The Theme
The three S’s: Scale Speed and Strings.
SCALE — We’re taking it up to 10 to the 11th (100 Billion) and beyond 10 to the 12th (1 Trillion triples). Welcome to the trillion triple club! We’ll see many routes to 1 Trillion triples — brute force, federation, and sharding — and how it changes how we think of big data in the context of graph.
SPEED — We’ll look at two aspects of speed: How to get to near real time and how to get latency out of queries.
STRINGS — Tim Berners-Lee implored us to focus on ”Things not Strings” which we’ve done a good job of, but the world is full of strings (and LLMs have clearly shown us the value of harvesting those strings). We’ll look at the state of the art of leveraging the world of text to our needs as well as text to query and enterprise search in a graph environment.
This Year’s Sponsors
A special shout out to our sponsors who help make this event possible.
The Agenda
June 3rd | 9:30 a.m.
June 3rd | 10:00 a.m.
June 3rd | 11:00 a.m.
Dave Enga, Craxel
Knowledge Graphs at Any Scale
June 3rd | 1:00 p.m.
Ora Lassila | Amazon Neptune
The Semantic Web Stack in the Context of the 3 V’s of Big Data
June 3rd | 2:15 p.m.
June 3rd | 3:30 p.m.
June 4th | 9:00 a.m.
June 4th | 10:00 a.m.
Ted Hills | Concepts & Objects LLC
Ontology-Driven Natural Language Processing for Front-Ending LLMs and RAG
June 4th | 11:00 a.m.
Dougal Watt | Graph Research Labs
The role of declarative graph-based software generation and taxonomy enabled machine learning search in transforming strings to things.
June 4th | 1:00 p.m.
Jans Aasman | Franz Inc.
Achieving High Accuracy in LLM-Based Text Analytics with Three Knowledge Graph Tools
June 4th | 2:15 p.m.
Steve Hedden | TopQuadrant
Turning Content into Triples – Structuring Unstructured Data for AI and Knowledge Graphs
June 4th | 3:30 p.m.
Tom Reamy | KAPS Group
Knowledge Graphs, Text Analytics and Gen AI: Mutually Enriching Technologies
June 5th | 9:00 a.m.
June 5th | 10:00 a.m.
Dave Enga | Craxel
Instant Access to Fully Connected Data, At Any Scale
June 5th | 1:00 p.m.
Mark van Berkel | Schema App
Scaling Web Data into a Semantic AI Layer with MCP and Serverless Graph Architecture
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