Educational Track Review and Unconference
A Talk by Maya Natarajan , Sebastian Mueller , Bradley Rees , Jane Lomax , Simon Jupp , Orit Gal , Leah Miller , Jérémy Ravenel and Friedrich Lindenberg
About this Talk
Join Educational Track Chair Katariina Kari and all Educational speakers as they review the Educational track.
Bring your own discussion topic, see if if gets traction, and start a break out session
About The Speakers
VP Product Marketing, thatDot
Maya Natarajan is passionate about bringing different technologies together to solve complex problems and champions graphs to bring context to various systems.
CTO at yWorks GmbH, yWorks GmbH, Tuebingen, Germany
Sebastian has been working professionally in the field of graph visualization for over 20 years. He is a frequent speaker at graph-related conferences, consistently earning high ratings for his presentations at Neo4j's "NODES" conferences.
Senior Manager, NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA
Brad Rees is a Senior Manager at NVIDIA and lead of the RAPIDS cuGraph team.
Ontologies Lead, SciBite/Elsevier
Jane leads the Ontologies technical and services team at SciBite, an Elsevier company. An industry thought-leader and and advocate for ontologies and FAIR data, she holds a PhD from Cambridge University.
Entrepreneur, advisor, senior lecturer in Strategy & Complexity, Regents University London
Dr. Orit Gal is an entrepreneur, advisor, and senior lecturer in Strategy & Complexity at Regent's University London. She specialises in analysing trends and identifying potential for systemic change within complex environments.
Lead Ontologist, S&P
Leah is a Lead Ontologist at S&P Global, specialising in data strategy and data modelling. With extensive experience gained from her time at Amazon, Google, and Bloomberg, she has developed a deep understanding in knowledge engineering and semantic modelling.
Founder & CEO, naas.ai
Jeremy Ravenel is the Founder & CEO of naas.ai, a universal open-source data platform that democratizes data and AI with low-code templates and generative AI models. Under his leadership, naas.ai empowers users worldwide to create efficient data products.
Founder, OpenSanctions
Friedrich Lindenberg is the founder of OpenSanctions, an open source database of persons of interest. Before building OpenSanctions, Friedrich lead the data team at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a transnational network of non-profit investigative reporting centers.
Hosts
Head of Data, In Parallel
Katariina Kari, with dual Master’s in Science and Music, specializes in the semantic web, notably having led the creation of IKEA Knowledge Graph and Zalando’s Fashion Knowledge Graph to enhance customer experience.
We’re a cloud tech company that provides organisations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies and become more effective. We also created the world’s first – and only – autonomous database to help organise and secure our customers’ data.
