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with Bryon Jacob data.world Juan Sequeda data.world Online on Zoom 6:00-6:15pm Networking 6:15-7:30pm Presentation 7:30-8:00pm Q&A |
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The importance of data—and the analytics techniques that derive value from data—in enabling human knowledge and productivity is now fundamentally accepted. We have powerful tools including spreadsheets and databases for data, and the World Wide Web and search engines for text and images. These technologies have greatly expanded our capacities for accessing and using certain kinds of information, but they also represent some important limitations. Spreadsheets and databases are often of very limited accessibility and sometimes of limited comprehensibility (and thus utility) to people unfamiliar with how the data was collected, curated, etc. The web and search engines are amazingly useful—but primarily for finding tech and images, not for accessing data. There is still relatively little accessibility to, connectivity between, and accurate understanding of most of the world’s data resources by most people.
Fortunately, concepts such as the data catalogs and semantic web, and technologies including graph databases and knowledge graphs, promise to open up more of the world’s data to more people and to empower them to derive more information and knowledge from the world’s data. The implications of this for human understanding, business productivity, and societal change are enormous! Join us as Bryon Jacob, CTO and co-founder, and Juan Sequeda, Principal Scientist, of data.world explain how these new approaches and technologies will fully unlock the power of data. |
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Bryon Jacob is the CTO and co-founder of data.world - on a mission to build the world’s most meaningful, collaborative, and abundant data resource. Bryon is a recognized leader in building large-scale consumer internet systems and an expert in data integration solutions.
Bryon’s twenty years of academic and professional experience spans AI research at Case Western Reserve University, enterprise configuration software at Trilogy, and consumer web experience at Amazon and most recently in ten years building HomeAway.com. At HomeAway, Bryon oversaw platform development and the integration of thirty acquisitions while building the world’s largest online marketplace for vacation rentals. |
Juan Sequeda
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Juan F. Sequeda is the Principal Scientist at data.world. He joined through the acquisition of Capsenta, a company he founded as a spin-off from his research. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
Juan is the recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, received 2nd Place in the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge for his work on ConstituteProject.org, Best Student Research Paper at the 2014 International Semantic Web Conference and the 2015 Best Transfer and Innovation Project awarded by the Institute for Applied Informatics. Juan is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Web Semantics, member of multiple program committees (ISWC, ESWC, WWW, AAAI, IJCAI). He was the General Chair of AMW2018, PC chair of ISWC 2017 In-Use track, co-creator of COLD workshop (7 years co-located at ISWC). He has served as a bridge between academia and industry as the current chair of the Property Graph Schema Working Group, member of the Graph Query Languages task force of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC) and past invited expert member and standards editor at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Wearing his scientific hat, Juan's goal is to reliably create knowledge from inscrutable data. His research interests are on the intersection of Logic and Data for (ontology-based) data integration and semantic/graph data management, and what now is called Knowledge Graphs. Wearing his business hat, Juan is a product manager, does business development and strategy, technical sales and works with customers to understand their problems to translated back to R&D. |
