The Knowledge Graph Conference

If you’re curious about knowledge graphs (you should be 😉), I had a great time as a Builder last year.

The Builder Summer Cohort is now enrolling - and the first micro-certificate is free. If you've been meaning to get a more structured foundation in knowledge graphs, this is the cohort. The program runs May 29 through August 21, with four micro-certificates covering how to build, query, and maintain knowledge graphs. One live session every three weeks. Self-paced mini-lessons in between. Peer learning throughout. Syllabus preview: https://lnkd.in/e7qmHYtH What's included: - CEUs (pending approval) - Virtual streaming ticket to KGC 2027 (a $350 value) Cost: $350 total. First micro-certificate is free — you're only billed if you continue. Seats are limited (minimum cohort of 40 required to run). The kickoff session on May 29, 12:00-1:30 pm Eastern is *mandatory* to participate. Cohort Kickoff deck: https://lnkd.in/eh62qYbJ Recommended for those with backgrounds in data science, knowledge engineering, or technical roles who want hands-on fundamentals. Register Now! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 Pre-registration form: https://lnkd.in/edDhNncU

As always, The Knowledge Graph Conference was a pleasure - a place for all #graphy-stas :)

Thanks Melli Annamalai and Phani Chilakapati for sharing this great use case with the community

Thank you again The Knowledge Graph Conference for giving me the opportunity to speak at last week's 2026 KGC event. My topic was simple: If you are building a Knowledge Graph, you're going to want people to use it. How do you grow adoption? You make it easy to access your graph. You make it easy for users to find what they are looking for. You surround your graph with the proper UI/UX love it deserves. The graph is only the foundation. #ProcessTempoJupiter

Like a great piano 🎹 chord, the third part of our triad has landed. HAND - The Universal Talent Identifier — is the open identity standard. Human & Digital is the intelligence platform that incubated it. And now: the HAND Foundation — the permanent institutional guarantee that neither can be captured, redirected, or sold. It was always inevitable. Now it's manifest. handfound.org is live today. The HAND Foundation exists for one reason: infrastructure that serves everyone cannot be owned by anyone. A trade association can operate a registry. Only a foundation can hold the standard to its core principles in a permanent public trust - beyond M&A, beyond exit strategies, beyond the consolidation dreams of any single commercial interest. This governance architecture wasn't invented for HAND. The Internet Society, the Mozilla Foundation, the W3C, and the DOI Foundation all arrived at the same answer independently. When the G20 needed verifiable identity resolution for companies after the 2008 financial crisis, they built a Swiss nonprofit (GLEIF) for exactly the same reason. Steady maintenance with an eye on perpetuity. We applied that proven architecture to individual human identity. To the creator. The athlete. The actor. The notable public figure. The person whose face, voice, name and likeness are the immutable root of every downstream consent, licensing, and rights transaction in a host of global cultural industries. Our Founding Board of Trustees is currently in formation - and will be announced by summer 2026. If your work touches identity, provenance, consent, or creator rights — we want to know you. Three entities. One architecture. One mission. Who You Are. What You've Done. And Who Says So.™ 🔗 handfound.org #CreatorRights #Resolution #AIGovernance #NIL #HAND #HumanAgency #MediaSupplyChain #Interoperable #IdentityAsInfrastructure

Had a great time at The Knowledge Graph Conference (KGC) last week. KGs are becoming the connective tissue of enterprise AI. Proud to represent TopQuadrant and grateful to be part of this amazing KG community. Here are my takeaways: 📈 GraphRAG is table stakes. Two years ago it felt like almost every talk was about graph-driven retrieval augmented generation (GraphRAG). This year, there were some hands-on GraphRAG workshops, but the conversation has evolved into agentic implementation patterns and the benefits of KGs for AI: accuracy, interoperability, cost reduction, and guardrails. 🔗 Don't reinvent the wheel — you own your context. Tony Seale pointed out that more than half of all websites embed structured metadata in JSON-LD. Search engines read this metadata (RDF) to power rich search results. Semantics and KGs are a PROVEN technology AT SCALE that has been around for decades and powers the web. Anyone trying to convince you to use a proprietary standard to link data has ulterior motives. It was nice to hear Prukalpa ⚡ from Atlan echo a similar sentiment. She closed her talk with: "Context is your IP. Keep it open. Keep it yours." 🏛️ Studying philosophy was not a complete waste of time. Philosophers were well represented and, maybe I'm biased, but I think they had some of the most interesting and practical things to say. Eric Little from Accenture has a PhD in philosophy and talked about how we need to separate ontology (what exists) from epistemology (what we know). Jon Curtis (also a philosopher) from Cyberhill Partners discussed the ontology of time — super heady but also very practical. Things cannot cause events that occurred in the past, for example. 🤖 AI can help build ontologies — not just populate them. Just a couple of years ago people were saying things like "MAYBE AI can help POPULATE ontologies with instances of certain classes, but AI can never BUILD an ontology." This year, Dougal Watt showed how his team is actually using AI in practice to build ontologies alongside humans. 🏥 Healthcare and life sciences still dominate, but finance has a strong presence. There are other companies with advanced KG capabilities, but I don't see it across other industries yet — though it's possible some are just more cautious about sharing what they do. 🔍 Entity resolution is crucial and much harder than it appears. Paco N. gave one of my favorite talks, using money laundering as the use case. Determining whether two things refer to the same entity often requires more than just technical knowledge — it can involve the cultures of the entities themselves. Nicknames, for example, vary significantly across cultures. 🏗️ Change management and good governance are often harder than getting started. You can't have CONTROLLED vocabularies without control. This is what Amar Doshi and I focused on in our talk, and it was good to see others starting to say similar things. As Jessica Talisman said in her talk, "Knowledge is not static".