Keynote Panel : AI in Finance 

Will discuss lessons from customers building Kwowledge Graphs with Amazon Neptune.
 

Brad Bebee leads product and engineering for Amazon Neptune, Amazon Web Service’s (AWS) fully managed graph database service, and works closely with customers and developers to help them build graph-enabled solutions. Prior to joining AWS, he was the CEO of Blazegraph, where he focused on leveraging products for high performance graph databases and analytics into business and mission areas and was an active open source contributor on the Blazegraph platform. He is a subject matter expert in graph and knowledge representation with experience ranging from the precursors of DARPA's DAML program to more recent work with large-scale data analytics using the Hadoop ecosystem, Accumulo, and related technologies. He has extensive experience in architecture and software modeling methodologies, where he has lead and collaborated upon multiple publications receiving recognition for his research. In 2006, he was selected as a participant in the National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Over the course of his career, Brad has served as a CEO, CTO, CFO, managed operating divisions, and performed advanced technology development for commercial and public-sector customers. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park.