Dr. Bob Metcalfe
Internet Pioneer & Ethernet Inventor
PREVIOUS EDITION
DKGcon @KGC 2025
DKGcon went on tour to New York City with a special program at Knowledge Graph Conference at Cornell Tech and a free community meetup with Microsoft.
>MEET< THE SPEAKERS
Tony Seale
The Knowledge Graph Guy
Charles Ivie
Senior Graph Architect @AWS Amazon Neptune
Branimir Rakić
Founder & CTO @OriginTrail
Tomaž Levak
Founder @OriginTrail
Žiga Drev
Founder @OriginTrail
Chris Rynning
Managing Partner @AMYP Ventures
Fady Mansour
Managing Partner @Ethical Capital Partners
Sean Brennan
Head of Agentic Science @BIO Protocol
Ben Clinch
Partner @Ortecha
Chris Coulthrust
Principal Solution Architect, Data & AI @Microsoft
Yorke Rhodes
Director of Strategy and Transformation @Microsoft
Chris Pease
Researcher @MIT Decentralized AI Hub
>EXPLORE< THE AGENDA
DKGcon @KGC 2025
May 6, 2025
Cornell Tech · New York City · US · EDT
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9:00
OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph as enabler of trustworthy AI solutions
Dr. Bob Metcalfe — Internet Pioneer & Ethernet Inventor
Chris Rynning — Managing Partner @AMYP Ventures
Fady Mansour — Managing Partner @Ethical Capital Partners
Sean Brennan — Head of Agentic Science @BIO Protocol
Branimir Rakić — Founder & CTO @OriginTrail
Žiga Drev — Founder @OriginTrail
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrailSession details
The session examined the growing trust crisis in AI, including harmful content, fake news, counterfeits, identity theft, and unverified data.
Speakers explored how the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph combines blockchain and AI-ready knowledge to support transparency, verifiability, data provenance, interoperability, and trustworthy decisions.
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11:00
Build your neuro-symbolic AI agent ‘DPROD Danny’ with reusable Data Products and Decentralized Knowledge Graph
Charles Ivie — Senior Graph Architect @AWS Amazon Neptune
Tony Seale — The Knowledge Graph Guy
Branimir Rakić — Founder & CTO @OriginTrail
Ben Clinch — Partner @OrtechaSession details
The hands-on workshop introduced data products, data fabric and data mesh thinking, collective distributed knowledge graphs, and the DPROD standard.
Participants designed a data product with Graph.Build, imported data into Amazon Neptune, conformed it to the DPROD metadata structure, published it to an OriginTrail paranet, connected an LLM, and interrogated the resulting data product.
Meetup @Microsoft — free
May 6, 2025
Microsoft Garage · New York City · US · EDT
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17:00
OriginTrail and Microsoft community meetup
Chris Coulthrust — Principal Solution Architect, Data & AI @Microsoft
Yorke Rhodes — Director of Strategy and Transformation @Microsoft
Branimir Rakić — Founder & CTO @OriginTrail
Tomaž Levak — Founder @OriginTrail
Žiga Drev — Founder @OriginTrailSession details
An afternoon of ideas, networking, and conversations about blockchains, knowledge graphs, and AI with the OriginTrail and Microsoft teams and community.