
6 August 2025
Share Your Thoughts & Ideas in the KGC Community Survey
By François Scharffe & Thomas Deely
Talks, fortnightly news roundups and write-ups from the KGC community. 70 posts, 2019 to today.
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6 August 2025
By François Scharffe & Thomas Deely
Thank you for making the Knowledge Graph Conference 2025 the best edition ever! Your feedback on the content and experience of KGC is what makes each year better than the last. This summer, we want to take a pulse on some of your ideas for KGC 2026 as we brainstorm about expanding the scope of…

15 July 2025
By François Scharffe & Thomas Deely
Wow! What an amazing experience it was to host this year’s Knowledge Graph Conference for you all. We don’t know about you, but out of the 7 years we’ve organized KGC, this was the best year yet. It was so enjoyable getting to see everyone, meet new members of the KG community and catch up…

12 August 2024
By François Scharffe
Please enjoy this talk “The Knowledge in Your Code,” from the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 given by Stephen Goldbaum, Executive Director & Distinguished Engineer at Morgan Stanley. Talk description: Business application developers put a wealth of business knowledge into their code. Too often, aside from executing, that information is left untapped for knowledge engineering purposes…

29 July 2024
By François Scharffe
Please enjoy this talk “UBS Knowledge Graph: Building a Connected Data Catalog,” from the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 given by Gregor Wobbe, Head of Data Architecture at UBS. Talk description: UBS is building a new firm-wide data platform that will empower every employee to harness AI, data, and analytics to gain valuable insights for its…

22 July 2024
By François Scharffe
Please enjoy this talk “Building FAIR Solutions & Knowledge Graphs for Research in a Large Pharmaceutical Organization,” from the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 given by John Apathy, Chief Solutions Officer at XponentL Data. Talk description: John Apathy’s keynote at the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 addresses challenges faced by healthcare and pharmaceutical companies due to inadequate…

8 July 2024
By François Scharffe
Please enjoy this talk “Knowledge Graph-Driven Recommendations,” from the Knowledge Graph Conference 2023 given by Katariina Kari, Lead Ontologist at Inter IKEA Systems. Talk description: The IKEA Knowledge Graph includes information about complementary products, their benefits, and some safety precautions that customers should know. This information is captured on a general level and allows IKEA…

27 September 2022
By François Scharffe
Please enjoy this presentation “Agile Principles in Knowledge Graph Development” from the Knowledge Graph Conference 2022 given by Borislav Iordanov at Semantic Arts. Talk summary: Part of the KGC 2022 “Ontologies & Taxonomies” series is “Agile Principles in Knowledge Graph Development” delivered by Borislav Iordanov of Semantic Arts. The ontologist covers the application of…

27 September 2022
By François Scharffe
Please enjoy this talk “Beyond Homophily in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs),” from the Knowledge Graph Conference 2024 given by Danai Koutra, Professor at the University of Michigan. Talk description: In this talk, the University of Michigan’s Professor Danai Koutra presents her group’s research on identifying effective graph neural network (GNN) designs and introduces a new…

27 January 2021
By Paco Nathan
For a full day on December 14, 2020, LinkedIn sponsored a virtual workshop called Metadata Day, followed by a public online meetup called Metaspeak. View videos of the event on their website including a set of lightning talks provided by several of the speakers. The gist is that circa 2018, the pending regulatory compliance for…

12 October 2020
By François Scharffe
1. Tell us about yourself. I have a strange and sordid history. I’ve been an analyst and advocate for data management since 1985. I started with publishers–the owners of intellectual property–as they discovered concepts associated with the principles of data management. After publishing, I concentrated my efforts on the financial industry, learning how data goes…

23 September 2020
By Paco Nathan
When it comes to early-adopters for AI technology, U.S. federal government agencies may not be the first examples that come to mind. My perspective is skewed since my first full-time job using email, internetworking, data visualization, inference, etc., were in the U.S. Army and NASA in the 1980s. Since then I’ve had other roles in…

24 August 2020
By François Scharffe
Healthier eating for diabetics with the RPI + IBM Food Knowledge Graph Tell us about your project. The food knowledge graph (or foodkg) is a joint project between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM (part of the IBM AI Horizons Network). The project’s official name is “Health Empowerment through Analytics Learning and Semantics”, or HEALS. We…