10 September 2021
Atanas Kiryakov
Founder and CEO, Ontotext
Atanas Kiryakov is the founder and CEO of Ontotext – Semantic Web pioneer and vendor of semantic technology. Atanas is an expert in semantic graph databases, reasoning, knowledge graph design, text mining, semantic tagging, linking and search. Author of signature academic publications with more than 2500 citations and Linked Data Benchmarking Council member. Until 2010 Atanas was product manager of GraphDB (formerly OWLIM) – a leading RDF graph database serving mission critical projects in organizations like BBC, Financial Times, Nikkei, S&P, Springer Nature, John Wiley, Elsevier, UK Parliament, Kadaster.NL, The National Gallery of US and top-5 US Banks.