Natural Language Processing Adrian Bowles, STORM Insights, Inc.
Technical - Introductory
Natural Language Processing
Getting Started with Knowledge Graphs Peter Haase, metaphacts
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Semantic Technology
OWL for the Enterprise Michael Uschold, Semantic Arts
Technical - Introductory
Semantic Technology
Lunch 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Tutorials 01:00 PM - 02:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Realizing the Benefits of Linked Geospatial Data with R2RML and GeoSPARQL Souripriya Das, Oracle
Matthew Perry, Oracle
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Semantic Technology
Demystifying Deep Learning Charlie Vollmer, ML Engineering
Technical - Intermediate
Deep Learning
Build Your Own Cognitive Computing Platform Jans Aasman, Franz Inc.
Technical - Intermediate
Cognitive Computing
Graph Databases
JSON-LD Brian Sletten, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Semantic Technology
Coffee Break 02:30 PM - 02:45 PM
Tutorials 02:45 PM - 04:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Applying Deep Learning and DL4J in the Enterprise for Production Class Applications Josh Patterson, Skymind
Technical - Introductory
Deep Learning
Building a Text Analytics Platform Tom Reamy, KAPS Group
Business/Strategic
Natural Language Processing
Text Analysis
Jupyter Notebooks and Other Necessary Data Science Tools Charlie Vollmer, ML Engineering
Technical - Introductory
Data Science
10 Customer Master Graph Must-Do’s Peter Perera, The Perera Group, Inc.
Business/Strategic
Graph Databases
How to Enhance Your Data with Open Data Dean Allemang, Working Ontologist LLC
Bryon Jacob, data.world
Technical - Intermediate
Semantic Technology
Special Interest Groups 04:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Defense and Aerospace Special Interest Group Stacy Irwin, Modus Operandi
Mark Wallace, Modus Operandi, Inc.
Industry Trends
Data for Democracy Dean Allemang, Working Ontologist LLC
Bryon Jacob, data.world
Case Study
Semantic Technology
Graph Query Languages Juan Sequeda, Capsenta
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Finance and Banking Special Interest Group Michael Uschold, Semantic Arts
Industry Trends
Semantic Technology
Health Care and Life Sciences Special Interest Group Dave McComb, Semantic Arts
Industry Trends
 
Tuesday, 1/31/2017
Keynote 08:30 AM - 09:00 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Broad Spectrum Smartness in Your Data Kirk Borne, Booz Allen Hamilton
Business/Strategic
Industry Trends
Keynote 09:00 AM - 09:30 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
The Future of Graph Technology Emil Eifrem, Neo Technology
Business/Strategic
Graph Databases
Keynote 09:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
50 Shades of Understanding: Why the Veneer of Intelligence is Not Enough Douglas Lenat, Cycorp, Inc.
Business/Strategic
Artificial Intelligence
CoffeeBreak 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Conference Sessions 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Modern AI and the Future of Work Steve Ardire, Independent
Adrian Bowles, STORM Insights, Inc.
Business/Strategic
Artificial Intelligence
Applications of Deep Learning in Game Development Dave Sullivan, Blackcloud BSG
Technical - Intermediate
Deep Learning
The Security Analyst Conundrum: Evolving Data into Wisdom Ryan Hohimer, DarkLight
Shawn Riley, Monsanto Company
Technical - Intermediate
Semantic Technology
Smart Data Lakes: Data Warehouse Style and Scale Analytics on Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Barry Zane, Cambridge Semantics
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Conference Sessions 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Build Recommender Systems, Detect Fraud, and Integrate Deep Learning with Oracle Graph Technologies Xavier Lopez, Oracle
Alan (Zhe) Wu, Oracle
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Knowledge Graphs: Journey of the Connected Enterprise Benjamin Nussbaum, AtomRain
Business/Strategic
Graph Databases
Rise of the Machines: Impact of AI on Business Process Analytics Dan French, Consider Solutions
Business/Strategic
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning on Apache Spark at Scale Debajyoti Ray, VideoAmp Inc.
Technical - Intermediate
Machine Learning
Cognitive Probability Graphs for Smart Knowledge Management Jans Aasman, Franz Inc
Technical - Intermediate
Cognitive Computing
Lunch 12:15 PM - 01:30 PM
Exhibits Open 01:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Conference Sessions 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Deep Learning for Clinical Natural Language Processing Sadid Hasan, Philips Research North America
Technical - Intermediate
Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics Using Machine Learning Paul Hofmann, Space-Time Insight
Business/Strategic
Machine Learning
SHACL: The Shape of Things to Come Brian Sletten, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.
Technical - Introductory
Graph Databases
Semantic Technology
Contextual Computing with Knowledge Graphs and the Web of Entities Richard Wallis, Data Liberate
Business/Strategic
Graph Databases
Semantic Technology
Conference Sessions 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Search Powered by Deep Learning Ashish Vishwas Kaduskar, Infosys
Debanjan Mahata, Infosys
John Kuriakose, Infosys
Technical - Intermediate
Cognitive Computing
Deep Learning
The Challenges and Limitations of Symbolic AI, and Overcoming Them Douglas Lenat, Cycorp, Inc.
Technical - Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence
Smart Data for Smarter Fire Fighting Bart van Leeuwen, netage
Case Study
Semantic Technology
Combining Deep Linguistics Analysis with Semantics to Deliver on the Cognitive Computing Promise Bryan Bell, Expert System
Technical - Introductory
Cognitive Computing
Getting to a 360 View with a Hybrid Database and Smart Data Modeling Stephen Buxton, MarkLogic
Technical - Intermediate
Semantic Technology
Coffee Break and Exhibits 03:15 PM - 03:45 PM
Conference Sessions 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Natural Language Query Answering Using Deep Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning Janine Bloomfield, Coherent Knowledge
Benjamin Grosof, Coherent Knowledge
Technical - Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence
How to Model Streaming Data That You Know Nothing About Scott Purdy, Numenta
Technical - Intermediate
Machine Intelligence
The Emerging Design of Graphical Bots and Conversational Avatars Mark Stephen Meadows, Botanic, LLC
Technical - Intermediate
Industry Trends
Graph Algorithms Ryan Boyd, Neo Technology
Technical - Intermediate
Data Science
Graph Databases
Applying Large-Scale Text Analytics with Graph Databases to Visualize Entity and Relationship Inferences Trung Diep, DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Alan (Zhe) Wu, Oracle
Ronald Sujithan, DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Case Study
Graph Databases
Natural Language Processing
Text Analysis
Exhibits and Reception 04:30 PM - 06:30 PM
Lightning Sessions 05:00 PM - 05:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
What's New in Oracle Spatial and Graph Matthew Perry, Oracle
Technical - Introductory
Graph Databases
Semantic Technology
Bridging the Gap Between AI and Neuroscience Christy Maver, Numenta
Business/Strategic
Machine Intelligence
Cognitive Assistants for the Semantic Web Raman Kannan, Tandon School of Engineering, NYU
Business/Strategic
Cognitive Computing
TABSTRACT Table Extraction Service From Unstructured Documents George Roth, Recognos Inc.
Technical - Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence
Big Data Doesn't Know Why Mina Lux, Meelo Logic
Technical - Introductory
Artificial Intelligence
Predictive Rules - Lessons Learned When Implementing Partial Rule Matching Janne Saarela, Profium
Technical - Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence
LIFE: Lymba’s Immediate Feedback E-learning System Tatiana Erekhinskaya, Lymba Corporation
Technical - Introductory
Semantic Technology
 
Wednesday, 2/1/2017
Conference Sessions 08:30 AM - 09:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
What Do Self-Driving Cars Have to Teach Us About Smart Data? Hadley Reynolds, Cognitive Computing Consortium
Business/Strategic
Cognitive Computing
Machine Learning for the Estimation of Galaxies Pragyansmita Nayak, CGI Federal Inc.
Technical - Intermediate
Machine Learning
How to Operationalize FIBO for Business Value: Now and in the Future David Newman, Wells Fargo
Dennis Wisnosky, EDM Council
Business/Strategic
Semantic Technology
The Fast Path to Smart Data Analytics with Semantic Processing Christopher Biow, Basis Technology
Business/Strategic
Natural Language Processing
The Power of Semantic Technologies to Explore Linked Open Data Atanas Kiryakov, Ontotext
Technical - Intermediate
Graph Databases
Conference Sessions 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Intelligent Assistants for Business Customers Erik Mueller, Capital One
Technical - Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence
Autonomy
AI and ML in Digital Marketing Experiences Tom Jacobs, Adobe
Technical - Intermediate
Machine Intelligence
Enterprise Contextual Computing Kevin Schofield, ADRM Software, Inc.
Business/Strategic
Contextual Computing
Virtualizing Relational Databases as Graphs: A Multi-Model Approach (i.e., Want Graphs? Have Relational? No Problem!) Juan Sequeda, Capsenta
Technical - Introductory
Graph Databases
Revolutionizing Laboratory Instrument Data for the Pharmaceutical Industry Eric Little, OSTHUS Inc.
Oliver Hesse, Bayer Pharmaceuticals
Business/Strategic
Semantic Technology
Coffee Break & Exhibits 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Exhibits Open 10:15 AM - 02:00 PM
Keynote 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Looking Ahead: AI-Ready Knowledge Representation Using Hypergraphs Yves Bergquist, University of Southern California
Ben Goertzel, OpenCog Foundation
Business/Strategic
Artificial Intelligence
Graph Databases
Keynote 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Autonomy on the Ocean Bob Touchton, Leidos Maritime Systems Division
Business/Strategic
Autonomy
Lunch 12:00 PM - 01:30 PM
Conference Sessions 01:30 PM - 02:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
Advancing Oncology Care Through Distributed Rapid Learning Networks Gunther Lenz, Varian Medical Systems
Case Study
Machine Learning
Uncovering Payment Networks: An Anti-Money Laundering Investigation Evan S. Clark, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Walker Conolly, PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Case Study
Graph Databases
Textual Machine Learning for Topic Extraction and Document Similarity Matching Mark Wallace, Modus Operandi, Inc.
Technical - Introductory
Natural Language Processing
Semantic Search Applied to Finance and Healthcare: Two Case Studies Wayne Heideman, Capsenta
Case Study
Semantic Technology
Conference Sessions 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
How AppZen Uses AI for Back Office Automation Kunal Verma, AppZen
Technical - Intermediate
Artificial Intelligence
Combating Fraud by Combining Machine Learning and NLP Amit Tewari, MoData
Tom Senn, YA
Case Study
Machine Learning
Working with Graphs in MongoDB Asya Kamsky, MongoDB
Technical - Introductory
Graph Databases
History of the NASA JPL Computer Graphics Laboratory as a Graph Database Julian Gomez, Polished Pixels
Case Study
Graph Databases
General Session 03:45 PM - 04:45 PM
Title Speakers Audience Track
The Societal Impact of Machine Intelligence, Autonomy and Hyper-Connection Adrian Bowles, STORM Insights, Inc.
Bob Touchton, Leidos Maritime Systems Division
Jeremiah Owyang, Crowd Companies
Yves Bergquist, University of Southern California
Business/Strategic
Industry Trends


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