Best Decentralized Knowledge Graph Podcasts (2025)

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Convergence: When Networks Start Thinking 50:16

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This special episode of On TRAC(k) was recorded in person in New York City during the 2025 Knowledge Graph Conference. OriginTrail founders Branimir Rakic, Žiga Drev and Tomaž Levak are joined by internet pioneer Dr. Bob Metcalfe and host Jonathan DeYoung, and together they break down AI agents, network effects, real-world use cases for OriginTrail…

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DKG V8, Major Partnerships & Future of umanitek 1:21:43

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Welcome to On TRAC(k) – the official OriginTrail podcast, where we go straight to the source! In this episode, we’re talking adoption milestones, new strategic partnerships, DKG V8 updates, and … a surprise guest appearance — Chris Rynning of AMYP, Porsche–Piëch family office! Get the inside scoop on how OriginTrail is scaling trust in Web3, AI, an…

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How Semantic Tech & Graphs Are Reshaping AI 59:19

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How do we build more reliable AI? Why have semantic tech and symbolic AI become even more important in the age of neural AI? How do Data Products (DPROD) and DKG paranets shape the future of decentralized knowledge? What role do GraphRAG and AI agents play in enabling a more verifiable and trustworthy AI? Join Charles Ivie, Senior Graph Architect a…

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OnTrac(k) Special — The Shift to Human-Centric AI 42:53

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The AI revolution is here—but are we in control? In our latest On Track Podcast Special, we dive deep into the risks, opportunities, and the fight for a human-centric AI with top experts Fady Mansour from Ethical Capital Partners and Chris Rynning from AMYP Ventures Piëch-Porsche family office. Is AI already outpacing human content? Can we stop the…

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Building AI’s Collective Memory: The Transformative Power of OriginTrail V8 DKG 1:12:16

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This episode of On TRAC(k) dives into the transformative launch of the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) V8, a collective memory for AI agents and an updated roadmap. Join OriginTrail’s founders, Žiga, Tomaž, and Branimir, as they explore how the DKG empowers neuro-symbolic AI by merging symbolic AI’s precision with the power of decen…

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Graph-Based Data Science: Hybrid AI meets data science process | Paco Nathan 36:23

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Python offers excellent libraries for working with graphs: semantic technologies, graph queries, interactive visualizations, graph algorithms, probabilistic graph inference, as well as embedding and other integrations with deep learning. However, most of these approaches share little common ground, nor do many of them integrate effectively with pop…

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Collective Neuro-Symbolic AI: V8 Launch and Collective Programmatic Treasury 1:05:18

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OriginTrail’s Žiga Drev and Branimir Rakić join host Jonathan DeYoung to dive into the recent Collective Neuro-Symbolic AI RFC, unpacking how Collective Neuro-Symbolic AI shapes a more reliable and verifiable AI landscape. They explore how the Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) and NeuroWeb blockchain merge neural networks' creativity with symboli…

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Enterprise Knowledge Graphs: Breaking Through Organizational Inertia to Reimagine Data Management | Panel Discussion 39:03

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Industry leaders from Accenture, Johnson & Johnson, and the Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation dive deep into the transformative potential of knowledge graphs, exploring how these semantic technologies are revolutionizing enterprise data management. Featuring Mike Atkin, Laurent Alquier and Teresa Tung. The conversation reveals a critical shift …

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DKGcon 2024 Recap: Bringing Reliability & Trust to AI 48:08

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In this special episode of On TRAC(k), host Jonathan DeYoung is on the ground at DKGcon 2024 in Amsterdam to bring you a recap of the event and explore the conference's central themes in greater detail with several special guests, including: Joe Vezzani, Co-Founder & CEO of LunarCrush Seung Hyun Lee, Founder of CoinEasy Charles Ivie, Senior Graph A…

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Rebooting AI: Adding Knowledge to Deep Learning | Gary Marcus 38:53

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Gary Marcus argues for a shift in research priorities, towards four cognitive prerequisites for building robust artificial intelligence: Hybrid architectures that combine large-scale learning with the representational and computational powers of symbol-manipulation Large-scale knowledge bases—likely leveraging innate frameworks—that incorporate sym…

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The Enterprise Knowledge Graph | Omar Khan and David Newman 32:34

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Join Omar Khan and David Newman as they canvas the Enterprise Knowledge Graph, and how you can apply it using its cornerstones of: Foundational building blocks Information model expressivity Machine understandable representations Transcending the relational model How an EKG expands on a graph and a knowledge graph Provides an infrastructure for Mac…

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Trust at Internet Scale 1:20:01

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The DKG V8 prototype has demonstrated the unprecedented scale at which the Verifiable Internet for AI can drive value for anyone, on any device, and on any chain. Addressing sensitive data concerns, scalability, and AI challenges concurrently, the DKG V8 has successfully completed its first phase of development. With it, the OriginTrail ecosystem h…

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Deep Learning on Graphs: Past, Present, And Future | Michael Bronstein 29:33

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Graph representation learning has recently become one of the hottest topics in machine learning. One particular instance, graph neural networks, is being used in a broad spectrum of applications ranging from 3D computer vision and graphics to high energy physics and drug design. Despite the promise and a series of success stories of graph deep lear…

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Connected Data London 2024 Call for Submissions Roundtable | Panel Discussion 1:26:36

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Connected Data is coming back to London in 2024, on December 11-13. Join us for a tour de force in all things Knowledge Graph, Graph Analytics / Al / Data Science / Databases and Semantic Technology. Call for submissions and volunteers, program committee, chairs, and initial lineup have been announced. This online roundtable highlights the Connecte…

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On Trac(k) to OriginTrail V8 for Based-AI 1:21:34

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In June, Apple revealed a suite of highly anticipated AI features — including ChatGPT — that it will soon integrate into its devices. But not everyone was thrilled about the news. While some observers were excited at the prospect of, for example, drawing math equations on an iPad that could then be solved by AI, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk cal…

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The Momentum Behind Semantic Reasoning and Why It’s Here to Stay | Panel Discussion 1:31:21

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What does reasoning have to offer? How does it add so much value to data? Who is using it and why should I care? All questions that we’re delighted to answer. Access to data has exploded over the last decade, but it leaves us asking what to make of it all? Often lacking quality, reasoning is required to enrich data by adding context and insights, s…

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Data Revolution: The Emergence of the Decentralized Enterprise Knowledge Graph | Tony Seale 31:40

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An AI tsunami is on the rise, and the past few months have only amplified it. To survive it and thrive in tomorrow’s economy, organizations big and small must rethink the way they do business. To do this, a radical shift in the way they work with their data is needed. And no, we don’t mean Big Data. By now, most organizations have gotten their Big …

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On Trac(k) to Truly Open AI with Dr Bob Metcalfe, Branimir Rakic & Amos Thomas 1:02:51

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Metcalfe's law is one of the foundational principles of networks, helping explain the explosive growth of technologies such as the internet. For this special episode of the On TRAC(k) podcast, we are joined by Dr. Bob Metcalfe himself, the Turing award winner who invented Ethernet and came up with the namesake law. Together with Amos Thomas, the cr…

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Graph Machine Learning - Research and Industry Applications | Panel Discussion 1:35:38

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Graph-based technologies became first-class citizens in various industries and many practical applications. Still, building performant and reliable machine learning pipelines over graph data, e.g., graph machine learning applications and products, remains a non-trivial task. This panel discussion brings together academic and industrial experts from…

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Industry Special: Verifiable Internet, AI, and the Future of International Trade 1:03:39

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In this special Episode 4 of the OnTrac(k) podcast, host Jonathan DeYoung is joined by a panel of industry experts to dive into the transformative impact of AI on global supply chains. We explore the critical need for industry AI solutions rooted in Verifiable Internet, the potential of crowdsourcing knowledge through innovative Initial Paranet Off…

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Verifiable Internet for AI 1:04:22

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On Episode 3 of the On TRAC(k) podcast, OriginTrail founders Žiga Drev, Tomaž Levak and Branimir Rakić — alongside host Jonathan DeYoung — discuss their vision for the future of artificial intelligence through the concept of the verifiable internet for AI, leveraging the synergies between crypto, the internet and AI technologies, as presented in Or…

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Systems that learn and reason | Frank Van Harmelen 28:16

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After the amazing breakthroughs of machine learning (deep learning or otherwise) in the past decade, the shortcomings of machine learning are also becoming increasingly clear: unexplainable results, data hunger and limited generalisability are all becoming bottlenecks. In this talk we will look at how the combination with symbolic AI (in the form o…

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Delegated Staking, AI Agents & More (With Martin Köppelmann of Gnosis Chain) 52:08

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On Episode 2 of the On TRAC(k) podcast, special guest Martin Köppelmann of Gnosis Chain joins OriginTrail founders Žiga Drev, Branimir Rakić, and Tomaž Levak — alongside host Jonathan DeYoung — to unpack the ins and outs of delegated TRAC staking on Gnosis Chain, the significance of securing the verifiable internet by way of the DKG, the power of A…

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Novel AI Hardware Architectures for Graph Processing | Panel Discussion 1:35:24

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What do graphs have to do with novel hardware architectures for AI workloads? Graph processing is the key to unlocking new architectures, as much as new architectures can boost execution of graph-oriented workloads. As machine learning-powered applications are proliferating, the workloads that are created in order to serve their requirements are ta…

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Graph Abstractions Matter | Ora Lassila 22:15

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While mathematicians have used graph theory since the 18th century to solve problems, the software patterns for graph data are new to most developers. To enable "mass adoption" of graph technology, we need to establish the right abstractions, access APIs, and data models. RDF triples, while of paramount importance in establishing RDF graph semantic…

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The V8 Foundation: Knowledge Mining, TRAC Staking, AI & More 1:23:15

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On the first episode of the On TRAC(k) podcast, OriginTrail founders Žiga Drev, Branimir Rakić, and Tomaž Levak join host Jonathan DeYoung to break down the significance of the V8 Foundation of the Decentralized Knowledge Graph. They also discuss OrginTrail's strong partnerships, knowledge mining, TRAC staking, artificial intelligence, and much mor…

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Welcome to On TRAC(k)! 1:56

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Welcome to the new podcast On TRAC(k), brought to you by OriginTrail! Hosted by Jonathan DeYoung, On TRAC(k) brings you all the latest and juiciest developments from the OriginTrail ecosystem and the Decentralized Knowledge Graph, aka the DKG. Together with OriginTrail's founders — Žiga, Tomaž, and Branimir — Jonathan breaks down everything you nee…

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Taxonomies: Connecting Data with Duct Tape | Mike Dillinger 31:28

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Taxonomies are the duct tape of connected data. They seem simple, flexible, and familiar. They are widely used. And they seem to work across many use cases and many domains. But when looked at in more detail, taxonomies turn out to be crude tools for knowledge organization that are very difficult to create, to scale, to adapt, to align, and to buil…

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Investing in Connected Data | Panel Discussion 1:48:06

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What is Connected Data, and how is it interesting from a market point of view? Knowledge Graphs have reached peak Gartner hype. Graph data science and graph AI are the fastest growing areas in AI. Graph databases are the fastest growing category in enterprise software. Add to this the historical foundations of graph algorithms and analytics and sem…

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JSON-LD as the pidgin of enterprise data integration | Panel Discussion 1:06:12

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JSON is the de facto data format for developers today because it’s easy to use, but it’s not without its issues. JSON-LD builds on top of JSON, and has also been called "the gateway drug" for Linked Data. Our panel of experts explores the many facets of JSON-LD and how it can facilitate enterprise data integration. Featuring Kurt Cagle, Freelance T…

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Graph Analytics vs Graph Machine Learning | Jörg Schad 29:07

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Graph Analytics has long demonstrated that it solves real-world problems including Fraud, Ranking, Recommendation, text summarization and other NLP tasks. More recently, Graph Machine Learning applied directly on graphs using graph algorithms and machine learning, has been demonstrating significant advantages in solving the same problems as graph a…

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Personal Knowledge Graphs: A new paradigm for data sovereignty, productivity and creativity | Panel Discussion 2:03:16

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Are your personal data, documents, files and messages all over the place? Do you find yourself switching between applications, devices and files, unable to remember or find what you were looking for? Would it make you feel better to know that it's not entirely your fault, and maybe there is a way out? You know the stories about how the volume of da…

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Thrill-K: Rethinking knowledge layering and construction for higher machine cognition | Gadi Singer 24:58

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The AI industry is now facing its next big challenge. What are the necessary properties of representational structures that could allow vast amounts of data become meaningful in the human sense of the word? How can knowledge architectures be constructed in a way that allows for both the efficiency and effectiveness of models they support? In his Co…

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Knowledge Graphs in the Enterprise: What You Need to Know | Panel Discussion 1:52:32

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Most Major Companies are Exploring or Using Knowledge Graphs. Knowledge Graphs are at the top of the Garter AI Hype Cycle. But Knowledge Graphs are much more than hype! Knowledge graphs are a mature technology used in large scale deployments. Anyone heard of Google, Facebook, Alibaba, or Uber? Knowledge graphs address major weaknesses in traditiona…

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Innovating the Web3 Legal Space 58:38

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This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Chrissy Hill, General Counsel, and Alica Schiffhauer, Legal Operations Specialist, from Parity’s legal team. This episode focuses on the legal side of Web3 and all that it entails, including the challenges of working within compliance for a codebase with no existing legal …

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Polkadot Common Good Parachains Update: Blockchains to Benefit the Polkadot Community 1:03:59

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In this episode, host Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Joe Petrowski (Common Good Parachains Team Lead, Web3 Foundation) to talk about common good parachains (aka system level parachains), the layer-1 Polkadot blockchains dedicated to core functionality that benefits the entire Polkadot ecosystem. Since Statemint, d…

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Composable Finance Part 2: Envisioning the Valhalla of Cross-Chain DeFi 36:11

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This week we have the second half of the conversation between Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) and 0xbrainjar, founder and CEO of the Polkadot parachain Composable Finance. Composable and sister parachain Picasso on Kusama allow smart contracts built on different languages and different chains to connect, enabling cross-chain De…

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Composable Finance Part 1: Unlocking Cross-Chain, Cross-Layer DeFi on Polkadot 42:24

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Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined this week by 0xbrainjar, founder and CEO of the Polkadot parachain Composable Finance. Composable and sister parachain Picasso on Kusama allow smart contracts built on different languages and different chains to connect, enabling cross-chain swaps and more. By simplifying and unifying D…

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OriginTrail: Decentralized Knowledge Graph & the Semantic Web3 1:06:05

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This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by OriginTrail’s Tomaž Levak (co-founder) and Žiga Drev (co-founder). OriginTrail is a Substrate-based blockchain that recently won a parachain slot on Polkadot. OriginTrail developed the world’s first Decentralized Knowledge Graph (DKG) to organize humanity’s most important …

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Centrifuge, Connecting Real World Assets with DeFi 57:11

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This week Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Cassidy Daly, token design and research specialist at Centrifuge, a Substrate-based blockchain that recently won a parachain slot on Polkadot. Centrifuge aims to bring an archaic financial system into the Web3 space, enabling users to unlock financing for their real world a…

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Mainstreaming DeFi with Parallel Finance 48:56

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This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Yubo Ruan, founder of Parallel Finance, a lending solutions provider designed to increase liquidity and acceptance on the Polkadot network. Parallel Finance is a Polkadot parachain and its sister network Heiko Finance is a Kusama parachain. This episode begins with an intr…

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Connected Data World 2021 Program Roundtable | Panel Discussion 1:33:05

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Join us as we have a sneak peek through the Connected Data World 2021 program, and discuss the Connected Data landscape. Our Program Committee members go through the 50+ sessions and 70+ speakers, and talk about: The Connected Data landscape Knowledge Graphs Graph Databases Graph Analytics Graph Data Science & Semantic Technology Topics, speakers a…

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Accelerating the Web3 Metaverse with Outlier Ventures 1:19:01

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This week, Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) is joined by Jamie Burke, CEO, and founder of Outlier Ventures, an accelerator that supports the development and growth of emerging technologies, including Polkadot. They are currently running a Polkadot accelerator through their Base Camp program. Burke describes what he set o…

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AI + Knowledge - a match made in heaven? | Panel Discussion 1:51:38

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What does graph have to do with machine learning? A lot, actually. And it goes both ways Machine learning can help bootstrap and populate knowledge graphs. The information contained in graphs can boost the efficiency of machine learning approaches. Machine learning, and its deep learning subdomain, make a great match for graphs. Machine learning on…

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The future of AI in the Enterprise: Entity-Event Knowledge Graphs for Data-Centric Organizations | Jans Aasman 37:22

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Personalized medicine. Predictive call centers. Digital twins for IoT. Predictive supply chain management, and domain-specific Q&A applications. These are just a few AI-driven applications organizations across a broad range of industries are deploying. Graph databases and Knowledge Graphs are now viewed as a must-have by Enterprises serious about l…

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Building Blockchain Social Networks with Subsocial 1:03:13

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This week, Jorrin Bruns (Polkadot Integration Specialist, Parity Technologies) is joined by Subsocial’s founder and Polkadot Ambassador Alex Siman, and Zachary Edwards, Subsocial’s content lead and community manager. Subsocial is an open protocol for decentralized social networks and marketplaces, and this episode explores the world of social netwo…

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Does Connected Data need AI or AI need Connected Data | Panel Discussion 38:19

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Connected Data encompasses data acquisition and data management requirements from a range of areas including the Semantic Web, Linked Data, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation and many others. Yet for the true value of many of these visions to be realised both within the public domain and within organisations requires the assembly of oft…

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Robonomics: The Blockchain with Robots 1:20:47

4 years ago1:20:47

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In this episode, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Robonomics Software Architect Sergei Lonshakov. Robonomics is an open-source internet of things (IoT) platform. It provides ways for humans to communicate with robots, and for robots to connect to each other and the internet. Started on Ethereum in 2015, Robonomics i…

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Statemine: A Deep Dive Into Kusama’s Asset Hub with Joe Petrowski 54:30

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This week the tables are turned on Relay Chain, with Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) interviewing co-host Joe Petrowski (Technical Integrations Lead, Web3 Foundation) as a guest representing his contribution to the Statemint/Statemine project. Statemine — Kusama’s version of Polkadot’s Statemint — is a common-good parachain for…

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Prediction Markets and Futarchy with Zeitgeist 48:57

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This week, Jorrin Bruns (Support Engineer, Parity Technologies) is joined by Zeitgeist’s founder Logan Saether, and CIO, David Perry. Zeitgeist is a Substrate-based decentralized network for creating, participating in, and resolving prediction markets, and exploring the potential of futarchy for governance. They discuss prediction market systems, f…