Who will be speaking at Graph Day Seattle?

Confirmed Graph Day Speakers

This is the first wave of confirmed speakers. We'll be announcing more over the next few weeks. If you are doing something cool with graph, put it on our radar. Send us a proposal. Visit our proposals page for details.

Amy Hodler (Kettle Falls, Washington) @amyhodler

Amy Hodler is an evangelist for graph analytics, network science, and responsible AI. Amy has decades of experience in emerging tech at companies such as Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Hitachi IoT, Neo4j, and Cray. At RelationalAI, she’s the Graph Evangelist and Sr. Director of Product Marketing. Amy has a love for science history and a fascination for complexity studies. Amy is the co-author of the O’Reilly books, Graph Algorithms: Practical Examples in Apache Spark and Neo4j, and Knowledge Graphs: Data in Context for Responsive Businesses.

William Lyon (SFBay) @lyonwj

William Lyon (LinkedIn / blog) is a software developer at Neo4j. As an engineer on the Developer Relations team, he works primarily on integrating Neo4j with other technologies, building demo apps, helping other developers build applications with Neo4j, and writing documentation. Prior to joining Neo, William worked as a software developer for several startups in the real estate software, quantitative finance, and predictive API fields. William holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Montana. William is author of the Manning publication Full Stack GraphQL Applications With React, Node.js, and Neo4j and co-host of the GraphStuff.FM podcast.

Leo Meyerovich (San Francisco) @lmeyerov

Leo Meyerovich is the founder & CEO of Graphistry, the first GPU-accelerated visual graph intelligence platform. Federal, enterprise, science, and tech teams use Graphistry on problems like threat hunting, anti-fraud, user analytics, supply chains, and genomics. Leo's past research at UC Berkeley (PhD) and Brown (ScB) in high performance computing, security, and programming language design received the SIGPLAN 10 Year Test of Time award, multiple best paper awards, and is published in CACM, Security & Privacy, WWW, and others. Several of the ideas are now found in popular browsers, web frameworks, and cloud infrastructure providers. More recently, he helped start the GPU dataframe ecosystem, the initial Apache Arrow implementation, and the medical anti-misinformation open AI effort Project Domino.

Sean Robinson (Charlotte)

Sean Robinson is a versatile data scientist with several years of experience optimizing data processes and building intelligent data systems. Specifically, he specializes in the use of graph data science and Neo4j to abstract complex systems within a domain into a highly dimensional, interconnected knowledge graphs to uncover novel insights which would otherwise remain dormant in other data structures. Sean currently serves both as Lead Data Scientist at Graphable as well as creating and instructing new network science courses at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Data Science graduate program where he instructs the next generation of data scientists on how to integrate graph data science into their toolkit.

Joshua Shinavier (San Francisco) @joshsh

As a co-founder of what is now Apache TinkerPop, Joshua Shinavier contributed to the first common APIs for graph databases, the original TinkerPop query language which influenced Gremlin, and the first tools which aligned the property graph and RDF data models, starting with neo4j-rdf-sail in 2008. As a Research Scientist at Uber, he led development of the Dragon data integration platform. Joshua is host of The Graph Show, and co-organizer of the Bay Area Category Theory meetup. Joshua holds a PhD in computer science from RPI's Tetherless World Constellation, where he focused on combining knowledge graphs with augmented reality.

Michael Uschold (Seattle, WA ) @UscholdM

Michael Uschold, Senior Ontology Consultant at Semantic Arts, has over twenty-five years’ experience in developing and transitioning semantic technology from academia to industry. He pioneered the field of ontology engineering, co-authoring the first paper and giving the first tutorial on the topic in 1995 in the UK.
As a senior ontology consultant at Semantic Arts since October 2010, Michael trains and guides clients to better understand and leverage semantic technology using knowledge graphs. He has built commercial enterprise ontologies in digital asset management, finance, healthcare, legal research, consumer products, electrical devices, manufacturing and corporation registration. More recently he has focused on semantic application development using SPARQL for application code and R2RML for converting relational data into a knowledge graph.
During 2008-2009, Uschold worked at Reinvent on a team that developed a semantic advertising platform that substantially increased revenue. As a research scientist at Boeing from 1997-2008 he defined, led and participated in numerous projects applying semantic technology to enterprise challenges. He is a frequent invited speaker and panelist at national and international events, and serves on the editorial board of the Applied Ontology Journal. He received his Ph.D. in AI from Edinburgh University in 1991 and an MSc. from Rutgers University in Computer Science in 1982.

Previous Graph Day Speakers

Below is just a small sampling of the thought leaders, mavericks, and iconoclasts who've spoken at Graph Day over the years.

Jans Aasman

Jans Aasman speaking at our 2020 Global Graph Summit in Austin.
Check out Josh Shinavier's Interview with Jans Aasman for The Graph Show.

 

Emil Eifrem

Emil Eifrem, creator of the Neo4j graph database (wikipedia), gave the keynote at Graph Day Texas 2017 - which we designated as The Year of the Graph.

 

 

Denise Gosnell

Denise Gosnell speaking at our Global Graph Summit in Austin. Denise first spoke at Graph Day Seattle 2016. Denise is co-author of The Practitioner's Guide to Graph Data. Check out her presentation Everything is not a Graph at Graph Day Texas 2018, and Josh Shinavier's Interview with Denise Gosnell for The Graph Show.